When confronted with challenges how to change your lifestyle in order to live more eco-friendly, it is often difficult to know which decisions to make. Not because there is any lack of information (there are loads!), but because it is difficult to know which things are more important and which less, for me right now. How much effort to put into trying to use alternative means of transport, and how much into careful recycling and replacing plastic bags with the "organic" ones, for example? (It sounds simplistic, but you get the point) It does not help to say that every aspect is important, because to many people who think about starting a more eco-friendly lifestyle, all new imperatives of green living are just overwhelming! It is impossible to listen to all the advice at the same time, and of course majority claim that his or her environmental issue is the most important.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Looking for Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Workshops
Therefore, strategies are needed, how and where to start with small changes, a real pedagogical guidence is needed as to what steps could be taken, and of course, we need to be taught a different way of life when greater changes are proposed to us or even demanded of us. Changing the lifestyle is not an easy matter, usually we are unable to do any greater changes if not being very determined to practice the new routines and starting all over again when we fail.
Therefore, I really want to see more workshops, real training classes, courses, tutorials etc. on how to live an eco-friendly life. Here in Cambridge, besides the excellent University and secondary education, there are many different afternoon classes for grown up people available in lots of places like schools, societies and governmental institutions. You can learn Polish, Mandarine, Urdu, gardening, writing poetry; there are classes like "Colours, Style and Make Up", "Egyptian Belly Dancing ", "Ceramics " and "Wine Appreciation advanced", but I have not yet seen a real course or a serious workshop called "Eco friendly Life-Style" or "How to Live Greener?" or something similar. Perhaps I just didn't see it. Or perhaps, this has not been put into practice yet (To be fair, I have seem that primary and I am sure also secondary schools have elements in the curricula dedicated to the topic, which is of course great).
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Couldn't agree more with what you have wrote. Having new, different approach to our planet takes strategy on every level of our society (the theory of 3 pillars) and it needs to become rooted into each one of us. Maybe for our generation it's a bit late, at least we can make it better for our children...
It is not so hard and it is not impossible - from my experience Switzerland is far behind from all EU countries. Why not follow?
You meant that Switzerland is far ahead, not behind, I believe.
I agree, there is much better eco-education for children, in the schools, and they are of course very receptive to that. But still, the grown-ups of today make decisions of lifestyle for the whole families, companies, councils, governments etc.
The urgency of the situation demands good quality educational programmes for adults now, I believe.
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