Students are now taking a healthy change for the benefit of the planet. By  reducing our carbon footprints and taking a bite out of climate change, we're starting with our lunches. Take the Tread Lightly LOW Carbon Lunch Challenge! Eat Local, Organic and Waste-free and challenge your friends and peers to do the same. Anyone is welcome to join this challenge. You don't need to be a TIG member to participate; however, TIG members will receive a profile badge at the end of the challenge!

Here's how to participate:

Ways to participate:

1. COMMIT to taking the LOW Carbon Lunch Challenge.

2. CHALLENGE your friends and peers to join you in eating LOW - Local, Organic and Waste-free! Send them an e-card to invite them to pledge their commitment.

3. PLAN a LOW Carbon Lunch event a way to encourage others to eat more sustainably. Organize a luncheon, farmers market, or food swap. Or come up with your own ways to eat low carbon. 

4. PROMOTE your event using the TIG resources. Add your LOW Carbon Lunch event to the TIG events database.

5. DOCUMENT your lunch event on the LOW Carbon Lunch group blog. 

6. TEACH secondary students about the importance of reducing food footprints of using the Tread Lightly Low Carbon Lunch lesson plan.

The Low Carbon Lunch is a part of the Tread Lightly climate change education initiative created by TIG, with the generous support of the Staples Foundation for Learning. For more information on the Low Carbon Lunch, visit: http://co2lunch.tigweb.org

Tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day as The Centre for Global Education and TakingITGlobal are hosting an International Student Video Conference pertaining to the topic of Climate change. It is going to be a live video conference, involving the interaction of many students from different schools around the world through the basis of Information techonology. The conference will be held on December 8th, from 7-8:30 MT/ 9-10:30 ET and from 9-10:30 MT/11-12:30 ET. 

The live event will feature Liam O'Doherty, a community organizer whose work integrates across global challenges with creativity and fun. He assures a link between the online world between different areas on the globe to connect and talk about social movements for positive change. 

As a student, this event will be a great learning experience, in terms of both IT perspective, and in a social view. This will be my first time participiating in a Global UN live conference, and i will have a chance to interact with other students from around the world, sharing similar thoughts, towards a positive change.  

Looking forward to it!