Climate Balloons

Sara Farid, from Development and Peace, joined the Green Team at Archbishop O'Leary High School to rise awareness about the effects of climate change around the world. Through this participatory activity called Climate Balloons, O'Leary students analyzed the local human causes of climate change and its negative global impacts. They also had the chance to proposed individual and community initiatives to reduce these impacts. They also learned the connections between climate change and humanitarian crisis like the one millions of people are living nowadays in Syrian and this region.

Project number: 
31
School/Organization/Group: 
Archbishop O'Leary High School
City: 
Edmonton
Province: 
Alberta
Archbishop O'Leary High School

Funders and Sponsors

  • RBC Foundation
  • The Calgary Foundation
  • Kamp Kiwanis
  • Cenovus Energy
  • Alliance Pipeline
  • TD Friends of the Enivornment Foundation
  • Rife Resources Ltd