Importance of Early Climate Change and Renewable Energy Education for Your Kids

Educating your children in regard to the facts about harmful effects of carbon emission and climate change is important if you want to pass down the habit of caring for the environmental. Early education about how to save energy and reduce your family’s carbon footprint will set a great example for them now and help to set good habits that will just become a part of their life when they are older.

Depending on your children’s age bracket you can teach them only the most basic principles through to the most detailed information of global warming for those how are old enough to understand. Imparting accurate knowledge in a way that captures their interest is likely to nourish their urge for social responsibility, and we can only hope that their generation does a better job of protecting the environment than the ones that preceded them! The awareness that they gain at an early stage will remain until they have their family and they will pass those same important values onto their children.

So after they have an interest and awareness then it is time to introduce them the useful methods of environmental protection; You can start by teaching them how to conserve energy by turning off any appliances or lights that are not in use, and encouraging recycling and walking or public transport rather than being in the car all the time.

As you progress, you can then teach them the importance of using renewable energy sources. Showing them how a solar panel works for instance, and how they contribute in the global campaign against carbon will spark their young minds to be creative – and who knows years from now they might be contributing to a new age of solar technology.

Another way of teaching them is by being a role model. It may sound stereo typical but studies shows that most children mimic their parents actions for better or worse, and continue to do so even as adults.

By doing so, you are not only teaching your own children the good practices of environmental protection. If you encourage good habits and new knowledge to children there is a big chance that they in turn will share with classmates and friends and the trend will continue to grow.

We are caught up in the cross fireand small details of the opposition and administration regarding the carbon tax, and it’s easy to forget what the real purpose of it is, and all the renewable energy initiatives in the country. If we really want to make a difference then we must work hard for it and every change starts at home - one step at a time.