Leaders in the Church of South India are undertaking a project to create “green schools” with the aim of caring for the environment.
ChristianToday.com reports that representatives from 23 dioceses
participated in the three-day meeting on the environment which took
place on World Environment Day (June 5).
The Green Schools Project emerged out of that meeting.
"We have taken a decision to make 1,000 schools of CSI into Green
Schools this year. While everyone, everywhere asserts the importance of
'learning to live sustainably', environment remains a peripheral issue
in the formal schooling system," Professor Mathew Kosy Punnackadu, an
environmental scientist, activist and writer who initiated the movement,
stated.
The Green Schools Project hopes to put into practice teaching about the
environment, rather than simply talking about what should be done.
The project will be run in collaboration with the Center for Science
and Environment in New Delhi, which will equip teachers to teach
eco-friendly ways to interact with the earth.
“Schools will become Green Schools, students will study environmental
science and will get good eco-insights, teaching and study will become
more interesting and the results of the schools will improve," said
Punnackadu.
The project aims to influence 1,000 schools in South India.
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