Call for volunteers now open!
Jul 20th
The Green Initiative is looking for a new group of vibrant young volunteers to work with the project. We offer minimal hours, flexible time, and references, as well as keeping you up to date with the international summits organised by our sponsors, Global Changemakers. You’ll be expected to help organise and market our events, share More >
Earth Week Celebrated at Summer Camp
Jul 20th
Earth week celebrated at Summer Camp A week of exciting events organised by The Green Initiative took place t the British School of Kuwait’s s ummer camp this past week. The environmentally friendly events happened in celebration of Earth week. The events ranged from scavenger hunts, to fashion and architectural design from recycled material workshops. The More >
The Age of Stupid: First Screening in Kuwait
May 10th
Our sponsors, Global Changemakers, will be the first to screen one of the best movies about climate change: The Age of Stupid The movie stars Oscar-nominee Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when More >
Global Plastic Pollution Photo Project
Apr 18th
Steve McPherson, founder of Marine Plastic, and a UK artist and lecturer writes for The Green Initiative abut his project: After years of scouring beaches of the UK picking up all sorts of different objects, including what some people call Beach of Marine plastic to use in my Artworks, I decided to create an online More >
Recycling opportunity! Spring Cleaning
Apr 11th
As part of LoYAC’s Environmental Awareness Campaign, LoYAC will be holding a Garage Sale on Saturday April 17th 2010 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. In order to make the best of this event, we are in need of donations. Your donations can include any of the following: · Clothes; · Accessories; · Books; · CDCs; · DVDs; · Toys; · Furniture Accessories. Donations More >
The Plastiki carries a message in 12,000 bottles
Apr 8th
SAN FRANCISCO: Adventure Ecology founder and environmentalist David de Rothschild and his intre pid crew; Jo Royle, David Thomson, Olav Heyerdahl along with National Geographic filmmaker Max Jourdan and Myoo Media’s Vern Moen set sail at the weekend on the Plastiki, a unique 60ft catamaran engineered from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and srPET, a fully recyclable material. An More >
Photography exhibition hailed a success
Mar 29th
The Green Lens photography exhibition was opened Thursday by Al-Sheikha Sheikha al-Sabah at The Lowry Gallery at The British School of Kuwait. The theme of the exhibition was climate change through the eyes of the next generation.
Debating Climate Change
Mar 7th
On Thursday evening I participated in a debate hosted by the Debating Society at University College London, where I am a first-year student. The debate was on Climate Change and its effects, and the motion was: This House Believes That Refugees from effects of Climate Change should be assigned to countries that emit the most More >
The Green Lens: Photography Exhibition
Mar 7th
We would like to invite you to attend our photography exhibition: The Green Lens, on Thursday the 18th of March, 6pm, at The Lowry Gallery at The British School of Kuwait. The exhibition will showcase climate change through the eyes of the next generation – all the photographers are between the ages of 14-19. The More >
The Green Initiative at Reuse 3.0
Dec 15th
Reuse 3.0 is an annual exhibition organised by En.v Earth. This year, The Green Initiative were invited to display some of our best entries from our Photography Competition.
