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High school students and environment and business


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In the midst of globalization, save for weapon control, most environmental and economic issues are surfacing to a bubble in Vietnam and haven‟t shown signs of reaching their high-water mark. I was among few students who developed a vested interest in both environmentalism and business since high school. But as I started a discussion about the intersection of the two subjects with schoolmates, I quickly found my conversation out the window. As time passed, my friends found their way in banks or became entrepreneur. Last year when I was back to Vietnam and came to their companies to talk sustainable business practices, I still noticed eyes rolling. Sustainable issues are often inadvertently skirted in the name of procurment at cheapest prices. Without the adoption of these emerging entrepreneurs and established companies, there won‟t be any green building or green business in Vietnam anytime soon, which results in unstoppable impact of this country on air pollution, global warming, and more. As a corollary, companies need more education and consultation on these subjects.

The lack of company personnel is derived back to their days in high school because high school is on of the most important turning point in one's life when one decides which field of study to opt in in university. Many Vietnamese students are bright and intellectual but they and everyone around them have been lacking awareness of global issues for so long. They tend to be a Joe Shmoe rather than a Crazy Frog in any essay or speech contest calling for authentic and creative papers on environmentalism. Most ideas submitted were so vapid that they triggered no change or execution. I know many undergraduates and graduates who are very excited with learning government policies, but why couldn't they manage to change anything? Knowing that, we have to change thoroughly everything and everyone around them to able to admonish their attitude and change their way of thinking. If a single knot is missed in the process, our efforts will crumble before any benefit is materialized. To create a wholesome Experience for that purpose, it requires many resources that are not locally and sustainably available. Human resource is the major factor. Not everyone but President Obama can hire a Chris Hughes for his long-day campaign. we need to mobilize all available Chris Hughes in our place to keep some of them, at any time, side by side with high school students to teach them.

Nowadays, students in developed countries gather to run institutions known as think-tanks and invite strong board of advisors and mentors. Under their instruction, students do research, work on theories and projects, and present ideas in front of congressmen. There are more than a hundred think tanks in US and UK; teens in India, Australia, Canada, German, France, Belgium; less than five in major East Asian countries; Vietnam, two. And most of them are not student-run so students cannot directly engage in activities or be enmpowered to make changes.

Besides, in this growing economy, there‟s a growing concern that parents become so busy at work that they unconsciously free their children from study-hard duty. These parents need to be aroused to awareness of new generation‟s development in all aspects. Success in fulfilling this need will, at the same time, help earn any education business a parents-backed customer base.

My project tries to tackle these issues one by one.


Image's credit: VO VIET ANH (2009) STOCK: CAM CARDOW/OTTAWA CITIZEN (2008)

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