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Among the activities highlighted the implementation of ecological patrols or holding a carnival with decorations and costumes made from recycled materials
Murcia and has a new Green School.
The Councillor for Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, and Education, Lola Sanchez Alarcon, accompanied by the headman of the village, Marco Antonio Fernandez, have delivered this morning by the board certifying that the school Our Lady of Antigua de Monteagudo has a pronounced environmental awareness for years and has distinguished itself by developing activities to achieve better environmental management in their schools.
To achieve this award students and teachers of the center, advised by environmental educators from the Department of Environment have developed activities aimed at achieving better environmental management of their school.
This center has created an environmental committee, has prepared an environmental assessment based on questionnaires and developed a plan of action.
Furthermore, this educational community has developed other activities as the development of thematic workshops environmental recycling; paper-saving campaign, educational talks, the exhibition 'Murcia, a city ecology', reuse of waste and implementing patrols Ecological school where the students ensured that waste was recycled well and that the yard was clean after the break.
Another notable activities conducted at school Our Lady of Antigua is holding a carnival in which the whole school was decorated with discarded materials and costumes designed and made with recycled materials.
Green Schools Project, included in the Environmental Education Program of the City of Murcia, intends to conduct an environmental audit scheme schools.
The main objectives are to optimize the use of resources (paper, water, energy) and minimize the potential environmental impact of their daily activities and, finally, training and environmental educators across the educational community to lead the center's management towards sustainability.
The Green Schools program is not just an environmental audit, but must be understood as a great opportunity to work teaching environmental education where players become students, faculty, and staff of a self-evaluation.
This method allows you to reflect on the consequences of individual and collective acts of consumption and resource use, identify ways to make improvements in the immediate environment and enable them to decision making in environmental management of the center.
The project is so important quantitative improvements (efficient resource management, improvements in facilities, etc.) And qualitative (concepts and attitudes).
This year marks the tenth year of the project that started in the school year 2001-2002.
Since the implementation of this program to date has involved a nearly fifty schools and colleges.
Those who have managed to comply with environmental and educational goals scored, have been honored with the award "Green Schools" in recognition of his work.
Since the program began have already been awarded 17 schools.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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