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Green School Programme- Green Drive of the School
The field of environment education is dogged by a very fundamental contradiction. While everyone, everywhere, asserts the importance of ‘learning to live sustainably’, the environment remains a peripheral issue in the society SRCS, Indore has taken a proactive initiative to protect the environment and to mitigate the problems by the Green School programme started by CSE, popularly known as Centre for Science and Environment and Al Gore's Climate Reality Project.
It is our constant endeavour at SRCS Indore ensures holistic development of learners along with development of 21st century skills. Right from schools’ inception years Green School Policy was in place under the guidance of Visionary Heads. Celebration of birthdays by gifting saplings, ban of polythene bags, chocolates, chips and any form of packaging material are some key rules engraved deeply in the minds of all stake holders.
CSE’s Green Schools Programme is an environmental education programme directed to subtly sensitize students to the environment through hands-on and thought-provoking activities. GSP inculcates the values of resource management, empowers students to use natural resources in a responsible and efficient manner and practice effective and sustainable methods that will become a way of life.
The School has been running its Green Programme under the five sustainability parameters -
Air, Water, Waste, Land, Energy and Food.
As per the Green School Developmental Plan of SRCS, Indore the target is to reduce 10-15 % of carbon footprint every year.
A well-crafted mitigation plan was implemented which included plethora of activities like, E-waste collection drives, recycling of food waste, mulching, drip irrigation, herbal garden, carpool rally, flash mobs to stop food waste, installation of air monitoring device, plantation drive, hands on sustainability games, conserving biodiversity, clean river campaign, Bio mimicry, etc.-. Well defined waste management plan along with installation of solar panels, water recycling unit and rain harvesting system further strongly helped to mitigate and thereby decrease carbon footprint.
Happy and Responsible Earth Saving!