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-==== SusAF Environmental Dimension ====+==================== SusAF Environmental Dimension ====================
  
 The environmental dimension of the Sustainability Assessment Framework focuses on the impacts a service or product has the environment. These impacts can be viewed and analyzed from a variety of different perspectives, depending on what the product or service in question is. Some perspectives to consider are material and resource consumption, the associated waste and pollution, biodiversity, energy usage, as well as logistics. We’ll delve deeper into these subtopics to further explain how to create a SusAF diagram with an accurate, and useful environmental dimension. The environmental dimension of the Sustainability Assessment Framework focuses on the impacts a service or product has the environment. These impacts can be viewed and analyzed from a variety of different perspectives, depending on what the product or service in question is. Some perspectives to consider are material and resource consumption, the associated waste and pollution, biodiversity, energy usage, as well as logistics. We’ll delve deeper into these subtopics to further explain how to create a SusAF diagram with an accurate, and useful environmental dimension.
  
-Material and resource consumption looks at what is needed to produce, deploy, operate, a product or service, as well as what may be needed after the product or service has concluded, and is no longer to be used.+**Material and resource consumption** looks at what is needed to produce, deploy, operate, a product or service, as well as what may be needed after the product or service has concluded, and is no longer to be used.
  
 Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from material and resource consumption are Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from material and resource consumption are
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   * Manufacturing of the product requires rare resources that are not mined sustainably, thus an increase in consumption of these resources. This leads to mining activities that can degrade land and ecosystem   * Manufacturing of the product requires rare resources that are not mined sustainably, thus an increase in consumption of these resources. This leads to mining activities that can degrade land and ecosystem
  
-Waste and pollution considers the impact and effect on soil, atmospheric, and water pollution levels, that the product or service in question may have.+**Waste and pollution** considers the impact and effect on soil, atmospheric, and water pollution levels, that the product or service in question may have.
  
 Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from waste and pollution are Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from waste and pollution are
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   * Uploading and storing photos on Instagram requires data centers that emit CO2.   * Uploading and storing photos on Instagram requires data centers that emit CO2.
  
-Biodiversity looks into how the product or service impacts and effects it’s operational environment, or other land that may be impacted by it’s operation.+**Biodiversity** looks into how the product or service impacts and effects it’s operational environment, or other land that may be impacted by it’s operation.
  
 Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from biodiversity consumption are Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from biodiversity consumption are
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-Logistics relates to the impact and effect a product or service may have on moving both people, and goods.+**Logistics** relates to the impact and effect a product or service may have on moving both people, and goods.
  
 Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from logistics are Some steps to keep in mind regarding the impacts from logistics are