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**HERE** //**Sustainability is when we take something that we need to live now without destroying poeple's things. Also for Humans Sustainability is the long term maintence of responsibility of things. Sustainability is also about us taking care of our environment and keeping it safe with what we need. We need to take care of our Earth by recycling, not wasting water and electricity. We've got to also always make sure that we have a sustainable healthy life which we sometimes do not have. **//



**Recycling helps our environment by protecting our wildlife, plants and trees. It saves paper!!** **When we save water, we have more for later and less to pay!** **When we save electrcity we save energy and pay less!** **When we cut trees we destroy animals's habitat and maybe even those fauna. Cutting trees also wastes paper as I said above!** media type="youtube" key="B5NiTN0chj0" width="277" height="235"- **please listen for more info..!! or LOOK AT THE DIOGRAM BELOW..** media type="custom" key="19281712"

**When I was on my walk around Liverpool, I noticed some issues around there and at another area called Wattle Grove a City part of the Liverpool Council. A bad issue that was noticed is the horrible air polution and the busyness in the City of Liverpool. This busyness and polution is very disruptive and noisy to all the people that live around on the hume highways and Elizabeth drive. The air polution can cause people to be ill that live there, as a result, it is a very hard place to live in with all this digusting mess.** **Another issue is that, people that finished shopping from the Westfield or Plaza or from coles at Wattle Grove just dump their abandoned shopping trolleys in the middle of that City without being bothered to return it back to the trolley's shop, however, the trolly pickers might find it more difficult and it is making the City to be a mess. This trolley problem makes more chaos such as, fire, people throwing their rubbish in the trolley, teens being silly with the trolley and disturbes the foot path, however, it is an bad astonishment because this problem also happens at nice quite places in the City of Liverpool. It is also extremely bad to say that, the people that live in Wattle Grove also dump a little ammount of trolleys and it is from coles, however, when you shop at coles in Wattle Grove and want to recieve a trolley you have to insert a $2 or $1 coin but people just find trolleys that you don't have to insert any money in, and after they shop, they just dump their trolley anywhere in the suburb.** **There is also Graffiti in Liverpool in public places and on people's property, however this is super disgusting and annoying for all the people who that happens to them. Graffiti also happens in parks from silly teens who just write silly things. There is also some rubbish in both Cities, therefore, this is unhealthy for our environment and horrible and especially there are a lot of rubbish around the area of Elizabeth drive and Memoraial park. There was also rubbish in tomb graves!! HOW DISAPPOINTING. Also at Wattle grove Lake, the people just throw their rubbish in the Lake, in the bushes and feed the ducks when they are not ment to be, however, this is very dangerous to the wildlife that live in that Lake or out and when people feed the ducks when they aren't meant to be or dump rubbish in the lake, this is called WATER POLLUTION!!!**

**Last of all, there are a few construction sites in Liverpool which can be sometimes very distractive!!** media type="custom" key="18935142" **People do the opposite**
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 * People also cut trees and destroy our bushlands and forests, as a result, the fauna leave because their habitat is gone.**
 * This picture below is an example of a guy cutting trees in a forest and destroying the flora and fauna's habitat.**
 * // I strongly belive that littering is annoying. //**
 * // I thought that a group of children from 6C in ASCPS could go to Memorial park and if can around Elizabeth drive and have a clean up day where they clean up some rubbish to help our environment. //**
 * // Because that little group from 6C will not be able to go to Wattle Grove and pick up some rubbish there or at the lake, they could write a little letter and posted to the council asking for policies such as: //**
 * // - To put more sign around the lake for people not to litter out or in the lake. //**
 * // - To have cameras for those that litter in or around the lake to pay a fine. //**
 * // - To put some advertisments on T.Vs asking the people to save the environment from littering/ rubbish. //**
 * THIS IS A MAP OF THE YEAR 6 LIVERPOOL WALK AROUND. USE THE KEY TO HELP YOU FIGUR OUT THIS MAP UNDER THE HEADING LEGEND!!..EVERY BIT ON THE MAP IS COLOUR CODED FOR YOU!**

