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Thirteen thousand students across Australia are about to record their daily impact on the environment in a project called Green Lane Diaries. Radio National's Fran Kelly reports.
An international award-winning sustainability initiative is coming to Queensland schools in their Year of Environmental Sustainability. The Green Lane Diary is a free curriculum-linked education program for students aged 10-12 years being championed by Green Cross Australia. The Department of Education and Training is a Gold Sponsor of the Green Lane Diary.
Tallebudgera Valley State School captain Ari Pollet has been inspired to think green. The launch of Green Cross Australia's new environmental project the Green Lane Diary encourages younger generations towards a more sustainable and greener future. Last Friday more than 10,000 primary school students across more than 80 schools in Queensland became the first in Australia to participate in the new green program. Gold Coast Mail reports.
Albany Hills State School was the scene on Friday for the launch of a green diary that will be rolled out to 10,000 students in the state. Students from the school will be among the first to record their eco-friendly actions in the diary in a bid to make preserving the environment a way of life. The Green Lane Diary was instigated by humanitarian environment group Green Cross Australia, which aims to encourage creative ideas that could help shape our environmental future. Pine Rivers Press reports.
Sustainable living is the message of a new interactive learning tool. Green Cross Australia's Green Lane Diary is an exciting new and free environmental education program. The Courier Mail's Poppy Masselos reports.
Bovis Lend Lease recently hosted a luncheon in support of Green Cross Australia's Build it Back Green Queensland initiative to begin planning how the community can rebuild large scale sustainable infrastructure in the event of Queensland's next major weather disaster.
Green Cross Australia would not be able to do the work that we do without the valuable support and donations from individuals and companies around Australia. We'd like to take this opportunity to spotlight Biome Eco Stores and give them a huge thanks for their continued support - including events, donations and Facebook campaigns!
The second annual Extreme Weather Heroes Summit held in the Gold Coast hinterland on Jan 30-31st, was an outstanding success with emergency service volunteers from agencies across Australia - made possible by generous donations from our suppporters!
ABC invited Green Cross Australia's CEO Mara Bun to write an opinion piece about woman and climate change. Read "What women want (and its not shoes)".
Green Cross International's Founding President Mikhail Gorbachev draws urgent parallels between the fall of Communism and the fight to stop climate change.