Taking Action
The first thing you need to do is spread the message within school and get everyone on board. How you do this will depend on your school. You might want to put up a display in reception, go into assemblies or hold an event to tell people about the project and what they can do to help. Make sure senior management and governors are kept informed too.
Reduce your school’s carbon footprint
Compensate your partner school
Looking Beyond the Calculations
It is important to explore the reasons for the difference in the size of your footprints.
A good starting point is to look at an average day in each school. What are the similarities and differences? Maybe you have photos or video from your partner school to demonstrate this, or a teacher or student who has visited the school. Why not produce a short film or photo story of a typical school day focusing on energy usage to share with your partner school?
What can we learn from each other?
Resources
Biodiversity Lesson Plans

A series of lessons about biodiversity linked to the Shanghai Expo of 2010. The lessons look at the importance of biodiversity, the impact of human actions on biodiversity, the threat of climate change and possible solutions. There is also a guide to taking action and glossary of terms.
Activity developed by GAP (Global Action Plan)
What's the carbon footprint of....?

This worksheet looks at the carbon footprint of nine everyday objects and activities. Can you guess which has the biggest carbon footprint?