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 * I called the store manager of coles at Westfields about their trolleys and the manager said that sometimes their trolleys get **** stolen **
 * and that they have a meating with the council about once a month. I think that they have that meating probably for their trolleys **
 * that get lost! They also **** have a policie for their trolleys, that if someone **** steels **** coles's trolleys, the steeler has to pay a big fine. **
 * Coles does not have the **** $2 or $1 inserter coin rule, and I think that, this is why some **** of the trolleys do not return to coles, however, **
 * in my opinion, they **** should have the that rule!! **
 * Renewables are a very good way of saving our Earth and keeping it safe. It is a healthy way of making electricity/ energy and will not cause any damage to our environment except only cause a little of green house effects, but not as much as nonrenewables do [fossil fuels]. It is a fact that, renewables will never run out even if we are using them to quick. **
 * It is also believed that nonrenewables are not a very healthy way of producing electricity and polutes our planet, as aresult, green house effects happen. Nonrenewables mainly come from old plants and animals that were here millions of years ago, such as: fossil fuels and will one day eventually run out because humans use them way to quick. **
 * Renewables:**
 * Sun, wind, rain and solar panels when they get the heat from the Sun and produce electricity.**


 * Nonrenewable:**
 * Fossil fuels, coal, natural gas and oil.**

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//** On the 21st of May, a group of year six children and some year five children from S.T Christopher, S.T Therese Sadlier, All Saints and S.T Joseph, went on a MERL day trip which stands for Meet, Explore, Research and Learn for the BEYOND THE FENCE project to S.T Christopher's in Holsworthy. **// //** We were taught things about the BEYOND THE FENCE project by guest speackers and they were important information that will help us to improve our wiki page and learn something new! **// //** Below, there are what the guest speackers taught us: **// //** GUEST SPEACKER 1: Peter Carroll ( school communities recycling all paper ) scrap **// //** - Reuse paper **// //** - Do not waste paper and recycle it when it is full of writing **// //** - Without recycling we polute the world and wildlife **// //** - We should save energy and water because if we do not do that we waste electricity **// //** GUEST SPEACKER 2: Liverpool Council ( Melissa Harding ) **// //** - 2200 plants were planted in 2011 **// //** - The council planted trees at Cabramatta Creek **// //** - every year there is a tree planting day where families could plant trees in Liverpool to help the fauna and flora in Liverpool. **// //** - Plants and animals are very important to the world because some parts of the world do not have those plants and animals we have **// //** - Bush lands are very important to the Liverpool area **// //** - It can be dangerouse to some animals in the Liverpool area such as: Koalas and Snails **// //** - There are so much endangered flora such as: bush lands and forests **// //** GUEST SPEACKER 3: Gary Burrows ( sustainability ) **// //** - We need to care for our environment and animals **// //** - We have to reduce, re-use, recycle to have a healthy environment **// //** - We were taught on solar powers and how they get energy from the Sun to produce electricity by the heat that the Sun produces. Solar pannels are mainly on roofs and sometimes on the roofs of people's homes to create electricity for the people. **//

**Solar pannels are renewable resources that create electricity that will never run out and do not cause any damage to our environment. They are a good way of conducting electricity.** //** We had a Quiz and that quiz there are info I want to tell you: **// //** - 375ml of tap water costs 0.0002 **// //** - A bottle of water cost one dollar. So we can fill our own water from home in the same bottle everyday and that will be helping the environment **// //** - Australia wastes a lot of food which is bad because some people in Africa don't have food at all **// //** - (Sustainability)- making sure there is enough for everyone **// //** On MERL day we also did workshops in groups from other schools and the workshops involved propagating plants, looking on a worm farm and learning about that worm farm and last of all reading a book on a environmental issue. **// //** All these workshops were very intresting because it told us about how to propagate plants, so in the future we might propagate our own plant and have a vegie patch. **// //** Even though the environmental issue book was very entertaining because it taught us on how we can take good care of our plants, trees and animals without making buildings and houses for humans and also leaving some forests for the animals. This also helps us not to only think about ourselfs, but also the fauna and flora that live with us. **// media type="custom" key="18655572"
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**There are various types of electricity. Electricity travels through wires and you can notice tham in roads. Electricity comes from renewable and non renewable energy sources. You will find a definition of renewables and non renewables above. A lot of types of electrical sources need batteries. A battery always has the negative side and the positive side. The negative side has it's own wire so as the positive side which travel to a globe [ example]. I fany of the wires break, the globe stops working[ example].**

