Environmental Awareness Training, Page 17 Reviews

The course content is great and has lots of ideas that apply or are useful in everyday lives. I plan to go through the course with my children because they will find it useful also. Some of the content is very UK specific and not directly applicable to US.

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There could be a slide or two on receding glaciers and the impact of Amazonian forest clearing on many hundreds of species (some undiscovered) and the very real impact on extinction of animals losing their habitat. If the rest of the world don't follow the same considerations (specifically Russia, China, India & Brazil) then what's the point?

comprehensive and informative course. It was unfortunate that the delivery is 'white school teacher' tone and so came across as aimed at 11 year old's. Lacked diversity. Small changes would make this better.

Well-written and presented and basically sound. However using 'the butterfly effect' as a way of talking about many small actions building up to a large environmentally-positive effect is incorrect. You cite Lorenz' original context for the butterfly effect but don't make it clear that Lorenz was talking about the sensitive dependence on initial conditions of a chaotic system and how that introduces limits on predictability when modelling the system. The idea is that the butterfly's wing flap, if left out of a weather model, drives changes in the global weather system which begin very small but take its state further and further from the model's prediction. This is the opposite of what you are talking about - environmentally-positive actions add together in a predictable way because what is predicted (for example, CO2 emissions) is averaged out over the many individual decisions. I would also have appreciated some discussion of the political aspects of the problem at a national and international level. Voting and protesting can be very powerful environmental actions!

Straightforward and easy to follow, the session rounded up the key issues and gave clear and reasonable guidance on how individuals and organisations can make a positive difference. Very accessible format.

It would be helpful if it was shown how long each course was before you started. Because sometimes you have a free hour and sometimes you have a half an hour, it would be easy to select which one to do to ensure continuity of learning if you could match which course to choose according to how long each course is. Thanks

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The course is good but does not cover veganism in any depth, the single most effective way to reduce greenhouse gasses and deforestation is veganism, for example over 100,000 sea animals are killed with "ghost gear" a year, and not using plastic straws is barely going to scratch the surface. The amount of water used in beef production is 15415 litres per KG, a shower uses approx 90.. so 2kg of beef in comparison to a years worth of 10 minute showers. points hopefully made... i'm trying to get less meat consumed in the workplace