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Why campaign for your school/college to Go Green?

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  1. Why campaign for your school/college to Go Green?
  2. What can we do about it?
  3. Take Action: Food
  4. Take Action: Waste
  5. Take Action: Energy
  6. Take Action: Transport
  7. Signing the Pledge
  8. How to get loads of petitions signed
  9. Go Green Q&A
  10. Blue Fingers!

Why Go Green?

Go Green Windmills Display

Doesn’t seem fair does it? Past generations didn’t know the effects of burning fossil fuels, but we do. Without urgent action, climate change will affect our generation most, but it’s not all bad news. Going green will actually create a brighter, cleaner future with new opportunities and jobs for young people.

How do schools and colleges affect climate change?

Think through your average day at school or college. Do you travel to your school or college by bus, car, train, or bike? Where does the energy and power that your school or college uses come from? Do the computers stay switched on overnight? What about the lights in the classrooms? How do the teachers get to the school or college?

Oily footprint

a carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by a person, organisation, event or product

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Our schools and colleges play a significant role in causing climate change - schools make up 15% of carbon emissions from the UK public sector and 2% of the whole country’s carbon footprint. The Go Green campaign is about helping young people take control of that footprint. As students, you can push your school or college to reduce carbon emissions by targeting the four areas which impact most on climate change (energy, food, transport & waste). The Go Green campaign offers support and creative ideas for fun, practical projects that will put your school or college on the path to a low-carbon future.

Three reasons to launch the Go Green campaign

Swansea P&P action for Go Green

Swansea P&P ready for Go Green action

  • You can change things in your own school or college. To avoid dangerous climate change, everyone needs to do their bit, and where better to start than where you are now?

  • If your school or college goes green it will have a knock-on effect, influencing all the students who pass through its doors, both now and in the future.

  • Your campaign will be part of a national effort to transform the entire education sector. People & Planet groups at schools, colleges and universities are taking action to make education a model of carbon reduction for the rest of society.

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