Creating an environment to educate about the environment
- Getting EE right
- Visions, Aims and Objectives of EE
- Strategies and Working Frameworks
- An EE Overview
- Essentials of EE for Sustainability
- EE Framework
- Man-on-the-street Strategies
- Working with the Media
- EE: Going Beyond the Blackboard
- Info Delivery: Step-by-Step
- Environmental Action and EE
- The Way Ahead for Environmental Education
- EE Materials: Guidelines for Excellence
- The 'Multi' Strategy Approach
- Reporting on EE
- Resources within the GDRC
- Resources on the Internet
Man-on-the-street Strategies
Ultimately, for effective environmental action, it is vital to filter global environmental problems to the local level, to the level of the man-on-the-street, in order to ensure real impacts and change. Some of these strategies to target the man-on-the-street, and to 'package' the message at that level include:
- Create links between short-term local actions and its long-term global effects/impacts
- Build scenarios and forecasts - both good and bad
- Make people scared! This is critical for lifestyle changes
- Provide detailed numbers/statistics, but in an easily understandable way, including the implications of that data.
- Give information samples that is directly related to the individual, and at that level (not at the level of the city or the nation)/
- Paint pictures and visions, again at the individual level, so that it is easily understood and achieveable. Tell people what is happening.
- Build networks and share information. Provide an opportunity for more interaction and participation to take place.
