Initiative: "Replacement of lighting with LEDs in school corridors, classrooms and lighting of the school playground and educational garden in the school square".
Originator: Regional Cultural and Educational Association "Kornel"
Location: Borki Wyrki, School complex
Implementation date: 10/2015-03/2016
Description of the encountered problem: The teaching buildings of the School Complex in Borki Wyrki had outdated and high-cost generating lighting. The lighting of the school playing field was also inadequate.
Lighting before replacement
Activities:
- replacement of light points in school corridors, classrooms and the school playground;
- preparation of an educational garden with signs describing protected plants in Poland;
- creation of alleys to allow movement through the garden along didactic paths;
- workshops in the didactic garden for pupils, teachers and parents on ecological issues, with particular attention to reducingCO2 emissions into the atmosphere and the consumption of energy resources;
- presentations made by students on the benefits for people and the environment of saving energy and protecting nature.
Results: Thanks to the initiative, 30 light points were replaced, thus reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The activities carried out will raise participants' awareness of the human impact on the environment. The replaced lighting is free of harmful substances (mercury, lead) and reduces electricity costs.
Lighting after replacement
The initiative "Replacing the lighting in school corridors, classrooms and the school playground and educational garden in the school yard with LEDs", an idea by the Regional Cultural and Educational Association "KornelKornel" was realised as part of the project "Local ecological civic initiatives - together for the environment" of the Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture and financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
Local ecological civic initiatives - together for the environment is a project prepared by the Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture, bringing together 20 local ecological initiatives. The main objective of the project is to improve the state of the environment by involving the local community in sustainable development activities. The problems identified concern the Mazowieckie, Podlaskie, Lubelskie, Łódzkie, Małopolskie and Dolnośląskie voivodships. Their authors include representatives of NGOs operating locally, schools, institutions, but also individuals. Each of the initiatives is an attempt to solve a local environmental problem, which is intended to provide an impulse and initiate further actions to permanently protect nature and the environment, and to shape lasting habits in this respect.
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