General Discussion

Hey everyone, Great discussion so far! Thanks to @HeatherKelsall for doing some organizing.

@NielChah and @VeronicaReiss, I agree with CarolineJankech regarding the research question – I also understood from class that we can work with multiple RQs, so I think we should focus our work more on getting five solid questions. @VeronicaReiss , I agree that in exploring the link between education (faculty) and environmental practices it would be hard to prove which one comes first/ which is the independent variable and which is the independent. I also am not sure the commerce/money tie completely holds true as one could be studying commerce and have a passion for making sure businesses are sustainable.

So far I think it is important we ask about whether or not, cost is a factor in making sustainable choices. I also think we should definitely ask if one actually believes that their individual actions make a difference (poli/econ theory – tragedy of the commons ) like CarolineJankech suggested.

Like CarolineJankech suggested, it’s hard to keep track of edits and discussion for all questions here on this one big thread. I thought it would be easier if we have individual threads, one for each survey question… that way we can work on strengthening individual questions and our comments/edits won’t get lost. We can still discuss broader/more general topics or issues in this main thread. Towards the deadline (I don’t remember when it is) if it isn’t already clear which questions we’re going with, I guess we can all vote in this main thread on which questions to keep. I hope this system works. I started us off by making threads for the last 3 questions that were discussed.

Q1. "Is cost a factor in your decision to make sustainable choices?" (1)Yes (2)No Q2. "Individual efforts (eg. recycling, composting, biking, using public transit etc.) make substantial differences in environmental issues such as climate change?" (1)strongly agree (2)somewhat agree (3)neutral (4)somewhat disagree (5)strongly disagree Q 3 : Do you think that your individual behavior has an impact on the climate change?

From now on I guess, feel free to start a thread for any new survey questions.

If you guys have any better ideas for organizing our discussion and our questions, or if you feel this new system is not that great, I’m totally open to switching. I hope this helps :)