The Resources Team
By buying and using the correct resources that are more friendly to the environment we can play a big part in reducing our impact on the planets natural resources. From recycled paper to eco friendly cleaning products every small change can help in a big way. These changes at school and at home can send a big message to others that we think and we care about the resources that we use.
Use this area to record all that you have produced, videos and pictures that you have taken and any other relevant evidence of your progress.
Use this area to record all that you have produced, videos and pictures that you have taken and any other relevant evidence of your progress.
The Resources Team
We are Kitty and Jasmine, part of the resources team. Our school is already very eco-friendly but unfortunately, we use a lot of resources, such as paper because of the HUGE amount of printing we do. Last year, we put up double sided printing instructions by all the printers, but we don't think they are being used. Sadly, the paper we use is not recycled and our red recycling bags are underused. We are in the proccess of making plans about starting to buy recycled resources for our school. We will update with more information soon!! :)
What are resorces and why are they impotant?
If you think about the world we live in there are many different aspects of life that arn't good for the envirnment and different concerns and resorces is one of them. Resorces is basically what we use in everyday life for example paper or pencils, each one of these different things came from things like wood to use for paper and pencils. But to make paper from wood a very long process is taken to change the wood into paper, this usually takes up a lot of fossil fuels which are very limited and will soon run out. Also we need trees to live and breathe so we can't keep on chopping them down or there wont be any left and if we don't stop now it will be to late, the trees disappear for ever...
If you think about the world we live in there are many different aspects of life that arn't good for the envirnment and different concerns and resorces is one of them. Resorces is basically what we use in everyday life for example paper or pencils, each one of these different things came from things like wood to use for paper and pencils. But to make paper from wood a very long process is taken to change the wood into paper, this usually takes up a lot of fossil fuels which are very limited and will soon run out. Also we need trees to live and breathe so we can't keep on chopping them down or there wont be any left and if we don't stop now it will be to late, the trees disappear for ever...
The resources we all use
Below is a wonderful way of thinking about the amount of resources we use each year. It represents the amount of coal, plastics etc that everyone of us needs each year to live our lives. For example the amount of coal we need every year is enough to sculpt 12 adult models. Why is steel smaller than paper? Because its a lot denser so it takes a much greater weight to make a model. This is for one year and it happens year after year. Is this really sustainable? Amazing!
So what's the big issue?
Why is it so important to consider what resources we use? What difference could it make to our environment whatever resources we buy?