How to plan a Day of Sustainability at your School

One of the basic achievements of our project was the implementation of a yearly „Day of Sustainability“ at our schools. You are interested in installing a Day like this at your school, too? Here‘s a short introduction: How to plan a DoS

Liceo Ceccano: finally plastic free!

On September 10th the school started again with big news: no lessons on Saturdays and above all: no more plastic bottles on the desks! In facts, red aluminum flasks are available for all the students, which can be filled thanks to the dispensers that are being placed on each floor.  We are very proud of the…

Green electricity

On the 29th of April, Per Nørgård – engineer, scientist and researcher at Centre of Electricity and Energy at the Institute of Electrotechnology, Technical University of Denmark - visited our school. We invited him in co-operation with the local climate organization. He told us about some of the challenges we have overcome regarding green electricity.…

I’LL PICK IT UP

Some students of our school, from class IV E, have decided to propose an initiative against the pollution of waste, called by themselves #ioloraccolgo, that means “Iʼll pick it up”, referring to all the rubbish around the school and other places. After asking the teachers for two hours of assembly, they spent their time collecting…

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Reflections on farm visit, Talavera, Spain

Organic food is better for the planet, buy ecological food instead! What is organic food and where does it come from? In 2013 Spain was the biggest producer of organic food1  in Europe. I have just visited a small farm in Spain. An ecological farm. The farmer had chickens and several different kinds of vegetables…

Talking Politics

“For us” is the last part of our Erasmus+ project. We’re supposed to act as multipliers and create a change for all of us. That’s what we try every Friday when we go on strike for the climate (#FridaysforFuture) and this is what we did on last Monday, when we met Hamburg’s Minister of Education,…

Sustainability in electric vehicles

There has been a surge in the popularity of electric cars in recent years as improvements in technology has made them more affordable and reliable. We have also seen many governments vow to make steps toward banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars in the future. For example France and the United Kingdom have…

Climate Strike in Turku

On Friday the 15th of March, 2019, over 1,5 million students all over the world were protesting for the environment. They were inspired by a 16-year old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg) who has been on strike every Friday since August 20th, 2018, to persuade politicians to make more sustainable choices. Even though the…