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For Manuela, dedication like this begins in theclassroom: “The key is to teach children froma very young age about renewable energyand the need to use it rationally.““In class we talk about solar energy a lot. Theschool has a solar oven, and the children fi ndit fascinating.”Making sustainability part of regular classexperience, across the curriculum, isfundamental. We also arrange regular visits sto factories and power plants, which reallymotivates the children. They take it so seriouslythat we have a sort of role reversal here: ”with pupils nagging the teachers about conservation,”she laughs.“We have produced a thousand environmental caretakers!”To raise the cash to kit theschool out with solar panels,this school entered two nationalcompetitions: making a “Tetrapaktree” and presenting a project to“Rock in Rio –Solar Schools.”18