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What is Sustainability? Sustainability is to keep something alive and going by contacting the government.

what environment issues are around Liverpool and in your local neighborhood? Some issues are: Shopping trolleys are left on footpaths Illegal graffiti on cars, trees, private property and train stations Illegal littering (dumping)

Some suggestions for us to make a difference are: We can go on a walk and pick up litter We can write a letter or contact Liverpool council and tell them the issues.

=My MERL day experience=

At MERL day 4 schools came together to learn about sustainability and the Environment. we had three guest speakers named Peter Carroll, Melissa Harding and Gary Barrows. Each one had something significant about them Peter Carroll was from SCRAP (School Communities Recycling All Paper). Melissa Harding is somebody that go's around Liverpool searching for parks that need more trees. They choose the top 8 parks that need trees and work on them. Gary Barrows was the last guest speaker and spoke about how electricity is made and what they are. There was wind power, wave power, solar power and hydro power.

I attended the propagating plants workshop and planted a garlic in a bottle the bottle acts like a green house and traps all the heat in to make it grow. I really enjoyed this workshop because i got to bring home my mother a garlic she can cook with and i want to see have a plant grows in heat.

=Class Project=

Trolleys
1) What policies can be put into place to stop the dumping of trolleys? 2) Which supermarket trolleys are being dumped? The shopping trolleys that are being dumped are coles, woolworths, big W, toys r us and target. 3) Which area in Liverpool has the most abandoned shopping trolleys? Why? 4) How do Aldi shopping trolleys work? 5) What is the cost of trolley repairs? And how much do new trolleys cost?

Tree Planting
1) How do we bring back the endangered species of Liverpool into the area? 2) What are the native flora and fauna of Liverpool? 3) Which plants/animals are endangered in Liverpool? 4) What polices Liverpool Council has in place to protect the endangered plants/animals? 5) How much $ is spent on repairing damaged park lands?

=World Environment Day= Yesterday we went to the All saints girls high school i really enjoyed our visit.They had awesome performances that gave me ideas like using containers instead of packaging, and using the four R's. They stand for Reduce, Reuse, Refuse and Recycle. My favorite workshop was the lollipop workshop which you had to answer a multiple choice question and if you get it correct you get a lollipop.

Tree Planting With Melissa Harding On the 25th of June 2012 we walked to Hart park and met Melissa there. We all enjoyed going there and planted 200 shrubs/plants such as: Acacia falcata, themeda australis, Dichondra repens and Rubus paruifolius.