The Ecofriendly Environment of Steiner
Have you ever thought about the
importance of having schools with green
areas where children can play, explore, and be safe at the same time? If your answer is yes, and you
care about you child growing in a clean
green planet let me tell you that it is possible if we work together as a community whose main concern should be a suitable ecofriendly atmosphere.
Steiner is a school which offers a natural environment that allows students to be more conscious about
their planet and value their land as
their generation is the one who will inherit it. Nowadays having green open areas at schools is a neccesity, because
it is the only way they can learn how to become an ecofriendly citizen, since
they are little, how to create a garden at home, and the importance of organic
food. We must be aware that our planet is suffering desertifications and
droughts, this is why the importance of settling the great impact, green areas
have.
The Importance of Green Areas or
Spaces at Schools
With the
overpopulation in urban areas and the house building growing around the world, it is quite important to consider
the location of schools with open green
spaces. But, What is a green area? It
is defined as an area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational
or aesthetic purposes in an otherwise urban environment. Children and
adolescents need to grow in environments that reinforce their cognitive
development, academic learning as well
as their physical health. The access students have to green areas is linked to
children’s healthy development. They will have a better performance because if
they have the opportunity to be in these spaces in their schools, they will experiment stress reduction or less
harmful environmental exposures (such as noise
from traffic and air pollution). Schools should plant lots of trees and
gardens and, more generally, cities, themselves, should foster as much greenery
as possible.
Steiner Green Areas
At Steiner you will be able to find green areas, this fully accomplishes the goal of making, our students, ecofriendly citizens who are always thinking about the importance of our planet and who can create different alternatives to keep their environment safe. Making a deep analysis, we can assure that having these open green areas at our school will provide the children, teachers, and community in general the calmness, trust, safeness, and the carefree place that everybody needs during this time.
According to the Oxford University Press Dictionary,
a drought is a period of time when there is little or no rain and
desertification is defined as the process of becoming or making something a
desert. Desertification and drought are
issues of a global dimension that affect all regions of the world, and that
joint action by the international community is needed to address them,
particularly in Africa. The United Nations General Assembly declared 17 June to
be "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought" by a resolution adopted
in December 1994. UNESCO provides scientific expertise through its
Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) and its Man and the Biosphere
programme (MAB). Dryland ecosystems, which cover over one third of the
world‘s land area, are extremely vulnerable to overexploitation and
inappropriate land use. Desertification is the degradation of land in arid,
semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas; it is caused primarily by human activities
and climatic variations, and affects the world's poorest.
The decisions we make every day on what to buy, eat, drink, wear and how to travel – all have an impact on land resources. Having schools that provide natural areas for their children will benefit their learning process, parents will feel calm knowing their kids are in a safe environment learning the importance of caring about the nature and its resources.
Docente Steiner
Lcda. Narcisa Auria
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