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Global Citizenship Marine Environment
Green-Schools
An Taisce EEU
Green-Schools
International Environmental Programme Award Scheme
Holistic
Ethos Whole-School Action
Long Term Programme
GREEN-SCHOOLS IN IRELAND
3,737schools registered Over 93% of all schools
in Ireland
66,957 teachers
829,485 pupils
3,255 schools awarded
Green-Schools Themes
Green- Schools Themes
1:Litter and Waste
2: Energy
6: Global Citizenship
5: Biodiversity 4: Travel
3: Water
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Industry
Local Authorities
An Taisce
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Partnership
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Global Citizenship
• Long Term schools
• Maintenance programme
• Reduced workload
• Draw on existing expertise
• Link to curriculum as much as possible
1. Global Citizenship Litter & Waste
2. Global Citizenship Energy
3. Global Citizenship Marine Environment
Why focus on the Marine Environment?
Economic value
• Deep sea drilling for oil
• Sand mining
• Fishing industry
• Shipping industry
Why focus on the Marine Environment?
Coastal Tourism
• Getting more and more important to Irish Economy (Wild Atlantic way, Ancient East trails etc.)
• One of the world’s fastest growing industries
• In Ireland coastal tourism worth up to 2billion euro providing 80,000 jobs, at least
Why focus on the Marine Environment?
Biodiversity value
Why focus on the Marine Environment?
General well –being
Why focus on the Marine Environment
The seas provide a unique set of goods and services to society, including
• Moderation of climate
• Processing of waste and toxicants
• Provision of food
• Provision of raw materials
• Medicines
Ecosystem services
Threats to the Marine Environment?
• Marine Litter and Pollution
• Overfishing
• Climate Change
• Invasive Species
• Commercial Shipping
• Offshore Mining
What is Marine Litter?
Marine litter is any man-made material that has ended up in the marine environment after being lost or discarded at sea or on land.
National Geographic
Marine Litter what we see
It is estimated that 15% of marine litter is what we find on our shores
Marine Litter what we see
70% of marine litter is on the seabed
Types of Marine Litter
Top 10 marine litter items (Clean Coasts, 2014)
Where does it come from?
• Fishing Boats
• Cargo Ships
• Washes in from rivers and streams
• Carried on the wind from land
• Beach visitors
• Industry
• Agriculture
• Unprocessed waste from sewerage
treatment plants
Why should we be concerned about Marine Litter?
Can be harmful to Beach users e.g. broken bottles, food packaging may attract rats
Coastal & marine wildlife can:
• Ingest marine litter
• Become entangled in it
Plastics can carry toxins (microbeads)
Floating debris can carry invasive species
Harmful to our economy (tourist industry)
Climate Change
The marine environment plays a very important role in maintaining our Climate but human induced global warming cause problems for our oceans
• Warming of oceans
• Acidification of oceans
• Coral bleaching
• Threat to biodiversity
• Sea level rise
Global Citizenship Marine Environment & the 7 steps
2. Environmental Review 3. Action Plan
4. Monitoring and Evaluation
5. Curriculum Work
6. Informing and Involving
7. Green Code
1. Green-Schools Committee
Step 1: Green-Schools Committee
Step 1: Green-Schools Committee
Essential Students (N.B. student led)
Co-ordinator
Optional Sec. Schools could look at the feeder schools
Sub-Committee for previous theme
Teaching Staff
Non-teaching staff
Principal
Caretaker
Parents
Community Members
Remember! Whole school involvement!
Eg: St Cronan’s Sec. school, N. Tipp. 58 pupils, teachers, parent rep & community rep.
Step 2:Environmental Review
Essential Actions:
1. Conduct a Marine Litter Awareness Survey
2. Investigate sources of Marine Litter and promote an action to reduce it.
3. Take part in a 2 minute beach clean or 2 minute street clean.
Marine Litter Awareness Survey Year 1
Date Survey Conducted
Survey 1
What % of students and staff ever heard of the term Marine
Litter ?
What % of students and staff can list 3 sources of Marine Litter
What % of students and staff can list 3 reasons why marine
litter is bad for the marine environment ?
What % of students and staff can list 3 ways we can prevent
Marine Litter entering the Marine Environment?
What % of students and staff can list 3 ways in which Climate
Change affects the Marine Environment all over the world?
Step 2:Environmental Review Investigate sources of Marine Litter
Step 2:Environmental Review
Promote an action to reduce Marine Litter
• marine litter is generally caused by land-based activities
• The vast majority of marine litter is plastic.
• Promoting to litter less,
• Use, and buy, fewer plastic items
• promote the use of reusable containers
are all activities you can undertake
to reduce marine litter.
