Sustainability Update
Students enjoy Lorne on the Lawn
Despite the persistent rain, wind and cold of the last weeks, Trinity students were able to experience hopeful and optimistically-framed messages of our challenge to better act and advocate for our environment through attending the ‘Lorne on the Lawn’ Sustainability Expo on Friday, 28 October.
Held at Mantra Lorne, 47 Trinity students across Years 7-11 attended the event that focused on education of the UN Global Goals, which were established as a “plan agreed to by all world leaders to build a greener, fairer, better world by 2030”.
The Expo was a powerful event, being initiated, planned, and facilitated by Lorne P-12 College VCAL students who wished to do something positive for our Earth. Attendees listened to guest speakers from Sea Shepherd, the Victorian Pride Centre, First Nations leaders, advocates and consultants for mental health and musical acts.
Everyone wandered the various sustainability-based stalls hosted by the CFA, Victorian Police, Fisheries, Ambulance Victoria, Parks VICS, Barwon Water, Bunnings, RSPCA, Foodbank, Surf Coast Shire, Deakin University, DEWLP, Coles, sustainable fashion brand ‘HAH’, community food project ‘Feed Me’, Landcare, Headspace, FOEO, the Victorian Pride Centre, Sea Shepherd, Otway Greening and Hyundai, where we learned of the contributions of many for positive environmental change.
The Trinity students who attended are to be commended on their respectful and attentive behaviour on the day. We hope to communicate and translate our learned information back into our classrooms and inspire encouraging sustainability actions within our school.
Students learn about the UN Global Goals through curriculum studies as part of different subject areas at Trinity and these goals are fundamentally important to our vision of improving sustainability matters at our College.
Further explanation of these goals, as well as information outlining the commitment of many countries to achieve these can be found at Goals Archive - The Global Goals.
Of interest is the podcast series available on this website ‘An Idiot’s Guide to Saving the World’, serving to “demystify the gloomy narrative and harness some optimism to leave you feeling empowered and armed with ideas”.
Each episode investigates one of the Global Goals, presenting three stories and asking “Who is affected? What are solutions on a global scale? And what can I as an individual do?”
Did you know?
Those pesky little plastic bread tags we accumulate so easily with the purchase of our foods can be recycled if collected for a specialised recycling company like Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs.
And these tiny little pieces of plastic can have a mighty power when recycled properly to be turned into wheelchairs and mobility aids for disadvantaged people, mainly in South Africa.
Trinity College has collected bread tags for Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs in the past and we will be hosting a temporary collection again later this term. So, start collecting any and every plastic (not cardboard) bread tags that come your way and exact details of bringing these into Trinity in the coming weeks will be communicated soon.
Have a read of this organisation’s inspiring story https://ozbreadtagsforwheelchairs.org.au/
Happy collecting!
