ABSTRACT
The main strategy has been to try to instill in students emotional proximities to nature and to connect environmental issues to their daily lives. Creating a personal map of a place meaningful to the learner provides a visual way to connect the environment with their lives and generates personal commitments. Connecting learners' personal experiences to everyday 'nature' and to environmental problems through creating this map is a way to create mirror effects. The effects help them, as journalists, reflect on the power of environmental communication in ways that can lead to creating stories that deepen into community matters; these are stories that relate to people like the writer. In the process, they start clarifying the difference between concepts such as global warming, climate change and greenhouse gases always linking the global with the local with examples that link to their daily lives.
