| Ecoliteracy - A Joint Programme |
| Ecoliteracy Centre - California, U.S.A
& Manitham Trust - CREA Children's. |
| Academy Matriculation School, Trichy
- 12 |
| Ecoliteracy aims at |
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Involving |
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Binding, and |
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Bringing together the students
towards Mother Earth and Nature. |
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| Who
will be learning Ecoliteracy? |
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Children from
the age group of 6 - 10 years will undergo
this programme
(ie : STD I - V) |
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| Hmm....
What are we going to do? |
| The activities
will be as such that the children will realize
the beauty and wonder of nature. With a sense
of gratitude and responsibility they will
take up the following activities. |
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One teacher +
Six students = five trees scheme to green
the campus. |
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Orientation about environment
and ecology - seminar to the students. |
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Using Solar power |
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Rain water harvesting |
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Putting papers as manure |
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Vermi compost preparation |
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Ban on throwing plastics or
using and hurting butterflies, plants, chameleons
etc |
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Growing nursery plants |
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A trip to a near by forest |
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| Can
everyone be part of it? |
| Yes. Everyone
can take part in it. But the programme will
be in the leadership of the children. |
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| What
can they do about this? |
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They can give
seeds, seedlings etc. |
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They can give us organic manure
from their farms. |
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They can help us new ideas |
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They can give us pots for
drip irrigation |
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They can make a small donation
towards Eco - literacy |
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| Is
that all? or anything else? |
| There
is plenty more! We'll begin with the above,
then we'll have schemes for |
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Attracting the
birds into the campus, |
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Nutritious food suplement
instead of choclates, chips etc. |
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Helping to green the villages
around etc.. OK. |
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ECO - Painting |
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ECO - Guiz |
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ECO - Competitions will also
be held. |
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| We'll
make a earth liveable place |
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Come on! |
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Lets have it |
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Lets become friends of trees! |
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Lets become the earth Healers |
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Ecoliteracy
