It all starts with education...
Last week we launched our 12th bond offer, available both as a direct investment to the CBS, or through Ethex for an IFISA eligible investment. In just one week on the Ethex platform, and we’ve almost reached 20% of our target of £800,000.
Why do we fundraise via bonds?
It all starts with education. Nine years ago, Robert Schrimpff – Solar for Schools co-founder and CEO and one of the CBS Directors - met with a group of students. They asked him ‘what can we do to stop climate change?’. A question that remains as poignant and relevant today as it was then; when the seed was sown that grew to be the CBS.
At the current pace of change, the answer to this question is bleak. But there is hope. When enough people apply pressure in the right direction, progress can be made.
We believe that educating and empowering the next generation is key to slowing the pace of climate change, so education absolutely remains our central mission. If students can learn what society needs to do to decarbonise, then share that knowledge with others, they can help accelerate the pace of change. With two billion young people in the world, each one of those young people need only to persuade three adults to make changes, and we can speed up our transition, from the bottom up.
A lot of people just don’t realise what issues there are, so we need to raise awareness that the planet is being destroyed, temperatures are rising, ice caps melting and much more. And we need to let people know about the changes that they can make to help
Wendy Litherland - Head of Education at Solar for Schools - shows students at Ark Kings Academy in Birmingham how solar energy works.
