You don’t need to pass a bill to protect the environment. While grand changes are important and necessary, schools and educators can also do their part in encouraging meaningful change. Especially in sustainability-oriented schools, going zero carbon is doable in a few years.
Let’s take a look at how this can happen:
Vegetable gardens do more than aid science lessons
You learn the parts of a seed and a plant, and how one sprout can grow into an entire garden, but more than that, the living organism that grows can help clean the air around the school. If children were allowed to tend to a vegetable garden, they might also learn how to compost, which would minimize waste at school. This habit can easily be extended to their homes if they see that it’s easy to do and adapt.
Recycle and repurpose
Instead of wasting items that have been used once, such as plastic bottles and cartons, encourage children to come up with creative ways to transform them into other useful pieces. A plastic container can become a birdhouse, while a spare tire could become a pot. Bottles can be washed and reused to store other liquids, or they could be used for hydroponics.
Audit the school’s greenness
When it comes to the equipment and workflow, zero carbon schools pride themselves in passing an audit that examines not just their processes, but also their long-term approach to sustainability. A lot of resources go into the replacement of equipment and teaching aid, but this could be minimized or eliminated altogether with an effective plan.
You don’t have to do an overhaul of the school system overnight to help nature heal. Simple changes, when done by a lot of people, and extended to their different households, can mean great things. Start teaching your students the value of going green today.
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