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how-to-help-school.jpgThere are heaps of easy ways that you can help your school go green and get active in helping our environment.

Tackling your school's energy and water use are great places to start, as is working out ways to deal with the school's waste.

There are also ways to get your green message across to other schools, your community and the people in charge of making the big green decisions in our country: our politicians.

Building up a network of cool green schools around your town, city or state is also another great way to show the world that you care about our environment.

Visit the articles below for more information on how you can help your school go green.

  • School Presentations on Our Environment by Jason Kimberley

    January 12th, 2011

    Cool Australia and Our Cool School founder Jason Kimberley is a photographer, Antarctic adventurer and Climate Project Presenter with a passion for life and nature. With a background as a retailer and restaurateur, Kimberley had his eco-epiphany on an expedition to Antarctica in 2005.

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  • Write to our Politicians

    December 8th, 2010

    We’ve got to tell them what we want. We understand that if a politician receives 200 letters on the same issue, they are obliged to take action. Let’s try it out!

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  • Our Cool School

    July 24th, 2009

    Our Cool School is the leading online educational environmental resource created especially for Victorian schools, for school kids and for teachers.

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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  • 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."

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Snapshot

this week's carbon emissions:
1.961 tonnes

water restrictions:
Stage 2

current uv levels:
Very High

water storage levels:
65% full

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