How to Downshift: Children & Schools
- Resourceful
- Adopt a double-sided photocopying policy and use the backside of waste paper for the facsimile
- Paper Conscious
- Be a greener school; conserve paper by ruling off your last piece of work and starting a new subject
- Free
- Brainstorm a list of fantastic, free activities and encourage your parents/guardians to take you on a few
- Organic
- Cultivate a square foot of garden and grow a few vegetables and soft fruits
- Fun
- Design and make your own board game
- Recognition
- Get on the right, green track – sign your school up for an Eco-School Award
- Compost
- Elect a weekly monitor to collect break and lunchtime organic waste and put it in a compost
- Seek
- Go out on an adult supervised hedgerow forage and cook your finds
- Paper-free
- Save paper, postage and time by emailing parents/guardians with school information
- Awareness
- Visit a landfill site and a recycling centre with your parents, guardians or school and encourage them to do the right thing!