…and also in your garbage.

German parents now have to be worried about being turned in for crimes against the Earth — their children have ways of making them environmentally conscientious.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 Now come the fruits and vegetables. —Phillip is searching for “climate sins” at home.

00:05 The refrigerator inspection is still missing from his checklist. —The cucumber is from Germany.

00:10 Is that good? —Yes. —Long distance transportation is bad for the climate,

00:15 that’s what Phillip learned. And what about the carrots? —It doesn’t say.

00:24 What? —Israel. —Israel. Not so good.

00:30 His climate check book is nearly full. In total, he has 27 assignments to accomplish.

00:35 He receives stamps for completed work in school.

00:39 Phillip and his classmates at Holzlar elementary school work three hours a week

00:43 on the topic of the environment.

00:47 If you want to go to the city, then use your bike.

00:50 Sort your garbage, sure, that’s working wonderfully.

00:54 I’m Leah. —I’m Stella. —I’m Sophia.

00:58 These three are rehearsing for their presentation about saving electricity with many tips.

01:04 For example, don’t buy electric salt and pepper dispensers. That’s really unnecessary.

01:10 And there’s another tip. We you leave the house with all the appliances on,

01:17 that uses a lot of electricity.

01:23 Just like Phillip, all his classmates are “Climate Protectors”.

01:28 A girl from our class used to shower for 30 minutes, now it is only five minutes.

01:32 I’m trying to use my scooter a bit more to come to school instead of using a car.

01:39 When I brush my teeth, I don’t use the water so long as I used too.

01:43 I’m trying to get up a little earlier so I can take the bus to school.

01:51 Their teacher Ms. Kathrin G. is proud of her students’ ideas.

01:58 The climate licence is a small check card that should be carried in a wallet.

02:03 That means, if the children are at the Rhine river and see someone littering they can stop them

02:08 and say, “Hello, I’m a climate ambassador and I ask you to clean up your garbage.”

02:16 The last group assignment for today is to plant herbs and berries in the school garden.

02:23 The air is cleaned by the plants, by their leaves.

02:31 Phillip and his classmates receive their climate licence at the end of the project.

02:38 They seem to really happy about that. Our guest is Sebastian Jenal, good evening.

02:42 Actually, you are better know in Bonn as the comic artist “Ozi”, good evening.

02:46 Good evening. —You developed this “Climate Licence” concept along with the civic foundation.

02:50 From the report, the children appeared fired up about it and very proud to take part, right?

02:54 They really have a lot of fun doing it; that’s my impression. —You were at the school today.

02:58 What did you do there? —Well, part of the project is that I work with the children in the school.

03:04 We draw the characters together, Bo and the mouse, to develop a new point of reference.

03:10 We did that this morning at the school with just saw. I drew the comic figures with 75 students.

03:17 We briefly saw it in the film we just watched. Here it is. That’s what we saw.

03:22 There’s so much to do in there. The comic figures are there. Games and riddles to solve.

03:26 How receptive are the children to all of this climate information?

03:31 Very receptive. First of all, they have fun being climate detectives investigating their world.

03:37 That is the main point of it all. It also encourages a positive exchange with parents,

03:47 to bring the topic home and perhaps create some conflict to force them to do things this way.

03:53 Children could ask their parents if it is really necessary to drive so fast on the highway.

03:56 And so on. It encourages children to bring up the topic on their own and to develop

04:00 a wealth of knowledge which makes them “little experts”. —You could see that at the refrigerator

04:05 inspection with “Where do the cucumbers come from, where do the carrots come from?”

04:09 Based on the motto, “importing fruit and vegetables from the other side of the earth isn’t

04:12 quite right.” You started this project, how did that come about? —There used to be a school

04:18 newspaper for all schools in Bonn, called “From Students For Students”. I was asked to make a

04:22 comic strip for one page. It was a story based on different climate protection topics, and so

04:28 successful that the civic foundation decided to develop the idea further, which resulted in the

04:33 concept for the climate license. —This has already been around a couple of years, which means the

04:38 very first students received their climate licenses

04:41 six or seven years ago and are probably participating in

04:44 the Fridays for Future demonstrations, right? —I sure hope so. Yes, I attend the demonstrations

04:48 and look around to see if I recognise anyone. —And did that happen? Did you see anyone?

04:53 Actually, I think it was the other way around; I was recognised. — Thank you, Sebastian Jenal,

04:57 or better said, our comic artist “Ozi”. Thank you for this information about the civic foundation