The Environment: 6 things students and teachers can do to help

Last week I shared a link to the environmental documentary film, Before the Flood. The film left me, and others I spoke to, a little flat. It all seems so hopeless.

It is important to not give up but to take action. Even small steps will help. Recently form 2 have been thinking about how staff and pupils at KTJ can make a difference.

Without formerly studying environmental issues, I challenged them to go away and create a slides presentation suggesting ways that their friends and teachers can reduce their impact on the environment.

All of the class receive EAL support yet, despite a few grammar issues, they were able to come up with some very insightful and inspirational ideas. These can be summarised as...

1. Think about what you eat
2. Use your phone less!
3. Reduce, reuse and recycle paper
4. Return unnecessary items
5. Turn off lights when leaving a room
6. Carpool

Below is an unedited collection of their best slides. I think you will agree, they have given us all something to think about.

Before the Flood - Full film

Click below to watch Before The Flood the full feature length documentary film about global waning. 

It stars Leonardo Di Caprio and is available for free. For geographers it is a must watch. It gives a clear break-down of the causes and consequences of man made global warming. Filmed as the Paris Climate Deal was signed, it gives a frank account of where the world is heading.

If you do not have enough time to watch the entire movie, watch this two and a half minute clip when Leonardo is India looking into the lack of energy access.