Greener School for a Sustainable Future

The teacher who is writing this post attended the course "Greener School for a Sustainable Future" last October 2023. We are sharing the podcast of an interview she had at the radio station: Radio Voz, in the programme "People from Ferrol around the world". It's in Spanish! We wish it will be inspiring in spite of this fact.

Here is a brief summary of the experience in the course, carried out in Reykjavik.

The writer thinks the course was very profitable in terms of getting useful detailed activities which can be carried out at school without much effort and which may inspire students to start making changes in their lives towards a more sustainable lifestyle. 

It was structured in morning and afternoon. During the mornings, the participants had talks and could experience a few activities on their own as well as share some group work activities focused on the topic of sustainability in order to achieve deeper knowledge on this issue.

The afternoons, allowed the participants to investigate the cultural side of the country, visiting many interesting natural places which show the richness of the country in terms of the use of renewable energy sources. Of course, the country is taking profit of them! The teachers in the course learnt a lot about geothermal energy and how it can heat people's houses and water as well as how it can be used to generate energy to power the greenhouses that anybody can see when driving on the almost empty roads while looking at the lava formations or the glaciers, which keep melting at a fast pace. 

Iceland is a country of contrasts, wonderful to any nature lover, and the sole place on planet Earth where you can walk on both the North-American and the European plates, which you can see emerging from deep inside!

Here is the LINK TO THE PODCAST.