Environment News

High School Environment Conference

Last Thursday 6 representatives from the MGC Environment team (Daisy Batten, Lilith Stewart, Lucy Skelton, Sam Kintanar, Polly Jane Decker and Audrey Habib) attended the first ever Mac Robertson Girls’ High School Environment Conference. The conference ran for the whole day and was organised by the Mac Robertson Environment team. The day started with an introduction for the purpose of the conference, which was to raise awareness for environmental issues and bring together likeminded students who were passionate about the environment.

Throughout the day we participated in fun and engaging activities in small groups with people from a mix of other schools. We learnt about food wastage, proper ways to recycle, how to make rubbish into art and how to create handy things out of second hand items. All the activities were fun and educational and it was great to have the chance to interact with passionate students from other schools. On the day there were also two guest speakers, Karen Jones from The Port Phillip Eco Centre who talked to us about food wastage and food distribution in different parts of the world. It was an interesting talk and it got us all thinking about the kinds of food we eat and the impacts that our dietary choices can have on the environment. The second guest speaker was Tamara DiMattina from The New Joneses which is a not for profit organisation that focuses on how to live in a way that is sustainable and has minimal negative impacts on the environment. Her enthusiasm and passion for what she does inspired us all to change a few small things in our daily lives and help in whatever way we can.

Another great thing about the conference was that we were able to talk to students and teachers from other schools about what their school is doing to be more environmentally friendly and get some ideas from them as well as share the amazing things we do at our school and hopefully inspire them to carry out similar projects.

Overall the day was a fantastic learning and sharing experience and we all enjoyed being there.

Lilith Stewart

Year 9 Enviro Rep