Implementation Organization : Centre for Environment Education
Country : India
Project Area : Climate change
NetRes : TERI
Duration of Project : 24 months
Status : Ongoing
Summary
As part of the project, three different type of colleges would be identified- at least one each in urban and rural area and offering different type of courses such as general and technical education. A youth core group will be set up in each college, to be facilitated by a college professor. The core group would be oriented to climate change and would study issues and problems in the college and identify actions to make it a green college. The same will be implemented in the colleges This may include, setting up rain water harvesting structures in the college, retrofitting energy efficient appliances in the college, setting up efficient waste management system including paper recycling, polythene reusing/ weaving to make useful materials. The whole process would be documented and a process document on how to make our college GREEN would be developed.
Key Activities
1. Identification of different type of colleges (based on criteria’s such as location (urban/ rural); courses offered (general/ technical), etc
2. Having MOUs with colleges
3. Setting up youth core groups in colleges. This would include at least one professor and 30-50 students
4. Inception workshop with selected college professors and student leaders
5. Orientation programme on climate change in colleges
6. Study on issues and problems related to energy, water, air, greening and waste management and identify actions to make green college.
7. Discussions with other resource agencies and raising support. For example- Gujarat Energy Development Agency would be approached to support retrofitting, corporate for other supports
8. Implementation of actions such as setting up rain water harvesting, providing appropriate waste management bins, setting up paper recycling and polythene weaving, retrofitting energy efficient appliances, etc. Actions implemented would also be linked to the curriculum, wherever possible so as to ensure providing appropriate livelihood options to students.
Contact Info
Gopal Kumar Jain, Programme Coordinator, Youth Programmes
Centre for Environment Education
Telephone: 0091-79-26844788
Fax: 0091-79- 26858010
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