Christina+D'Arcy

Year 9 Japanese

On the excursion to St Leonard's College I learnt a lot about how they keep the environment around them and at the school sistainable.They use many methods of sustaining the earth and recycling such as the whole school was made out of recycled polystyrene, in the sustainability centre the aircondioners were only made out of cardboard and used recycled water to keep the room cool, they had a wind turbine that produces energy (they also save money for eletrical bills because they have a natural way to produce sustainable and free energy), native plants, there are no textbooks for the students to use only electrical items to teach them, only recycled paper and items are used for the students and facility and they have their own veggie patch and water tanks when the scraps are left they are fed to the chickens they have at their school. The sustainability centre cost around 2 million dollars and savings each year are Energy:70GJ Greenhouse gas: 5 tonnes Black balloons: 100,000.

When the Japanese students came down here, we had to interveiw them on sustainability. The way they save eletricity was that they turn fof the lights. The way they save water is they turn off the taps and they have a underground water system. The way they recyle is by re useuing paper and recyleing it by putting it in the bins. they way the japanese schools are cleaned ois that they clean the classrooms, toilets and cooridoors.