The Green Shoots workshop gives an insight into seasonal food, nutrition and how bringing it to our tables accounts for about 20% of UK greenhouse gas emissions. Making hand made paper pots with seedlings to take home is an effective way of learning about food and where it comes from.

All plants and materials supplied

Subjects include

Recycling.

Local food.

Organic.

Seasonal food.

Sowing and Planting.

Growing food at home.

Subjects Covered

Food and drink.

Energy and water.

Travel and traffic.

Inclusion and participation.

Local well-being.

Global dimension.

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 Green Up Your Act Education teaches the meaning of sustainability through workshops using a balance of discussion and practical activities.The project’s main objectives are to enable students to become aware of their own carbon footprint.They are taught this through the subjects of food, waste, recycling, energy production and pollution. By doing this they can become inspired and empowered to protect their direct environment.

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Liz Williamson St Mary Magdalen School

“All of our school enjoyed their inspiring and hands on activities of making pots and planting them with food seedlings – all in just one hour for each class workshop. The activity had many links for each class with their science and creative curriculum and with our Eco week themes. This was the highlight of our school Eco Week because it linked every aspect of our educational focus: food, transport, reduce, reuse, recycle, simplicity, co-operation; there was no preparation required on the part of the teachers and we were amazed at what could come out of two handmade baskets carried on the bus – enough to provide every child with their own pot making material, the compost and a variety of food seedlings to go in it. This was a workshop of huge educational value and one which every child learnt a practical skill of immense value, as well as getting to take their seedling home to grow and eat. We are looking forward to more input another time.”

Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems, greater biodiversity implies greater health. Car parks and well managed lawns take up a large amount of school grounds, these large spaces are often devoid of habitats for bugs and small animals. Green Up Your Your Act can offer safe, exciting opportunity’s for outdoor learning that can complement classroom-based activities and increase a schools green status.

• Life processes
• Humans and other animals
• Green plants
• Variation and classification, inheritance and evolution
• Living things in their environment

Using composting and Wormerys to combat waste is a clean and educational way to deal with organic matter. Green Up Your Act explains how banana skins, apple cores, teabags, kitchen scraps and school grounds waste can be turned into valuable soil enriching compost. In this workshop you will be taken through how to operate your own system empowering you to reduce waste and save money.

Earthships are cutting edge ‘green’ buildings, constructed using waste car tyres and other recycled materials. They use the planets natural systems to provide all utilities – using the sun’s energy and rain to provide heat, power and water. They are buildings that heat and cool themselves, harvest their own water and use plants to treat their waste.

Earthships enjoy the weather, regardless of season. If it’s raining they catch free water, if it’s windy they generate free power and if it’s sunny they are capturing free heat and electricity. Apart from using all the resources immediately around them they also employ extensive energy efficiency and water conservation measures, ensuring that the rainwater and renewable energy they harvest goes as far as possible.

When visiting the Earthship we strongly encourage using the Big Lemon Bus Company. Its an alternative to using diesel run buses, the bus is run on 100% recycled cooking oil this is not only an easy way to be green it also makes a fun and educational way to begin and finish the day.

A discount is available if you mention the Earthship.

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Schools and colleges contribute greatly to the green house gases in our environment. Energy, water, waste and traveling to school become a part of the schools carbon footprint. Targeting these areas and implementing a reduction in our carbon footprint is key to not only making your school kinder to the planet but it will also become an inspiring and empowering place for children to learn. This in turn will save the school money inspire the students to have a practical positive involvement in the future of our planet and learn more about the issues that concern us all as responsible citizens of planet earth.

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