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Greenhouse Action Energy Reduction Program

Energy consumption impacts on the enhanced greenhouse effect and also on an organisation’s budget. SCRAP’s energy reduction program works with students or your staff to conduct an energy audit and then to reduce energy use within the school/organisation. The Greenhouse Action energy poster (left) details ways in which we can minimise our greenhouse gas emissions. SCRAP's industry partners may also be called on to provide obligation free quotes to show how savings can be effected through retrofitting lighting using the latest technologies.

Materials Use and Management (MUM) Workshop

Waste and the environmental impact can be avoided and/or reduced through changing common practices such as purchasing and reusing items. This workshop assists the schools and other organisations to identify where environmental and financial savings can be made. It is delivered in conjunction with The Bower Reuse and Repair Co-op.

School Environment Management Plan (SEMP) Workshop

The NSW Department of Education’s School Environmental Education policy requires all schools to develop a SEMP and an environment committee. SCRAP’s process includes assisting in the development and coordination of the school’s SEMP and committee, leading to a workable and user friendly environment management plan. This includes a summary report on the school’s current status and recommendations for future directions. Similar plans can be arranged for any organisation.

The Sustainable Schools Program

Since its origin in 2000, this program has received much attention for its innovative approach to teaching and learning about sustainability. Based on a hands-on approach for students, the SCRAP Consortium (including our partners, Oz Green and The Bower) devised a method of auditing schools’ environmental performance, called the Eco Snapshot Day. From this the school is provided with a report and further work with participating schools leads to the development of Environmental Plans (SEMPS) and the establishment of Environment Committees (to fit with the NSW Dept of Education and Training’s current Environmental Education policy).

Subsequently, the school may engage in further workshops designed to implement the changes recommended in the Environmental Plan. SCRAP and the Program Partners have run audit training for the NSW Dept of Education Environmental Education Centre (EEC) staff, teacher inservices through Councils and EE Centres, EcoSnapshot Days for individual schools as onsite training for teachers at other schools and to develop lighthouse schools in a council area.

The full EcoSnapshot Day (Sustainability Program) consisting of an Induction Day; the EcoSnapshot Day (five audits - solid waste, energy, water and stormwater, biodiversity and grounds and materials use and management - in one day with your staff/students or just our staff) and a complete 50 page Sustainability Report delivered in a two hour Feedback Session to you will cost a minimum of $4,000 + GST depending on the size of your organisation.

Please note that all individual workshops and audits are costed at around $700 + GST but SCRAP is always prepared to negotiate with members on costings and the precise program required.