Green Norway Tilgnerka

About this project

<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The Project is crucial in eliminating of climate change impacts in the school premises and the outer space. The Project builds on previous activities on climate change adaptation, incl. the Project “Blue School”. In the Project, a combination of soft and hard measures is planned in order to raise the awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Soft measures:&nbsp; </span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Revising parts of curricula of existing subjects (implementing topics of climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation),</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Elaborating worksheets,</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Installing appliances for measuring the water quality (conductometer, PH metres etc.),</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Promotional and educational materials on recycling in cooperation with the collection and disposal waste company OLO, </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Raising awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation (events, e.g. voluntary work, discussions, presentations, lectures, workshops, exhibitions within the school).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Hard measures:&nbsp; </span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Greenery ratio increase (planting utility plants, planting fruit trees, trees revitalisation),</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Waste production decrease (installing collection containers), </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Building ecoeducational areas (herb gardens, bio-gardens using rain water irrigation system),</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Support of suitable microclimate for students (fountain),</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Water retention measures (installing surface collection containers for rain water), </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Decrease of vulnerability of soil against longterm droughts (planting ground-covering plants),&nbsp; </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Infiltration capacity increase (removing concrete areas by permeable semivegetative blocks). </span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The Project aim is to carry on with improving the school and local environment fluently and raising the awareness of the mentioned environmental issues of not only students but the entire local community directly. </span></span></p>