The Fourth Form stu­dents of the Bish­op Anstey High School (BAHS) are set on im­prov­ing the en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy of the school, an over­all re­duc­tion of car­bon foot­print and in­creas­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal aware­ness among the school pop­u­la­tion, as their RBC Young Lead­ers Cli­mate Change: Glob­al Phe­nom­e­non, Com­mu­ni­ty So­lu­tions project. In a re­lease, the stu­dents said the ini­tia­tive, en­ti­tled, The So­lu­tion-Giv­ing Back Starts at Home (Help Our Moth­er Earth), would in­clude in­tro­duc­ing a plas­tic re­cov­ery bin at the school, in­creas­ing the aware­ness of en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly sound prac­tices through­out the stu­dent pop­u­la­tion, sus­tain­ably in­creas­ing the host­ing of out­door class­es, re-in­tro­duc­ing the elec­tric drink­ing-wa­ter foun­tains as an al­ter­na­tive to plas­tic-bot­tled-wa­ter so­lu­tions and in­tro­duc­ing the use of so­lar pan­els as a source of elec­tric­i­ty in the school's hall/mu­sic room.

In or­der to ac­com­plish their goals the stu­dents have de­cid­ed on cre­ative and in­no­v­a­tive ways of meet­ing the ob­jec­tives. One of the first aware­ness plan was a mur­al com­pe­ti­tion. Stu­dents were re­quired to cre­ate a paint­ing us­ing the theme cli­mate change. The win­ner of the com­pe­ti­tion had their work dis­played on one of the school walls and al­so re­ceived a ham­per with art sup­plies.

The aware­ness cam­paign fol­lowed with the show­ing of videos of cli­mate change and glob­al warm­ing. To re­search the in­stal­la­tion of so­lar pan­els, stu­dents were in­vit­ed to two homes in Mara­cas which utilised so­lar en­er­gy as a source of elec­tric­i­ty. The en­gi­neer re­spon­si­ble for the in­stal­la­tion on and main­te­nance of the pan­els gave ex­plana­to­ry walk-throughs, to il­lus­trate how it worked and gave them an idea of what the project would cost. On March 25, the team host­ed a fund-rais­ing fash­ion show, which was di­vid­ed in­to sec­tions us­ing rel­e­vant cli­mate change themes: Na­tion­al Pride; Melt­ing Ice­caps; Famine & Drought; and Oil Spills. The pro­ceeds will go to­ward fund­ing the project.