New Year, New Resolutions!

Issue 15: 13/1/2023

If you’re anything like us, you’ve made resolutions for the New Year. Ending 2022 with the Climate Action Day event energized the Sustainability Committee and we are ready to take on new challenges in 2023.

To kickstart this new year, we will focus on two critical topics to the school community:  food waste and sustainability awareness.

Did you know that every day our campuses generate 250kg of food waste? We will work with the school to understand why this is happening and come up with solutions to reduce it. Our children will play an important role in solving this problem, so watch this space for more information about how they can help. As always let us know if they have ideas.

Secondly, we will continue to support and reinforce climate and sustainability education at FIS and help our children to become sustainability champions! We do this by investigating enrichment opportunities and offering assistance to teachers who would like to bring them into their classrooms. We will also provide more opportunities, like Climate Action Day, for families to learn how to live more sustainably in Hong Kong. 

We would like to start the year by launching the very FIRST FRENCH SCHOOLS FOREST and we need your help to make it happen!

HELP LAUNCH THE FIRST FRENCH SCHOOLS FOREST

One thing you can do right now and until the end of the school year, is contribute to the French Schools Forest. FIS is partnering with EcoMatcher to plant trees where they are needed most, as part of our commitment to reducing our carbon/greenhouse gas footprint.  

Trees are without a doubt the best carbon capture technology in the world. When they perform photosynthesis, they pull carbon dioxide out of the air, bind it up in sugar, and release oxygen. Trees use sugar to build wood, branches, and roots. Wood is an incredible carbon sink because it is made entirely of carbon, it lasts for years as a standing tree, and takes years to break down after the tree dies. (Source: How Forests Store Carbon – Melissa Kreye, Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Management – Pennsylvania State University)

Our motto is “Climate Education Matters. Every Action Matters.” Our School Forest matters and we want all the FIS community to be part of it.

Elodie, a year 10 FIS student and ventriloquist and her puppet Jack are inspiring us to take part. We hope you’ll take a minute to hear their call to action.

To support the educational initiative, our partner EcoMatcher will subsidise an extra tree for every two trees planted.

To participate:

All the trees purchased can be viewed, kept, or gifted as a present to friends and family.

Please click here to learn more about the FIS Tree Planting Initiative or how you could start your own. 

Pia von Waldau, Cristina Rodenbeck and Nicole Marie Boisvert
Sustainability Committee Members

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