No cost/easy actions
- Spread the word - show people websites like this one, and invite your friends to sign up for our newsletter
- Ask NZYD to visit your school
- Teach your friends to reduce, reuse and recycle
- Open the curtains in your science class, and turn the lights off!
- Ask your teachers to photocopy handouts double-sided and with two pages on one
Check out this video to see how three Nelson College Boys transformed opinions on wasting electricity in their school!
Some cost/medium effort actions
- Change the lightbulbs to eco-friendly options
- Join or start an environmental group at your school
- Encourage your canteen to use more local foods
- Encourage your teachers to make their staff room ‘organic and green’, with local food and low-energy lightbulbs
- Convince your school to install recycling bins in every classroom and next to every rubbish bin
- Organise a fundraising event at school to raise money to help our Pacific neighbours adapt to climate change
More cost/more effort actions
- Encourage your school to pick up environmental education programmes, like the NZAEE Education for Sustainability credits
- Calculate your school’s carbon footprint
- Work with your teachers and other students to set up a vegetable garden at your school
Want to suggest a tip or share a story about how you’re taking action at school? Email us or post a comment below.