Transcript Sustain - Maungawhau School

SUSTAINABILITY
Our choices have consequences.
What is sustainability?
Here is what Wikipedia says:
Sustain can mean “maintain",
"support", or "endure”.[3][4] Since
the 1980s sustainability has been
used more in the sense of human
sustainability on planet Earth .
Look at the following slides with
images from around our world,
and see what sustainability might
mean to you. Think about the idea
that we are all guardians of our
world.
Flooding
February 2014 in England
Climate Change
“Guys, the ice caps are melting”
Sea levels are rising as ice
caps melt
Path of Global Warming
Endangered Animals
Endangered animals list
Endangered Cultures
Endangered groups of people who can no
longer live in the habitat they have known
Rubbish
Rubbish in the ocean
People throw out items they no longer need or
want but where does it all go?
Antarctica
Rising Sea Levels
The Maldives is likely to become
submerged if the current pace of
climate change continues to raise sea
levels.
Refugees
Storms
Threatened Habitats
What is sustainability?
Our planet Earth needs
protecting so that every human
being can live safely and
happily on it. To make sure that
we all have enough resources
to survive, we have to sustain
what the Earth can give us.
How can our choices make a
difference?
We can all help to sustain the
resources of our planet Earth by
making wise decisions every day of
our lives.
What if we don’t make wise
choices?
We will not be able to enjoy our
lives as much as we can. We may
not have the necessities of life.
How can we be Guardians?
We can decide to do our very best to
look after our planet Earth and make
choices in our lives that can help sustain
the resources we need to live.
Maungawhau 2014
PROJECTS
Rubbish… reduce, reuse and
recycle
FRUIT ORCHARD
Maungawhau Vegetable
Garden
Maori Medicinal Garden
SUSTAINABLE NEWSBOARDS
Title
Hyperlink
School combines
learning with
sustainable living.
Sustainable Water.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Schoolcombines-learning-with-sustainableliving/tabid/367/articleID/58832/Default.
aspx
Sustainable Village
http://www.3news.co.nz/Developerhopes-to-create-NZs-first-sustainablevillage/tabid/367/articleID/47046/Default
.aspx
New Chums Anti
development
http://www.3news.co.nz/Coromandelresidents-angered-by-beachsidedevelopments/tabid/309/articleID/12803
8/Default.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Sustainabilityforum-looks-at-water-purificationprojects/tabid/372/articleID/83427/Defa
ult.aspx
Cleaning Beaches
TERM1
EVENTS
Childrens’
Day
DATE/
WEEK
March 2014
HYPERLINK
http://www.childrensday.org.nz/atscho
ol/indexolder.html
TERM 2
EVENTS
DATE/ WEEK
HYPERLINK
13-17 May, 2014
http://www.travelwise.org.
nz/Schools/index.cfm?id=1
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Earth Day
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
www.earthday.net
World
Environment Day
5 June, 2014
Theme: Think.Eat.Save
www.mfe.govt.nz
Matariki Begins
June-July, 2014
http://www.korero.maori
.nz/news/matariki/facts
andfigureswww
Travel Wise
Week
TERM3
EVENT
DATE/WEEK
HYPERLINK
Conservation
week
Frog Week
Keep New
Zealand
Beautiful Week
World Car Free
Day
7 - 14
September
http://www.doc.govt.nz
/gettinginvolved/events-andawards/conservationweek/
September 14
- 20
http://www.knzb.org.nz
22 September
http://www.streetsalive
.net/
TERM 4
EVENTS
DATE/WEEK
HYPERLINK
World Animal
Week
4-10 October
http://www.wspa.org.au
/education.asp
Save Kiwi Week
20 – 26 October
s://www.kiwisforkiwi.
org/what-we-do/savekiwi-week/