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how-to-help-school.jpgThere are heaps of easy ways that you can help your school go green and get active in helping our environment.

Tackling your school's energy and water use are great places to start, as is working out ways to deal with the school's waste.

There are also ways to get your green message across to other schools, your community and the people in charge of making the big green decisions in our country: our politicians.

Building up a network of cool green schools around your town, city or state is also another great way to show the world that you care about our environment.

Visit the articles below for more information on how you can help your school go green.

  • Write to our Politicians

    February 17th, 2011

    We’ve got to tell them what we want. We understand that if a politician receives 200 letters on the same issue, they are obliged to take action. Let’s try it out!

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  • The Sustainability Hub by CERES

    February 7th, 2012

    The CERES Sustainability Hub Website provides a portal for schools and organisations to communicate online. Schools can befriend, message, share resources and share case studies with other schools and organisations.

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  • Students step out of the classroom and into the wild for science

    January 31st, 2012

    When 48 high school students from across Australia, got the news their applications to join an Earthwatch Student Challenge team were successful, excitement filled the air.

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  • Cool Australia’s Flagship School Program in 2012

    October 24th, 2011

    Cool Australia has completed its successful Our Cool School pilot program in Victoria in 2011 with a selection of participating primary and secondary schools.
    For the 2012 school year we are offering 300 schools this unique opportunity to be involved with Cool Australia’s National Flagship Program.

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  • Mac vs PC - Personal preference aside, which scores better in the green stakes?

    October 5th, 2011

    The tech rivalry between Mac and PC is often framed as a fight between form and function. Apple products feature sleek design and slick branding, but critics say they’re all style over substance. Macs might have a certain minimalist chic, but can they really compete with the value – and sheer variety – of their PC counterparts?

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  • 10 Things to do with jars... other than store stuff

    October 3rd, 2011

    Do you breed jars too? And tell yourself as you try to sqeeze another into the pantry, "one day I'm going to make SO much jam, I'm going to thank myself for my hoarding tendancy."

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Snapshot

this week's carbon emissions:
0.335m tonnes

water restrictions:
Water Wise Measures

current uv levels:
Extreme

water storage levels:
58% full

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