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From Grey to Green.
Bucharest – yesterday, today and tomorrow
About the project
January, 2010
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Grey to Green initiative intends to expand the city’s green infrastructure, to stop the spread of invasive plants, to restore the native vegetation, to protect sensitive natural areas.
The project, which is now in progress at Lauder-Reut High School, is based on the idea of ecological modernisation, where Bucharest is to develop towards a greener society, guided with the principles of ecology for a better and safer environment.
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This project includes the opportunity of cooperation between teachers and students in order to become more responsible about the ecological and social environment. History, environmental education, traditions and ecology are the main topics of the project.
The project started in November 2009, with the already-existent recycling program - collecting paper, during all school year, in which we involved the students, their parents as well as the teachers. We also collaborate with AZIMUT ECOTurism Association in different activities. One of them was discovering REAL Bucharest in the project „CENTRAL SUBURBIA"). The students from 10th grade visited different places of Bucharest and took a lot of photos. We prepared an exhibition in January 2010 – during ECOWeek.
In December 2009, a documentary film: Bucharest-a city of contrasts, made by a group of students from The Media University, which contain scenes from all our ECO activies during the project.
In January 2010, our school sent an official request to the Mayor of Bucharest for getting a small “grey” area in Bucharest in order for our students to „transform“ it into a green area (cleanning, planting trees, flowers, etc).
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We link the Hebrew holiday, TuBishvat (The New Year of the Trees) with an annual “Ecology Week” during the same period of time. This year, we celebrated TuBishvat in the last week of January. „The ECO WEEK“ came to life due to the project „ Grey to Green“ and we intend to turn it into a tradition.
ECOweek 2010
25–29 January 2010
 Every day, most of the teachers used in their lessons different ECO subjects.
On Monday:
- ECOstumme (the students have designed and created costummes made of recyclable materials)
- The movie La belle Verte – the secondary school and the high school students watched the movie and had debates about the topic.
On Tuesday:
- ECO Art activities – on TuBishvat
- Project presentation- Atmosphere pollution – secondary school
- Photo exhibition - Grey Bucharest
- Powerpoint Contest - Bucharest, a city of contrasts – secondary school and high school
On Wednesday:
- Round Table on ecological topics with the participation of experts in this field. We invited members of GREENPEACE Organization – gymnasium and high School (photo 3)
- 10th grade Posters Presentation: every student has choosen a day from 2010 ecological calendar and created a poster for it.
On Thursday:
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Round Table – part II – our guest was Mr. Serban Copot, the Romanian Ambassador of Climate Changes at the EU, the representative of the campaign: "Play to Stop – Europe for Climate.” He presented the website: www.generatiaverde.ro where every student calculated his/her personal CARBON FINGERTPRINT.
On Friday:
- Sports Day - the students, their parents, teachers and media personalities played volleyball and basketball.
We invite all of you to join us and to help us build a better, greener, healthier and happier Bucharest! No measure is too small, anything and everything counts!
Mr. Dan Sandru
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