Lessons for life:

Mick teaches pupils on the impact of carbon emissions

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Mick has visited Trefnanney School to discuss the impact of carbon emissions and what steps the school could take to redress the balance.

During the session children talked about what activities in the school day generate the global warming gas carbon dioxide.  It concluded that trees soak up carbon dioxide.  The children aim to calculate the carbon they produce through going to school and plant trees to offset the carbon.

Mick commented that "Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is a useful tool, but ultimately we all need to use less and take better care of the world resources.  I am not aware of any other school taking action to look at their own emissions and planting trees to offset them, so I am really thrilled that they have decided to do it at Trefnanney.  It will be fantastic for them to be the first school to do this - the first of many I hope!"