 greening social skateboarding greening social skateboarding lewisshields wed 7152020 1226 wed 7152020 1200 posted by the goodpush team we ve been taking some time to reflect on ways in which we as a social skateboarding community can be more environmentally friendly this can be a really challenging topic but it s necessary that we talk about it social skate environment skateboarding the covid19 crisis has had a significant impact on the world and thrown so much of what we re used to into flux for many of us we re unable to continue with our usual activities at least in the same way we used to do them this has prompted a lot of conversation about exactly what kind of norma l we want to return to at skateistan we ve been taking some time to reflect on ways in which we as a social skateboarding community can be more environmentally friendly  this can be a really challenging topic since so many projects are running on limited budgets and it may not seem like the first thing we want to consider but it s a crucial topic and necessary that we talk about it we feel that it s important to be introducing ideas about the environment to our sessions with young people if each generation has a greater understanding of environmental issues we will see more and more positive change and sustainable lifestyles in the future we wanted to share some of skateistan s lesson plans here which could be adapted and incorporated into your own sessions  global impact lesson plan   students explore the ways in which local actions can have an impact on the world they then create a book which identifies their place in the world recycling and gardening lesson plan  students learn about recycling and understand how it relates to the environment through a series of fun activities water purification lesson plan  in this lesson students will learn how to make a water purification filter they will also learn about the importance of clean water and how this relates to some environmental issues it s also important that we are talking about how our projects operations can be more green we don t have the answers here but would love to be a part of the conversation some things which would be good to discuss are is there a more ecofriendly way to run international volunteer schemes that minimizes flights can gear donations be arranged with a lower carbon footprint are there nifty ways of recycling and reusing old skateboarding parts which we haven t thought about we d love to hear from goodpushers on this topic if you have any ideas about this or any suggestions then please feel free to contribute to this forum topic   