 Learning for a Bright Green Future - Remaking our World.
A Y&H Sustainable Schools Partners Network has been established. Supported by Government Office Yorkshire & Humber, Yorkshire Forward and DCSF, the vision is to help drive school improvement through sustainable development. The Network partners will work together to make sense of sustainability as a pathway to an aspirational future in a low carbon economy. We would much appreciate support from colleagues in schools and partner organisations to promote the Network
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Sustainable Food - primary and secondary teaching materials
Excellent teaching materials on all aspects of food - including farming, environment, waste and packaging, food miles and grow your own!
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Want to simultaneously save your school budgets, reduce carbon emissions and educate your students ? The new "SUSSED" Energy and Water reduction Programme includes a professional energy and water audit, with follow-up support, together with educational activities to involve everyone in your school. The programme is self-funding. It is initially available to Primary schools in the Calderdale area.
Want to know more about SUSSED ? Click here. [OR click on the button on the TOP RIGHTHAND side of this Homepage].
To email us, to express your interest in joining the programme, or to send us queries - Click here
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World Youth Symposium on Biodiversity
Students from around the world will be welcomed to the City of Ottawa in Canada for this 2009 Symposium. It will celebrate the work they are doing in their communities to help wildlife. Participants will be involved in a "Bio-Blitz" (a biological survey) with local naturalists and scientists and also develop methods to implement the Global Youth Accord for Biodiversity. If your school is involved in valuable work to support biodiversity and you want to share it, apply by 5th January 2009 via the website : www.biodiversitymatters.org or email Michael Leveille on lmleveille@rogers.com
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Energy-making see-saw !
Daniel Sheridan has designed a see-saw for African children to produce energy for their school while they play ! Daniel is 23 and was inspired by his voluntary work in a Kenyan school. He devised the see saw in his final year on a Masters Consumer Product Design degree. He won 3 prizes at Coventry University's Enterprize Festival. He will use the prize money to develop the prototype. Click here: www.coventry.ac.uk
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“We are building a solar house”
New book for KS2 children, explaining passive solar design (in English !) from Austrian architect Martina Feirer. It explains in an easy way how a passive house works and why green and energy-aware building makes sense. Ideal for the use in schools, kindergardens and for kids projects and projects of environmental protection. 20 pages / some pages with flip images and moving parts: email Martine Feirer for more informatiuon and to order copy/ies : m.feirer@aap.or.at
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Carbon Detectives kit for students !
The new DCSF carbon footprint calculator works by measuring components of the five DCSF Sustainable School Doorways in your school, responsible for CO2 emissions. Data about these Doorways is collected and entered onto the website and a school carbon footprint is calculated. On the website the Doorways are referred to as Assignments. Here is the Teacher's link for the website:
: http://www.carbondetectives.org.uk/content/home/toolkit/backgroundinfo
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