What's it about?
Global Action Plan and Sky, working together to create the climate for change
Appetite for Action is part of the three-year partnership between Sky and Global Action Plan. The partnership aims to raise over £1 million for Global Action Plan and to use Sky’s resources and experience to help Global Action Plan reach out across the UK and Ireland, so that they can inspire consumers, and Sky customers and staff to make positive changes in their daily lives to address climate change.
Education website
Appetite for Action is a new, free educational website for all Primary Schools in the UK and Ireland that helps schools tackle a range of sustainability issues through the topic of food. Developed in conjunction with teachers, the website offers schools access to free resources, from lesson plans and fact sheets through to activity ideas and films, helping pupils to reduce food waste, grow their own fruit and vegetables, understand composting and reduce waste to landfill plus the opportunity to take part in a school challenge to reduce their schools CO2 impact and potentially win £3000 and Sky News visiting their school for the day.
How schools are taking part
Schools can choose to take part in a challenge around food, waste or growing and students get the opportunity to create an online team profile, measure their activities, develop a blog on the actions taken and search out other similar schools. All challenge participants receive a United Nations Environment Programme Certificates.
To date over 1,400 schools are taking part and we hope to engage over 5000 schools across the UK and Ireland by the end of 2010.
To get involved, take a look at: http://appetiteforaction.org.uk (opens in a new window)