James Hindson's Encouraging Text

Most of us have run across a sandy beach and left our footprints behind! We have left our mark on the beach.
All of us also leave our mark on planet earth! Everything we do uses resources of one kind of another and creates waste when we use them or when we have finished with them.
This is our Ecological Footprint.

Väčšina z nás už niekedy bežala po pláži a zanechala za sebou stopy v piesku! Zanechali sme za sebou značku.

Všetci však zanechávame aj svoju značku na planéte Zem! Všetko čo robíme spotrebúva zdroje a vytvára odpad, ktorý vzniká počas aj po ich použití.

To je naša ekologická stopa!

Meranie veľkosti ekologickej stopy je naozaj významný krok, ktorý môžete urobiť! Povie vám, aký je váš vplyv na Zem a dá vám jasný cieľ, ktorý je možné dosiahnuť. Pokúste sa znížiť vašu stopu a tak zredukovať vplyv, ktorý máte na planétu.

Táto internetová stránka poukazuje na vplyv vašej školy na životné prostredie. Dáva vám príležitosť spolupracovať na jeho znižovaní a vytváraní školy, ktorá bude lepšia pre planétu.

Práca so stránkou je jednoduchá a ľahká. Zbieranie informácií, ktoré potrebujete na výpočet ekologickej stopy školy bude zábavné. Keď už budete poznať veľkosť svojej stopy, môžete začať pracovať na jej znižovaní a zároveň sa porovnať s inými školami na Slovensku.

Most of us have run across a sandy beach and left our footprints behind! We have left our mark on the beach.

All of us also leave our mark on planet earth! Everything we do uses resources of one kind of another and creates waste when we use them or when we have finished with them.

This is our Ecological Footprint.

Measuring the size of your ecological footprint is great thing to do. It tells you what your impact on earth is and gives you a target to aim for. To try and reduce your footprint and reduce the effect you have on the planet.

This web site looks at the effect your School has on the environment and will give you chance to work together to reduce your impact and make your school better for the planet.

It’s a really simple and easy to use site and collecting the information you need will be fun. Once you know your footprint size you can then set about reducing it and compare yourself with other schools in Slovakia

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Contact us

Do you want to learn more about the programme? Please email us directly your question, or use the e-mail address of our programme ekostopa@sazp.sk

Your School’s Ecological footprint

Your school has an ecological footprint as well. Do you know its current value? If you sign up for the school programme you will gain an ecofootprint calculator to find it out.
Now you have a chance to he help your school calculate its ecological footprint. It is an innovative educational programme, the first of its kind in Slovakia. Only a few countries in the world have this opportunity in England, Australia, Austria a Czech Republic.

Internet Calculator

The Internet calculator is the basis of the project. With the help of other students you will be able to calculate your school’s impact on the environment in eight general consumption categories:

Electricity
Heating
Water consumption
Food

Waste
Transport
Buildings and surrounding
Purchase and Equipment

You will discover what is important and what activities are the key ones. You will find out how big a portion of your footprint you acquire at school. You will get armed with the knowledge, which will help you change your habits and live on just one Planet Earth.

The calculations of the ecological footprint can be really difficult and complex. Nowadays, it is used as a fundamental, measurable indicator of a sustainable development. However, it also serves as an explanatory and effective educative metaphor. In cooperation with our English colleagues we have prepared a programme that is adapted to the conditions of schools in Slovakia and to teachers’ needs.

Registration

If you are a teacher in a kindergarten, primary or secondary school, the only thing you need to do is to fill out this short online registration form. If the registration is successful your school will get a free username and password, which can be used by any teacher in your school. Find out whether your school is already registered.

The registration process gives you:

the right to use the online calculator and calculate the ecological footprint of your school
an interactive teaching aid for a practical implementation of environmental education for every teacher
attractive educational activities and materials for kindergartens, primary, and secondary schools with links to specific lessons
an environmental acknowledgement for your school a tool to measure and publicise the environmental behaviour of your school