Well, a few of my peers and myself were privileged enough to be able to see Dr. Jane Goodall speak today! She has come to Puerto Rico to promote her Roots and Shoots programme which is geared towards the world's youth.
In case you don't know, Dr. Goodall is renowned for her fifty years of work with chimpanzees. She was key in the discovery of chimpanzees being not only omnivores, but hunters; that chimpanzees make tools (when it was thought that only humans could do so); this lead to the classification of chimpanzees as hominids and she also is very well known for her unorthodox methods which include naming chimpanzees, instead of giving them numbers. She also conducts much study into how chimpanzees think and feel (she studies depression, happiness, fearfulness, etc in chimps).
Well, it was a shorter presentation, geared to a slightly younger generation, but it was interesting nonetheless. She was quite inspiring, and is a true role model for the rest of us.
This little episode was particularly interesting for me because I got to speak with her for several minutes [semi-]personally, about what my school is doing to be environmentally friendly. The rest of the auditorium watched this and a local news channel filmed it. Public speaking has never been an issue for me in recent years, but speaking to someone so renowned, so accomplished, was truly exhilarating.
So NSG, in an effort to keep this from becoming too bloggy, I ask you this: Do you think environmentalism is something to pay close attention to? Who's work are you particularly fond of? What day to day things do you think improve the environment, and its inhabitants?
Eh... ¿qué?
