Environmental Awareness Training Reviews

Full of information I had not considered before!

Many points repeated to pad out what could be done in 20 mins to 40 mins. Over simplistic … "saving paper saves trees" … not when the trees are grown specifically to make paper. Also putting the paper into landfill then locks the carbon back up in the Earth.

This course was, in my opinion terrible. As a professional who's role includes energy efficiency and sustainability, I found many of the point overly biased and so lack any depth into why these issues occured and what the potenetial social or economic impacts of the changes being recommended would have beyond the obvious initial claim. As is well documented many of the changes recommened have headline grabbing statics, but the followup impact and fall out (or butterfly effect) is missed and so the actual resulting impact of the change is not evident. Also found some of the information incorrect, an obvious example turning kettles off at the plug. Kettles have no standby current as the inbuilt switch isolates the supply, as such turning it off at the plug has no impact at all. Had this course not been part of my companies mandatory training, I would not have finished this course. I am not against Sustainability or the Enviromental impact we are having on the world, but this training did nothing to drive me to change my existing habits nor improve my awareness of the issues, their root cause or how best to address them, both at a personal, company or even global level.