chennai the exnora environmental training institute in association with exnora international has planned a training programme for schoolteachers on november 4 to sensitise them to environmental issues the programme to be held at the dg vaishnav college in arumbakkam will have 100 schoolteachers taking part more than half of them from corporation and government schools in the city electricity minister arcot veerasamy will launch the programme school education minister thangam thennarasu and mayor m subramaniam will be presentissues such as biodiversity climate change and solid liquid and zero waste management will be discussed the teachers will be taught how to turn a home into a green building and set up vertical gardens said a vasumathi director of the training institute the institute plans to hold at least three programmes a month each tailormade for the specific target groups it also plans to conduct camps for children in government schools during summer they will be taught how to make vermicompost and use it to nourish small gardens that can be set up in their homes said vasumathi