School Environmental Campaign News

I would like to announce the innaugral meeting of St Michaels Grammar's new 'Student Environment Collective.'
Two days into term 4 and we are up and running.
Our agenda is as following:
-Recycled paper used @ school (esp. Library and Art Faculty)
-Purchasing green power (percentage goal undecided)
-Improved recycling scheme
-'Lights off' campaign
-Water wise campus campaign
-Revamping the school veggie patch
-Cutting redundant school books from book list
-Energy efficient light bulbs

Thanks to everyone who came along to the meeting. Good luck to VISEN/Leapers

-Milo & Rufus

We think its safe to say our meeting was a bit of a flop. There were four people other than ourselves two of which were dragged in and held there by force. However the school has given us a great amount of support. Our projects thus far include:
- a presentation at awards night
- the organising of a sustainability day (to raise awareness of the issue and for fund raising)
- fund raising for our new water tank
- enforcing the use of recycled paper
- reducinng the amount of waste the school produces (including getting a compost heap going for our vegie garden)
- and putting up signs to get people to turn lights, heaters and fans off when they leave the classroom

We potted some basil the other day in the greenhouse, our vegies are coming along nicely (how are your peaze Milo?), that's a positive. We think its safe to say that people at our school are lazy and don't give a toss about the environment. However we will soldier on lol.

- Kayla, Ashlea and Aleisha xox

GUESS WHOS GOING TO BE THE FIRST EVER MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL ENVIRO CAPTAIN???

Thats right not me.



YET. DUHA DUAH DUUUUUUUU

hey guys just in addition to what kayla, aleisha and i posted before, are any of you viseners interested in coming to our school to give us a hand on our sustainability day? that was one of our ideas at the meeting yesterday in regards to what to do for the day. let us know if you're interested.

lol
adding to ASHLEA's last post
It's on the 4th of December, in Geelong, (we could arrange to pick anyone that wants to come help from the train station).

Just to help you =)

Hey
i'll come and help you guys if you want
just let me know what you want me 2 do

The Fitzroy High "Green Group" (as it has unofficially been named) is up and running, and running well. Our first campaign (The paper campaign) is well under way and we hope to have our school switched to recycled paper by the end of November. We've also got a printer/photocpying free day in the works wich should be interesting. Also, we found out a quite disturbing statistic from administration the other day; This year, our school of about 500 students has gone through over a million sheets of paper in photocopying, printing and whatnot. Anyway, thats about it for now.

hmmm sounds like tough work for your group aleisha and kayla,

we've got it easy at St. Mich's and have more people than we know what to do with.
We're working on a light switch etc. sticker campaign to raise awareness and reduce consumption.
The school has been great too, and are going dollar for dollar on whatever we raise for a given enviro charity!!!
Good on you St. Michael's.
A fundraiser BBQ and film day may well be on the way.

'the people united will never be defeated!!!!!!!!'

i'd love to help at your sustainability day. sounds awesome.
i've just found out, uni high's enviro group disbanded ages ago, so i have to go talk to the vice principal about making a new one.
so hopefully we'll have one soon!