EcoCampus

Embracing initiatives to fight global warming and reach environmental sustainability.

Eco-Committee

Each year new members are elected to represent the school in our student-led Eco-Committee and run sustainable actions on our campus and beyond.

8 THEMES

Health and Well being

Equity and Equality

Pollution & transport / Climate change

Biodiversity

Education, Communication & Global Citizenship

Waste Management

Resources Consumption & Water Sanitation

Food & supply chain

WHOLE-INSTITUTION APPROACH

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Benefits to the school
  • Encourages innovation and change, reducing associated costs.
  • Empowers students and staff to become leaders for positive impact.
  • Prevents and reduces environmental impact.
  • Access to a wide network of campuses and people to create new connections.
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 Benefits to the Students & Learning
  • Learn-by-doing approach.
  • Fosters students’ responsibility and autonomy to learn and apply new skills.
  • Develops transferable skills (communication, teamwork, problem-solving, committee servicing).
  • Inspires practical sustainable actions to replicate outside of the school.
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Benefits to the Environment
  • Sustainability impact in various areas is quantified to integrate key performance indicators and targets to enter a continuous improvement cycle.
  • Improves biodiversity on campus, waste management, and resource consumption.
  • Lowers institution and stakeholders’ carbon footprint.
  • Improves overall environmental performance.
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Benefits to the Local Community and beyond
  • Activities facilitate students’ and staff’s involvement with the city and local communities.
  • Sets an example in the local community.
  • Creates a network, linking activities to other projects in Cambodia and beyond.
  • Involves local groups and representatives facilitating sharing experiences and best practices.

ACTIONS TAKEN

Ecoschool Project

Ongoing certification process to become the 1st TVET school in the world to get the Green Flag recognition by the Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE)​.

Members well-being

EcoCampus is also a human-centered approach, placing the students at the core process of change toward sustainability that is connected to the real issues in their communities. The Eco-Committee is composed of a majority of students including the Chair and Vice-Chair.

Green Days

Together the students and staff organize events to clean strategic areas of Siem Reap to fight plastic pollution and protect biodiversity. In addition, many other awareness events are organized to familiarize the local community with multiple sustainability efforts such as gender equality, waste management, and more.

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Resource consumption

We apply various strategies to reduce our electricity consumption, food waste, and plastic use. The students actively design and carry on activities to raise awareness and enable positive change. For example, the distribution of reusable metal water bottles to all EHT members.

Water Collection

Rainwater is collected and filtered to be re-used for cleaning purposes and to provide drinking water across the campus.

Plastic Free Initiative

EHT implements a zero single-use plastic policy and works to reduce its plastic use by raising awareness and embracing green practices in our supply chains.

Vegetable Garden

Production of monthly green vegetables that are used for consumption at our canteen and training restaurant.

Inclusion of the organic garden in the teaching curriculum to better understand the whole food supply chain from farm to plate. 

Green Flag Award

EHT is the first TVET school to get the International Green Flag award by FEE, a recognition for positive environmental and social action.