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Enviro News
NEWS
Edition 3 – May 2021
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ResourceSmart Schools Achievements
As a final step towards our ‘1 Star status’ with ResourceSmart Schools, APC would like to bring your attention to the HUGE environmental savings our school has achieved throughout our ResourceSmart Schools sustainability journey! Between 2016 and 2020, the hard work and dedication of our staff, students and parent community has diverted mountains of landfill, saved bucketloads of water and masses of energy, and bounced back a long way in our quest to improve biodiversity. Please see below our amazing achievements and stay tuned for the announcement of our 1 Star renewal, as well as our 2021 data!
NEWS
Edition 3 – May 2021
Biodiversity at Danks Street
APC continues to promote biodiversity on our confined, inner-urban campuses. Recently, Enviro Club students worked with CERES facilitator, Leah Martini, to conduct our annual ResourceSmart Schools audit of biodiversity at the Danks Street campus. Our overall score, 83 out of a possible 100 showed a 13-point increase on our score from May 2019.
Much credit to Chris, Paul and the maintenance team for keeping our grounds in beautiful condition and ensuring our students enjoy a wonderfully diverse environment despite the relative smallness of our footprint compared to other schools. The amount and diversity of vegetation squeezed into the single hectare at Danks Street will inspire future environment leaders to create a more sustainable, diverse and prosperous future.
We marked Endangered Species Day on Friday 21 May this year. Although we account for just 0.01 percent of all life on planet Earth, humans have caused the extinction of 83 percent of all living things. It is telling that the children and young adults of our species chose this day to stage a strike to protest the peril that their future faces from climate heating and humaninduced environmental destruction.
Mr. Steven Stanecki Environmental Programs Coordinator
APC students lead School Strike for Climate
On 21 May, thousands of students across the country went on strike to raise awareness and demand government action on the climate crisis. I have been involved in organising the School Strike 4 Climate since I was in Year 7 and it’s incredible to see how many APC students took the lead to attend the protest. The rally was held at Treasury Gardens and I am proud to say I MC’d the event with my friend, Anj. The presence of our students and their incredibly creative signs showed how passionate APC students are about climate change and their willingness to be changemakers.
Ella Simons, Environment Student Leader