**You can also create electricity if something is a conductor to the wire.** **Most conductors are: matal, foil[because it's aleminium], aligator clips, water and many more. This is because matal is a very good conductor that could create electricity.** **Most nonconductors are: rubber, wood, cotton and many more. This is because electricity can not travel through these objects because they aren't good conductors and stop electricity. If you also notce, wires are covered with rubbor because rubbor is not a good conductor and blocks electricity.** ** Battery soarces: ** This a soarce of the plus battery This are soarces of batteries plus and minus Water is a very good conductor to electricity. We are also good conductors to electricity because our body is full o water. Aluminium Wood Dimonds Rubber Cotton [] or []
 * The pics.. below are conductors of electricity: **
 * The pics... below are nonconductors of electricity: **
 * On the 5th of June 2012, year six went to All Saints Girls College to have a look on the presentaions the Girls High school did to celebrate world environment day. The girls did a lot of presentations and creative work and they taught us on how to reduce, re-use, recycle and how we can save our environment by not cutting trees because this destroys our wildlife and nature and they also taught us that we should save water and electricity and try not to polute the world. Poluting can come from burned fossil fuels and transport that we use. We were also taught about green house gases and this warms our Earth which causes global warming, climate change. **
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=//__ INTERESTING FACTS ON TROLLEYS __//= =// - trolleys cost 200 million dollars is spent to repair and collect //= =// - trolleys are dumped in various places and may be dumped in rivers and lakes //= =// - lots trolleys are spread around in Liverpool from various shops in WESTFIELDS and PLAZA which disturb pathways //= = = = = //**On the 25th of June 2012, year 6C walked to a park near warwick farm, just at the train station to plant some shrubs/plants. There we saw Melissa Harding, from the Liverpool council who helped us to plant those shrubs a demonstrated how to plant those shrubs first before we planted.**//

//**The purpose of that day was to produce more native shrubs for the native fauna. This planting day will extremely help all the fauna that want a habitat and will bring some more fauna to Liverpool. It was amazing that people in 6C got to plant more than one shrub, and overall there was two hundred shrubs planted on that day. WOW. Those fauna are extremely luky.**// //**The plants/ shrubs 6C planted were:**// //**Look at the pictures below to show you the big effort 6C did:**// **WOW!! Look at that!!** **OH my Gosh!!** **Wow!!** **What a menumentous effort!!** **WOW!!**
 * - Themeda australis**
 * - Ozothamnus diosmifolium**
 * - Acacia falcata**
 * - Dichondra repens**
 * - Incligofera australis**
 * - Dillwynia sieberi**
 * - Cymbopogon refractus**
 * - Rubus paruifolius**
 * - Goodenia ouata**
 * - Lomandra longifolia**
 * - Bursaria spinosa**
 * - Hardenbergia violacea**
 * - Dodonaea viscosa**
 * - Daviesia ulicifolia**

