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Where you are born determines your chances (not): Interactive workshop
During this interactive workshop, a VIA Don Bosco employee will come to your school to get the students to think critically in an interactive way about the question: 'Does your crib determine your further opportunities in your life?'
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Climate Clash
What factors influence the warming of our climate?
Two or more teams compete against each other to complete assignments.
While discussing, your students will gain insight into the factors that can influence the warming of our climate.
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Visionary future walk
Together we dive into the sustainable future dreams of your students. And you can take that literally: the young people guide each other. So it is entirely up to them.
Maybe they dream of a school on a street park without cars and traffic lights? Or a …
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Material Matters: Article with inspiring insights
Article providing insights and arguments for a transition from a neoliberal economy to an alternative economy.
These are based on the book Material Matters, the alternative to our predatory construction society by Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau.
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Workshop Fruit in the school garden
Fruit in the school garden is perfect for education about seasons, plants and animals, fruit up close and you can also get started with it practically. Planting small fruit and fruit trees is also a way of greening the school.
Does your school already …
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Recovery economy: Environmentally friendly and financially beneficial
By repairing a product instead of replacing it (purchasing a new product), the lifespan of the product is extended. This saves materials and greenhouse gas emissions during the production of a new product.
For products that consume a lot of energy, …
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The material footprint of Flemish consumption
The materials footprint of Flanders or Raw Material Consumption (RMC) is the total of primary raw materials that are extracted worldwide as a result of Flemish consumption.
These primary raw materials are minerals, fossil raw materials, biomass and …
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Global environmental benefits through local and circular textile consumption
In order to meet our Flemish consumption needs, we currently have to obtain a large part of the required raw materials from abroad. Reuse, recycling and high-quality, local production of textiles can ensure that the extraction of primary raw …
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Climate footprint: Sustainable compared to a fast fashion T-shirt
European consumption of textiles has the fourth largest impact on the environment and climate change, after food, housing and mobility. Textile consumption is also in the top three factors that place the most pressure on water and land use and in …
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Build a smart trash can in the classroom
What if we could teach an artificial intelligence to sort and build a smart garbage can together? This is perfectly possible with a laptop in the classroom.
To build a smart trash can that can help us sort, we need a few things. This project can be …
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Become a WaterWise class or school: Traject
Become a WaterWise class or school from September 2024. Take up the challenge together to teach students to make sustainable choices and thus reduce their water footprint at school in terms of food, clothing, paper, direct water... This is how we …
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CleanTechPunt: The digital meter
In this article you will learn everything about the digital meter.
Below you will find the content of the article:
- purpose of the digital meter;
- ideal scenario;
- influence of the introduction of the digital meter for consumers and society.
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