Green Course is Israel's largest environmental volunteer organization, with over 6,000 student volunteers in 23 chapters on campuses across Israel. Through Green Course, students are active in education and media projects to raise public awareness to environmental issues. Projects include work with schools and youth groups as well as work with students on issues such as greening the campus.
Leadership Training. Promoting the Next Generation of Environmental Leadership With fellows participating from 26 campuses across Israel, the Environmental Leadership Training Program is already having a tremendous impact on Israel's environment. Some of the achievements so far include managing hundreds of environmental projects across Israel, raising awareness and running campaigns for clean air, promoting solutions to the water crisis and to public transportation.
Solid Waste. Every year, approximately 5 million tons of waste is created in Israel alone. When compared to the population growth – the Israeli population grows by 2% annually while the amount of refuse grows by 5% annually. As the country's land dumps can no longer accommodate our growing needs and amounts of waste generation, new measures are necessary.
Clean Air. For years, factories in Haifa’s port have been polluting the air, raising cancer and cardiac ailments levels 23% above the nationwide average. Green Course's campaign for clean air in Haifa’s industrial port area emerges as major project.
Water. The "Red Line" below which pumping water is harmful to the lake is -213M, the “Black Line”, pumping below which causes irreversible damage is -215M. This means that Israel today is below the danger line and approaching the point of no return.
Transportation has a central role in the world we live in with an average 12% of our income being spent on it. Did you know that in the 90s alone the amount of cars in Israel doubled and that since 2000, every year 45,000 vehicles were added to the roads of Israel??
Greening the Campus. Established by Green Course in 2005, the Greening Campuses Project was endorsed by the Ministry of Environment in 2007 with the goal of encouraging academic institutions to adopt environment-friendly management policies.
On Tuesday, representatives from Green Course and other environmental organizations, including Green Movement, Meretz and Associations for Environmental Justice, came out to protest the Prime Ministers new planning and building reform.
