Environmental Awareness Training, Page 5 Reviews

Wealth is more a driver of greenhouse gas emissions than simple population. Even relatively low income households in the UK are in the higher bands of income globally. Having population as a focus risks shifting blame onto people who have minimal impact and a graphic of a virus spreading out of Africa to highlight population is potentially not the best choice. There was also no talk about the food companies buy. Do they need to buy dairy biscuits or is there fruit and bourbons as an option instead. If catering for an event do they look at what is offered e.g. chicken, fish, veggie and vegan option would suit many people over beef, pork, fish and vegan option.

I find it ironic that a training course that advocates limiting unnecessary energy usage should take 48 minutes-plus to get through. The point can be made in half that time - anything beyond that is just a waste of time, resource and energy.

Perfect for 8 year olds. At 50 it's downright insulting!

The courses are usually fairly informative, but this one felt patronising and didn't comment on the effect industry has enough.

Too long and draining

1) planting trees is not the answer, so it's not very helpful to talk in terms of number of trees 2) we need to look very carefully at exactly what we're using in the first place BEFORE we use it - can we refill a vessel? What's in it? Do we actually need it or is there a better alternative? 3) we need to weigh up things - plastic is less carbon-heavy than paper, but you can't get rid of it, e.g. I suspect this training will have absolutely no impact at all.

Told me two things I wasn't aware of but will hardly change how I think or what I do.

Info on eating meat and dairy is inaccurate.

***** organising the obvious knowledge, what is really simple and good (this is 5 star)** # It has not that user friendly interface, as I changed the preferences and was not able to skip the already watched sections # Also, just for fun, turned to different languages, and the translations is not that smooth and nice on Spanish and Hungarian. (deliberately downgraded, so I guess someone will read this) thank you.

The course feels too long as it often repeats the same message, which I feel it's a problem because, for such an important topic, it can make people zone out. I also disliked the tone which felt like talking down and lots of dumbed down statements sometimes to the point being incorrect; I was particularly annoyed at the constant inaccurate use of the "butterfly effect" as if trying to pin a random soundbite to the course.On a specific point: The mid course question about what to do before throwing away rubbish, gives recycling and reuse as an options and marks the first as incorrect. I find that unfair, as it ignores the person already having considered or tried to reuse the item. Following the same graphic as the course, "recycle" is the one immediately before "dispose", so it's reasonable to expect the trainee to answer based on that order on good faith of having followed all other steps to get there. All in all, it would be better if only 1 of the key-words of the graphic were given as an option rather than 2 of them.