Green Dot

Some students from our school visited Green Dot last week. Green Dot is an organisation that gives a lot of information about recycling!

When the students returned to the school they decided to pass the information they learned to the rest of the students and teachers of our school. They also gave us recycling bags!

 (pictures from a student that went to Green Dot informing the teachers of our school about recycling and giving recycling bags)

Our first video!

After a lot of hard work we are proud to present our first video!

This video is about the use of means of transport that reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in air.

The music used for this video is from the song "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve.

eTwinning and CO2nnect. Any connection?

Some students that participate in the co2nnect campaign are also participating in a European program where they cooperate with schools from Europe. They have their own online magazine and they decided to write some articles about the pollution of air and the environment.

You can visit their magazine by following this link:

http://magazinefactory.edu.fi/magazines/e_teens/

The creation of the "Environmentally Friendly" Club of our school

After submitting this idea to our teachers we noticed a lot of excitement! We were excited too! Some students that watched our presentations at the library asked us how they could help us. What's better than this club?!

Now we can ask for their advice and ideas!

A great creation!

A group of students decided to create something to depict their idea of recycling! They used the "4 R'S": Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Respect!

Here is a picture of what they created!

A very cool website!

While searching for facts about the emissions of carbon dioxide, we came across this amazing and very useful website! It is called WORLDOMETERS and it contains a lot of meters (obviously) that are updated every millisecond! It is extremely interesting as it contains meters concerning the environment, such as: the forest loss this year, the carbon dioxide emissions this year (we will definitely use this one in our presentations), the species that have gone extinct this year and much more! We are going to prompt a lot of students to visit this site!

Be sure to check it out at: http://www.worldometers.info/

The link to this website is also available in the sidebar in the right for easy access through all of the pages in our blog! A lot of other interesting websites will be added there so don't forget to visit them all!

Our new posters are ready!

Here are our two new posters:

These are the same posters but in English:

We hope that you like them!

Planting Trees and Talking to Students during Lessons

This week we planted some trees in the school yard with the help of our friends! Everyone had fun by doing something great for the school.

 (some of the hard working students while planting and watering)

We are now also allowed to make 5-minute presentations about our campaign to students during their lessons.

This is a video from when students planted some of the trees:




















This video is available in the sidebar in the right of the posts and you can hence watch it in all pages of this blog! Our next videos will also be uploaded there!

Two awesome videos!

We found these 2 great videos that we'd love to share with the world!

They are shocking!

Our "library project"!

Today the teachers who are responsible for the library allowed us to make some presentations there for our campaign! We can do these presentations during some breaks!

 

(pictures from our presentations and from our audience... added to this post later)

What we did so far... (MARCH 2009)

We have already given out some questionnaires to students and we are analysing the results.

(pictures of students filling out questionnaires and receiving bookmarks)

We also sent a letter to the mayor some time ago about the enormous numbers of cars that we find every day in the streets making respiration a tough job for our lungs!

We designed bookmarks and gave them to a lot of students. We aim to give these bookmarks to all students and all teachers in our school!


OUR PLANS FOR APRIL:

We decided that planting trees in the school yard will be a good idea. There are some places at school with no green at all so we will focus in planting trees there instead of somewhere with a lot of grass.

We also started to design posters for the walls of our school!


HOW WE WORK:

We have agreed that our team will have meetings once a week. At our meetings we will make suggestions, share and improve ideas and comment on how efficient one of our ideas that we put to action was. The main point of these meetings will hence be to decide if one of our ideas is actually going to work (by work we mean to sensitize students, teachers or citizens) or if it will just be a waste of time. That is what we think that the correct way to judge an activity is! We also decided to ask students that are not part of our team about their opinions on our plans.

In this picture you can see the bookmarks that we gave to the students and in the picture below you can see the same bookmarks but in English.

Who We Are

We are a team of about 20 students from Lykeio Agiou Ioanni, a secondary high school in Limassol, Cyprus. We are all at the first year in our school (15-16 years old) and we are obviously all interested in the harmful consequences of the excessive emissions of carbon dioxide for our planet.

We are one of only 4 schools currently participating in this campaign from our relatively small country, Cyprus. Our target is that this campaign will become as popular in our country as it is in other countries like Malaysia, Romania and Jordan. And we are hoping to achieve this one way (by ourselves) or another (with the help of authorities)!

We are motived by our will to change our classmates' beliefs and habits. From the moment we announced to them that we are taking part in this campaign we have heard a lot of them say the same thing: "Do you think you're going to change the world by yourself?". We want to prove them all wrong because we are aware that even the slightest change is for the best! We will put all our efforts in making this campaign as fruitful as it can be!

Our new blog!

Welcome to our new blog!

The purpose of this blog is to show all of our work for the co2nnect.org campaign!

We will upload pictures and videos and keep you posted with the latest news of our activities! One of our targets is to make this blog as user-friendly as it can be! So there is easy access to every post in the sidebar in the right of the posts. There will also be links showing our work in this sidebar which will make our work accessible from every page of this blog!

We hope that you will appreciate our hard work and that you will find what you see in this blog useful!