Environmental Awareness Training, Page 10 Reviews

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The module kept reloading throughout and the content is too basic for a professional services environment. Appreciate IHASCO trying needs to cover multiple industries and people demographics but a more in depth module is need to engage our teams, more intense.

Found repeated reference to the "Butterfly Effect" annoying. Nothing in the presentation related to this phenomenon. The suggestion that reducing individual impact by a fraction of a % will make enough of a difference is way short of the mark. Some of the comparisons were pointless, e.g. recycling a bottle will give 4 hrs of lighting - is that a 100w bulb or 15w? Better would be comparison of choosing a product in a glass bottle vs PET vs tetrapak (assuming PET is also recycled). Then we could make informed choice rather then recycle glass or sit in the dark. The course did not add anything useful that has not already been covered by other information campaigns, e.g. by Govt, LAs and NGOs.

Although the course was well presented, because it showed a basic ignorance of scientific facts it was hard to take seriously. For example, The Butterfly Effect specifically refers Chaos Theory, in which, because a system is basically chaotic, it's future states cannot be predicted no matter how well defined it's initial conditions are. Climate change is not an example of the BE! Biodiversity is not an example of the BE, to collapse the "food chain" requires mass-extinctions i.e. huge changes, not tiny ones! By any measure, the "food chain", or as I call it "life", is very successful, adaptable and and resilient. Tsunami are not caused by climate change, they are cause by deep-sea earthquakes! When you breathe in deeply, your stomach does not expand! And so on, you see my point?

Presenter was really good but it was obvious getting 20 questions in to the quiz was a struggle as some of the them were absolutely stupid.

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Informative, but overstating the obvious.

Technically competent and visually attractive but the content left me boiling with rage. Do you have a module on anger management? Hypocritical: because many tragic images are shown of plastics in the environment and how we should re-use and recycle them, but this is trivialised by the casual use of products in plastic bottles and packaging, the plastic planters and compost in a plastic bag. Even the charity box was made of green plastic. The stuff is ubiquitous and difficult to avoid but your examples of positive initiatives give good evidence of how to contribute to the problem. Unresearched: That compost!! Miracle Gro General Purpose has 70-100% peat content. Peatlands are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on the planet, sequesting 0.37 gigatonnes of CO2/year, which is more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world COMBINED. Unfortunately bogs do not make pretty videos but I suggest you re-write this video and highlight peatland destruction which is far more significant than forestry, hectare for hectare. Using this gardening session with peat based compost which quite likely originated in Finland or the Baltic states and is then dispensed into plastic planters for plants taken from plastic pots after they have travelled many pollution generating miles, would be laughable if it were not so tragic. Highlight the work being done to restore peatlands and shame gardeners into avoiding peat based compost for a more incisive and significant presentation. However, all of the above is trivia compared to the unpalatable truth that you touched on with another nice graphic at the beginning, but obviously could not expand upon: We are simply breeding our way to destruction. China's one child policy has been castigated around the world but we are inexorably moving towards the point where some brave policy maker will have to be first in proposing financial and social penalties for women that produce 'excess' births. There's a tough nut to crack in your presentation!

Better suited to school children - largely meaningless without corporate context and input

Would far rather have something I could just read. Read the transcript each time but then had to wait for the video to finish