Caerphilly Council is launching a Welsh language version of its Green Grin-o-meter, a web based sustainability index for children and young adults.
Children answer a series of eleven questions looking at their life and feelings to calculate their score on the Green Grin o meter. Their score is made up of three parts, health, happiness and ecological footprint.
Depending on their score they then receive top tips on how to improve their score and live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Caerphilly CBC worked with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) and Torfaen and Carmarthenshire County Borough Councils to secure funding to develop the Green Grin o meter, to help raise awareness and understanding of sustainable development and global citizenship to children throughout Wales.
Both primary and secondary schools in the Caerphilly area have used the Green Grin- o-meter. Comments from teachers and headteachers included:
"It is a fantastic resource to allow the children to calculate how sustainable they are"
“It's a great resource that the children can re-visit once they put some of the suggestions into practice to see how much of a difference they can make".
Once local primary school also commented that
"it is a fantastic resource suitable for a variety of age groups".
The Green Grin o meter was developed by the New Economics Foundation and Homemade Digital. The work was carried out as a bespoke project under the WLGA’s (Welsh Local Government Association) Sustainable development framework for local authorities.
To access the Green Grin o meter in Welsh from January 2012, visit
http://cymraeg-greengrin.clients.homemadedigital.com
The English version is at http://www.greengrin.co.uk/
The Green Grin-o-meter has been developed in consultation with primary school children from Markham Primary School in Caerphilly, Llanyrafon Primary School in Torfaen and Saron Primary School in Carmarthenshire.
For more information about the Green Grin-o-meter please contact Tracy Evans, Education for Sustainable Development Officer at
evansta@caerphilly.gov.uk