Here are some quick things that we can do (and should know) that would help sustain our very way of living.
1. If not using lights, turn them off!
2. Take showers less than 4 minutes a day - you can do it!
3. Be positive :D
4. If possible, compost all organic material
5. Recycle! Recycle! Recycle! -—> you may not know, but we can recycle so much things our lives. e.g. paper from old exercise books, coke bottles we shared with our dads etc, etc…there is a lot
6. Try and do things on a daily basis. That way over a week, we know that we are definetely achieving progress

Is there anything that I've missed?
I hope everyone is aware of the environment around them, and though we (prefects) have not attended the last few meetings, let's all work hard. We can make a difference with little things

Thanks!
Tim Chau

Link: http://nsbhsenviro.co.cc

Project Leaders should email me at moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis#moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis so that they can add hours.

You must register for an account or you may not add hours.

If you are interested in an executive role for the end of 2011 and most of 2012, please send an application to ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|adras.hgoma#ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|adras.hgoma , answering all of the questions below. Note that whilst we have no mandatory word range and application structure, brevity and clarity is appreciated.

1. Which positions are you interested in in the Environment Group?
2. What is it that makes you passionate about the environment?
3. How have you contributed to the NSBHS Environment committee? What projects have you been a member of during your time in the environment group?
4. What ideas and projects would you implement in the group as an executive? In what direction would you see the committee grow?
5. What skills do you possess that would make you suitable as an executive? (this does not need to be internal to the Environment Group)

The timeline for applications is as follows:

A board of the current executive leaders and teachers that supervise the environment group will choose the applicants on the basis of their application and will conduct interviews if necessary.

Best Regards and Good Luck,
- The Environment Executive 2010-2011

NOTE: The email to send your application is no longer moc.liamg|yratercesorivne#moc.liamg|yratercesorivne, it is now ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|adras.hgoma#ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|adras.hgoma . We apologize for the mishap. If there are any issues, please contact an Enviro Exec.

Could everyone please have a look at the EEC website - www.nsweec.com

Thanks,
Justin

Enrichment:

• Meetings
  • Tuesday and Friday executive/leader meetings do not count but are compulsary for the members
  • Group Meetings
    • 15 minutes per 30 minute block
  • EEC Planning Meetings
    • 1.5 hours regardless of how long the meeting is
• Research
  • General rule to follow
    • 15 minutes per 30 minute block
  • If the leader feels the person does not deserve the full 15min/30min, then he will inform the person
• Anything else
  • 15 minutes per 30 minute block

Community Service:

• Recycling and Biodiversity
  • 1 hour of work = 1 hour of community service
• Compost
  • 5 times = 30 minutes (6 minutes each time)
• Everything else
  • 15 minutes per 30 minute block

How to differentiate between enrichment and community service hours:

• Enrichment: Anything that falls into the 1st phase/planning phase
• Community Service: Anything that falls into the 2nd phase/action phase
• If there is anything that does not clearly fall into either, e.g. Filming, Video editing, etc, The person and leader of the project can decide whether to list it as enrichment or community service

There will be a compulsory briefing in the near future so be sure to check here every so often and stay in the loop.

On Friday 5th of August, we will begin assigning roles, forming teams for the logistics team and creating rosters. After that it will become more difficult to add or remove members so I strongly suggest you all double check your attendance status.

Best Regards,
Simon and the EEC planners

Anyway, this means that 71 3/7 % of the country are in favour of environmental action. Surely this bodes well for the future.

To login, simply use the email you supplied to us, and the password will be 'falcon' (unless I have emailed you otherwise).

We recommend you change this password afterwards.

You will (soon) receive email updates when you achieve new hours.

If you have any problems with your hours, see Ansh.

If you cannot login, please email me @ moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis#moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis.

YOU WILL NOT NEED TO RE-REGISTER

I'll no longer be contactable at that email :(

Please use my hotmail - moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj#moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj!

Thanks :D

I need a few more personnel to complete this though. Currently need:

• Decent graphics designer

If you can help, contact me at moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis#moc.liamg|natslauqesocrevonis

You can register if you want.

This event is held to celebrate community and the growing of food. It is not an event to raise money; rather it is one of fun and sharing food that we have grown. It is an event that can be used by schools to promote growing vegetables and herbs at school or at home.

Express interest in this thread! (Even though, it IS a while away)

The brochure for the event has been attached.

Cheers,
Amogh

Enjoy and Good luck!

NAB Schools First

Keep the group informed of ideas…

This meeting will properly explain to you how our project system works etc. As such all members must attend.

You must seek leave from your classroom teachers for each of these periods before attending this meeting. If you have an assessment task during this duration, you must attend said assessment and attend the meeting in other non-conflicting periods.

