Ostrava Steel industry and underground coal mines

About Ostrava An industrial city in the east of the Czech Republic, close to Poland The third largest city in the Czech Republic A lot of cultural institutions and sport clubs Candidate for the European Capital of Culture 2015 Best-known for industry and coal mining

History 1763: deposits of black coal were discovered  industrial boom  flood of immigrants 19 th century: new mines  first steel works in Vítkovice concentrated of metallurgy 1951: Nová Huť was established, part of international company ArcelorMittal

History Vítkovice ( )

Today

What does it look like today? We suffer from pollution Causes a lot of illnesses  limits for pollution

ArcelorMittal The biggest metallurgical company of our country Produces 3 milion tonnes of steel per year Belongs to the largest pollutants

PollutionArcelorMittal Pollution of ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal 2009: 6 times more dust than it should be  extreme conditions  the worst air in the whole European Union! We should do something about it!

Transport Automobile transport = integral part of industry As harmful as cigarettes =

We want to help Plant trees Use new technologies Install filters on smokestacks Use enviromentally friendly materials Sort out rubbish We decided to begin in our school.

Our school Our school really cares about the environment We do our best to lower the use of electricity

Electricity use in the school 1 PC uses about 0.23kW.h per day, all our PCs use 11.5kW.h per day 1 copying machine uses per day : 0.25kW.h, all the copying machines (6x): 1.5kW.h All the data projectors: 10kW.h per day

Total consumption  per 1 day: 21.5 kW.h  per 1 school year: kW.h and that is 14,200 Kč (€ 600) for all the electric devices So much money? I won‘t use computers.

Lighting The school replaced the old light bulbs with fluorescent tubes The school still pays more than 200,000 Kč (€ 8,000) per year

Questions Can we save money? Do we want more field trips (abroad), more school events? Do we want to reconstruct the school building?

And the answer is… YES!

Tips and tricks we follow these instructions  the school pays less for electricity  more money for "important things“  happier students

Tips and tricks 1) No lesson  turn off all the electric devices 2) Sunny outside  switch off the lights, pull up the and enjoy the sun 3) Buy economical light bulbs That‘s easy.

Thank you for your attention! Presentation by: © Magdaléna Ptáková, Tereza Patrmanová, Dominik Mašek, Simona Brothánková, Marie Drobíková Animations by: Marcela Pešková