Аннотация:This article explores the specifics and technologies of the "We Are in Charge of the Future" ALCOA Sustainability and Conservation Program for Russia sponsored by the Alcoa Foundation. The Program, designed and managed by the Fund for Sustainable Development, is targeted toward educating schoolchildren and supporting local NGOs and involving them into joint socially significant conservation activities in their communities in the cities of Belaya Kalitva (Rostov Oblast) and Samara (Kirovsky District). The technology of motivating civic awareness in students and engaging them in practical activities for the good of their communities includes a whole range of approaches, such as master classes on environmental issues for students and teachers; development and implementation of social/environmental projects with the participation of children with limited physical abilities; environmental camps; creative contests for students; environmental research; and participation in the National Project "Ecological Cooperation" and in the Teleconference "Children Will Save Russia’s Nature". The authors also demonstrate the advantages of environmental education initiated in the frame of corresponding special educational programs and projects for promoting civic responsibility among youth.
The article was printed in the journal "Ecology and Life", No. 5 (2009), pp. 44-47.