New Delhi: January 19, 2012
Should a school’s role be maximised as a resource for the community and neighbourhood? A round table conference organised by the Environment Education Unit (EEU) of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) discussed the critically relevant viewpoint. The agenda for the discussion was ‘Should schools lobby for policy changes for the neighbourhood?’
Dates: July 28, 29, 2011 & August 18, 19, 2011
Centre for Science and Environment’s Environment Education Unit (EEU) conducts a two-day training programme for teachers, educators, students, development workers and people interested in environment education.
The Gobar Times Green Schools Programme, award ceremony was successfully held on the 15th of July. The National awards were given away by the honorable chief guests for the day, members of the band ‘Indian Ocean’. The Delhi State awards were given by none other than the honorable Chief Minister of Delhi, Ms. Sheila Dixit. The children were ecstatic and the function a thundering success.
Date: July 22 - 23, 2010
The Green Schools Programme is an ‘inspection’ or ‘survey’ of the school done by its students on its environmental practices (which we call environmental auditing) under the supervision of teachers.
THE NATIONAL AWARDS
New Schools: The Top Three
1. DAV Public School (Thermal Colony), Panipat (Haryana)
2. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Prakasam (Andhra Pradesh)
3. Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana (Punjab)
New Schools: The Other Winners
4. Government Girl’s High School, Dakha, Ludhiana (Punjab)
5. Ambuja Vidya Niketan, Ambujanagar (Gujarat)
6. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh)
7. Bishop Cotton Boy’s School, St Mark’s Road, Bangalore (Karnataka)
8. The Ashok Leyland School, Hossur (Tamil Nadu)
9. Birla High School (Girl’s), Moira Street, Kolkata (West Bengal)
10. Government Secondary School, Reshi (Sikkim)