Education - 5
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Stream 1
| Tuesday, May 2, 2017 |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
| Osprey Room |
Overview
The ReSourceful schools program. Building rubbish relationships.
Lisa Siegel and John McQueen, Cascade Environmental Education Centre
Details
The Resourceful Schools Program is an innovative approach to solving community waste issues. The program, funded by Midwaste allows for engaging and relevant programs to be conducted to facilitate change in local communities. The key components of the project is building ongoing relationships with schools to support them in developing a personalised, appropriate and efficient waste management project for their school. Providing opportunities for schools to connect and share. Facilitating the schools to empower students top develop waste management plans and strategies.
Speaker
Lisa Siegel
President
Australian Association for Environmental Education
The ReSourceful schools program: Building rubbish relationships!
3:00 PM - 3:20 PMBiography
Lisa is an experienced environmental educator with a passion for developing and facilitating nature connection experiences for children, young people, and adults. She is currently a teacher at Cascade Environmental Education Centre (a NSW Public Field school near Dorrigo), where she coordinates and teaches the innovative and interactive ReSourceful Schools program and the Waterwise Schools program, which run in 8 LGAs on the Mid North Coast. Lisa is also a community activist in Bellingen, where she is a board member of the Centre for Ecological Learning and an organiser of the Bellingen Shire Learning Alliance, which has just launched its "Waste Not Bello" campaign, in an attempt to wean the town off single use plastics.
Mr John McQueen
Principal
Cascade Environmental Education Centre
The ReSourceful schools program. Building rubbish relationships
3:00 PM - 3:20 PMBiography
John McQueen is the principal of Cascade Environmental Education Centre an NSW government public school. He firmly believes that only by fostering a love of the natural world will people want to take action to protect it. As well as conducting environmental education experiences in the rainforest for 20 years John now manages an innovative waste education program for schools on the Mid North Coast.
Chairperson
Tim Silverwood
Co-Founder & CEO
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