What has made you more environmetally aware?

Question

A specific event?

You were bought up that way?

A teacher?

Me - ever since I became a mum.

Answer 1

the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Answer 2

I sometimes sub contract work from a drainage company, driving/operating road gulley sucker tankers.  The tankers need tipping out every few days at the local land fill site. It's so depressing there, the scenery changes daily! About 50% of the waste can easily be recycled instead of thrown away. It made me realise I need to make a stronger effort to recycle more refuse instead of throwing ALL of it away. Trying to get my kids to understand is almost impossible though!

Answer 3

The overflows we have had lately in my country... "An Inconvenient Truth" has helped and the fact that Bush was against it... Actually now that he says that might be true, I'm doubting

Answer 4

warner winters, earlier seasons.

Answer 5

My electric bill.

Answer 6

Travel to other countries

and in my business program the study of how EH&S standrads used in the US are ignored outside the US by US companies and others

Answer 7

It was the way I was brought up - to care and not waste anything, long before ecology, conservation, organics etc. became fashionable.

Of the many things I don't like about town living, pollution and concrete gardens are high on the list.

Answer 8

ever since i had my daughter, thinking what we do will effect her kids and grandkids etc.

Answer 9

I tried to become vegan once. (didnt work, but wish i could) when i was practicing that, i became much more in touch w/ those sorts of things.

Answer 10

Reading this

http://hotlard.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/...

Answer 11

The damage that global warming will do e.g. rising temperatures, floods/rising sea water, damage to wildlife, how the next generation will suffer if it gets worse etc.

Answer 12

myself and gathered info

Answer 13

Hows that work?

Having a kid just means another mouth to feed

Answer 14

Going vegan and then seeing that the earth as well as the animals should be taken care of.

I grew up recycling but that was more for profit than conservation.  I still recycle but now I give the money to a local cause.

Answer 15

Just a general realisation of how much packaging everything comes in, and where's it all gonna go ? It bugs me when when you buy a vegetable wrapped in clingfilm in a plastic tray.

Answer 16

As a kid already .my parents took us in to the woods .every weekend.

And my mother was already aware of the meaning of organic food ,45 years ago.

Coming out of being occupied by the germans  made people aware of a lot of things

Answer 17

My grandfather was a top management employee of one of the largest 'power companies' in the US (not a 'local' company, but one who sells power to them) and when I was three he took me to the 'city dump' and we stood there looking at all of the 'garbage' and all of the seagulls standing on the garbage, and he told me that if we didn't 'do something' that by the time I was his age, the GARBAGE would 'cover the earth' in a way that would 'change the weather in a very BAD way' ... I'm now 57, and we are fighting 'global warming' ... he was CORRECT and my husband and I are 'very ecologically minded' ... we don't own a car, we use 'low' lights only at night, we try not to use a heater, we have no air conditioner, we don't 'fly' everywhere ... and we recycle.  OF COURSE ...

Answer 18

The fact that if we don't start caring now for the environment then the planet will suffer a lot and so will we. Plus Nature is so beautiful and I don't want the prettiness of it to go away :(

Answer 19

Its been a evolving process. I've always loved the countryside and have always gone walking regularly; I became aware of problems of litter in the countryside and also the disappearance of hedgerows (important for birds) and the lack of wild flowers, the disappearance of ponds etc. I have always been interested in nutrition and health too so my

gradually moving towards organic food was a fairly natural progression. I never learned to drive and was always interested in railways but travelling by train became something I not only do because I enjoy it but because it is envoronmentally desirable too. In the early 1990s I became an environmental volunteer. This has greatly added to my environmental awareness as I have witnessed for myself the enormous damage caused to trees by the many hot summers and drougths we have experienced and the new diseases with which they suffer as a result. How too each year less and less plants and shrubs die off each winter, and how Spring seems to start earlier each year - I saw the first butterflies flying two weeks ago for example. What heightens my awareness particularly is how insignificant is the reaction

of both poiliticians and individuals to our environmental crisis.

Politicians talk about carbon trading etc and then authorise a new runway at Heathrow or a new airport, and why on earth do people fly short routes like London to Manchester, particularly when you add on check in time, journeys to and from airports, flying takes longer than the train, and why does the media constantly say flying is cheaper than taking the train which patently isn't true. Half of all car journeys in the U.K. are under 2 miles; people in the street where I live drive 400 yards to buy a newspaper! mothers drive their obese children half a mile to school, can't find a parking space and park another 400 yards away!

Answer 20

I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, and came to care about the wild places I was privileged enough to visit.

Answer 21

What made me more Environmentally aware was my science class in High school. The teacher told that if continue to burn carbon on the rate we going we going to heat up the ice cap they are going melt, and the Caribbeans Island will flood into the oceans. I am Dominican, and Dominican Rep. Is one the beautiful places in the world, and the thought of Dominican

Rep. not being in the world makes me very upset, and very sad.

Answer 22

When all these people tried to say that we humans have a large influence on the changing climate I did some research and realized that if the climate really is going to change, it is just a natural cycle of the planet and I have been waiting for someone to come up with a theory that refutes that.  So that makes me more environmentally aware.

Answer 23

living on my own and seeing how much it costs.