Step 2:Environmental Review
Take part in a #2minutebeachclean or #2minutestreetclean
https://youtu.be/ic5l5hitNr8
https://www.youtube.com/wa
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Step 3: Action Plan
• Use findings from Environmental Review to set realistic, quantifiable targets
• Table format
• Person/group responsible
• Timeframe
• Ongoing
• Display on Notice Board
Step 3: Action Plan
Two overall objectives
1) Increase levels of awareness
2) Practical improvements
Step 3: Action Plan
1)Increase levels of awareness
• Letters home
• Develop new Green Code (poster/slogan competition/projects)
• Analyse surveys from the review
• Carry out litter surveys(beach/local area)
• Develop a connection with coast local river
• Find out about species specific to the coastline
• Learn about currents and gyres
Step 3: Action Plan
2) Practical improvements
• Organise a beach/street clean
• Promote the ‘Think Before you Flush’ and Micro-bead campaign
• Carry out 2 minute beach / street clean when visiting the beach
• Plant marram grass on eroded dune area
#2minutebeachclean
How To Guide:
•Follow Green-Schools and Clean Coasts - @GreenSchoolsIre
@CleanCoasts on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook
•Go to the beach
•Collect marine litter for 2 minutes
•Take a snap of the marine litter you collect
•Post your snap on instagram/Twitter using the hashtag
#2minutebeachclean @GreenSchoolsIre @CleanCoasts or post your
picture to the Green-Schools Facebook page including the hashtags in
the post- don’t forget to tell us where you took your snap.
•Dispose of the litter you collected properly, recycle/bin it
•Be safe when you do your #2minutebeachclean
•Have fun!
Investigate topics associated with Marine Environment
1. Climate Change and the
Marine Environment
2. Life on the Rocky Shore
3. Marine Litter and People
4. Marine Litter and Wildlife
5. Microbeads (microplastics)
6. Plastic Islands (Great Pacific Garbage Patch)
7. Sources of Marine Litter
Register your school as a Clean Coasts group
Learn about the Blue Flag or Green Coast Awards
Conduct a study of a coastal or river habitat
Step 3: (Sample) Action Plan
ACTION PERSON RESPONSIBLE TARGET DATE
Create charts on the results of the
marine litter survey
5th Class October/November
Increase awareness on all questions
in the marine litter survey by 20%
The whole school By the start of June
Investigate the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch
4th Class February
Show examples of marine litter to
infant classes – get them to create
some art using the items
Green-Schools Committee March
Do a 2minute beach/street clean All classes April
Research the impact of climate
change on the marine environment
and also the impact on less
developed countries
4th and 5th Class April
Host a marine environment action
day - showing off projects that
each class did throughout the year
and every one dress like a
pirate/mermaid
Green-Schools Committee May
Step 4: Monitoring & Evaluation (mini reviews at key stages)
1) Evaluate levels of awareness
• Repeat the Marine Litter Awareness Survey
2) Evaluate progress on practical improvements
• Continue to organise cleanups of your adopted area
• Carry out further litter surveys - has the litter situation improved?
Carried out by students when & where possible
Developed in parallel with Action Plan
Revise & update Action Plan Keep records of everything!
Publicise results!
Celebrate success!
Step 5: Curriculum Work
Provide real life situations for mathematical analysis (graphs/charts)
Maths
Poster design promoting clean ups
Art
Study of marine habitats and wildlife
SESE Science
Step 5: Curriculum Work
Essay topics, new Green Code, species names as Gaeilge
Languages
Material composition and degradation
Science
Ocean currents and gyres, coastal physical geography features, human pressures on coastal areas (social geography)
Geography
‘Let our generation protect all creation’
Step 5: Curriculum Work
Create eco-friendly cleaning products
Home Economics
Design & construct bins/ signs to inform of adopted beach areas
Woodwork
The invention plastic and other materials
History
Step 6: Informing and Involving
• Green-Schools Notice Board
• Questionnaires/surveys for home
• Intercom –thought of the day
• Letters home/Text-a-parent
• Parents/Grandparents/Neighbours
• Local Press/Local radio interviews Parish/School Newsletter
• Website
• Quizzes
• Open Day
• Day of Action
Day of Action
Aim: Raise awareness of the importance of the Marine Environment within & beyond your school
Involve the wider community e.g. Parents/Tidy towns
• National Spring Clean www.nationalspringclean.org
• Clean Coasts event www.cleancoastsireland.org
• Open Day, Fashion Show, Concert
• Gallery - posters
Step 7: Green Code
Aim: To state the objectives that demonstrate the school’s commitment to environmentally friendly actions
• Display on your Green-Schools notice board
• It should be related to the Global Citizenship Marine Environment theme
• It should be developed by the students
• Poster/slogan competition
• Rap/Song/Poem/Code of Conduct
Phases
Registration (only new L&W schools need register)
Implementation (7 steps)
Application
Renewal
Renewal Process
• Online Application Form – to be sent in by March 2018 (preferably via email)
• Renewal visit can take place at any stage during Year 2 • National Awards Ceremony May • Flag raising ceremony
Green-Schools website
• General information on Marine Environment
• Videos
• Presentations
• The 7 steps
• Case studies
• Worksheets
• Links to other useful sites
Date for your diary
3rd – 28th of October – school based workshops 10th November – Regional Forum Cashel 15th November – Regional Forum Maynooth
6th of December National Marine Environment Conference
Royal Marine Hotel – Dún Laoghaire
School based workshops
• Each school will receive a topic
• Information sheets on topics
• Videos (available end of month)
• Class project
• Presentation template
• Class needs to try and get as many others in the school involved
• Campaign element
• Present at forums
• Two winners will present at conference
• All students will have opportunity to exhibit their work at conference
Important Dates
• One award ceremony during the year
– May
• Renewal applications to be received by:
– End of March 2018
Thank you for your attention!
Birgit O’Driscoll Green-Schools Global Citizenship Officer
• Tel: 085 1530064
• E-mail: [email protected]
Any questions?