September 30 – October 4, 2013, Kharkiv — The Green Consumer Week’2013 “Environment on Your Plate” campaign in three Kharkiv schools included a variety of activities involving hundreds of students as well as their parents and teachers.

There was not a single day without events dedicated to sustainable food at general education schools #122, 129, and 165. An incomplete list of these activities includes theme-based lessons, presentations, games, polls, school newspaper issues, exhibitions of wall newspapers and drawings, and master classes on healthy candies making.

Please see pictures from these activities on the MAMA-86 Facebook page:
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Green Consumer Weeks in Ukraine – week-long concentrated awareness campaigns aimed at popularizing environmentally responsible consumption and focused on one of important themes of sustainable consumption – have been carried out since 2012 by the Ukrainian National Environmental NGO "MAMA-86" with support from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and in collaboration with various partner organizations.

The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation has been conducting similar campaigns in their country in October for many years running. These campaigns have helped significantly increase public awareness of advantages of environment-friendly way of living, develop a legal framework that encourages sustainable consumption and prohibits or limits supply of environmentally harmful goods and services, as well as form a circle of eco-responsible producers and sellers who, on their part, further the transition of the Swedish society toward more sustainable consumption behavior.