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Centre for Environment EducationCEE
Centre for Environment Education
CEE
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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Centre for Environment Education
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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Centre for Environment Education
Do we all consume the same?
Worlds richest 20% consumes 76.6% and poorest 20% consume 1.5%
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Centre for Environment Education
Condition in developing country
• Poverty
• Illness
• Jobless
• Violence
• Illiteracy
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Centre for Environment Education
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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Centre for Environment Education
There are benefits of consumptionif…
• I become informed/fair consumer
• Attempt to consume local
• Rethink consumption
• Reduce consumption
• Recycle waste
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Centre for Environment Education
A global citizen
Influence the world in your own way…
• Business
• Humanities
• Arts
• Science
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Centre for Environment Education
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
