Green Course Campaigns: Greening the Campus  back to campaigns overview

Greening Campuses Across Israel

As a student based, grassroots organization Green Course's mission is to educate the future leadership of Israel, instilling in them an awareness of environmental concern.

By the empowerment and training of volunteers in campuses throughout the country, we equip the student population and expand their educational perspectives. In developing a consciousness regarding their surrounding environment and communities, we seek to amplify their overall notion of “community” and consequently their commitment to it.

During the last few years Green Course has developed substantially, both in terms of numbers of volunteers and in the number of chapters across Israel. Green Course has now established recognized chapters in all of the leading academic institutions across Israel, including: Tel Hai College, The Western Galilee College, The Technion, Haifa University,Tel-Aviv University, the Kibbuzim College of Education (new), Bar Ilan University, Weizman Institute, The Hebrew University: Mount Scopus (Jerusalem), and Givat Ram (Jerusalem), Haddassah College, Ben Gurion University, and The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

Greening the Campus Includes:
Green Days: 20 events held aiming at greening the campuses and broadening awareness for environmental issues.

A national contest for the greenest campus.

National & local media coverage.

Campus projects that currently include cooperative organic farming and compost; promoting the extent of campus recycling of paper, batteries, bottles and cans; working to form a nationwide solar cooperative in order to purchase solar panels more cheaply and obtain economic returns more quickly; bringing environmentally-flavored lectures to campus; diving and seafloor clean-up in Eilat; late night bus-rides for students from Tel-Aviv University to the port area in Tel Aviv; creating online "Green Maps" of environmentally-friendly resources; ecological surveys, petitioning and demonstration; and viewings of environmental films.

This new website has been made possible through the generous support of The First Narayever Congregation - Toronto.