YouTube. 2014. Project Aga Sikolo: South Africa 2013 TRAILER. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1vlVUtEv0 [Accessed: 4 Apr 2014].
Project Aga Sikolo is student from University of Nottingham building a nursery in Limpopo South Africa. "Small Change BIG impact"
YouTube. 2014. Sustainable Urban School Farm: The Greenhouse Project. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJmLg332zSI [Accessed: 4 Apr 2014].
The Greenhouse Project is a classroom built around a sustainable urban farm on the rooftop of a New York City school. The project empowers students to make educated choices about their impact on the environment and also to appreciate the importance of sustainable development and the links between cultural and biological diversity.
YouTube. 2014. Sustainability explained (by explainity®). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5r4loXPyx8 [Accessed: 4 Apr 2014]. Sustainability is a global concept, this is explained by the three pillar model which is made of environmental, economic and social considerations. Looking for many environmental friendly alternatives to replace non renewable resources.
Launched in 2011, the Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools program is the federal government's first comprehensive green schools initiative, and it has tremendous implications for schools across the country. Earth Day Network is proud to havecollaborated with other leaders in the green schools movement and the Department of Education to make this initiative happen.
Green Ribbon Awards recognize public and private schools of all age levels that demonstrate dramatic gains in both environmental literacy and reducing their carbon footprint while improving learning conditions.
This exciting new program is invigorating and empowering schools nationwide for growing the 21st-century economy. By encouraging schools to apply for this award, powerful strides will be taken to ensure we meet our shared goal of greening America’s schools within a generation.
The 2013 Honorees
The second annual U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools were announced on Earth Day. 78 schools received the Green Ribbon Award this year. The winners were selected from nominees from 32 state education agencies and the District of Columbia. Among the winners are 54 public schools, 10 private schools, 7 charter schools, 5 magnet schools, and 4 career and technical schools. There are 40 elementary, 23 middle, and 19 high schools (several with various K-12 configurations). About 51% of the schools represent underserved populations.
Earthday.org. 2014. U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Program | Earth Day Network. [online] Available at: http://www.earthday.org/greenribbonschoolsprogram [Accessed: 4 Apr 2014]. Since 2011, this initiative has helped both public and private schools in becoming environmentally sustainable and have rewarded these institutes with the Green Ribbon Award which shows and suggests that these institutes are helping towards protecting our environment and helping ensuring sustainable resources for future generations. This award also ensures that the students have environmental literacy which is good to ensure environmental sustainability and knowledge of this problem.
We can help change the world one step at a time. These are the goals that my subjects aims in helping to achieve.
Un.org. 2014. United Nations Millennium Development
Goals. [online] Available at:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml [Accessed: 25 Mar 2014].
Endpoverty2015.org. 2014. End Poverty 2015 | We are the
generation that can end poverty. [online] Available at:
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/ [Accessed: 29 Mar 2014].
We can help end poverty and increase the living standards of individuals and help them in bettering their lives through these millennium goals. Using our resources to benefit consumers lives and living.
Goal 7: Environmental sustainability
YouTube. 2014.UN Millennium Campaign Goal 7 Environmental Sustainability. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-1XFQDlUU [Accessed: 2 Apr 2014]. Without our environment we will not be able to live and inhabit planet earth. Sustaining our earth should be our main priority because without it we would all be dead. Environmental initiatives can start from home, go into schools and into businesses. You can't have healthy people without a healthy planet. Being able to use resources without them running out - this is how we need to ensure of resources are sustainable for future generations. Half the number of people who don't have access to safe drinking water, people either have to walk far to get clean water or pay to get water. Many people steal safe drinking water or drink dirty water which either kills them or makes them sick. Improving the lives of slum dwellers will help in building our countries futures and achieving sustainable living for all. Communities need to work together to achieve environmentally sustainability Reducing green house gasses is a huge impact and will help in reducing the whole in our ozone layer which later affects climate change. Climate change affect the living of individuals and makes people ill. We can get clean energy but this is harder and takes more effort and this is what prevents individuals from doing this.
Goal 2: Universal Primary Education
YouTube. 2014. Attain United Nations MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPTGWGoGMW4 [Accessed: 2 Apr 2014].
Millennium development goals - helping to achieve universal primary education for all children this will help in bettering their future. We have the money, knowledge and power to be able to achieve this all we need is global acknowledgement and individuals fighting together to achieve this. Children would rather be educated then start working. Having an education can help them in achieving their life goals in becoming doctors, engineers or teachers or what ever they aspire to be but without education this is not possible. Achieving universal education for all will not only benefit the economy but better the individuals, society and more.
This goal is a huge goal that will take a lot of hard work and dedication to achieve it but it is possible if we all fight together.
Ensure that all children, boys and girls alike, can complete a full course of primary schooling
What Have We Already Achieved?
Between 1999 and 2009, 43 million children worldwide were enrolled in primary education
The rate of enrollment in sub-Saharan African has increased from 58 to 76 per cent
Some of the most impoverished countries are those that have most advanced the access to universal primary education
What Challenges Remain?
There are still 61 million children left to enroll in schooling worldwide and more than half of them live in sub-Saharan Africa
The youth illiteracy rate exceeds more than 120 million people worldwide
What we want to achieve is slowing getting their, and have achieved is slowing happening. To achieve goals like primary education for all it takes not only time and money but patience and dedication. Change takes time and time is a huge factor as for those consumers whom do not have time this can negatively impact their lives.
MDG 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
The Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
What Do We Want To Achieve?
Incorporate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Decrease biodiversity loss
Reduce the number of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by half
Improve the lives of at least 100 million people who live in slums by 2020
What Have We Already Achieved?
In 2010, 89% of the world’s population, about 6.1 billion people, had access to safe drinking water. In 2015, that number will increase to include 92% of the world’s population
We have improved the lives of more than 200 million people living in slums
1,800 people have gained access to basic sanitation
What Challenges Remain?
2.6 billion people remain without access to healthcare
17,000 species of plants and animals are endangered
The atmospheric levels of substances that destroy the ozone layer could increase 10-fold by 2015
This shows how countries are developing and contributing towards changing and solving these problems within society. Incorporating sustainable practices is hard in the begging because everyone needs to be on the same page and want to achieve the same thing. It takes time, education and money and support from those whom have the financial means. Sustaining our environment for future generations is not easy and needs to be addressed now before it is beyond our control.
Un.org. 2014. United Nations Millennium Development
Goals. [online] Available at:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml [Accessed: 25 Mar 2014].
Endpoverty2015.org. 2014. End Poverty 2015 | We are the
generation that can end poverty. [online] Available at:
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/ [Accessed: 29 Mar 2014].
