Communicatie-uiting/actie

Transport Awareness for staff, parents & students

Katherine MacKenzie

A group of students working on the theme of Transport. We split up to take polls on the number of cars coming to each campus (luckily we found that the majority of students travel by bike, public transport or walking!).

  • Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Try to account for all transport, as well as encouraging electric cars, try to promote cycling, walking and public transport. You could also set up car-pooling of students from the same neighbourhoods.
  • Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: In this service activity, the need we have found for our project is that people driving gasoline and diesel cars are slowly polluting the environment with greenhouse gases. This is due to the fact that gasoline and diesel are fossil fuels and excessive use of them has caused an increase in global temperatures by 0.6 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. This value will continuously increase in the future. We need to slow down the amount of gasoline and diesel used and we plan on doing this by encouraging people to switch to eco-friendly cars. In the school's newsletter, every week we will include a section where there will be a few paragraphs discussing different topics (a new topic every week) under which switching to eco-friendly cars will benefit people. These topics will be environment, economy, ethical and social. Activity Aim Our aim of this project is to improve the Earth’s environment by telling people about renewable energy and motivating people to drive cleaner vehicles that don’t pollute the environment as much. We will achieve this by using persuading language and true facts which may surprise readers. We will achieve global value by increasing our understanding of how the world is affected by fossil fuel-based cars and by being involved in stopping the issue. We will achieve collaboration by working together throughout the whole project and being aware of our responsibilities while working on the project in order to achieve our goal successfully.
  • Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: We organised it via talking in mentor classes, at Eco-Club meetings and discussing it within the Climate Change theme with the subtopic of transport. We decided to do this after Earth day inspired us.
  • Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
  • School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)

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