Students eye an ideal world

Fifteen class representatives from Year 10 students explored the issues and how they might be tackled.

Keith Ellis, Andrea Mindel and John Webber facilitated the process, which started with a film presentation of a few scenes from Al Gore's, An Inconvenient Truth.

Students were then shown the Transition Town Lewes film, a short film of interviews with Lewesians speaking about the things we do in our modern lives that contribute to climate change.

The students particularly enjoyed the song at the end of the film which identifies all those products we use in our every day lives that are made of oil.

Students created a 'mind-map' of the issues, and were given the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings, and to put forward their visions of an ideal world.

As a group they concluded that locally produced food, increased energy efficiency and using renewable energy sources were the most important, immediate steps they could take to address change in their own spheres.

Transition Town Lewes will continue working with this group of student representatives next term, to continue this visioning process with them and to help them in their stated quest of finding 'interesting' ways of helping.