Stimulating Sustainability

目前，世界资源正以不可持续的速度被消耗。这种消费的大部分集中在发达国家，这些国家也最适合开发技术和态度来降低消费率。EPSRC已经在为新技术做出贡献，并开展了许多与可持续发展和环境有关的活动，包括可再生能源、生物燃料和材料回收的研究。简而言之，该提案旨在与托儿所和小学合作，通过生产室内和室外使用的高度互动资源，向儿童介绍与可持续发展有关的问题。该项目将基于两个主要资源的开发，暂时称为“有机花园”和“免费能源”。这些将被开发出来供托儿所和小学使用。因此，重点是高度互动的资源，以满足国家课程的要求，同时通过鼓励儿童对工程和科学的认识和热情来履行EPSRC的作用。由于它们将在学校中使用，理想情况下，它们的运营成本应该相对较低。这两种资源可以单独使用，但理想情况下可以一起使用，如下文所述，“利用风和太阳让花园成长”。

World resources are currently being consumed at an unsustainable rate. Much of this consumption is focused in the developed world that is also best placed to develop technologies and attitudes to reduce the consumption rate. EPSRC are already contributing to new technologies and have many activities connected with sustainability and the environment including research on renewable energy, bio-fuels and material recycling.In brief, this proposal aims to work with nurseries and primary schools to introduce children to issues related to sustainable development through the production of highly interactive resources for use indoors and out.The project will be based on the development of two main resources provisionally called 'The Organic Garden' and 'Energy For Free'. These will be developed for use in nurseries and primary schools. The emphasis is therefore on highly interactive resources that fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum while fulfilling a role of EPSRC by encouraging the awareness and enthusiasm of children for engineering and science. As they will be used in schools they should ideally be relatively low cost to operate. These two resources will be able to operate individually but will ideally be used together as described below as 'Using The Wind And Sun To Make The Garden Grow'.