Public Participation as a Tool for Preserving the Environment

¹ Faculty of Engineering. HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
² Dean of Students Office. HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
³ Director of “Israeli Hope”. HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
⁴ Dean of Students, HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israels

^* Corresponding author: henf@hit.ac.il

Abstract

Environmental Education is the key for creating a clean energy future for not only the nation, but the world. World Energy Consumption relies heavily on coal, oil, and natural gas. Fossil fuels are non-renewable, that is, they rely on finite resources that will eventually dwindle, becoming too expensive or too environmentally damaging to retrieve. In contrast, renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar energy, are constantly replenished and will never run out. Due to the rising need for professionals and academics with a background and understanding in the Energy field, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) developed an integral system of environmental education and training and a new program at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The Renewable Energy program gives the students technical and practical aspects of energy use (technology and methodology of the study) and energy efficiency. The program also deals with minimizing the environmental impacts of energy use, as well as with energy economy and environmental policy. This article presents a new challenge. Teach environmental issues with language difficulties. Israeli Hebrew speaker students, teach environmental education in Arab school with Arabic speaker pupils’.