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How to Help
Our environmental problems can seem overwhelming.
But there are lots of little and big things you can do every day to make a difference. Like the footy players say, just take it one match at a time.
Here are some ideas from Cool Melbourne on how to green all sorts of things in your life.
We've got ideas on how you can:
Green your home, including tips on growing your own food, saving water and energy, and cutting back on waste;
Green your office by following our energy and water saving tips, and by thinking about our green purchasing tips;
Green your school with ideas on how to cut out waste at school, how to green your trips to and from school, and how to get connected with other green kids;
Be greener while out shopping by thinking about what you buy, where you buy it, and what you'll do with it; and
Tips on how you can green your transport with our green driving and holidaying tips.
Let's get hopeful, and active, together. You can start today.
For more information about the many ways you help our environment visit the links below.
How To Help At Home
How To Help At Work
How To Help At School
How To Help Shopping
How To Help Volunteering
How To Help Transport
Join The Enviroweek Campaign for 2010
Keeping Company
November 22nd, 2011
Companion planting (positioning plants together that will be mutually beneficial in some way) can help to deter pests, attract beneficial insects, prevent soil infections that would otherwise require crop rotation, help to fix nitrogen in the soil or even improve the taste of those neighbouring vegetables.
Gifts That Keep on Living
November 17th, 2011
The problem with most Christmas presents is that they're just so . . . lifeless. Not these. Here's a list by compiled by the Huffington Post, so yes it is aimed at an American audience, but don't let that put you off! There is such a miraculous thing as internet shopping!
Cool Australia’s Flagship School Program in 2012
October 24th, 2011
Cool Australia has completed its successful Our Cool School pilot program in Victoria in 2011 with a selection of participating primary and secondary schools.
For the 2012 school year we are offering 300 schools this unique opportunity to be involved with Cool Australia’s National Flagship Program.Mac vs PC - Personal preference aside, which scores better in the green stakes?
October 5th, 2011
The tech rivalry between Mac and PC is often framed as a fight between form and function. Apple products feature sleek design and slick branding, but critics say they’re all style over substance. Macs might have a certain minimalist chic, but can they really compete with the value – and sheer variety – of their PC counterparts?
10 Things to do with jars... other than store stuff
October 3rd, 2011
Do you breed jars too? And tell yourself as you try to sqeeze another into the pantry, "one day I'm going to make SO much jam, I'm going to thank myself for my hoarding tendancy."
Eight tips for chemical free kids
September 21st, 2011
We wrap them up in cotton wool, so the saying goes… but what to do when that cotton wool comes drenched in chemicals and pesticides, as with so many other products today? We wade through the topic of just how toxic our children have become.
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