This is the first article published as part of the SCRAPLog part of our website.
Our aim is to bring you up to date with SCRAP goings on and to comment occasionally on events in wider society, relevant to our overall brief of environmental education.
As noted on our Home Page, SCRAP has recently taken over S & J Worms and we are now busy caring for many thousands of worms and providing them around Australia to all manner of folk from the keenest worm farming students in schools, to green thumbed gardeners and fervent fishermen and women who use them as bait. While our real interest is in worm farming for waste reduction purposes and of course gardening, we will continue to supply all those who use worms.
SCRAP continues to work with Enviroplumbers and Solar Electricians in the vital work of turning around our infrastructure from old fashioned, polluting systems to alternative, sustainable systems including rainwater tank installations, Solar Photovoltaic Panels and many other related technologies which offer hope that dangerous climate change can be averted, despite the powerful lobbyists in the old guard of polluting industries. One of the key arguments missed in the climate change debate is that by changing as soon as possible to renewable systems will have massive benefits in reducing pollution. Whether you are persuaded by the climate change advocates or the skeptics it is a no-brainer to realise that cleaner air and cleaner water will benefit all of us. Less asthma, lower cancer rates and many other pollution-induced illnesses could be significantly reduced over time if we learn to halt our dependency on burning fossil fuels.
Eeco the Frog
Eeco – SCRAP’s mascot appeals for sanity and survival
What are the potential savings from such improvements to our health and has this been taken into account when we assess the costs of solar and wind power versus coal and oil?
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
