Our meetings have resumed Thursdays lunchtimes in the library.
Our projects this year:
Check-out our past activities on our blog below https://macteamgreen.wordpress.com
Four students and 2 teachers went there last week-end. Sarah and Maddy summarised the trip: very good, 41 people. Talks about poverty, environment, community, sustainability, and how to make a change. Many ideas, many things learnt. Met lots of people. Was vegetarian. There was a confidence activity, a vision workshop, and a performance to do in the evening. The whanau meetings were an excellent way to meet other people.
Girls even went for a swim, and took each other for a shark. AAAAHHH!
Photos to follow soon…
We have two ongoing projects, and new projects coming, and it is difficult to keep track of them as a group. So we decide on people responsible for each project, a team to help them, a list of the actions and a timeframe for reporting. Click here to view the Project Planner.
NZ Fashion designer Miranda Brown has a new collection of tee shirts, aimed at raising awareness about our marine world and the human impact on the ocean, while raising funds for environmental organisations.
Our daily choices have an impact on the seas. FIND PHOTOS
• 10,000 people die every year due to the pesticides used in conventional cotton.
• Dyes commonly used for clothing are toxic and kill when they reach waters.
• Non-degradable materials that end up in the seas also kill animals.
• Goods that are made cheaply contribute to people’s poverty, even kids exploitation.
• Materials that travel a lot from the source to the production and to the selling point use up oil and contribute to climate change.
These t-shirts are 100% organic, use vegetable dyes, and are biodegradable. They are made inBalinear the cotton fields, by workers paid fair wages. And we will follow how they are made. LINK TO VIDEO STREAM to add
Buy these T-shirt on the website www.freethesea.co.nz (from $45 to $55), choose the shape, the colour, the design, and choose to donate to MAC Team Green at the checkout.
Ordering closes 31st May. They will be delivered in October, ready for summer or to offer for Christmas.
Every T-shirt sold will earn Team Green $5 which is going towards our school compost bins and to start saving for solar panels to be installed.
List of local medias (Attention: Need to contact Laura Williamson, as Public Relation person of the college)
Messenger messenger@printit.co.nz
Wanaka Sun editor@thewanakasun.co.nz
Radio Wanaka
Wanakalive http://www.wanakalive.com/
The News stu.oldham@alliedpress.co.nz
Mountain scene: http://www.scene.co.nz/8359a1.page
Last but not least:
We were approached by Mr Bates for our expertise in the subject.
Do we know any way to reuse household paper, plastic, glass and metals? We are offered to pass the unit and gain the credits, as we would have all the answers in our heads…
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/nqfdocs/units/doc/12359.doc Open the document to see details
A busy month!
We will be receiving our trees for the Paper4 Trees scheme. We will plant some if we want, tools to organise
We are proposing a food waste recycling system. Eventually we would like the whole school to take part, but first we want to trial it with the year 7/8 classes first.
We will supply an empty paint bucket with a lid and handle for every class to use as a bin. These will have to be emptied every one or two days – as it will start to smell – in the compost bins that will be placed near the gardens. When the bucket gets emptied, they also need a quick wash out.
We thought that we could have a competition. Every 2-3 weeks we would award lollys to the class that, by our standards, has the best looked after bin. We will monitor this by spot checks and by asking the teachers their opinions.
We will make a poster for what can go in it and what can’t and talk at Year Level to explain it to the students.
Last year, Team Green members successfully implemented a school-wide paper recycling habit. Creating the possibility (i.e. Green boxes) and informing the school students and staff, and repeating, repeating… Result: Hardly no paper in “normal bins” ; Result 2: our school has won and planted more than 25 trees. Well done to all for your participation. Effort? Not a big effort, is it?
This year, we want to tackle organic waste recycling, that is food thrown away in normal bins.
We will campaign to reduce food waste, we will install compost bins, worm farms and teach everybody in the school how to use them.
Expected results: delicious compost for the school edible gardens, less waste, raised awareness, etc…
But first, we are going to attend “Regeneration“, a full day of workshops, skills and action planning for global and local issues, leadership, values and generosity, social change and climate change.
Are you interested in environmental issues? Do you want to make a difference? Then join MAC Team Green!
For three years we have been meeting and brainstorming weekly to achieve a change.
We have:
– created a paper recycling system in the college which earns many trees every year,
– organised a school-wide tree planting session for the world-wide 350 event in 2009
– participated in informative and inspiring workshops
– installed and maintained a worm farm as well as helping with the raised-bed garden
– learnt about the issues and the solutions
There is much more to be done! We aim at being an enviro-college!
So come and join us in our enthusiast relaxed meetings every Mondays Lunchtime (1.30) in the library!
World Environment Day is 5th June 2010, have a look at the official website and think on what YOU CAN DO on this Saturday : http://www.unep.org/wed/2010/english/
Here at the college during the long whanau on Tuesday 8th June, we will turn all the lights and computers off and we will provide each whanau group with an “Enviro-pack” which will contain:
Details will be decided during next meeeting, Thursday 27th May lunchtime in the library (Eating in the library is authorised to the participants and at the time of the meeting).
