SFSF - Schools For a Sustainable Future

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SFSF Annual Presentation Days
Each year SFSF holds a special event to highlight the best school environment projects and bring together teachers, students and SFSF sponsors.

• Recognising School Environmental Projects Friday 25th October 2002
• Recognising School Environmental Projects Friday 26th October 2001
• Recognising School Environmental Projects Friday 13th October 2000
• Showing the Way (1998-1999)

SFSF Profile Day

• Acknowledging the Supporters (1998)

Claire Miller - Environmental Reporter (Extraordinaire!)    Top of Page

• Blueprint - Here's the plan to sustain a green and pleasant land (2000)
• Climate Change - Worried about climate change? You're living in it! (2000)
• Footprint - How my life helps kill Earth (2000)
• Freeway - Scientists fight freeway to save rare grasslands (2000)
• Glenelg Park - Lifeline for endangered habitats (2000)
• Green - Not so green, less than clean (2000)
• Owls - Rare Owls set off new forest furore (2000)
• Why we should worry about orang-utans (2000)

Community & Environmental Groups    Top of Page

• A Real Alternative - ATA's alternative technology classroom on wheels (1998)
• Community health = Sustainable Futures - At CERES Environment Park (1998)
• Creating a Sustainable Future - At your School (1998)
• Future Harvest - A Museum of Victoria traveling exhibition (1998)
• Innovative Australian Companies - Designing for an eco- friendly world (1998)
• The Plenty River Discovery Program (1998)
• Taking Sustainability Home - the Worming Into the Community Project (1998)
• What can VAEE do for you? (1998)
• WHEN - and How? and What (1998)
• Ze Verms, Ze Verms, Look at Ze Little Verms EAT! - Ceres Project (1998)
• Adbusters - Challenging the lies (1999)
• Making a Difference in Secondary Schools - For students, teachers & parents (1999)
• Our Community Supporters - A big Thank You! (1999)
• Protect and Survive - John Gray, Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Oslo (1999)
• Schools as Leaders in Sustainability - The Oakleigh Sth Sustainability Project (1999)
• SFSF Schools in Nillumbik - Supports four schools (1999)
• Technology to help Save the Planet - If the price is right (1999)
• The Next Reformation - An interview with Paul Hawken, by Sarah Van Gelder (1999)
• Wanted!! A better measure of how we live - by Ross Gittins (1999)
• What Happened in our Schools - creative projects undertaken by schools in the SFSF network (1999)
• What I Learned in the Rainforest - by Tachi Kiuchi Managing Director Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (1999)

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• Hands On Learnscapes Seminar - Southmoor P.S. will highlight the benefits of developing school grounds for learning. (2002)
• Hands On Learnscapes Seminar - Southmoor P.S. will highlight the benefits of developing school grounds for learning. (2001)
• Hands On Learnscapes Seminar - Southmoor P.S. will highlight the benefits of developing school grounds for learning. (2000)

Creating a Sustainable Future Conference    Top of Page

• Creating a Sustainable Future 2002 - Earth Sustainability Conference Inc. is an inclusive, non-profit, non-affiliated network of educators, students, community leaders and members of the wider community. We are committed to challenging and enabling students in partnerships with others, to harness their energy, their talents, their creativity and their dreams to create a sustainable future. We are organising a national residential conference at the University of Melbourne which will bring students together to examine what is now recognised as the major issue of our time...
• Creating a Sustainable Future 2000 - A Conference for senior secondary students - which is not a talk-fest. We, E.A.R.T.H. Inc, are planning a national live in residential conference for Senior Secondary students from rural and metropolitan schools in all school systems in July 2002.

Deep Ecology     Top of Page

• Hans Foik - Deep Ecology
  • Weekend - Monbulk Bush Setting (2000)
• Asking Deep Questions (2000)

EcoNewsletter   Top of Page

• EcoNewsletters Highlights 2001 Project - As one of the major sponsors of this years EcoNewsletter Parks Victoria help of thousands of volunteers and environment groups continually protects and enhance these natural treasures and encourages people to use them as places to reconnect with nature.    Parks Victoria would like children who have been to a Park either with their school, or their family to write a story about their visit for their school EcoNewsletter complete with photos.   When your group is planning its EcoNewsletter see if you can encourage at least one exciting story about your visit to a Parks Victoria park.... read more (2001)
• EcoNewsletters Highlights 2000 Project - Schools Schools for a Sustainable Future worked with schools and the community on a range of practical environmental projects. A key project last year was inviting schools across Victoria (and beyond) to produce their own local environment magazine. An outstanding entry from Cobden Technical school. It demonstrated an excellent range of activities and showed how a school can be active in a wide range of environmental programs which provide leadership to the local community. Cobden distributed the newsletter to a number of feeder schools as well as the broader community.

