The document discusses a Green Map project in Irapuato, Mexico that engages adolescents in environmental sustainability efforts. Irapuato faces pollution problems like contaminated urban creeks and excessive tree trimming. The Green Map project uses a participatory process to involve adolescents in observing, investigating, and developing solutions to local environmental issues through activities in public spaces and schools. The project aims to give adolescents knowledge and skills to become agents of change for a more sustainable city.

1. Green Map Irapuato
Flipping the city to sustainability,
Adolescents as a factor of change.
Ágora de Cultura Ambiental Guanajuato (NGO)
Paulina Uribe Morfín
Nathalie Castiaux
agora.cultura.ambiental.gto@gmail.com
https://agoraculturaambien.wixsite.com/acagto
@agoradeculturaambientalgto

3. Irapuato:
City
of
the industrial
and
agricultural region of
Guanajuato
State in
center
Mexico (municipality :
574,344
poeple (Inegi,
2015).

4. Irapuato
is
one
of
the
most
polluted
cities
in
the
country.
(PM2.5
and
PM10
-­‐ WHO,
2016)
SIECA,6
nov
2017

5. Contaminated
urban
creek
(Río
Silao):
sewage
water
and
solid
wastes.
(DBO
143mg/L
DQO
225
mg/L
SST:
48
mg/L
-­‐ CONAGUA,
RNM,
2016)

6. Excessive trimming of urban trees.
Árbol
talado

7. Actors
Adolescents
Biological transformation
Autonomy linked to
the social
space (Macher,
2010)
Change/oportunity

8. HELPERS
COLABORATORS
MANAGERS
PROTAGONISTS
POLÍTICAL
ACTORS
Participation - Acción Process
(Reyes, 2010)
They
make
an
awareness
campaign.
It
is
a
preventive
and
specific
behavior.
There
are
instructions,
maybe
some
training
involved,
but
no
educational
process.
They
elaborate,
implement
and
evaluate
a
waste
management
program.
It
is
based
on
technical
knowledge.
The
educational
process
is
in
place.
They
set
an
environmental
agenda
that
is
relevant
to
the
group.
They
have
funding
and
reach
stewardship.
There
is
a
communication
process
going
on
with
other
political
actors.
Concerned
citizen
self
organized
to
clean.
This
is
a
remedial
and
reactive
behavior.
There
are
instructions
but
no
educational
process.
Manage
a
waste
program
and
train
other.
The
educational
process
is
starting
and
progress
is
made
towards
an
organized
ecological
action.
AYUDANTES
COLABORADORES
GESTORES
PROTAGONISTAS
ACTORES
POLÍTICOS

9. URBAN
CREEK
PUBLIC
SPACE
SCHOOL

10. OBSERVATION
– INVESTIGATION
-­‐ SOLUTION
– COMMUNICATION

11. GREEN
MAP
INCLUDES
KEY
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
ISSUES
CLIMATE
CHANGE
DISASTER
RISK
REDUCTION
BIODIVERSITY
POVERTY
REDUCTION
SUSTAINABLE
CONSUMPTION

12. Systematic
vision

13. Critical thinking

14. Making decisions in
a
collaborative way

15. Responsibility
towards
present
and
future
generations

16. CLOSING
• GREEN
MAP
is
an
environmental
educational
tool
for
adolescents.
• It
makes
possible
inclusive
learning
spaces
in
middle
schools.
• Friendship
is
key
element
for
teenagers
participation.
• Adolescents
are
an
opportunity
for
flipping
cities
to
sustainability
when
their
agency
is
based
on
knowledge
about
their
environment
and
developed
competencies.

17. THANK
YOU!
Ágora
de
Cultura
Ambiental
Guanajuato
(NGO)
Paulina
Uribe
Morfín
Nathalie
Castiaux
agora.cultura.ambiental.gto@gmail.com
https://agoraculturaambien.wixsite.com/acagto
@agoradeculturaambientalgto
@mapaverdeirapuato