Cousteau and Travel
Jacques Cousteau’s daughter talks about eco-travel, environmental education, and more on Indagare.
An interview excerpt that stuck out to me:
What would you advise parents who want to educate their children about environmental issues during their travels?
First of all, I don’t understand why environmentalism isn’t part of every curriculum in schools. You teach biology, so why not make that connection for the kids? In terms of travel planning, I would really pay attention to where you choose to go and teach the kids why you decided to bring them to a particular place: because they compost, because they have solar panels, because they have educational eco programs, etc. The consumer demand has to be the driving force for places to go green.
Filed under: education, eco-tourism on February 4th, 2009
When i took Advanced Bio in HS, we spent most of the time talking about ecology and environmental issues - even visited the Nuclear reactor and learned about the environmental impact. Went up into the mountains and explored riparian areas and the effects on them of the logging industry etc.
My friends and I also started an ‘earth club’ at our school and tried to get the school to start a paper recycling program.
But now, here I am in this cosmopolitan mecca, and hardly anyone recycles - not even the state agency where I work. The small rural town was more environmentally conscious.