Climate Compliance Newsletter November 2012

RICHMOND VALE ACADEMY

The Climate Compliance Conference N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R

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10 Years for GAIA INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Public Awareness and Environmental Actions

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Trash Pick-Up Competition

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Teaching in North Leeward Schools

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The Greenhouse Effect

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Global Warming and Cli-

are being exploited and

It is a ten years’ program

mate Change is running

stretched to their limits,

from 2011 to 2021 with the

its course with catastro-

species are disappearing at

goal to make St. Vincent

phic consequences for the

a rate never before seen in

climate compliant. Climate

future of humankind and

modern history; hunger,

Compliancy means energy,

our planet. It is triggered

starvation

food and disaster security.

by man’s burning of fos-

strike down.

sil fuels and the resulting

This is why the Climate

release

Compliance

of

greenhouse

and

diseases

Conference

gasses into the atmos-

has been established at

phere. Natural resources

Richmond Vale Academy.

Organic Gardening 3 and SelfSustainability Nutrition and Healthy Living

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The International GAIA Team

Selwyn is teaching about medical plants

Students from all over

of St. Vincent, the small

Effect.

the world are joining the

group of students try to

started to teach in the

GAIA - program; they

make a change in the coun-

schools in North Leeward

study and research how

try. One important aspect of

from November 2012. To

we best can protect St.

making St. Vincent climate

reach a wider range of

Vincent against

Global

compliant is to teach the

students, we do not only

Warming and Climate

island’s citizens the aware-

teach in primary, but also

Change. United with the

ness about Climate Change

in secondary schools.

communities

and the Greenhouse

This is why we

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Public Awareness and Environment Actions The

Climate

pollution from trash in

the

Compliance

eight North Leeward

Young and old re-

Conference

at

Village Primary and

ceive lessons about

Richmond Vale

Secondary Schools in

how to protect the

Academy started

the period from 1st of

environment,

to teach about

November 2012 till 1st

to do recycling and

the environment

of March 2013. We

learn about how we

with a focus on

are arranging 5 events

can adapt to the

recycling

or lessons in every of

challenges

and

r e d u c i n g

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villages.

how

of

Global Warming .

Trash Pick-Up Competition "Becoming climate compliant demands getting the head out of the sand pile.”

The teachings will

competition is the

participants need to

lead to a trash pick-

team which can pick

use their creativity

up

up the most trash and

and

called “The World’s

make

have the best final

Cleanest

Country

creative result out of

product.

Competition” with

it. The final result is

winners will receive

prices to the best

related with the idea

support for musical

trash collectors. The

of

or sport equipments.

winner

Recycle”,

competition

of

the

the

most

“Reduce-Reuseso

efficiency

to The

the

Teaching in North Leeward schools The main topics of

Nutrition

the lessons are:

Healthy Living; Re-

Global

Warming

duce-Reuse-Recycle;

Climate

The treasure called

and Change; ganic

Or-

and

WATER

Gardening

and Self SustainWorld Costal Clean Up Day THE

CLIMATE

ability;

COMPLIAN CE

CONFERENCE

Teaching in West-Wood Methodist School Coulls Hill

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The Greenhouse Effect “We split up the stu-

to find out what we

dents into teams and

can do to stop global

gave a poster with a

warming.

certain task to each of

showed them the two

them. Group one was

videos again and gave

asked to make a poster about the

causes

of

greenhouse effect. The second group was sup-

Then

we

them time to make a flow chart, draw or explain their gained knowledge in whatever way they preferred.”

posed to explain its ef-

Interactive games with the students In Chateaubelair Government School

fect on our planet and

Kata & Bruno

Organic Gardening and Self-Sustainability “We explained what organic

compost. The session was

gardening means, and what

really practical, the students

are the differences between

could actually learn how to

conventional

organic

plant by doing it. Each of them

garden. Later we all went

made some seedlings which

outside, so we could show

they could bring home and

practically how to make

replant in their own garden.”

and

seedlings and explain how Kristiana & Angele

exactly plant grows. Also we taught them about impor-

Students learning some practical skills about organic farming in Troumaca Secondary School

tance of healthy soil and

Nutrition and Healthy Living “We put up a poster which

to a discussion of what effects

had the food pyramid on it,

a bad nutrition can have on

explained the characteristics

your body, including diseases

of each nutritious group and

like diabetes and hyperten-

which kinds of food contain

sion. We also explained the

these nutrients. The students

connection of eating and ex-

already had some informa-

ercising.”

tion concerning the videos and group tasks. This led us

Karolina & Michelle

The GAIA Team is using different kind of teaching methods - Poster of the Food Pyramid -

Now it is our task, as the earth’s citizens, to find a way out of the vicious circle of climate change. We have to

Richmond Vale Academy

stop and re-think our actions and see what we can do to

Chateaubelair Post Office

prevent for example the warming of the oceans or the

St.Vincent & The Grenadines

destruction of ecosystems.

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