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Schools

What’s In It For My School?

Adopting the programme does not mean that the most complex technological and scientific problems that our planet faces today will be fixed instantly. It is too big a task. But it will:

  • Spur the growth of a more environmentally aware and responsible generation of citizens;
  • Equip resourceful teachers to foster environmental literacy;
  • Help every member of the school community understand the scope and significance of his or her role in the sustainable use of natural resources within the school campus;
  • Nudge everyone to get on with the job.

Benefits:

  • The Green Schools Programme helps move beyond words, jargons and intentions to practices that CSE believes in. It benchmarks a school’s performance as environmental managers. The audit measures impact and motivates participants to work towards change.
  • The monitoring process is participatory and transparent. It encourages teachers to convert audit tasks into assignments for students. The initiative-based tasks also test student’s skills of communication and analysis.
  • It helps schools record their available resources and trains students to collect information systematically to feed and ease up the analysis process.
  • The analysis of post-audit information can be used by a network of schools or by city or state governments to do a comparative evaluation so that best practices can be shared.
  • The audit equips school managements to skillfully manage their available resources for optimum utilization and become Green Schools.