Today Millennium Kids Facilitators worked with student sustainability leaders from East Geelong Primary School and Bellaire Primary School in Geelong, Victoria. The teams took part in leadership games like 'Spaghetti and Marshallows', learned about the MK Triple Bottom Line 'Have fun, eat chocolate and care for the environment', and listed there ideas about waste in the local community:
1. Some bins are overflowing.
2. Bins on the foreshore blow open and rubbish blows out.
3. Our school needs to set up compost bins and wormfarms to reduce food waste going to landfill.
4. We need to recycle paper.
Students heard about the creation of Dr Switch and came up with their own ideas of what they could do to help with local sustainability challenges.
Two Junior Councillors Kleo and Mollie suggested the could send their ideas to the the local Council.
These ideas and lots of others will be presented to the Doing More With Less Sustainability Roadshow on 25th and 26th July at the National Wool Museum. Keep your eye out for new great ideas.
I loved the student's ideas from the Geelong schools. Wouldn't it be great to see every primary school in Australia with a worm farm!
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