Effective from the 1st October, 2010 for a period of up to 10 years the Lease on the SCRAP Centre at Holsworthy HS has been signed off by our Chairman, Dave Bryant (Head Teacher TLSC Berkeley Vale) and Director, John Frew (Principal, Holsworthy HS).
The formal acceptance at today’s SCRAP Annual General Meeting will enable the finalisation of a lengthy process of negotiation with the NSW Department of Education. SCRAP’s Company Secretary, Peter Carroll said today, ” It is a proud moment for our non-profit company to be formally recognised for our environmental education work with schools for the past 20 years through this lease on NSW Department of Education land here at Holsworthy High School. We look forward with enthusiasm to continuing our work in the challenging times ahead as we come to grapple more seriously with the threat of climate change and the many impacts this will have in the education of the next generation.”
SCRAP’s Sustainable Schools Program began in 2000 when a consortium of partners came together to offer the EcoSnapshot Day in which schools undertook 5 audits and surveys covering – Solid Waste, Energy, Water, Biodiversity and Materials Use and Management in one day resulting in a comprehensive benchmarking of their environmental performance and great hands-on education
Australia is full of it but we’re losing it fast through destruction of habitat. We need to find that balance between using resources for our needs while maintaining the right of other species to exist. This is at the core of sustainable living and it is on a head on course with our modern system
The driest continent on Earth other than Antarctica should have its act together on water, don’t you agree? Well despite our obvious failures, in some ways,we do and KISSS (Kapillary Irrigation Sub-Surface System is one of those areas where we have wins. The system can save at least half the water needed for irrigation and
