The Green Actions Project:
Innovative creative educational methods for environmental awareness and sustainability
Student/Pupil centered learning and development
Primary / Middle school pupils are developing their ideas with support from HEI students and teachers.
“To me, the arts are a way to someone’s soul. This is a great tool to teach and explore environmental science. I think the arts can help students understand science in their bones vs just their mind.”
– Dr. Nate Bickford, University of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska at Kearney
There has been a pilot Green Actions week-long activity which occurred in Reykjavik, Iceland in the spring of 2015:
http://ecanetwork2015reykvik.tumblr.com/url
Workshops were conducted with eight-year-old school pupils this past March 2017 at the Green Actions partner Pääskyvuori primary school in Turku, Finland. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs published this article on the English language website “ThisisFinland”:
The Green Actions Network includes critically important partners in the context of land rights, land-based education, traditional Indigenous and local knowledge, cultural/language preservation, and an authentic perspective of climate change that is so radically impacting our lives in the circumpolar region. Our Green Actions Network’s diverse main circumpolar HEI / NGO partners in the Nordic area are from the USA, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Our target group of children and youth will be the ones who inherit the earth at the last nanosecond regarding environmental concerns. Green Actions and interdisciplinary environmental education is a positive step towards empowering these young people who live in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the world.