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 * __// TROLLEYS //__**
 * // 1. What policies can be put into place to stop the dumping of trolleys? //**
 * // Some of the policies that should be put for the trollies are: //**
 * // - people insert a $2 coin to recieve the trolley //**
 * // - if people find a lost trolley and return it back they will get a $45 cash //**
 * // - if people get the trolley out of the trolley shop land, they shall pay a fine //**
 * // - every trolley must have a magnet, so if the trolleys go to far from their stores they stop //**
 * // 2. Which supermarket trolleys are being dumped? //**
 * // Some of the trolleys that are being dumped are mainly from Westfeilds and the Plaza and they shops they are being dumped from are: //**
 * // - big W //**
 * // - coles //**
 * // - woolworths //**
 * // - franklins //**
 * // - target //**
 * // - toy r us //**
 * // It is disappointing because there is not the rule about the $2 coin inserter like in ALDI!! //**
 * // 3. Which area in Liverpool has the most abandoned shopping trolleys? Why? //**
 * According to my walk around Liverpool, I thought that the trolleys were often dumped around Elizabeth drive and the places around the Memorial park where there are new, beautiful apartments. I think that people dump their trolleys there because people often live there and they want to dump it somewhere near their unit so it is easier for them to carry their shopping in the trolley to their unit so they don't walk that much with their shopping from Westfields or the Plaza. It is strongly believed that, this is very bad because this makes more trouble than just dumpings, due to it is a fact that, this makes more distruption in those great places!! Also at my map of Liverpool above, you could also see the places that have trolleys dumped there.**
 * // 4. How do Aldi shopping trolleys work? //**
 * // Aldi shopping trolleys work by the passengers inserting a $2 coin in the trolley to recieve the trolley or they can buy the aldi coin for $2 and use it instead of having to bring a $2 coin every time shopping at aldi. This is a good policie which should be also done to other shops because this conviences people to return the trolley for the sake of the money and not just dump it like what other people do with the trolleys that don't have to be paid. //**
 * // 5. What is the cost of trolley repairs and how much do new trolleys cost? //**
 * // The retail industry pays more than $200 million a year collecting, repairing, mantaining and replacing //**
 * // shopping trolleys. It is estimated that their are more than 2 million trolleys around Australia each one //**
 * // costs $100. //**
 * __// TREE PLANTING //__**
 * // 1. How do we bring back the endangered speices of Liverpool into the area? //**
 * // Maybe we could try to plant some more trees and plants and try to bring back the forests by maybe having 3 national tree //****// planting days a year, etc. //**
 * // We could also try to stop the air and water pollution that is appearing to all of the rivers and forests //**
 * // in the area of Liverpool, however, this might start bringing back some more wildlife and flora and fauna to the area of Liverpool. //**
 * // Another reason is that we could stop cutting down trees to make buildings for humans, because the more trees cut, the more //****// we will not have that much species. //**
 * // The council also does some plans to help the environment such as: //**
 * // national tree planting day and probably more!! //**
 * // 2. What are the native flora and fauna of Liverpool? //**
 * // Some fauna and that are around Liverpool are koalas, snails, birds, ducks in rivers and some //****// fish, eals in a lake in Wattle Grove, part of the Liverpool council, //****flying foxes [ they are** **types of bats], birds, black cacatoos, owls, Eastern pygmy posums and green and golden frogs and pigeons.**
 * // Some of the flora that could be found //****// around Liverpool are gum trees, //****// sunflowers, bushes lands, //****// parks and rural areas. //**
 * // There are also other types of trees which include Grey box [Eucalyptus moluccana] and forest red gum. //**
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 * // 3.Which plants/ animals are endangered in Liverpool? //**
 * // Some animals that are in danger in Liverpool are koalas and snails. //**
 * // There are 58 threatened species around Liverpool. There about 23 //**
 * // flora species and 35 fauna species which we damage and they are //**
 * // mainly insects and bats. //**
 * Also according to Mellisa Harding who I spoke to on the phone, flying foxes [ they are types of bats], birds, black cacatoos, owls, Eastern pygmy posums and green and golden frogs are also types of fauna in Liverpool that are in danger and threatened species.**
 * Also bushlands and forests re endangered by us because we cut down trees.**

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 * // 4. What policies Liverpool Council has inplace to protect the endangered plants/ animals? //**
 * // At Wattle Grove lake, part of the Liverpool council, there was two rules there to //****// protect the wildlife in that lake. The first one was, DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE, //****// but unfortunatly people do the opposite by feeding the wildlife with some bread. //**
 * // The second policie was, KEEP DOGS OUT OF THE LAKE to protect the wildlife in the lake and people obey this policie. //**
 * // These two policies are policies I notices at Wattle Grove, part of the Liverpool council to protect the fauna and flora such as: //**
 * // FAUNA //**
 * // -fish //**
 * // -ducks //**
 * // -eals //**
 * // and FLORA such as: //**
 * // -lak //**
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 * There is also another policie that dogs must be atatched to that sring thing so the wildlife can be protected in lakes and rivers.**
 * The council also does some plans for the anvironment!!**
 * // 5. How much money is spent on repairing damaged parklands? //**
 * According to Joel who I called on 98219504, $1000 to $2000 is spent on reppairing big damaged**
 * parklands and the flora and fauna that live in this parkland. There are about $500 that are spent**
 * on repairing the normal sized parklands and the flora and fauna that live there!**

__POSITIVE +__
 * - $2 coin inserter rule. **
 * - Magnets in aldi trolleys. If trolleys go to far from aldi they stop from that magnet thing! **
 * - Trolley trackers/ you can win a $1000. **

__NEGATIVE -__ **FOR LOOKING**
 * - Dumpings of trolleys in lakes and rivers. **
 * - Some shops do not have the $2 coin inserter rule. This is probabaly why some trolleys get sollen! **
 * - Money is wasted when trolleys are dumped/ stollen. **
 * - People sometimes do not care about the $2 inserter coin rule and still steel/ dump the trolley where they want. **