Exploring alternatives for a better future
Environmental awareness is an essential component of environmental education which
inculcates values guided by ecological knowledge.
An issue-based approach brings students through different levels of understanding and
motivates them to take responsible actions looking through the lens of environmental
awareness.
7 Environmental Principles are the following; nature knows best, all forms of life are important,
everything is connected to everything else, everything changes, everything must go somewhere
else, ours is a finite earth, and nature is beautiful and we are stewards of God’s creation.
There is a need to embed an environmental concern in values and norms in each culture.
Common environmental actions include tree planting and tree growing; clean-up drives; reduce-
reuse-recycle initiatives; among others
Providing for human needs with the least impact on the physical environment and finite
resources of the planet embodies the concept of Appropriate Technology.
Developing appropriate technology can provide educational challenges for students for them to
think of possible solutions to problems using available materials that are not harmful to the
environment.
The technology developed should also be acceptable to its users for it to be successful.
Appropriate technology development is necessary to spur economic growth in Third World
countries like the Philippines.
There are only pockets of high productivity in urban centers while rural areas are largely
neglected. This is why many of those from rural poor areas flock to urban centers in search of
livelihood opportunities but ending up unemployed and displaced.
There is a variety of alternative energy sources being explored and tapped to replace non-
renewable soures of energy.
Contemporary societies are dependent on technologies mostly run by electricity, a form of
energy that comes from various energy sources.
An alternative for fossil fuels and nuclear fuels, which are considered to be non-renewable