Presentation GREEN

Learning to live

sustainable

Take out an object that you have with you and put it in the box.

Don’t show anyone else what you have put in the box…!!!

Who is GREEN?

Since 1997

Children, teenagers and adults

75.000 kids and teenagers and 10.000 adults per year.

GREEN Belgium has 43 employees NL + FR

What does GREEN do?

Education for sustainable development

– Information: (Mundo Bib, campaigns,…)– Sensibilisation (workshops, dossiers)– Activation (trajects)– Participation (parliaments)– Co-operation trough water (Marocco projects)

Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels

Belgium

Youth participation Projects

Flanders Youth against climate change

Youth Climate Fund

Brussels: Childrens council Anderlecht Brussels Youth Eco parliament

Wallonia Effet de jeunes

Wallon eco youth parliament

Europe Youth Scheldt parliament

Youth against climate change

Goal: trough action reducing CO2 together– Primary and secondary schools– 100 schools in Brussels, 30 in flanders 240 in Wallonia– 5 action days

october: local fruits day november: second hand day february: big sweaters day march: world water day april: mobility day

Youth Climate Fund

Children’s participation on energy-use at school

Private corporations want to reduce their CO2 caused by their carpark through the Youth Climate Fund and pay for one or more climate trajects.

Four sessions per class– Energy-use and climate change – Energy triangle and energydetectives– Class climate parliament– School climate parliament

Wallonia

Wallon Youth Eco Parliament

Same as Brussels, but different themes Plenery session in Wallon Parliament

Brussels Capital Region

Children’s council Anderlecht

• community council

• 11 y olds from 14 dutch speeking schools in Anderlecht

• 2 sessions about democracy

• 4 sessions about an environmental theme

•Children’s day

Brussels Youth Eco Parliament

11- 18y youngsters from schools Water, consumption, nature, nutrition

4 preparatory meetings 4 Mai 2011: Parliament with Brussels Ministers and

experts 3 propositions per theme:

– Youth action– Commitment– Political recommendation

Brussels Youth Eco parliament

Commission about ConsumptionChallenges:

– What does consumption mean to you in one word?

– Pick out a card that in one way or the other fits the person on your right.

– Pick out an item from the box that you think belongs to the person next to you.

Sustainable development

“ I t is a development thatmeets the needs of the present whithoutcompromising the ability of futuregenerations tomeet their ownneeds.”

Enough for everybody, all the time!

ProfitPlanet

People

Sustainable development

Sustainable development

• Here

• Somewhere else in this world

• Now

• In the future

Keeping in account the consequences of our choices:

Example: your fairtrade coffee

(prosperity/ profit): The coffeefarmer get a fair price for their coffeebeans.

(people): the coffeefarmers work in good and healthy conditions. Safety mesures have been taken.

(planet): Farmers get trained to cultivate more ecologically (less pesticides).

Sustainability = balance between the 3 P’s

Planet

People

Profit

Sustainable development

Ecological footprint

Mesures the human demand on the earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.It is expressed in amount of surface needed per person (globale hectare)

Belgium/ Brussels

• Fair planet-part per capita=

2,1 gha

•Belgium has only 1,1 gha

•Average footprint Belgian:

5,1 gha

•

Russian footprint

Russian Footprint

Russian footprint 2001 about 4.1 gha Recent figures internet 5.4 to 6 gha (5.1

belgium) Reasons of growth:

– Populations growth– An inefficient use of energy and raw materials– Large wastage in production– Bad insulation of houses

ECOLOGICAL DEBT = Some countries consume more than they can produce -> endebted to other countries (Belgium)

ECOLOGICAL RESERVE = some countries consume less than they can produce -> reserve (Russia: about 8gha per person)

Overshoot Day: In 2010, 21st august

Ecological debt and reserve

‘some have too much, many have too little’ There are…

-Social-Ecological -Economical

… problems, …Here and somewhere else in the world,

now and in the future

Because of this system

This is not sutainable!

Consumption and happyness?

Bruto National Product =

index to mesure (economic) progress

A high BNP…

= a high ecological footprint!

= a happier person?

Grafiek anti depressiva en BBP

Thank you very much for your attention!

The story of stuff…

A very american but clear film on the internet on consumption