Richard
St Mary’s Primary School, North Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

Hi I’m Richard from St Mary’s, North Sydney, Australia.

I’d like to tell you about a great annual program we Australians down under do. It’s called Clean Up Australia Day.

If you see a piece of rubbish floating around on the street, be a generous person and pick it up to put it in a bin. In fact, everyone in Australia goes looking for rubbish, but not just on streets, but in parks, ovals, beaches and even drains. They do it just to clean up Australia. Even Ronald McDonald is cleaning up Australia

If you don’t want your country to be a trash tip, spread the word and clean up your country to be a great leader in life. If you go outside for a jog or a walk, I’m sure you would find at least one piece of rubbish, and for a good start to make our world 100% healthy, pick up that piece of rubbish and put it in the bin.

Why not try a package-free Friday?

Phoebe
St Mary’s Primary School, North Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

At St Mary's, North Sydney, we are trying to have a completely package-free school. We’re starting off small with only Fridays being package-free.

Once it works we’re going to expand the idea and every day will be package-free to make a bigger difference.

On February 29th, everyone will compete in a race for the least amount of packaging per class. The one and only prize is a cleaner country!

D.I.Y

To make your lunch packaging environmentally friendly follow these three tips:

• use reusable plastic boxes instead of cling wrap or foil
• try not to eat ready packaged food
• use brown paper bags (when you’re done rip it up and put it in a composting bin).

Climate change: whose problem is it?

Some wealthy countries are finding climate change a problem especially in reducing carbon emissions. Wealthier people can buy more electronic ‘toys’, which creates carbon emissions and recycling problems. That is only one of our huge pollution problems.

I believe that climate change is everyone’s problem and we should all try to do something about it. You can start by leading as close to a package-free life as possible.

Our world looks like this

Imagine if it looked like this!

Clean up Australia day.

Linus
St Mary’s Primary School, North Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

Clean up Australia Day is when we Aussies down under do Clean up Australia, so the environment won’t be choking on the rubbish we leave on ground. If anyone leaves some rubbish on the ground, be a caring person and pick it up. On the 29th of March, nearly every generous school in Australia is going to clean up the rubbish in their school and outside. Hundreds and thousands of students participate cleaning up there country.

Some businesses help clean up their valuable country. When it is lunch break the business people pick up the disgusting food scraps left by the people who walk past. Everyone is cleaning up Australia, even Ronald Mcdonald and his crew are helping to.

How about turning the lights off for 1 hour?

Chris
St Mary’s Primary School, North Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

Did you know that on 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour!

Why did they do that?

Well, it started with a question, a big question.

Q. How can we inspire people to take action on climate change?

The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour.

This massive collective effort reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year.

With Sydney land marks like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.

Beyond turning off your lights for one hour at 8pm on March 29, 2008, there are lots of things you can do to make Earth Hour 2008 an even greater success. Here are just a few to get you started.

SO PLEASE, JUST FOR ONE HOUR, TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS!

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