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Centre for Environment EducationCEE

Centre for Environment Education

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Centre for Environment Education

What is environment?

• the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism

• Includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic ecosystem, which include other organisms that share its habitat.

• Functions of environment – Source – Sink

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Is our environment limited?

• Does it have a boundary?

– Geographical

– Political

– Cultural

– Social

We share one earth and its finite resources

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Do we all consume the same?

Worlds richest 20% consumes 76.6% and poorest 20% consume 1.5%

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Condition in developing country

• Poverty

• Illness

• Jobless

• Violence

• Illiteracy

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Is any of this linked to our consumption

• What we consume

• Where it comes from

• Where does the waste go

• At what cost

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There are benefits of consumptionif…

• I become informed/fair consumer

• Attempt to consume local

• Rethink consumption

• Reduce consumption

• Recycle waste

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A global citizen

Influence the world in your own way…

• Business

• Humanities

• Arts

• Science

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Links

• http://www.storyofstuff.com/

• http://www.unep.org/Tunza/

• http://www.lsf-lst.ca/en/youth/youth_links.php

• http://www.handsforchange.org

• http://www.toronto.zerofootprint.net

• http://www.yourhomeaudit.com

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Thank Youbrijpal.patel@ceeindia.org