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Firefighters throughout Australia will be honoured today for their protection of hundreds of millions of hectares of Australia's native bird habitats over the past century at a special ceremony at Federation Square Melbourne for World Environment Day. |
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The Prime Minster Kevin Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong and the Leader of the Opposition Brendan Nelson are among the first people to be briefed about the World's first online climate change education program which has been created in Australia.
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Gould, formerly the Gould League Australia's oldest environmental education organisation, has turned to the internet to launch a national campaign to protect Australia's native birds against the impact of climate change. |
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The Queensland Government could save $29 million on energy and water costs for schools over three years ...
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Gould, formerly the Gould League, has turned to the internet to launch a national campaign to re-connect with the millions of Australians who signed the famous Gould League Bird Pledge to protect Australia's native birds. |
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Millions of students across the world will be able to speak to each other and exchange ideas to combat climate change through a brand new internet program The Sustainability WIZ, the world's first online Climate Change classroom created in Australia. |
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The disappearance and downsizing of Australia's backyard in major capital cities is placing increased pressure of Australia's native birdlife. |
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Students at Simonds Catholic Boy's College in West Melbourne have received a $15,000 solar system after winning the Solar Your School competition, run by the Victorian Government's energy saving campaign - You have the Power. Save Energy. |
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Australia's oldest environmental education group Gould has used the return of students to school to urge Australian Governments and Industry to urgently introduce a national and consistent Climate Change education program in Australia. |
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Two school children in London will launch a brand new Online Climate Change Education Program in the Sustainability Wiz with the signing of the Gould Climate Change Pledge. |
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Millions of students across the world will be able to speak to each other and exchange ideas to combat climate change in the world's first online Climate Change classroom created in Australia and which will be officially launched in London next week. |
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Education will be the international engine room of climate change with school teachers becoming the vital link for governments to deliver climate change policies and targets Australia's major environmental education organization said today.
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Australia could play a major role in leading the world on climate change education with the release of the Sustainability Wiz, a brand new web-enabled $5 million sustainability education product designed for schools, teachers and students. |
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Sustainability Wiz, a brand new web-enabled $5 million sustainability education product designed for schools, teachers and students has inbuilt monitoring tools allowing schools to cut their energy and water costs by thousands of dollars. |
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Monday 3 December 2007 was the official launch of the Gould Green Christmas@Fed Square by Steve Herbert, Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Education. |
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Children in Melbourne will sign a special Climate Change Pledge to give the environment a present at the official launch of the Gould Green Christmas@Fed Square which will be webcast internationally. |
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Imagine the world without the sound of birds. Australia's major environmental education organisation formed to protect birds in 1909 today warned that climate change had the potential to have a significant impact on Australia's birdlife at a time when a newly released United Nations Report claims 12% of birds in the world face extinction. |
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A project at Carlton Primary School that provides real-life, practical learning experiences for students and brings together the cultures and foods of many nations today culminated with a Harvest Celebration that was attended by Melbourne's Lord Mayor John So; Cr. Fraser Brindley - Environment Committee Melbourne City Council and members of Melbourne Rotary Club |
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Australia's major environmental education organisation Gould Group today urged parents to use Children's Week to introduce their children to bird watching in their garden. |
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The world's first online Climate Change Education Program, made in Australia, is being piloted in the United Kingdom and will be released in London in January at the world's largest Environmental Trade Show BETT. |
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Federal Members of Parliament and their State counterparts could be seen out in their electorates with binoculars in the next couple of weeks. They won't be looking for potential voters - they will be bird spotting in response to a call to support National Bird Day on Monday 29th October. |
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Schools and charities throughout Australia will have an opportunity to raise funds by selling water through a unique program established by environmental education organisation Gould Group and Solidwater Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. |
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National Bird Day in Australia has never been more important as many of our birds are facing extinction with climate change and the drought - Gould Group. |
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Environmental education and sport in Australia will become increasingly merged to ensure the playing fields of Australia will remain sustainable. |
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School roofs and innovative storm water collection will play an increasing part protecting students from sporting injuries on drought hardened ovals and playgrounds. |
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The world's first online Climate Change Education Program made in Australia is set to be introduced into a number of APEC countries. |
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Minister Bronwyn Pike, MP for Melbourne, and Dr Dominique Hess, Melbourne University School of Architecture, will today judge the efforts of year 8 Princes Hill Secondary College students in building a model Sustainable City Street as part of the Sustainable Cities Challenge project. |
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The world's first online Climate Change Education Program made in Australia could save schools millions of dollars in water and energy saving annually. |
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Members of Parliament from all sides of politics will be given the chance to show their support for combating climate change and sustainable living by joining children in a Climate Change Pledge. |
