RUSSIA
School project for application of resources and energy
Russia's largest educational project for schoolchildren and teachers on climate change, clean energy and the environment, on simple measures of energy conservation, energy efficiency and saving of resources
In June 2021, members of the SPARE in the Central Federal District compiled a collection of materials "Energy efficiency and heating of buildings of various types of the P. A. Sokolov Estate". The brochure offers recommendations for energy-efficient heating and lighting of a goose house, a wooden house, a stone manor house, and an old park. More than 50 pages of the brochure includes several projects of the SPARE of schoolchildren in this region. The materials were used during the summer volunteer school camps of more than 350 schoolchildren in the summer of 2021.
On June 15, 2021, students attending the summer recreation camps of 11 schools in the Tver, Bryansk, Kaluga, and Yaroslavl regions engaged in bright, creative, educational activities offered by the SPARE program to celebrate World Wind Day. More than 250 schoolchildren aged 9 to 14 years learned new facts about wind energy and participated in business games. They also calculated the strength and direction of the wind in their regions, became acquainted with "wind roses,” and learned about uses of wind that are possible at the household level.
A Moscow schoolgirl calculated the cost savings of replacing incandescent lamps with energy-saving and LED lamps for lighting the garden association "Mayak-1" of the Pushkinsky district of the Moscow region. Statistical data for the years 2005–2019 were used in the research. The work was carried out in close cooperation with the administration of the dacha village. Calculations showed a 4.2-fold reduction in electricity costs in the dacha village, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by 2531.6 m3. In the spring of 2021, the research materials were transferred to the board of the "Mayak-1" of the Moscow region.
The winner of one of the nominations of the All-Russian SPARE competition “Energy and Environment” became young resident of Yekaterinburg Maria Rostovskaya with project "Waste minus CO2". According to the schoolgirl's calculations, during the three months of her experiment, her family "saved" 37 kg of waste, equivalent to more than 300 kg of carbon dioxide, from falling into the garbage.
Although the restrictions related to the pandemic have not yet been fully lifted, the Urals participants in the SPARE project continue to carry out environmental activities. The Green Watch movement has opened the KvARTal eco-class in Severouralsk (Ural region). The topic of the first lesson was related to waste. Serious talk about waste, its classification and waste disposal methods was interspersed with games and creative tasks.
In the first week of June 2021, more than 20 school summer camps took part in the events of the "I Save Energy and Resources" campaign. More than 400 urban and rural schoolchildren aged 6-12 sorted garbage and created crafts from recycled materials and waste materials, saved energy and water, and did not use disposable dishes and plastic bags.