Simon

• Organise time outside of Tuesday lunch meetings to get their work done and project organised.
• Send weekly reports to the project managers via email, preferably as an attached word document.
• The following groups send their reports to Aaron Liu (moc.liamtoh|125.noraa#moc.liamtoh|125.noraa):
  • Recycling
  • Biodiversity
  • Compost
  • EEC
    • Creative Space
      • Time Capsule
    • Publicity Video
• The following following groups send their reports to Ansh Dhaliwal (ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|lawilahd.hsna#ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|lawilahd.hsna):
  • Finance
  • Soft Drink Fountain
  • GCS
  • Project Zero
  • Multimedia
    • EnviroDocs
    • EnviroInspiro!
  • Yearbook
  • EEC
    • Finance
    • Field Trips

Project Report:

• We need to view them to see what progress is going on as well as to figure out how many enrichment and volunteer hours they deserve
• The report will contain:
  • Project Name
  • Project Leader/s
  • Week Number
  • Members
    • Also nominate if member has joined this week
  • Short summary of what happened in the week
    • Any problems
    • Why you weren’t able to complete any work (if applicable, e.g. busy with exams all week)
    • What work was completed
    • Any other points needed
  • Work done by members
    • Will be listed in a table
    • Needs to include:
      • Name
      • Description of Activity (the more description the better)
      • Date/s Completed
      • Time Taken
  • Project reports should be submitted at the end of each week. The week runs from Sunday to Saturday and it is requested that they are submitted by Friday or Saturday. If a report hasn't been submitted by the end of Sunday, we will chase it up and it could result in a loss of the leadership position or no recognition for hours the members put in unless an appropriate excuse is given. We ask that you tell us early as possible as this makes it easier for the project managers as well as Oliver who has to enter all the information into the database.

Example of a Project Report

Project Name: EnviroInspiro!
Project Leader: Nirvan and Raymond (Co-leader)
Week: 7B, Term 1
Summary: Discussion of what we could do as our video. The result was to look into biodiversity as it was the idea that Ms Hofler and Sunny Pak suggested. After school on Friday, we went to the biodiversity group to see whether or not that idea is feasible.
Members:
- Nirvan Gelda
- Raymond Lin
- Edward Mei
- Vinay Halasagi
- Armaan Ansari
- Ansh Dhaliwal (New)
- Angus Gibbs (New)
- William Liu (New)

I really need every EEC project leader to post their name, year, project name + email so I can keep you guys in the loop for things - you can give me your education email if you want - but please make sure you regularly check that email (I find that forwarding education emails to your personal email works!)

e.g. Justin Chen, Year 13 (Logistics) - moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj#moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj

All other main players of the EEC, that is, you aren't exactly a project leader, but would like to be updated with any of my mailing lists, post your name, year and email as well

e.g. Justin Chen, Year 13 - moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj#moc.liamtoh|707_nehcj

Please advise your details even if you are already on the EEC mailing list.

Thanks guys!

Learning for Sustainability Video Conference Festival
Term 2 Week 7 Monday 6th June - Friday 10th June.
To celebrate the 2010 DET Year of Learning for Sustainability the Field of Mars Environmental Education
Centre and Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre are hosting a video conference festival to share best
practice in environmental and sustainability education.
Over one week, 27 video conferences are available that will cover topics such as sustainability, climate
change, worm farms, biodiversity, waste reduction, leadership and technology. Each session is free.
For a complete list of video conferences and to register please visit the Field of Mars EEC Website.
http://www.fieldofmar-e.schools.nsw.edu.au/festival/festival.html

We need to submit an Expression of Interest form by the end of this week. Who was primarily involved with this last year? I currently have little understanding about this. Is it RUN by students? (as it says so in the email…)

• Organise time outside of Tuesday lunch meetings to get their work done and project organised.
• Send weekly reports to project managers via email or wikidot .
• The following groups send their reports to Aaron Liu (moc.liamtoh|125.noraa#moc.liamtoh|125.noraa):
  • Recycling
  • Biodiversity
  • Compost
  • Water/Taps and Bubblers
  • EEC
    • Creative Space
      • Time Capsule
      • Musical Item
    • Publicity Video
• The following following groups send their reports to Ansh Dhaliwal (ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|lawilahd.hsna#ua.vog.wsn.noitacude|lawilahd.hsna):
  • Finance
  • SEMP
  • Soft Drink Fountain
  • GCS
  • Multimedia
    • EnviroDocs
    • EnviroInspiro!
  • Yearbook
  • EEC
    • Finance
    • Field Trips
    • Logistics

Project Report:

• We need to view them to see what progress is going on as well as to figure out how many enrichment and volunteer hours they deserve
• The report will contain:
  • Project Name
  • Project Leader/s
  • Week Number
  • Members
    • Also nominate if member has joined this week
  • Short summary of what happened in the week
    • Any problems
    • Why you weren’t able to complete any work (if applicable, e.g. busy with exams all week)
    • What work was completed
    • Any other points needed
  • Work done by members
    • Will be listed in a table
    • Needs to include
      • Name
      • Description of Activity (the more description the better)
      • Date/s Completed
      • Time Taken
• Project reports should be submitted at the end of each week. The week runs from Sunday to Saturday and it is requested that they are submitted by Friday or Saturday. If a report hasn't been submitted by the end of Sunday, we will chase it up and it could result in a loss of the leadership position or no recognition for hours the members put in unless an appropriate excuse is given. We ask that you tell us early as possible as this makes it easier for the project managers as well as Oliver who has to enter all the information into the database.

Example of a Project Report

Project Name: EnviroInspiro!
Project Leader: Nirvan and Raymond (Co-leader)
Week: 7B, Term 1
Summary: Discussion of what we could do as our video. The result was to look into biodiversity as it was the idea that Ms Hofler and Sunny Pak suggested. After school on Friday, we went to the biodiversity group to see whether or not that idea is feasible.
Members:
- Nirvan Gelda
- Raymond Lin
- Edward Mei
- Vinay Halasagi
- Armaan Ansari
- Ansh Dhaliwal (New)
- Angus Gibbs (New)
- William Liu (New)