Green School
About the project
Since the 2022/2023 academic year, the schools within the International Academy have been actively involved in the Green School project. This initiative serves as a hands-on educational experience aimed at fostering environmental awareness and responsibility. By engaging in sustainable practices, students – along with the entire school community – learn to recognise their environmental impact and develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between human actions and the planet’s wellbeing.
One of the most valuable aspects of our time is the ability to access knowledge about the challenges our world still faces. When we care about the planet, it’s easier to stay informed and take meaningful action…
Being an activist means seeking solutions and fully believing in our ability to make a difference.
(A. Pègo, Plasticus Maritimus, Topipittori, 2022)
A group of individuals united by a shared goal can achieve extraordinary things.
A Green School is a certified school that, through an educational journey, adopts virtuous behaviours and active practices in environmental terms, leading to a reduction in its ecological footprint of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Green School is about collaboration within the school, among students, teaching staff, and non-teaching staff, as well as externally, with families and local institutions, to achieve a common goal of reducing environmental impacts.
Green School is an example of environmental sustainability, education, action, innovation, and creativity.
Green School is about taking responsibility for daily behaviours that concretely lead to reductions in CO2 emissions.
A Green School is a school which is open 360° to all environmental sustainability issues.
Green School is an active commitment in achieving its goal and maintaining it over time.
Green School is a network of schools that firmly believe in the project and share ideas and experiences.
The pillars on which a Green School operates are numerous:
–energy saving
–waste reduction and proper waste management
–sustainable mobility
–water saving
–promotion of biodiversity
–reduction of food waste
Our schools have decided to embark on this journey by focusing on the goal of reducing school waste and improving its segregation.
1 – FORM THE TEAM: choose the pillar to focus on and organise the operational group;
2 – CONDUCT THE INVESTIGATION
3 – EXPLORATION: analyse the current situation and identify the problem
4 – MEASURE: quantitatively assess the carbon footprint before the start of the project
5 – ACT: adopt “good practices” through the comprehensive involvement of the school to reduce the school’s carbon footprint
6 – VERIFY THE OUTCOME OF THE ACTIONS: confirm the adoption of the good practice by re-measuring the carbon footprint
7 – CONCLUSION: evaluate the success of the project and communicate the results obtained
- Green School News
In this section there will be reported short articles written both by students and teachers, in which the activities carried on for the project realization are presented.