Common Core Standard
CC.8.W.7
Pre-visit/On-site/Post-visit

Sustainability Around the World
Sustainable Development for Caterpillar means leveraging technology and innovation to increase efficiency andproductivity with less impact on the environment and helping our customers do the same – enabling their businesses tobecome more productive by providing products, services and solutions that use resources more efficiently.
Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends,
either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under whichhumans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements ofpresent and future generations.
Sustainability is important to making sure that we have and will continue to have the water, materials andresources to protect human health and our environment. Explain 3 measures Caterpillar takes to support sustainable
development within Caterpillar and around the world. What can you do to support sustainability and reduce your carbon
footprint at home or at school?

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