Obra Social Caja Madrid runs a series of projects to encourage more aware, responsible and ecologically sustainable consumption habits. These include:
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"Agenda 21” schools programme
Schoolchildren analyse the environmental problems affecting the areas where they live and think about their causes and how to solve them, or at least mitigate their worst effects. Activities are led by a specialist monitor, with a council of elderly residents giving the benefit of their advice. The programme visited Valladolid during school year 2006-2007, with the involvement of more than 3,000 pupils and teachers, and is now in Zaragoza, where over 4,000 more have joined in its activities.
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"You Can Do It"
A project for upper secondary school pupils, with prizes given to the best environmental improvement schemes proposed for their own education centres. The 2006-2007 edition of this scheme was held in Valencia, with the participation of 13,000 pupils and teachers. It has since started up in Murcia, Catalonia and three provinces of Andalusia (Granada, Malaga and Almería), reaching a combined total of over 61,000 pupils and teachers.
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Recycling of vegetable oil
Used vegetable oil is collected in towns along the Costa del Sol then recycled for use in a social action project in the most deprived areas of Peru.
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Land characterisation and decontamination laboratory
This innovative project, based in Ciudad Real province, detects the presence of contaminants and prescribes the best method for their elimination.
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"Neighbourhood Saving"
Project run by La Casa Encendida to promote energy saving schemes among owners' associations in Madrid city centre.
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Bioenergy handbook
A publication addressing public concerns about the future availability of fossil fuels and the need to change the way energy is produced and used.