This theme explores how growing and eating our own food impacts our personal health, and how it has knock-on impacts for local and foreign biodiversity.
Global Citizenship – Food and Biodiversity is a maintenance theme that facilitates schools exploring and discovering how actions on the Green-Schools programme locally, positively influence environments worldwide.
The Global Citizenship Food and Biodiversity theme consists of two main strands of work. The first strand focuses on local actions, including growing and eating food that is produced on the school grounds. The second strand focuses on global impacts; such as the positive impact that these local actions can have, by interrupting the current global food production system, and the environmental problems associated with it e.g. by reducing the miles that food has travelled, or by avoiding the packaging waste associated with shop-bought foods.
Case studies
Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh Case Study
Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh is a primary school in Roxboro, Limerick with about 300 students and 22 teachers. [...]
St. Vincent de Paul National School
St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) National School is a girls’ senior primary school in Dublin. There are 316 students from 2nd to 6th class [...]
Food education is critical. Some of the more obvious elements to consider from the environmental perspective include food miles, packaging and food waste. The benefits of food education, however, go far beyond reducing the environmental impact.
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BEAM Services
BEAM (Barrow Enterprises for Adult Members with Special Needs) Services is an adult education centre providing training to [...]
Holy Family Junior School
Holy Family Junior School is a junior primary school in Ennis, Co. Clare. It has 180 students, 18 [...]
Mount Mercy College
Mount Mercy College is a secondary school based in Bishopstown, Co. Cork. It has 810 students and 55 [...]
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Videos
Scoil Ursula N.S, Sligo
Caitriona Kernan of Scoil Ursula N.S, Sligo, gives us a tour of the vegetable garden and polytunnel, which is being well looked after during the summer months by dedicated care takers.
