AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
waste management, environment friendly, schools
COUNTRY
Mexico
DESIGNED BY
MARIO BRINGAS
WEBSITE
https://cleanenergychallenge.whatdesigncando.com/projects/escuela-promesa-sustainable-school-online-certificate/
ESCUELA PROMESA
The power to make a systemic change in waste management and clean energy use.
Grupo Promesa, runs a program called “Escuela Promesa” since 2010. This sustainable and auto-financiable program aims to create a true environmental culture within schools. Nowadays, Escuela Promesa works in 200 schools and universities. In exchange for their properly separated waste, they provide an environmental education program, economic and educational incentives. With the aid of Waste Cero, they are able to collect waste from schools and deliver it to waste managers. Schools not only act as social centers, but also as waste collection centers. Our objective is to broaden the scope of Escuela Promesa by creating an online voluntary Certificate. This will show that the school complies with best environmental practices and engages in a virtuous “blue economy” circle. Through these actions we aim to forge an alliance between the Federal Electric Commission (CFE) and the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), thus providing even more incentives for Certification.