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Municipality of Reggio Emilia
Collecting Green Miles Lets go to Kyoto,
lets get the Protocol and bring it back to our
town!

Sevilla 2007 Taking the Commitments to the
Streets Fifth European Conference on Sustainable
Cities and Towns Sevilla, Spain, March 22, 2007
Pinuccia Montanari Deputy Mayor of Environmental
and Sustainable City Municipality of Reggio
Emilia
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The project
An initiative that involves primary school
children of four EmiliaRomagna towns in an
imaginary travel-game, going to school in a
sustainable way
4 EmiliaRomagna towns -Reggio
Emilia -Modena -Piacenza -Ferrara
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Objective and actions

• Playing rules children gain a green mile every
  time they go and come back from school in an
  eco-friendly way
• Actions
• every child sticks coloured stamps on a special
  album showing the means of transport used on the
  route home-school-home, in order to assess his or
  her personal commitment
• each class prepares a poster with the indication
  of the green miles achieved to measure the
  collective effort
• Objective educate children, starting from an
  early age, and their families, to sustainable
  mobility, that is to cover at least 20.570 miles,
  the distance between Reggio Emilia and Kyoto and
  return

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Childrens album
1 green mile every time they go and come back
from school in an eco-friendly way by bicycle on
foot public transport car-sharing
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By bicycle
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The story

• since 2003
• on the occasion European week of Sustainable
  Mobility and the international week Walk to
  School
• in cooperation with the EmiliaRomagna Region and
  Climate alliance Italy
• format Zoom Kids on the move

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Final party

• All participating schools are gathered together
  in a final party to celebrate the results obtained

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The prizes

• Schools who achieve better results, that is
  collect the higher number of green miles, are
  given prizes like excursions on bicycle

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Results of 2005 edition
Reggio Emilia

• 4 towns
• 8.173 children
• 54 schools
• 171.224 Green Miles collected, equal to the world
  tour 6 times!
• 70 saved tons of CO2

Kyoto
70 tonnellate di CO2
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Collecting Green Miles
The best way to bring the Kyoto Protocol back to
our town, in our classroom and inside our
family,through little daily actions based on
important targets! Going to school in a
sustainable way transforms an imaginary
travel-game in good practices that need to be
repeated every day!