Chelsea

**__ Sustainability __** Sustainability is the way we look after the environment around us. And using its resources properly and taking **NEEDED** amounts for ourselves. **__ Liverpool __****__ Walk Observations __** During our walk around Liverpool city, I made some observations I have realized some of the locals were very careless with their rubbish some of the streets were full of rubbish and some of the bins were overflowing with rubbish. Anyway here are some of the observations I have made. Rubbish: The streets had litter in them; rubbish bags were left in the street and there was even a pram! When we went to the Georges River I was disgusted there were bottles floating everywhere and other wastes, there was even a part of a watermelon. Another thing is when we went to the “pioneer memorial park” a few of the graves were vandalized which was sort of sad, one of the good things that happened in the pioneer memorial park” was that we realized, the council had put up gates that surrounded the graves and they were working towards restoring the grave stones to their former glory. In some parts of our local area there was plenty of graffiti which was very repulsive to look at. Some of the parks were ruined, not because of graffiti but the rough treatment the equipment was getting. One of the good things is that the houses and units are starting to recycle which I think has lessened our local areas carbon footprint and I also saw on some roofs there were solar panels. To summarise this I would like to say that Liverpool is not that bad in its carbon footprint, and if extended its hard work it will do very well.

Here are some of the pictures of what we saw.

**__ MERL Day __** At Merl day we visited the school St Christophers at Holsworthy where we listened to guest speakers tell us interesting things and facts that we never knew. We learned how and why we should treat our resources properly. One of the fun activities that we did was learn to propagate plants!