👧 👦 📢 Voices of youth reaching their leaders! 🌍

Newsletter April 2019

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📢 I’ve got the power! Share a message to your leaders before 3 May!

The Eco-Schools video campaign has received some wonderful messages from across the globe, and we want more! We heard about a tax on carbon, no more plastic packaging, greener industries, equality across sectors, more Education for Sustainable Development and national commitments for the implementation and achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals! Follow our Facebook page to watch the videos!

CALL FOR ACTION!

What would you do for sustainable development if you had the power? Tell us with a 30-60 second video at www.ecoschools.global/ive-got-the-power

Social media: Facebook @ecoschools.global / Instagram @ecoschoolsint
Hashtags: #Ivegotthepower #ecoschools25

📹 from #Portugal! Eduarda from
Agrupamento de Escolas D. António Taipa would do more for 🌳 #sdg15
#LifeOnLand, and would like to see more recycling stations in Portugal.
#Ivegotthepower #ecoschools25
#sdg11 #sdg12

⚡ Robin Mikael from #Estonia wants to have the power to collect all marine waste with sustainable ships! 🌊

What would your power be? Tell us with a video!#Ivegotthepower #ecoschools25 #sdg14

Info and Guidelines

Novohradská Secondary School in Slovakia on Climate Change

"We realise the growing importance of stressing global environmental issues even in the school lessons. The students in our secondary school are able to understand the dramatic impact of living in the polluted environment...They know that if even an individual changes their mindset and behaviour in an eco-friendly way, they can improve their nearest surroundings. Our students also joined the students‘ strike in Bratislava brought by the Swedish student Greta Thunberg.

We generally believe informing and educating people are the most effective ways of making progress in solving a number of issues in our lives".
Find their magazine The Mind-boggle here!

MORE STORIES

Maintaining And Respecting Life In Nature Starts With.. Me!

Maintaining And Respecting Life In Nature Starts With.. Me! This is the Eco Code adopted by the recently Green Flag awarded St. Andrew’s Anglican School (SAAS) in Georgetown, The Bahamas.

One of the key projects at SAAS was the beehive observation initiative started in 2016 with the help of the Exuma Foundation and The Bee Cause Project. The hive houses queen bee, “Buttercup” and over 1000 drone and worker bees. The student beekeeper project is incorporated in the Biodiversity and School Grounds Action Plan. SAAS’s principal, Locksley Forbes said, “The children are made aware of keeping the environment clean. The observation hive exposed the children to the benefits of honey bees and their importance to ecosystems.”

Landmark ceremony for Eco-Schools Zanzibar

On 14 March, Benbella Girls Secondary School and Stone Town International School received their first Green Flag award by Eco-Schools Zanzibar.

These are some of the first schools in Zanzibar to be awarded since the beginning of the implementation of the national programme in 2015, thus of great importance to our member organisation, ZAYEDESA. It is proof of the commitment to support schools for reaching high standards and excellence.

The event was celebrated by many schools, community and government officials and the special guest, Hon. Mihayo Juma Sleiman Nunga from the second Presidents Office on behalf of the Hon. Minister of Education.

What is cooking at Eco-Schools Global

FEE and Lucart Group have just signed an agreement for the Eco-Schools Project Advancing Circular Economy (E-SPACE) project to be implemented in Latvia and Slovenia. The E-SPACE project, focusing on Circular Economy Education, runs through 2020!

'I've got the power!' was officially launched on 11 March! We've already received some fantastic messages from schools in our network - keep them coming!

On 11 April we led an online seminar hosted by eTwinning Europe, talking to 155 teachers about Positive Actions for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our Lesson Plan crowdsourcing competition has received wonderful lesson plans from teachers around the world engaging with the SDGs! The call is open until July 2019.

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