[CT Birds] Hammonassett/Griswold

[Sunshine]

>>This is where environmental education is so sorely needed, beyond
"preaching to the already-converted", and helping people connect with
nature, understand the relevance of it to their own quality of life, and
become better stewards.  You can't protect what you don't know.


This reminds me of Steve Irwin saying that people protect what they love.  

While on the thought of environmental education, how do you change things
when so much is cut out of public education today and there is a general
apathy of kids in schools?  I can't tell you how many kids I interned with
are under the impression that they will become sports or rock stars and make
big dollars and have huge homes and expensive cars.  Planet Earth will turn
totally into a concrete jungle if we don't reach enough people.  I can only
hope to make more connections to the environment when I get my own science
classroom.

Donna Lorello
Branford