1. SUSTAINABILITY Our choices have consequences.

2. What is sustainability? Here is what Wikipedia says: Sustain can mean “maintain", "support", or "endure”. [3][4] Since the 1980s sustainability has been used more in the sense of human sustainability on planet Earth. [3][4] Look at the following slides with images from around our world, and see what sustainability might mean to you. Think about the idea that we are all guardians of our world.

3. Flooding February 2014 in England

4. Climate Change

5. “ Guys, the ice caps are melting”

6. Sea levels are rising as ice caps melt

7. Path of Global Warming

8. Endangered Animals

9. Endangered animals list

10. Endangered Cultures

11. Endangered groups of people who can no longer live in the habitat they have known

12. Rubbish

13. Rubbish in the ocean

14. People throw out items they no longer need or want but where does it all go?

15. Antarctica

16. Rising Sea Levels The Maldives is likely to become submerged if the current pace of climate change continues to raise sea levels.

17. Refugees

18. Storms

19. Threatened Habitats

20. What is sustainability? Our planet Earth needs protecting so that every human being can live safely and happily on it. To make sure that we all have enough resources to survive, we have to sustain what the Earth can give us.

21. How can our choices make a difference? We can all help to sustain the resources of our planet Earth by making wise decisions every day of our lives.

22. What if we don’t make wise choices? We will not be able to enjoy our lives as much as we can. We may not have the necessities of life.

23. How can we be Guardians? We can decide to do our very best to look after our planet Earth and make choices in our lives that can help sustain the resources we need to live.

24. Maungawhau 2014 PROJECTS

25. Rubbish… reduce, reuse and recycle

26. FRUIT ORCHARD

27. Maungawhau Vegetable Garden

28. Maori Medicinal Garden

29. SUSTAINABLE NEWSBOARDS TitleHyperlink School combines learning with sustainable living. http://www.3news.co.nz/School- combines-learning-with-sustainable- living/tabid/367/articleID/58832/Default. aspx Sustainable Water. http://www.3news.co.nz/Sustainability- forum-looks-at-water-purification- projects/tabid/372/articleID/83427/Defa ult.aspx Sustainable Village http://www.3news.co.nz/Developer- hopes-to-create-NZs-first-sustainable- village/tabid/367/articleID/47046/Default.aspx New Chums Anti development http://www.3news.co.nz/Coromandel- residents-angered-by-beachside- developments/tabid/309/articleID/12803 8/Default.aspx

30. Cleaning Beaches

31. TERM1 EVENTS DATE/ WEEK HYPERLINK Childrens’ Day March 2014 http://www.childrensday.org.nz/atscho ol/indexolder.html

32. TERM 2 EVENTSDATE/ WEEKHYPERLINK Travel Wise Week 13-17 May, 2014 http://www.travelwise.org. nz/Schools/index.cfm?id=1 147 Earth Day Tuesday, 22 April 2014 www.earthday.net World Environment Day 5 June, 2014 Theme: Think.Eat.Save www.mfe.govt.nz Matariki Begins June-July, 2014 http://www.korero.maori.nz/news/matariki/facts andfigureswww

33. TERM3 EVENTDATE/WEEKHYPERLINK Conservation week Frog Week 7 - 14 September http://www.doc.govt.nz /getting- involved/events-and- awards/conservation- week/ Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week September 14 - 20 http://www.knzb.org.nz World Car Free Day 22 September http://www.streetsalive.net/

34. TERM 4 EVENTSDATE/WEEKHYPERLINK World Animal Week Save Kiwi Week 4-10 October 20 – 26 October http://www.wspa.org.au /education.asp s://www.kiwisforkiwi. org/what-we-do/save- kiwi-week/‎