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The Gould Group, founded some ninety eight years ago to protect Australia's native birds with Alfred Deakin Australia's second Prime Minister as its President, has launched a Kids Club as part of its climate change and environmental education program. |
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Gould Group and The Wrigley Company, Australia today announced a new waste education partnership with the launch of a free waste education resource for Victorian teachers. |
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In 1881 Charles Darwin wrote "Of all animals, few have contributed so much to the development of the world as we know it as earth worms." |
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Worms from around Melbourne today have wriggled their way to Federation Square to receive accolades for their contribution to the environment and important work to limit the impact of Climate Change. |
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The launch of the Gould Group Climate Change Education Centre Garden was a great success with over a hundred people attending to see Mr Green leap into action to officially launch the garden. |
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The environmental and health impacts of the drought on school grounds and ovals is the focus of a new Climate Change Education Centre developed by the environmental education organisation, Gould Group. |
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Education of future generations on climate change will be the key to successfully cutting greenhouse gases, says Australia's major environmental education organisation, Gould Group. |
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The Gould Group, founded some ninety eight years ago to protect native birdlife in Australia with Australia’s second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin as its President, today announced it would release a special online Climate Change pledge to over 10,000 schools. |
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A potential world wide audience of 3 billion households will see Australia’s oldest environmental organisation and schools throughout Victoria recognised for their outstanding environmental education programs and participation in the war against waste. |
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The Sustainables Challenge project, to help students learn about ten simple actions they, their schools and their families can take to help battle climate change and save the planet was launched in regional Victoria today in Mooroopna. |
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Children at Berwick Primary School celebrated the arrival of a massive green water tank this morning with a song. |
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The world's first online Climate Change Education Program made in Australia is likely to be introduced overseas before it is implemented in schools in Australia. |
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Climate Change has become an education and political hot spot that needs a nationally coordinated approach, Australia’s major environmental education organisation said today. |
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School roofs and innovative storm water collection will play an increasing part protecting students from sporting injuries on drought hardened ovals and playgrounds. |
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The Christmas Carols sung by Victorian school children today at Federation Square as part of the Gould Group's Green Christmas were dedicated to the hundreds of fire fighters fighting fires across Victoria. |
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Australia’s major environmental education organisation, the Gould Group, said racial harmony and understanding can grow in Australia through the development of educational programs that link the food, gardening and cooking of all nations. |
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Water was on the agenda today in Melbourne when a green Father Christmas arrived at Federation Square to officially launch the Gould Group and Federation Square Green Christmas program with water tips and water saving presents in his sack. |
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Climate Change has become an education hot spot that needs a nationally coordinated approach, Australia’s major environmental education organisation said today. |
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Australia’s oldest environmental group the Gould League, named after John Gould and formed in 1909, today will renew its Bird Lovers Pledge with the release of its original heritage certificate at Federation Square this morning. |
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Lilydale High School is part of the Yarra Valley eRich Learning Environment project, which received $12.7 million government funding, including $3.1 million from the Victorian Government’s Broadband Innovation Fund (BIF), to develop a world-class, technology-rich learning environment says Victorian Minister for Information Communication and Technology, Marsha Thomson. |
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Students at Lilydale High School will today demonstrate a new environmental online learning program ‘Sustainability Wiz’ created by the Gould Group, Australia’s major environmental education group, and Etech Group, the Australian company that delivers specialist learning solutions to the education sector worldwide. Sustainability Wiz programs could potentially cut energy and water bills to schools by millions of dollars annually. |
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Federation Square will host a Green Christmas this year as part of its broad Christmas Program, with a special ten day partnership with the Gould Group - Australia’s major environmental education organisation. |
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The development of business and entrepreneurial skills is vital component of education. |
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Australia’s oldest environmental group the Gould League, named after Sir John Gould and formed in 1909, is about to officially renew its pledge with the re-release of its original heritage certificate and the launch of a new membership program. |
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Maintaining green ovals in Australia is a major community and environmental issue. |
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Obesity should be attacked with a national campaign of life
skills to teach students how to grow their own healthy food and to
understand the health value of drinking water instead of sugar laden
soft drinks, a major Australian educational organisation said today.
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Player safety on drought hardened grounds due to water restrictions should be a major driving force to upgrade management and water use on Australia’s sporting ovals say the Gould Group and the AFL Queensland.
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Australia’s drought has had a major impact on farming and the economy and is also a long term threat to Australian sport with player safety under threat according the Gould Group. |
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Don’t let the environment croak it was the message today from over a hundred children who celebrated the role FROGS play in helping monitor the health of the environment. |
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It was all hands on deck today at the Whitten Oval when players lead by Rohan Smith turned their football skills to planting vegetables with students from the West Footscray Primary School. |
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Students and schools could become major future players in the recycling industry through the new ‘Enterprise Schools’ program that aims to turn environmental problems into money making businesses. |
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