Clean Air Campaign
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.
Efforts have aided in raising public awareness of the issue and helped raise forceful demands to the municipality. Green Course both monitors the activity of the local municipality and has begun working with the Ministry of Environmental Protection in urging it to tighten regulation and is helping prepare for the upcoming Clean Air legislation to become effective in 2011.
- Green Course student volunteers sit in on hearings of the Ministry of the Environment and hold meetings with local residents to promote issues of clean air (e.g. legislation, enforecement)
- Green Course organized a public activity in conjunction with the Tivon school’s 6th graders.
- Green Course intends to keep the pressure high on the polluting companies for the benefit of the Haifa area residents and the environment as a whole.
