Sustainable Living

In Wentworth Point

What is Sustainability?

• Sustainability is a word that means the ability to be sustained or to endure. If the environment in a certain area, or even as a whole, is sustainable, it must be able to thrive. Environmental sustainability takes into account the people living within an environment and their capacity to survive as a species within that environment.

Why is Sustainable Living important?• Sustainable living is important

because what we do today can easily affect the future generation for the better or the worst. Resources are becoming hard to get and in only a few decades we may have to switch to another source, hopefully a reusable source such as solar energy or wind energy which we can rely on faithfully.

Sustainable Living in Wentworth Point: Discovery CentreSustainable Living in Wentworth Point:

Discovery Centre• The Discovery Centre is supposed to be a family friendly area

where people can admire and learn about our planet. In Wentworth Point’s Discovery Centre, you will be able to find many trees for natural shade and creating a fresh sensation. A solar powered water heater has been installed as an efficient and green way of warming the water within the facility. A chicken coop attracts attention from children which is a great opportunity to teach them a chicken’s purpose. Chickens create manure and fresh eggs. To top things off a vegetable patch has been placed as it saves you from emitting green house gases on your way to the grocery shop and fun to grow yourself!

Sustainable Living in Wentworth Point: Information Centre

• To ensure that the message of sustainability is not only in the Discovery Centre, the Information Centre’s design has included objects such as solar panels as a alternative energy source, a solar powered hot water tank for facilities inside again another reusable source of energy and of course trees to keep our air fresh.

Sustainable Living in Wentworth:Community Hall

The Community Hall has many visitors as regular activities take place so it should be a good influence on children and adults to take part in a greener planet. Solar panels and a solar powered hot water system. There are many windows to prevent as much as possible turning on lights as natural light can filter thoghout the building.

Get Involved, Help Planet Earth Turn off lights when you don’t need them, let natural light filter in! Turn off the heater this winter, snuggle up with a blanket or two Switch your regular light bulbs to LED ones. They last longer and

give off more light and are energy efficient Return your organic waste to where you found it, the soil! Banana

peels, grass clippings etc Plant trees in your garden or community, it gives a nice welcoming

feel and creates a fresher sense of home Use solar energy to dry your clothes. It doesn’t cost a cent! Put

your clothes outside and let them dry. Use public transport. Though a bus uses a lot of fuel, it carries

many people at once and it is an exciting alternative

Some Games

• http://www.energyhog.org/childrens.htm• http://ecologicalfootprint.com/• http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/people_an

d_the_environment/human_footprint/footprint_calculator/