Greener Green - Developing sustainability practices in primary schools

GREEN WAYS TO GET TO SCHOOL / Healthy Lifestyle

1. GREEN WAYS TO GET TO SCHOOL / Healthy Lifestyle

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

Link to case studies & resouces 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

3.1   HAVING A WALK   /   Healthy Lifestyle 

Now that we are aware of the evils of motorized transport and the pollution generated, let's sort out the alternative methods using an approach by the greenest and most recommended means 

Walking to school is the greenest mode of transportation possible. It not only preserves nature and its direct environment, but also enriches the social ties of a community, whether in the city or in the countryside. 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

Having already mentioned the most ecological ways to travel to school, we are now going to target the means of transportation that, while being polluting, represent a good alternative because sometimes the time or the weather do not facilitate a less polluting transportation. 

The means that our Greener Green program would recommend as the first alternative would be the school bus, because it has the advantage of transporting a large number of children, thus replacing many individual means of transport which, in view of their number, end up representing an important source of pollution. 

Often a picture shows more than a long speech.  
Daily energy consumption! 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

A smart mobility! Recently debuted a pedal-powered transportation system for children. Since the beginning of the year, about 30 students at Anatole France, a public elementary school in the town of Louviers, have been taking the S’Cool Bus—essentially a large tandem bike with electric assist—under the supervision of a “bus” driver. And based on the success of its initial foray, the S’Cool Bus is coming to 10 more French schools in 2018. 

“I wanted kids to have a sense of happiness when they go to school,” says Amaury Piquiot, founder of the S’Cool Bus, which is also a nonprofit organization. Piquiot got the idea when, as a business school student, he interned in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, and saw a couple of these bike-buses—one for adults that touted the ability to bike while drinking beer, and another for transporting children. Back home in Rouen, he created the plan for S’Cool Bus. Now, it’s a complete bike-bus service that includes the buses, drivers, and bus maintenance, along with route development, safety training for the kids, and parent communications. Each bus can go up to 18 miles per hour and accommodates 10 bicyclists, including the driver. 

Good to know   |   Article taken out of the following LINK 

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20046469/-49/ 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act. 

A hint for an ecological transportation means! 

When all ecological solutions have been exhausted and all possible choices have already been considered, it would be necessary to opt for choices that would be qualified as good compromises in order to combine fast but unfortunately polluting modern means of transport with the ecological mindset 

The carpooling offers our last hint as a green alternative to bring the children to their school. The parents could drive each in turn the children of the area/building/… to their school, in charge of the neighbor to take this mission for the following day and so on in turn to ensure the most ecological means of transport possible while limiting the carbon emissions to one vehicle instead of several vehicles driving at the same time, and in the same direction, with the same place of destination. 

Green transportation is one of the major environmental topics of the 21st century. Cars, buses and trains (… ) are being blamed for their impact on our environment.  Certainly, each at its own level and with its own degree of seriousness, but the fact remains that the means of transportation contribute greatly to air pollution and have an unfortunate impact on our living environment, as well as on environmental quality. 

Once we are aware of this fact and we look for a solution to alleviate this ecological inconvenience, we quickly realize the interest that the bicycle represents as a means of transportation and thus actively participate in the reduction of pollution by making a frank and committed act for a green environment. 

Both footprint as well as our health is improved by this civic and responsible act.