Clean Up Australia Day

Clean Up Australia Day 2017 is happening on Sunday the 5th of March. Sign up to help clean, fix and conserve the earth.

Our country is a unique one, with its found-nowhere-else-on-earth flora and fauna, and its breathtaking natural scenery. The nature around us is wonderful, however, an evil lurks within it; an evil which threatens to damage and destroy nature in all its abundance in Australia: rubbish.

Australians throw away about 41 million tonnes of rubbish every year, but not all of it goes to landfill or recycling. Heaps of it is simply thrown onto the ground, left to endanger nearby animals. It's this rubbish that continually reappears and so needs to be cleaned up. This is where Clean Up Australia Day comes in.

Clean Up Australia Day is an annual event wherein people clean up public areas such as parklands to help conserve the environment. It's a great cause to volunteer and give your time for.

To find a site and sign up to help clean up Australia, visit:www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/

By: Anita

Trouble in The Arctic

Global warming affects everyone, and it's going to affect the Inuit people of Northern Canada a lot more than it does now.

Companies that mine for resources have turned their eyes towards The Arctic in their search for oil reserves and deposits. Due to the rising sea levels and melting ice sheets, these companies can easily access The Arctic to try and find resources.

They use seismic blasting (loud pulses of sound) to search for resource reserves but haven't considered the negative impact that seismic blasting has on the native wildlife, and also the native Inuit people. The native animals of The Arctic use sound to communicate, find food, and ultimately survive. The seismic blasting. however, will interfere with the animals by creating additional sound waves which mess up their communications. This wreaks havoc on the wildlife and the Inuit people who depend on it for survival.

Something has to be done to stop the resource companies from destroying the wildlife of The Arctic, and you can help by signing a petition to convince the Canadian government to reconsider allowing seismic blasting in The Arctic.


The links below lead to AsapSCIENCE's video on the topic, and the petition to stop the resource companies and save The Arctic.

The End Of The Arctic - AsapSCIENCE

Petition

By Nyanitacorn

Quote of The Week

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people"

-Vincent van Gogh

Quote of The Week

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted"

-The Lion and the Mouse: Aesop

Quote of The Week

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"

-Vincent van Gogh

Post by Nyanitacorn

Random Fact of the Week ~ (RFW)

Random Fact of the Week: Used coffee grounds can be converted into bio diesel. 

Posted by beanie ~

totally would be amaze balls if you could remember these facts *trivia *cough cough*

WE'RE BACK BABY

OMG OMG OMG The Hurlstone Environment Committee Blog is back and ALIVE

posted by beanie ~

White Ligers

A white tiger and a white lion, Ivory and Saraswati, gave birth to these beautiful tiny creatures! While it is possible that white ligers have existed before in the wild, it was in December 2013, when the world saw the first white ligers.

Quote of the Week

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
-Elbert Hubbard

Quote of the Week

"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."
-Bill Copeland

Quote of the Week

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
-Napoleon Hill

Wild Onesie Week

Hurlstone Environment Committee would like to congratulate those who took up WWF's challenge and wore a onesie. You did an excellent job promoting Wild Onesie Week and raising awareness about endangered animals!

Quote of the Week

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
-Ryunosuke Satoro

Actor and Environmentalist Ian Somerhalder Designated as UNEP Goodwill Ambassador on World Environment Day 2014

“What scares me the most about climate change is, within 50 years, half of all species on earth will be extinct. We will be experiencing floods and droughts that will prohibit agriculture and fisheries. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for us to get food and water. And within that lies the balance of our very existence."

http://unep.org/wed/news/Ian-Somerhalder-Designation.asp#.U5JzCPmSykN

World Environment Day Challenge

UNEP Goodwill Ambassadors Gisele Bündchen, Don Cheadle, Ian Somerhalder and Yaya Touré are sending an SOS to the world on behalf of Small Island Developing States.

Their message in the bottle: "We are all connected. The challenges faced by islands will face us all. So, every action we take to reduce waste and mitigate climate change counts. Join one of our teams and pledge to make a difference by taking action for WED."

Click the link below to see more,

http://www.unep.org/wed/wedchallenge/