Take Action – Decision-making, Action Planning and Design

This part of the Action Learning Cycle guides participants to collectively evaluate their ideas for environmental change, make design decisions and plan action. Whether conserving something precious, changing something that isn’t working for your Enviroschools Vision, or creating something new, the emphasis is on young people working together towards common environmental goals.

Once you have identified your Current Situation (Me in My Environment) and Explored Alternatives, you can use the Take Action questions and tools to help you plan projects that will move you towards your Vision.

Alternatively use these tools after you have explored an Enviroschools Theme Area in more detail using the Living Landscapes, Water of Life, Ecological Building, Zero Waste or Energy! resources.

Return to the Take Action section of your Enviroschools Kit whenever you need tools to help plan, design and scope out actions.

Outcomes

A sound plan of action that aligns to our Whole Enviroschool Vision and reflects the principles of sustainable design.
A clear sense of who we need to involve in our project and how we can make it work for everyone.

Key Questions

What actions will bring about the changes that we want?
- Purpose: to ensure that our planned actions will take us in the right direction and bring about the qualities and features identified in our whole school vision.
Which designs will work best?
- Purpose: To ensure we consider people and nature when thinking through our designs.
What do we need to take action?
- Purpose: To think through what may be required and make sure that our action plans carried out, by clarifying tasks and, resources and timelines.
Who else do we need to involve?
- Purpose: To consider others we want to include and spend so time planning how we want to work with them.