News from Roots & Shoots Mission Control

Our young members from Queen Elizabeth have scooped one of the nations most prestigious prizes , The Observer Green Champions Award,  at a star studded event in London.

They win £6000 for their school and an exciting weekend away for their teacher.

Photo credit Anna Gordon

Please click here for more details

www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/16/observer-ethical-awards-grow-clothes

Three students have won a scholarship to the world-renowned Green School in Bali

June 5, 2013–(Bali, Indonesia)–Three students have been chosen as the “Greenest Student on Earth” based on their video entries in the Greenest Student on Earth Scholarship Competition. Three winners of the competition, one each from primary, middle, and high school, have won a full scholarship for one year of study at the renowned Green School—an international school whose mission is to inspire students to be creative, innovative green leaders.

• Kashius Ford, entering Grade 5 from New Mexico, USA, is an avid conservationist who lives in an eco-village with renewable energy and organic farming and discovered a new species of mushroom that is named after him.

• Liva Adelstorp, entering Grade 6 …

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Dear Roots & Shoots member,

Get your pupils Planting and Growing this spring with these easy to use, space saving and affordable products – and help support Roots & Shoots!

The Propagro Propagator – simple to use for seeds and cuttings, flat packs when not in use, long lasting and uses any 10cm garden pot.  Pack of 3 Propagro Propagators £5 (RRP £8)

The Grow Bag Frame – because it makes the grow bag moveable you can grow plants almost anywhere with no mess or fuss and it even flat packs for storage.  Schools Offer price of £12 per frame (RRP £19.95)

Both products are made in the UK from recycled galvanised steel.

Roots & Shoots will receive 25% of the proceeds.

For more information go …

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Dear Roots & Shoots member,

Get your pupils Planting and Growing this spring with these easy to use, space saving and affordable products – and help support Roots & Shoots!

The Propagro Propagator – simple to use for seeds and cuttings, flat packs when not in use, long lasting and uses any 10cm garden pot.  Pack of 3 Propagro Propagators £5 (RRP £8)

The Grow Bag Frame – because it makes the grow bag moveable you can grow plants almost anywhere with no mess or fuss and it even flat packs for storage.  Schools Offer price of £12 per frame (RRP £19.95)

Both products are made in the UK from recycled galvanised steel.

Roots & Shoots will receive 25% of the proceeds.

For more information go …

Read all of Plant, Grow and Save with Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots

The crees foundation is incredibly delighted to announce that Reynaldo – Rainforest Hero has won the UN Forest Short Film Festival Award!

Reynaldo Ochoa is an inspiration to the people of Manu in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. For the past 20 years he has dedicated his life to finding new ways of living in balance with his environment. By encouraging farmers to plant trees with their crops and enabling families to grow fresh organic produce he is helping to forge a sustainable future for the region, both protecting the environment and allowing local people to flourish.

Watch his incredible and inspiring story in the video below.

Enjoy!

the Roots & Shoots Team

Lecture by Dr Jane Goodall, DBE at National Geographic Store in Madrid, Spain

To watch the video please click here

Enjoy!

the Roots & Shoots Team

Visit the famous Gombe chimpanzees and enjoy a private group meeting with Dr Jane Goodall.

The prize, in brief, is one place on an exclusive chimpanzee safari run by Steppes Discovery (safari dates are 24-29 July 2013), to include a private group meeting in Gombe with Jane Goodall. Full details of the prize will be on the auction page.

International flights to/from Tanzania are not included in the prize, but local travel within Tanzania is included. The starting bid is £2,500. The money given by the winning bidder will be used to support the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tanzanian programmes.

Not only a wonderful chimpanzee tour and the meeting with Jane in Gombe, …

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On Saturday 23 March 2013 at 8:30pm, millions of people across the globe will be switching off non-essential lights in business premises and in homes for one hour – Earth Hour. From a single-city initiative in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has since become a global phenomenon that saw participation from 153 countries across every continent in 2012, becoming the world’s largest voluntary action for the environment. Some of the world’s iconic buildings and monuments stood in darkness as a powerful symbol of this landmark environmental action.
We invite you to join us in what promises to be an amazing and inspiring global celebration of our collective commitment to the planet.??Switching off lights for the hour is just the beginning.

You …

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By now hundreds of men, women and children have already danced, shouted and joined in some form of event to mark One Billion Rising, a mass day of action to end violence against women.

Take a look at many community members from Mweka and Roots & Shoots students supporting the cause

And enjoy and be inspired by the beautiful speech ‘How Special We Are’ that the R&S students from Kibosho Girls Secondary School, Tanzania wrote

‘How Special We Are’

A special day in a week can say a lot about that moment in the year that comes only once per season.

Valentine’s day is one among the special days to people; it gives people the opportunity to share, love, …

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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots programme brings you an exciting new partnership opportunity with the Observer Ethical Awards.

The awards, in association with Ecover is calling on teachers, parents or youth group leaders to encourage their Young Green Champions to come forward with their world-saving ideas so they can help to make them happen with £6000* funding from Ecover.
         
Ecover Young Green Champions Award is open to classmates, youth groups, friends and individuals all under the age of 18 with ideas so good they’ll make everyone around them leap …

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