The climate change path of the Altomünster sustainability group Plan A can now be seen in Erdweg. The twenty posters are set up next to the elementary and middle school there, by the teachers’ parking lot on Pater-Cherubim-Straße. Christiane Vogt and Peter Ehrhorn, two founding members of Plan A, organized the move on Wednesday. “With the active help of nine strong ninth-grade students,” as Vogt emphasises.
The climate change trail by the sustainability group Plan A shows data, facts and figures on how the climate is changing. Not only the causes and consequences of climate change are described, but also possible solutions are shown. The content was created as part of a coursework by students of the “User Experience Design” course at the Technical University of Ingolstadt under the direction of Professor Ingrid Stahl, an Altomünster resident who is active in Plan A.
“Sustainability is sexy,” reads a poster on the climate change trail.
(Photo: Toni Heigl)
Now the climate change trail has arrived in Erdweg. The proximity of the exhibition to the school is no coincidence: Vogt and Plan A co-initiator Tanja Lademann act as sponsors of a project for classes 9a and 9b on the subject of sustainability. Its striking title reads: “Intervene! Earth path”.
The cooperation seems obvious given the proximity and close ties between the two neighboring municipalities. If you think so. In fact, the collaboration came about via a detour via Nuremberg. This is where the Bavarian State Network for Civic Engagement, or LBE for short, has its headquarters. An association that was founded in 2014 and is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labor and Social Affairs. The LBE came into play when the ninth graders in Erdweg were looking for people or institutions that could help them with sustainability issues. The teacher Katrin Weber and her colleague Till Kreisel, who are responsible for the class management of the two classes, followed up on the LBE. The people from Nuremberg searched their database and found what they were looking for in Plan A in Altomünster.
Everyone can do something to reduce their own ecological footprint.
(Photo: Toni Heigl)
Vogt immediately felt addressed: the graduate engineer is involved in the MINT campus Dachau, a student research center that wants to inspire children and young people for mathematics, computer science and natural sciences. Lademann, one of the vice chairmen of the Dachau CSU district association, has been emphasizing the importance of the social commitment of young women and men for years.
The two of them visited the Erdweg school in February and presented the concerns of Plan A to the pupils, such as what options the residents of the Dachau region have to reduce their ecological footprint. From the discussion that followed, the “Challenge” for the graduating class developed: “Can you develop your own project for the community of Erdweg in order to bring about or encourage a change in consumer behavior among your fellow human beings?” The climate change path is intended as a support.
The students are now developing a brochure with local shopping, nutrition and climate protection tips. The Plan A youth group drew up a similar booklet last year, in which, among other things, the farm shops in the Altomünsterer Land are presented. It is still unclear whether and where the climate change exhibition will move to after the school project has been completed.
More information on the climate change pathway and Plan A can be found on the website www.plana-altomuenster.de.