Green Schools in China
Posted in Models by Virginia on June 1st, 2009
Excerpt from ARIES (Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability)
China’s Green School Project is an initiative of the Ministry of Education of China (MOE) and is funded by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA). China’s Green Schools Program, which started in 1996, is based on the international concept of ISO 14000 and has been informed by the European ‘Eco-schools‘. Since 2000, it has been run by the Centre for Environmental Education and Communications (CEEC) and their local networks.
The program’s key focus areas include whole-school environmental management and protection, EE curriculum and professional development, and greening of school grounds. Schools must undertake a series of steps before applying for Green School awards. Awards are categorised through a staged development process, starting at municipal, provincial and then national levels. To date, upwards of 15,000 schools have received one level of award as part of this program
