About the project
Get Creative and Cool it! Calling all schools to join our global project for young people who want to do something positive about climate change and the environment. By working as a team we can help stop polar ice caps melting, prevent rainforests being destroyed, plants vanishing, animals becoming extinct and much more besides. This is your chance to show families, friends, governments and religious leaders just what you feel about the environment through the biggest display of ideas and imagination by young people ever seen on earth.
What can you do?
Get together to explore climate change and the environment through art, science, creative writing, film, music, drama and technology.
Build a global display
Document and upload the results into your very own Cool it Schools Showcase. From sketches to finished works you can edit your entries anytime. Don’t forget you need to ask your teachers to Join in
International year of Biodiversity
2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) by the United Nations.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services.
Humans are a part of biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. Currently, our activities are destroying biodiversity at alarming rates. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely on.
But schools can help! One great way to save species is by joining the Concrete Jungle, a national schools campaign to create the country's biggest wildlife garden.
If you have space at school to make a garden for wildlife - don't forget a window box is a haven for insects too - then the Concrete Jungle project is for you, and together we will create 300,000 sq meters of beautiful habitat for wildlife to flourish. Check out the Jungle-o-meter to see how we are doing and ask your teachers to get involved. We need frogs and butterflies in the playground, birds nesting in the trees, bees on the roof and beetles in the woodpile!
If you are an international school we would love to see your wildlife gardens too, but the teacher's pack is specific to the UK - global wildlife has very different requirements so your teachers will have to make sure you don't attract too many crocodiles.
Don't forget to encourage your families to garden for wildlife too.
Cool it Schools is part of the company Cool it World Ltd. Cool it World is a not for profit social enterprise company that aims to make the world a better place for everyone.
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The people behind it
Jane Langley is a painter. She is a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of The Royal College of Art, she has taught in higher education for 20 years, establishing the Pattern Lab in 2000, with artists Jennifer Wright and Kathleen Mullaniff, to explore fine art, textiles and pattern. She had the idea for Cool it Schools after hearing Thomas L Friedman, author of 'Hot, Flat and Crowded' give a talk on Global Warming. Jane has a daughter and lives in London. You can see Jane's paintings at www.janelangley.com.
Nick Evans is a graphic designer and a programmer. After a BA at Brighton University Nick went on to the Royal College of Art do his Masters. He lives in London. You can find out more about him and his work at his website.