The DARK-GREEN SCHOOLS PROGRAM

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the
DARK-GREEN
schools
PROGRAM
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• Rizal would have led the revolution in
  ENVIRONMENTAL PARADIGM

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• Out of the mouth of babes, the
• ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

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The objective of the Dark-Green Schools program

• that students graduating from Philippine schools
  have the knowledge skills and motivation to work
  for the integrity of our countrys environment,
  for the whole of Gods creation, for their own
  sake and for the sake of generations to come.

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What is a Dark-Green School (DGS)?

• A DGS is a school
• that delivers Environmental Education through
  assimilation of the environmental philosophy by
  the students day in and day out in formal lessons
  as well as from activities outside the classroom.
• is clean and neat. There is evidence of good
  management and housekeeping.

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• Calls for green spaces, appropriate land use
  planning, conservation, of materials and energy,
  proper waste management, segregation, use of
  appropriate materials and avoidance of harmful
  ones and respect others right to smoke-free air.
• Calls for management policies and guidelines that
  would effect a healthful and ecological campus.

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• Has a well-planned environmental Curriculum for
  all levels with adequately oriented and trained
  faculty as well as administrative, library and
  financial support.
• Faculty and students are aware of and appreciate
  the environmental program of the school.

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• Reaches out to its outside community to spread
  concern for the Mother Earth and facilitate
  projects that improve the environment
• Engages in research that add knowledge in the
  ways of Nature and the impact on her from human
  activities.

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The DGS Program

• Seeks to ensure deep commitment to the
  actualization of Environmental Education goals
  through
• Standardization and Accreditation

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• It will standardize expectations for different
  LEVEL OF GREENNESS.

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• School Environmental Assessment Program
• It has 2 components self-assessment and school
  visitation.

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• Environmental Education is
• INTEGRATED,
• SYNTHETIC,
• WHOLISTIC.

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• ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION involves the entire
  curriculum
• Natural sciences, social sciences, humanities,
  professional courses
• Campus practices
• Implemented and supported by entire school
  community.

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• The SCHOOL is the
• SURROGATE PARENT.

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• NOTICE ON COMFORT ROOM DOORS
• To PREVENT POLLUTION
• MINIMIZE GLOBAL WARMING
• PLEASE DO NOT
• TURN ON THE LIGHTS
• when there is
• enough DAYLIGHT

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SCHOOLS are CRADLES
OF VALUE FORMATION
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Let us leave to our CHILDREN a WORLD as
BEAUTIFUL as that the LORD gave US and the
EDUCATION to keep it so.