In your assignment, craft a seven-paragraph essay that includes the following:

Paragraph 1

• Describe your home community, (Houston, Texas)

o Discuss at least three of the biggest challenges that your home community faces on

the path to achieving sustainability.

Paragraph 2

• Explain at least three concrete actions that your community might take that would

enhance its ability to sustain local biodiversity and ecosystems.

Paragraph 3

• Discuss at least three specific steps your community might take to improve its

capacity for sustaining local soils and sustainable agriculture.

Paragraph 4

• Describe at least three measures that might be taken by your home community to

help sustain its freshwater resources.

Paragraph 5

• Propose at least three concrete steps your community might take to better sustain

local air quality and reduce negative impact on the global climate.

Paragraph 6

• Discuss at least three specific actions your community might take to manage,

reduce, or eliminate its waste more sustainably.

Paragraph 7

• Identify three specific actions that you might take, at the community level, to help

support sustainability for your home place.

• Considering the strategies that you have shared in your essay, assess whether your

community could achieve sustainability at some point in the future. Why or why not?