Role of Environment
Vinod Kr. Verma
Assistant Professor Education
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, AJMER
Melting of Ice in
North and South
Pole.
All the Water
Drained to Sea.
Rise in Sea Level.
TODAY’S PROBLEMS
Water Pollution
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Natural Calamity - TSUNAMI TYPES OF POLLUTION
Every day, earth becomes more and more
polluted.
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Science, technology and environmental
sustainability Can science and technology deliver
Role of science and technology in delivering sustainable development
environmental sustainability:
impacts of science and technology
sustainable development and global
environmental sustainability achieved not only
with the application of science and technology
alone. Example : USA turnout to be good or bad is determined
by their environmental impacts.
progress towards sustainable development is
dependent upon a fundamental change in
societies’ attitude to nature and the environment economic development through
industrialization
to bring about this change of attitude is
education in moral and ethical philosophy. In the
young minds it is essential to reinforce the
environment-
environment-respecting moral values. World Bank and International Monetary
Fund
science and technology can help the The only hope of salvaging this grave
situation is by making the young aware
process of sustainable development in a that they need to proactively begin to
limited way but they cannot deliver them. protect the environment they will inherit.
Science and Technology can help in a
limited way but cannot deliver it.
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Curriculum development Criteria for curriculum
Reasons for including moral education in
development:
development:
Engineering Curricula: • The focus must be on reducing
consumption with a view to achieving
As future planners, designers, builders and sustainability. The content should be
decision makers , students shoulder special holistic, covering all essential aspects.
responsibility in protecting the integrity of nature
and the natural environment.
• The content should comprises two
Human beings are rational creatures who have an strategic elements:
innate need to rationalize all their actions and
thoughts .Moral philosophy provjdes this The ‘end-
‘end- of-
of- the pipe’
pipe’
rationale, and by doing so gives us our element
humanity. based on science and technology to
deal
Albert Einsteins statement “Science without
philosophy is just mechanics”. with pollution already produced.
The ‘ before-
before-the-
the-pipe’
pipe’
element
concerned with pollution prevention
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
RESOURCES
According to the latest census of India statistics, Though children and youth in rural India are
only 38 percent of the 192 million households in physically closer to nature, they seldom have
India enjoy the privilege of grossly under-
under-priced access to natural resources to satisfy their basic
piped water supply. needs.
“Water is a resource which is much too free.
Under-
Under-pricing of this vital resource has ironically For instance though they may live beside a river,
put it beyond the reach of the poor majority. it’s rare for rural youth to have experienced piped
A resource conscious society should water.
carefully calculate the cost — and price — of
its natural resources. Instead river water is transported across
Since we haven’t done so, there’s a lot of hundreds of miles to cities. Continuous
pilferage and waste. mismanagement and waste of water resources
Water should be a costed resource, only then will and years of large-
large-scale deforestation has
we use and save it as a precious resource. transformed India from a once water-
water-rich society
Water management should receive top priority as into a water-
water-insecure nation.
environment education is introduced in schools
and colleges
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The people below are taking care of
their home and car, but they are
doing many things that can damage
Management of waste
the environment, especially our
water.
Understanding environmental
behavioural change through Creating Environmental Awareness
communication
Developing a ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ became
one of the tasks of environmental education Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment (GLOBE)
The ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ is defined as “
the whole of actions of an individual within the society, that (NASA), USA. Over 50,000 schools all over the
takes into account, in a conscious way, the perennial and
harmonious relationship between these actions and world, of which 86 are in India, are enrolled in
environment”. the GLOBE programme.
programme.
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Conclusion
Effective policy must be implemented to curb
consumption by the affluent Future student generation must acquire knowledge
and skills in technologies and keep pace with rapid
advances in practically in all areas.
We need moral education to instill genuinely
environment respecting moral values in the
young student society. The communication perspective opens the door to
Conventional educational methodology is no another kind of tools that environmental educators can
longer adequate for the real needs of tomorrow use in order to improve the educational practice.
Though there are definitional and implementation Minds on experience is also needed with Hands on
flaws, environment NGOs and activists need to be experience.
given credit and accolades for creating a nation-
nation-
wide awareness of the crisis of environment
deterioration.
SAE International
Education For Life • Headquartered in Warrendale,
Warrendale, PA with
Automotive Headquarters in Troy, MI
Education Through Life • 501.c.3 not-
not-for-
for-profit foundation
• 128,000 members—
members— industry, government,
Education Throughout Life academia
• Share information and exchange ideas for
advancing engineering mobility
systems
Mahatma Gandhi • Standards development, events, and technical
information and expertise used
in designing, building, maintaining, and operating
vehicles for use on land or
sea, in air or space
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Environmental & Green Challenges SAE Proposed Actions for the
for the Mobility Industry Mobility Industry
Environmental issues are critical and global Provide technical information and
• Concerns about “sustainable mobility” and feedback to address issues before
“green mobility products” regulations are imposed
—what are they? • Make the Mobility Sector part of the
• Green initiatives focus on fuel efficiency, but solution
should be more than that • Facilitate the industry’s approach to be
• Difficult to commercialize new auto more environmentally responsive,
technologies yet cost-
cost-effective and time-
time-sensitive
• Individual companies active in sustainability
and the green arena • Assure the Mobility Sector is recognized
as a leader for new, green and
• Challenges for industry consensus and path
forward sustainable technology
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Work in Progress
Green Technology Steering Group
To serve as a guiding body for consensus • SAE J2960–
J2960– “Implementation of Green
standards development for environmental Chemistry and
sustainability issues in the automotive sector: Engineering within the Automotive Sector” under
"Meeting the needs of the present generation
without compromising the ability of future
development
generations to meet their needs.” • SAE J2965 – “Terminology and Definitions for
Defining concept of green: related to the size of the Green
environmental footprint of a product, i.e. the Innovation and Sustainable Practices in the
degree to which a product has a negative Automotive
impact on human health and ecosystems Industry” under development
Topics for consideration include materials, energy, • Inventory of Green Chemistry & Engineering
water, waste, recycling and reuse, and Case Studies
manufacturing practices from EPA Awards
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Sustainable Mobility Lessons Learned and Future Steps
“Sustainable mobility means delivering safe, energy-
energy-efficient • Sustainability issues are cross-
cross-cutting, generally not
products that required by regulation or law,
meet our customers’ needs while using the earth’s resources and not focused in discrete technical departments in
responsibly, companies
minimizing environmental impacts, relying on renewable energy,
and • Companies address sustainability differently
responding to differing community needs for transportation, and • No “silver bullet”
at the We need:
same time fulfilling our fundamental role in driving world • General-
General-high level industry support to integrate these
economies. efforts across departments;
…It depends on collaboration, automakers working with
government, • Collaboration and partnerships;
energy providers and consumers to advance sustainable mobility • Process to identify opportunities to advance sustainability
through a across the industry;
comprehensive integrated approach” • A few industry leaders in sustainability dedicated to the
Auto Alliance, effort.
Reinventing the Automobile 2011
Conclusion
SAE is providing a forum through the
Green Technology
Steering Group to address these
issues and develop a THANK YOU
framework and strategy for global
standards for
environmental sustainability in the
mobility sector.