green school initiative

What is Green initiatives?

The implementation of the Green-School Initiatives in Brunei Darussalam is evident for Brunei Darussalam’s commitment to guide and educate its society towards environmental protection and sustainable lifestyle. The guidebook for Initiating Green-School in Brunei Darussalam provides information on the practical implementation of green initiatives in schools and is based on the “ASEAN Guidelines on Eco-Schools”

OBJECTIVES

Identify and recognise the achievement of schools in implementing best green practices;
Inculcate enviromental awareness and positive behabiours towards the envoment amongst learners;
Encourage the teaching and learning of Environmental Education in the curriculum;
Provide opportunity to promote environmental awareness to the school community; and
Foster a whole school community approach to keep the school environment clean and hygiene.

The Themes

In order to help schools in achieving targeted outcomes, it is advisable that activities and programmes to be conducted are based on recongised green themes related to sustainable development such as:

ENERGY

(eg of topics: Reducing Energy Consumptions)

WASTE MANAGEMENT

(eg of topic: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle to Reduce waste (3Rs)

GREEN SCHOOL SPACES

(eg of topic: Eco-Garden in My School)

WATER

(eg of topic: Reducing Water Consumption)

HEALTH AND HYGIENE

(eg of topic: Healthy and Clean School)

tHE CRITERIA

The guidebook provides systematic approaches in inculcating good practices pertaining to sustainable development. The initiative focuses on four criteria: