ENV 361 Final Reflection

00:04 Reflecting back on the course, what were some of the most meaningful concepts you learned? Reflecting back on the course, one of the most meaningful concepts I learned was eco teams and diving deeper into team based models. I find this concept really meaningful because.

00:21 It is a strategy that I find really effective in many situations such as.

00:27 The workplace and also just in the world in general in trying to implement behavior change. Humans are social creatures, so it's good to incorporate the natural behaviors into consideration.

00:37 Of trying to help people change their habits, which is something that I find meaningful. Another concept I found meaningful is frames.

00:47 Frames are meaningful because I think in.

00:49 Order to share our ideas and get the best outcome that goes in our.

00:53 Favor is to frame our argument in a way that creates an impact on.

00:58 The listener or reader.

00:59 This doesn't mean to deceive the listener.

01:02 Or writer, but to add weight into certain points in your argument that creates a stronger message that moves them. I feel like this concept is what.

01:11 A lot of people, a lot of.

01:13 Business people do in meetings and sharing their ideas. So this is something that is useful.

01:19 Not only in trying to change behaviors.

01:21 To be more environmentally friendly, but also in everyday life situations and in the workplace.

01:31 What behavior change strategy works well, what didn't and why? Team based models, specifically eco teams, worked well because it created a safe space.

01:44 For people to share ideas and work together to change their behavior. Instead of the classic sit down of the people being educated by one leader.

01:54 Which is usually the scientist, it's found to not be effective because people did not take well to learning that way. People worked well when they worked together as a community. It was found that people took to.

02:08 The behavior change better and was more sustainable in the long run.

02:13 It created a more supportive environment and.

02:15 Also created a social influence in the community to continue on the behavior change which was what we wanted.

02:25 Also, incentivizing rewards for behavior change was.

02:30 Found to not be effective because it.

02:32 Does not promote long term sustainable behavior.

02:34 Change because their motivation is driven by the reward and not by the well being of the environment and belief of the change truly being any benefit to themselves too.

02:46 It was hard to it's hard to.

02:48 Promote long term sustainable behavior change with certain incentives. What are two to five salient concepts that you will take with you as you pursue your career?

03:08 As I pursue my career, two of the concepts I will take with me.

03:19 Take with me. Oh is As I pursue my career.

03:25 Two of the concepts I will take.

03:27 With me is team based models. Because of my specialization of conservation biology, it will help me share my information with the public and the importance of speciation diversity and I can use it as a way to change their behavior to promote the conservation of species because small acts can actually help such as.

03:49 Planting plants and creating gardens to help bees pollinate which will help the overall.

03:54 Big ecosystem by supporting the growth of trees and plants and vegetables for the animals. Gardens can also help be a shelter for smaller animals too.

04:08 And small acts.

04:09 Like this which all people can participate in can help. And I can see using team based models and having everyone participate in the community. Maybe having a community garden can help this an example like that. Also another concept I plan to take with me is framing because I can use this concept to share my ideas as well, which can help my career field in sharing my ideas in an effective way. For example, if a certain animal is endangered, I can use a certain framing.

04:44 To persuade people to be more interested.

04:46 And personally moved by my information. Briefly evaluate each using at least two of the evaluation metrics could be speed of change, reliability, particularism, durability, mental vitality, attentional capacity, meaningfulness, emotional state, prospection, or it could be well being. One of the evaluation metrics is measuring the speed of change, which is a metric that is measured during the intervention. We measure this specific metric by determining how fast the intervention affected the change in the behavior. We also measure how fast it will improve the performance of the existing behavior too. Another evaluation metric is durability, which is a metric that is measured after the intervention and is focused on measuring if.

05:52 The behavior.

05:54 That this finally change will be able to be maintained without continued intervention. So we will also determine if the behavior is able to be easily started again after a time lapse, meaning like after a while of no continued behavior change in intervention. Next, what are the one or two major ways that the approaches outlined in this course differ from par accompanying meaning that of more conventional behavior change approaches.

06:37 One major way the approach of the.

06:40 Eco team model differs from the more conventional behavior change approach is is because it is a team based because it is team based instead of the more.

06:51 Conventional approach of having one person lecturing.

06:54 A group of people and educating them and trying to change their behavior. Eco teams is working together in the.

07:03 Community and is found to be more.

07:04 Effective because of the social aspect and the approach which creates a sense of accountability. I focused a lot on this approach on my final project with my group because the social aspect of this approach.

07:18 Will make a social norm and influence.

07:21 The group of community group or community sorry to change their behavior.

07:28 This approach is also shown to be.

07:31 Better to make a long term effect that is sustainable and durable. The more conventional approach is known to only be effective for the short term change, but does not become to be a sustainable behavior change. The supportive environment of eco teams makes it easier for people to open up and share ideas which will help solidify the behavior change. Overall, I've found this class to be very interesting and actually overlapping with some other environmental my other environment classes. I found it similar to some aspects.

08:19 In my activism course because of the.

08:24 Framing and how if we were able if we're trying to bring up an.

08:30 Issue environmental issue.

08:35 We should frame our way of how we're showing our argument or information in a way that will entice them and make them interested in making an action on it. So I found this class actually helpful in my environmental activism class and I learned a lot from this course too, and it was a lot of fun, especially the group project. I didn't think there would be so many ways and models of how people different ways of how we can make people change their behavior. So that's something that was really interesting too. Anyways, thank you and I hope you enjoyed my interview.