Sustainability@ISB

This symposium emphasized empowering students and schools with practical skills to address climate change effectively. It underscored the importance of collective effort in tackling environmental challenges and highlighted the potential for transformative change through individual and collective action. Read more about our Grade 7 students experience at the Environmental Symposium 2024.

In winter 2022, our school implemented energy-saving measures, such as lowering the heat temperature and turning off electrical equipment when not needed. Looking back to our consumption data, we are thrilled to realise how much progress we have made.

Our Grade 7 and 8 students are actively collaborating with their peers in the Reinach Primarschule on a weekly clean up initiative called the Abfall Challenge. Both groups of students take turns each week to clean up their shared Fiechten Campus.

Our Grade 8 student Alannah presented her Tram Buddy project to our Grade 5 students. Her idea comes from her passion to take action against climate change and help the ISB Community to reduce their carbon footprint by setting up a Tram Buddy System so that more children can take the tram instead of being driven to school by car.

ISB students attending the 6th Youth Forum Switzerland enjoyed a day filled with inspirational guests and young adults inspiring and educating students from schools in Switzerland and beyond, about topics relating to sustainability and global issues. 

The Swiss Government is urging citizens to save energy in preparation for foreseen shortages this winter. At ISB, we feel well prepared to respond to this call, not only to reduce our costs, but also to change our behaviours.