A black and white panda joined forces with our ladybird earlier this year, as the World Wildlife Fund announced their official partnership with Pestalozzi in their ONE PLANET LIVING magazine.
The publication, which reaches 5 million people worldwide, ran an article by 2nd Year Pestalozzi student Suniti Thapa, while a stunning photo of HH the Dalai Lama, taken by her classmate Tashi Dhondup from Tibet, dominated the front page. To read the full article click on the following link: OPL Summer Newsletter
Pestalozzi has a long-standing relationship with WWF-UK, and its Education and Social Action department.
Pestalozzi, BioRegional and WWF International are working together in partnership on the redevelopment of Pestalozzi for it to become internationally recognised as a ‘One Planet Living’ development. One Planet Living is a global initiative based on 10 principles of sustainability developed by BioRegional and WWF International. Its aim is to promote a world where people everywhere can lead happy, healthy lives within their fair share of the Earth’s resources. The initiative is working with a small number of partners on every continent to demonstrate One Planet Living in action to governments, businesses, and civil society.
In addition to this, Pestalozzi students are working with WWF International’s Business & Industry Relations unit as ‘youth ambassadors’, to promote the views of the world’s poor to global government and business leaders. This is in association with IUCN, the World Conservation Union.
Eduardo Goncalves, International Communications Coordinator for WWF International’s One Planet Living Programme says “What we’re hoping to do here at the Pestalozzi site is something quite unique – a place where we can bring people to see sustainability in action. If you really want people to change their life styles, business to do things in a different way and governments to legislate differently, they really need to see and understand for themselves what it is you’re talking about. It’s so exciting to be able to do this with a partner like Pestalozzi.
Pestalozzi is an inspirational organisation; it’s doing a really important job in helping to create a more sustainable future for the global community. To link it in with the One Planet Living programme makes absolute perfect sense for an organisation like WWF”.
The Pestalozzi Village will be a model of best practice for all that visit as well as being fully equipped to teach our students how to adopt methods of sustainable living to take back to their home communities.
