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Around the World

Updates from Roots & Shoots projects around the world

Julia Migne’s Roots & Shoots video

Julia Migné is a conservationist and multimedia journalist. She is interested in reporting environmental issues and recently worked on a project looking at how involving local communities can affect the success of conservation projects in East Africa. She created this lovely Roots & Shoots video to highlight the inspiring work of some of the groups […]

Xeriscaping

As well as being a great word (first coined in Denver, Colorado), xeriscaping is also a great idea. It is a set of principles to help landscape and plant gardens in such a way as to use as little water as possible. It’s already a popular practice in much of the western United States and we think it’s something that could benefit from greater exposure in the UK as well.

Green School, Bali

Green School, Bali’s Grade 1 collected used unwanted items for donation to the Smile Shop in Ubud. The Smile Shop is a second hand shop (think “thrift store”) located in Ubud that sells used clothes, books, toys, household goods (including plates, towels, lamps-almost anything) in order to help pay for operations for people born with […]

Green School from Bali’s amazing initiative

Grade 1 held a collection drive last week to support the Smile Shop in Ubud, Bali. The Smile Shop is a second hand store that uses all proceeds to help people with craniofacial disabilities, such as cleft lip or cleft palate, to receive life-changing operations. As part of schools’ studies about empathy, the first graders made […]