Sector Solutions
Extra curriculum
Starting October 1st each year, every high-schooler and student in the world is invited to embark on the Project Green Challenge, a powerful and diverse 30-day call-to-action that aims to touch lives, shift mindsets, and equip students with knowledge, resources and mentorship to lead change on campuses and communities worldwide.
Read more about Turning Green's Project Green Challenge (PGC)
Each day throughout the month of October, a uniquely themed challenge is delivered to registered PGC participants by email at 6 am Pacific Time. Day 2 is dedicated to the Footprint Calculator. Each challenge is live for 24 hours, inviting participants to complete actions and upload submissions to acquire points and prizes. Submissions include photos, videos, creative and written content uploaded on the PGC site, as well as across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Up to 20 PGC participants are selected each day of the challenge to receive prize points to spend in the “PGC Store” for their thoughtfully curated and insightful submissions. The prizes include all the necessities needed to set them on a path to conscious living. At the end of October, up to 16 Finalists are selected to attend the PGC Finals in November. Each finalist will receive an Eco Deluxe Lifestyle Package and will be eligible to win the PGC 2021 Grand Prize.
PGC is run by Turning Green, a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices.
Universities
EUSTEPs (Enhancing Universities’ Sustainability TEaching and Practices) is an ERASMUS + funded project designed to educate European university students and the wider academic community on the complexity of sustainability and its interdisciplinary nature in an engaging and captivating manner.
Read more about EUSTEPs
EUSTEPs is a project carried out, under the leadership of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, by the strategic partnership between four European universities and non-governmental organisation Global Footprint Network, the official home of the Ecological Footprint methodology and applications. It ingeniously intertwines conceptual knowledge of environmental, economic and social principles of sustainability with popular digital tools, as well as innovative teaching and learning practices.
EUSTEPs is a highly scalable solution since its teaching modules are available online for free and in 4 languages already (English, Italian, Portuguese, Greek).
Youth club
The Center for Biological Diversity is working with Girl Scouts of Western New York to offer two new patches that will allow girls to explore local wildlife, threats to biodiversity, and actions they can take to protect the wild.
Read more about Girl Scout patch programs
Patch programs provide Girl Scouts opportunities to enjoy activities, learn new skills, explore their world—and eventually earn a patch.
Specifically, the Healthy People, Healthy Planet and Conscious Consumer patch program lesson plans discuss the effects that human population growth has on the environment and wildlife. It does so through an age-appropriate approach that focuses on empowerment and choices. They have been adapted for virtual participation to ensure a safe, engaging experience.
It is a scalable solution because the patch program lesson plans can be shared with troop leaders anywhere, and eventually with other youth clubs.
Extra curriculum
Starting October 1st each year, every high-schooler and student in the world is invited to embark on the Project Green Challenge, a powerful and diverse 30-day call-to-action that aims to touch lives, shift mindsets, and equip students with knowledge, resources and mentorship to lead change on campuses and communities worldwide.
Read more about Turning Green's Project Green Challenge (PGC)
Each day throughout the month of October, a uniquely themed challenge is delivered to registered PGC participants by email at 6 am Pacific Time. Day 2 is dedicated to the Footprint Calculator. Each challenge is live for 24 hours, inviting participants to complete actions and upload submissions to acquire points and prizes. Submissions include photos, videos, creative and written content uploaded on the PGC site, as well as across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Up to 20 PGC participants are selected each day of the challenge to receive prize points to spend in the “PGC Store” for their thoughtfully curated and insightful submissions. The prizes include all the necessities needed to set them on a path to conscious living. At the end of October, up to 16 Finalists are selected to attend the PGC Finals in November. Each finalist will receive an Eco Deluxe Lifestyle Package and will be eligible to win the PGC 2021 Grand Prize.
PGC is run by Turning Green, a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices.
Universities
EUSTEPs (Enhancing Universities’ Sustainability TEaching and Practices) is an ERASMUS + funded project designed to educate European university students and the wider academic community on the complexity of sustainability and its interdisciplinary nature in an engaging and captivating manner.
Read more about EUSTEPs
EUSTEPs is a project carried out, under the leadership of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, by the strategic partnership between four European universities and non-governmental organisation Global Footprint Network, the official home of the Ecological Footprint methodology and applications. It ingeniously intertwines conceptual knowledge of environmental, economic and social principles of sustainability with popular digital tools, as well as innovative teaching and learning practices.
EUSTEPs is a highly scalable solution since its teaching modules are available online for free and in 4 languages already (English, Italian, Portuguese, Greek).
Youth club
France’s Loi Garot, enacted in February 2016, is a legislation designed to cut the national food waste in half, eliminating
5 million tonnes of food from landfills by 2025. An ambitious yet challenging undertaking in a country where households are responsible for one-third of food waste.
Read more about Girl Scout patch programs
Patch programs provide Girl Scouts opportunities to enjoy activities, learn new skills, explore their world—and eventually earning a patch.
Specifically, the Healthy People, Healthy Planet and Conscious Consumer patch program lesson plans discuss the effects that human population growth has on the environment and wildlife. It does so through an age-appropriate approach that focuses on empowerment and choices. They have been adapted for virtual participation to ensure a safe, engaging experience.
It is a scalable solution because the patch program lesson plans can be shared with troop leaders anywhere, and eventually with other youth clubs.
Since the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference, education has been recognized as key in fostering environmental protection and has played a central role in easing the transition to a sustainable world.
Agenda 21 has called for reorienting education towards sustainable development, while UNESCO launched the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014 and the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development.
With the adoption of the UN Agenda 2030 in 2015, education has been linked to 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainable, equitable education has become a core objective of SDG target 4.7 about “ensur(ing) that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.”
There’s no benefit in waiting!
Acting now puts you at a strategic advantage in a world increasingly defined by ecological overshoot. Countless solutions exist that #MoveTheDate. They’re creative, economically viable, and ready to deploy at scale. With them, we can make ourselves more resilient and #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day. If we move the date 6 days each year, humanity can be out of overshoot before 2050.