Organise a Go Green, Eat Green Day
Students eating a healthy vegetarian lunch made from local ingredients
Focus Decide which food impacts you want to tackle and theme your Eat Green Day around it. You could make sure all the canteen food that day is:
- Vegetarian
- Locally-sourced
- Organic
- Freshly prepared
- or all of the above
Maximise Your Impact! Hold it during national Go Green Week in February, when schools, colleges and unis across the country will be taking action together.
Plan & Promote To make your day a success plan in advance with the catering managers and headteacher/principal. To raise awareness among staff and students you could:
- hold an assembly
- put up posters everywhere
- hold Go Green stalls with delicious green treats
- make announcements in the canteen the week before
- give out recipes or ideas for green packed-lunches
- recruit staff and students to spread the word to colleagues and classmates
Go for it! On the day your activities could include:
An organic veg bag prepared by students.
Image © Mikko
- decorating the canteen green
- a special Eat Green menu for the canteen with loads of yummy veggie options
- asking people to bring in ‘green’ packed lunches.
- a stall giving out free local, organic fruit from a local farmer or shop.
- a stall selling Go Green cupcakes to raise some funds for People & Planet
- ask people to pledge to Eat Green one day a week for a year!
- an assembly or talk about the benefits of a Low Carb(on) diet
How much carbon did you cut? Make sure you take loads of photos for your Go Green film and send them to us. Don’t forget to carry out another food survey on the day so you can compare the carbon foodprint with your previous results.
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