This program serves as an introduction to resource sustainability, focusing on the key strategies of resource efficiency, recycling, reusing, and reducing. The long-term impacts of resource use on human health and the environment are assessed. The program focuses on things all of us can do to increase natural resource efficiency. Other important terminology includes: waste, inefficiency, incentives, waste reduction, throwaway society, recycling, hazardous waste, landfill, and resource contamination.

Originally released by Visual Learning, 2007. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 18, 2015.

Renewable and Nonrenewable Natural Resources (3:59); --Consumption of Natural Resources (3:34); -- Benefits and Consequences of Resource Consumption (2:37); -- Sustainability and Natural Resources (1:26); -- Living More Sustainably (3:27); -- Summing Up (1:28); -- Video Assessment (3:11); -- Credts: Sustainability and Natural Resources (0:46); .