Climate Quilt Campaign is unveiled in Manhattan school
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Balthaser in Barbara Raab, Beats, Classes, General
Kids pledge to do the darndest things. Like save the environment.
This fall, thousands of students around the world will participate in designing patches for the Climate Quilt, a global project that encourages kids to help prevent global warming.
The children, hailing from countries such as Australia, Russia, Honduras and the United States, will make pledges to help the environment and then design a quilt patch using recycled fabrics. The patches will then be incorporated into one enormous Climate Quilt which will be showcased around the world, and finally presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
Elementary school kids at PS 3 in the West Village will be the first students to design patches for the quilt in New York. They were very excited to be part of the project, which was inspiring some adults as well. Check out the audio clips below to hear some of the pledges that people involved in the quilt were making!
A quilt panel made by a child in Australia, where the project began
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Peg Watson, the director of the Green Schools Alliance, gets the kids excited about the climate quilt.
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Shino Takinawa, the project coordinator for the Climate Quilt Project, talks about her pledges.
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One of the first students in America to complete a quilt panel describes her pledge.
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Jade Lowe, the daughter of the founder of the Climate Quilt Project, describes what she has pledged to do, and why we need to save the environment.
Fran
18. Dec, 2009
What a lovely story
Betty
08. Jun, 2010
This is a wonderful idea — it’s great to see the children involved in such a much needed project as well as being part of a historical event.