Green Team News 

It's Enviro Week this week!  

Please join us and celebrate our amazing planet. We have a week full of activities including Merri Creek clean up, film screenings, Placard making, art chalk ups and poster prize, recycling relay race, 100 % renewables photo shoot (fingers crossed) and a pedal powered Smoothie maker! For more info on the Enviro Week program see the Green team blog. All welcome!

Ecobin launch : poster competition

We are also pleased to introduce our new ECOBIN responsible waste stations in every class and organics bin by the canteen. To launch this Green team are also holding a   

poster competition: REFUSE, RETHINK, REUSE, REDUCE, RECYCLE. 

Use your creativity and promote Ecobin recycling at NHS. C1 Art room will also be available at lunchtime. Your poster MUST contain the following info. in any way you like: 

Yellow bins recyclables: plastic, cardboard, paper, cans, bottles/glass 

Red bins landfill: general waste. 

Green Bins organics: food scraps and organic waste ( no meat or citrus) to be placed by canteen. 

Submission to the library by Thursday and receive a Free pedal powered smoothie on Friday. Prize for peoples choice award.

To get you started for the week, we encourage you all to do the Eco footprint quiz.  – how many earths to sustain your lifestyle? 

See the presentation below for more about our new Ecobin recycling 

Aboriginal spiritual healing virtual walk on Darebin Creek

Cultural Catchment Connections: Aboriginal Spiritual Healing (Virtual) Walk/ Talk on Darebin Creek is presented by the Merri Creek Management Committee.

The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people are the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Darebin Creek catchment flows. Their strong cultural connections to the land and waters in this place we now call Darebin, continue today through cultural practices of ceremony, celebration and Tanderrum.  We have much to learn from Indigenous people’s management of waterways, particularly with urban population growth.

Join Aboriginal Cultural Educator Uncle Trevor Gallagher (A Gunditmara Elder with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung speaking rights), to learn about Aboriginal history, culture and perspectives of Darebin Creek. Please register here

Paula Andreovski

Green Team Facilitator