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There 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.
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.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?
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."
Eight tips for chemical free kids
September 21st, 2011
We wrap them up in cotton wool, so the saying goes… but what to do when that cotton wool comes drenched in chemicals and pesticides, as with so many other products today? We wade through the topic of just how toxic our children have become.
The Nude Food Dude
September 16th, 2011
Cool Australia’s Founder Jason Kimberley has had many titles. Melbourne’s worst dressed, Antarctic explorer, environmental educator, entrepreneur and spearhead! Now we have a new title to add to our growing list ‘The nude food dude’!
Solar is hotting up a treat…
August 22nd, 2011
Enough sunlight falls on our earth every hour to power us for a year, and it’s the capture and storage of this energy that has been elusive. The capture and use of solar energy gives off almost no pollution. There is some in the manufacturing process but this is counterbalanced within the first two years of pollution free energy production – from then on you are totally clean.
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