{"id":34442,"date":"2022-04-25T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/?p=34442"},"modified":"2022-04-28T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:05:36","slug":"everyday-is-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/principal\/everyday-is-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"EVERYDAY IS EARTH DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have a line in our 国产AV song – \u201cEveryday is Earth Day.\u201d We sing it all the time. But when April 22nd comes around each year, our school community does everything possible to demonstrate our values as we educate for a sustainable future. At 国产AV Bali, we have celebrated Earth Day every day this week – with \u2018planting\u2019 days, trash walks, low tech days, ride to school events, free <\/span>Bio Bus<\/a><\/strong> rides, and a massive global celebration at the end of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n Schools should be places where we learn, share and celebrate – and there\u2019s probably nothing more important to celebrate than our little blue and green rock in space. At 国产AV Bali, celebrating our connection to Earth is important across the school year; from <\/span>Green Studies programs<\/a><\/strong>, growing and cooking food from our gardens, Environmental Science units, thematics classes based on SDGs, student and class projects that have a positive impact on the environment, the animals that we care for on campus, our commitments to using <\/span>less energy and generating less waste<\/a><\/strong>, the Bio Bus program (school buses that run on used cooking oils), our oceans programs, the High School service trips (all around Indonesia) \u2026 the list goes on and on.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whole school curricula could be designed based on our connection with nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This connection isn\u2019t something we should need to focus on – humans ARE nature. Unfortunately, in the concrete cities and in the cyber-worlds we have created, there is a need to reconnect with our natural environments. And, that\u2019s our responsibility as educators.<\/span><\/p>\n Days, like Earth Day, are important to bring the spotlight on what is important to us. We do a Peace Walk on International Day of Peace. We hold an \u2018Oceans Festival\u2019 at the beach on World Oceans Day. On International Women\u2019s Day, our High School students (alongside teachers and parents) create and perform a production called \u2018Voices\u2019. Just as everyday is Earth Day, every day should also be Peace day, Oceans day, Social Justice day, Diversity and Inclusion day.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A big component of our <\/span>new model of education<\/a><\/strong> is the concept to educate for more than just \u2018about\u2019 Earth – we aren\u2019t just educating <\/span>about<\/span><\/i> sustainability, we need to educate <\/span>for<\/span><\/i> sustainability, And the same goes for our learning and celebrations (across this awesome week at GSB) for Earth Day. Yes – it\u2019s important to learn about Earth. But it is more important to educate <\/span>for<\/span><\/i> the Earth and be active global citizens who want to make the world better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How does your school educate <\/span>for<\/span><\/i> the Earth?<\/span><\/p>\n How is your own personal life impacting Earth?<\/span><\/p>\n I believe schools should be places where people make the world a better place. And, although April 22 Earth Day is an important day to celebrate this beautiful planet, I know that (just like our song says) \u201ceveryday is Earth day – we are going to make a difference – that\u2019s why we came here\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Why did you go to school today?\u00a0<\/span>Footnote: As I woke up this morning, I saw <\/span>Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeting<\/a><\/strong> a line from our 国产AV song. To be fair, more than a song’s lyrics, it\u2019s a message to the whole world to celebrate each and every day as Earth Day and not just reduce it to one day of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 Yes, we agree with you Neil!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have a line in our 国产AV song – \u201cEveryday is Earth Day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOur <\/span>Early Years<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/strong> students leading a trash walk out the front of campus, showing us the way in keeping our neighbourhood clean and green<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n
Our <\/span><\/i>High School <\/span><\/i><\/a><\/strong>student, Fynn and 国产AV parent, Wayan, took the initiative of leading a \u201cBike Bus\u201d cycling group to school, for two locations here in Bali: Canggu & Ubud\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n