Environmental Awareness

I did not participate in the Earth Hour last last weekend. It's not because I forgot or anything but because I think I already am contributing enough awareness about the environment to those around me and using environmentally sustainable practices in everyday activities.

Several times during the day and the days before and after that, I brought up the topic of Earth Hour in most of my conversations. I believe that its main purpose is to create awareness. I don't think that one hour of turning of your lights will contribute much but it is the awareness of our effect on the environment.

It was mentioned in one of my "Environmental Sustainability" lectures that awareness should also be stressed in the universities not only through specific courses but integrated in the curricula. Like for example, in design projects, the effect on the environment should be stressed.

It was thus interesting when one of the words we were asked to use during one of our French classes was Natural Reserve which was the topic of the guest lecturer for my Environmental Sustainability on that same day. We were supposed to think of forbidden and allowed things to do in different places and the natural reserve was one of them. Of all my subjects, French was the one I least expected to have environmental awareness.