Head out of the Sand
Your clothing donation helps to fund the programs at RVASVG like Climate Compliance.
- It has Climate Change as its theme.
- It has Climate Compliance, a concept of adaptation to changes of the climate, as its aim.
- It has Richmond Vale Academy as its minor area of action.
- It has the immediate surroundings of the Academy as its major area.
- It has the whole of St. Vincent as its prime area.
- It is planned to run for ten years.
- It operates with two teams of students per year, each running for 6 months.
By forming GAIA clubs around the island, by focusing on important issues such as food security and energy production and water availability, and by preparing for warmer times with more disasters, teachers, students and people at St. Vincent will unite in common understanding and action. The future is also a part of the program. It shows as a field of possibilities because we move to understand by knowledge, come together by understanding and act by our unity.
"Global Warming and Climate Change is running its course, with catastrophic consequences for the future of humankind and our planet, triggered by man’s burning of fossil fuels and the resulting release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
Natural resources are being exploited and stretched to their limits, species are disappearing at a rate never before seen in modern history, hunger, starvation and diseases strike down The Poor as a daily matter of course, and the powers waging never-ending wars kill people with ever more sophisticated weaponry, while millions are made refugees.
Meanwhile, the capitalist system of society continues to promote its way of life and its view of the world as seen through the global media, as if everything, if not in the best order, is as good as it can possibly get. We cannot sit around and watch this. From our vantage point on the island of St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean, we have placed ourselves in the middle of action."
Natural resources are being exploited and stretched to their limits, species are disappearing at a rate never before seen in modern history, hunger, starvation and diseases strike down The Poor as a daily matter of course, and the powers waging never-ending wars kill people with ever more sophisticated weaponry, while millions are made refugees.
Meanwhile, the capitalist system of society continues to promote its way of life and its view of the world as seen through the global media, as if everything, if not in the best order, is as good as it can possibly get. We cannot sit around and watch this. From our vantage point on the island of St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean, we have placed ourselves in the middle of action."
Stina Herberg - Headmaster
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