Editorials    Top of Page

• The News Tree - Time checks our ecological clock (1998)
• Welcome to Synergy - Magazine of Schools for a Sustainable Future! (1998)
• There are none so blind as those who will not see! (1999)
• Top Award for Learnscape Project (1999)

Environmental Partnerships in Action    Top of Page

• Australian Catholic University and SFSF (1999)

Featured Articles    Top of Page

• East Gippsland's Forests - Andrew Picone takes us for a walk on the wild side to explore East Gippsland's precious old-growth forests (1998)
• Goolengook - An introduction (1998)
• Inspiring change for the whole community - All about Schools For a Sustainable Future, the organization behind Synergy (1998)
• Jump Max! Jump! - The unfortunate frog story (1998)
• New School may be greenest in Washington State - Seattle Times 30 August 2000 (2000)
• Severn Suzuki - Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, Rio Centro, Brazil 1992 (2000)
• The Declaration of Interdependence - David Suzuki Foundation (2000)

Local Government     Top of Page

• Enviroment Protection Agency Victoria
  • - A supporter of Schools For a Sustainable Future (1998)
• Maroondah City Council
  • - SFSF in Maroondah raring to go! (1998)
  • - Maroondah Joins International Greenhouse Program (1999)
  • - Steps Towards Sustainability (2000)
• Monash Council
  • - Focusing on Sustainability (2000)
• Nillumbik Shire
  • - SFSF Schools in Nillumbik (1999)
  • - Sponsors Sustainable Future Schools (1999)

   

Professional Development Course     Top of Page

Designed specifically for environmental educators who want to make a difference... course details

Schools      Top of Page

• Australian Catholic University - Educating for Life - Teaching Our Future Teachers (1998)
• Baywater North P S - The Future Starts Here (2000)
• Chatham P.S - Interest in Recycling and The Environment (1999)
• Clayton P.S - Achievement in Changing its Environment (2000)
• Clayton North P.S - Towards a Sustainable Future (1999)
• Diamond Creek P.S - Goes Wormy (1999)
• Diamond Creek East P.S - Worming into the Community at DCEPS (1999)
• Jacana P.S - Jacana P.S. shows the way! (2000)
• Knox Park P.S - Lakewood Nature Reserve (2000)
• Monash P.S - Worm farming at Monash Primary (1998)
• Mt. Waverly P.S - Environmental Projects are Alive and Sparkling (2000)
• Norwood Secondary College - Towards a Sustainable Future (1999)
• Oakleigh South P.S - Home for (SFSF) Schools For a Sustainable Future (1999)
• Panton Hills P.S - Blue Worms at Panton Hill (1999)
• Plenty Valley Christian School - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Respect (1999)
• Ringwood North P.S - Tree Planting Day at Loughie's Bushland (2000)
• Southmoor P.S - Learning through life (2000)
• Syndal South P.S - A School For a Sustainable Future (2000)
• Yarra Valley Grammar Junior School - Looking After Their Future (2000)
• Whitefriars College - Environmental Projects (2000)

SFSF Community Newsletters     Top of Page

Nillumbik Shire Council - recently sponsored four local primary schools to participate in the Schools For a Sustainable Future program whose aim was to increase awareness about environmental and waste minimisation issues. November 1999

Monash City Council - The City of Monash has sponsored 15 schools over the last four years to participate in the SFSF pogram February 2000

Maroondah City Council - like many innovative local Councils, Maroondah City Council has committed itself to leading their local community to a sustainable lifestyle. In that context it has developed a range of strategic goals for the local environment. January 2000

Sustainable Businesses      Top of Page

• BP Amoco Group - Environmental Improvement Program (1999)
• Bonza Bags The Calico Bag Revolution (1998)
• EcoRecycle - Victoria's Waste Minimisation Program for Schools (1998)
• Ethical Enterprise Network- Ethical Business is Within our Grasp (1998)
• Greenworld - It's a Green, Greenworld! (1998)
• Gumleaf Aromatics - Committed to a Sustainable Future (1998)
• Least Waste- Become a Waste Wise School (2000)
• Softex Industries - At last Recycling that Closes the Loop! (1999 - 2000)
• Sustainable Solutions - Turns Problems into Opportunities (1998)
• Waste Wise
  • - Maroondah City Council - The word is out! Gould League (2000)
• - Monash City Council - The word is out! Goud League (2000)

Synergy Newsletters    Top of Page

Synergy Vol 1 Issue I - Published in March 1998 and mailed to every primary and secondary school in Victoria, this issue showcases significant contributions to the field of environmental eduation.

Synergy Vol 1 Issue 2 - Published in Ocotober 1999. This issue features the story of how BP Amoco's dedicated staff succeeds in reducing waste at their Melbourne Head Office.