Amina discovered her passion for sustainability while studying for a masters program and has been working in the area of sustainable built environments since then (10 years). She teaches Sustainable Architecture and Research Methods in undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Department of Architecture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, an M.Sc. in Environmental Design of Buildings from Cardiff University in and a PhD in Architecture from Newcastle University both in the United Kingdom. Currently, her research is on policies and strategies promoting sustainable energy in the built environment focusing on waste as the renewable source. She can be contacted through her LinkedIn profile as ‘Amina Batagarawa.'

I want to be someone who gives hope to students, youths, and all persons who are denied their rights. Since my five years in the university, my colleagues and I have awakened the spirit of activism and positive change in fellow students and have instilled in them the virtue of standing for what is just and truth. We have initiated a nationwide campus outlet where we are grooming newly admitted university students in becoming responsible citizens of their various community.

Nature has made the environment a big ocean that feeds the smaller rivers of man with sustenance and a green atmosphere. When his ingratitude would shamelessly play out naked, man waged a blind war against environment, and he unconsciously vows not to cease this battle; environment has lost many of its beautiful children to the arrows and guns of man, and its surviving children have had some of their limbs chopped off by the cutlasses of man. Environment whose beauty was once incontestable has grown so ugly, weak and dispirited. Alas! Man has been fighting a battle against himself, for any battle against the environment is against man himself. Unfortunately, man doesn't even know the amount of havoc he has been descending on the environment. The environment must be appeased. How can we save the environment from man? How can we save man from being perished by the wrath of environment? How can we revive the beauty of environment? How can we eradicate environmental hazards? How can we revive the green spirit? How can we save our country? How can we save humanity?

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