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Valuing children’s awe and wonder of the natural world underpins our desire to walk softly on the earth and live in harmony at a local and global level.

Food Fighter

Food Fighter, an independent film featuring theFounder and CEO of OzHarvest Ronni Kahn, is now showing.

Ronni Kahn used to be a contributor to Australia’s annual $20 billion food waste bill when she ran a successful corporate events company producing million-dollar dinners. Then she realised the absurdity of throwing away perfectly edible food, trading capitalism for social activism by founding OzHarvest, a food rescue charity, in 2004.

Filmed over two years and across four continents, ‘Food Fighter’ follows Ronni’s crusade against the global food waste scandal, partnering with the United Nations in Bangkok, rubbing shoulders with British royalty and Jamie Oliver’s juggernaut in London, and holding the government to account in Australia.

Screening at Marion, SA @ Event Cinemas June 16, June 17, June 20

https://www.foodfighterfilm.com/upcomingscreenings/

Food Fighter is truly an inspirational film and asks us all to be part of the solution to fight food waste and make the world a better place.

Bringing Back the Butterflies (BBB)

A project of the Australian Association for Environmental Education SA, BBB was conceived as a mechanism to connect ordinary people with Education for Sustainability (EfS). Currently, EfS is poorly understood by the general community and even by many educators who are responsible for delivering it within a crowded curriculum. However, if one accepts that education is crucial to understanding and that sustainability is an issue that we must understand that in order to transition to a sustainable society then EfS is a crucial educational requirement.

The Adelaide Plains have 50+ endemic species of butterflies all of which require specific host plants for their larva to grow. BBB encourages residents, schools and other locations that people frequent particularly educational facilities to signed establish plots of suitable plants in public view. The signs will be a key means of attracting and engaging passers-by with the project.

Butterflies are almost universally attractive to people and evoke positive emotions in young and old alike. Previous attempts to resurrect endemic butterfly habitat on the Adelaide Plains have been reasonably successful even though the sites have been fragmented. Good results occur when the right plants are chosen, and the plot maintained to suit butterflies.

By including schools and other educational institutions in the project we will be creating linkages and a deeper understanding of education within the community and we extend this to include a deeper understanding of EfS and hopefully a willingness to protect and enhance EfS programs within the entire education and training systems.

To learn more visit: https://www.facebook.com/bbb.aaee.sa/

International Mud Day

Connection children with each other through the earth. June 29^th each year is international mud day.
International Mud Day is children and early childhood professionals all over the world celebrating nature, outdoors, and mess by getting really muddy.

International Mud Day began in 2009 at a World Forum event, when Gillian McAuliffe from Australia and Bishnu Bhatta from Nepal got together to talk about ways to encourage feelings of community and appreciation for the world around us. Educators, children, and families across the globe, from Holland to Nepal to the United States, have been inspired to celebrate International Mud Day together each year on June 29. Regardless of age, race and religion, covered in mud, we all look the same!

Even if you are limited with space you can set aside an area for making mud pies, mud castles, mud soup, painting with mud, moulding with mud, drawing and designing in mud. Have lots of tools, containers, measuring implements spoons and scoops and water for cleaning and washing as well as mixing.

Find the teachable moments during mud day. Invite children to dictate their muddy recipes to you. Ask open questions that help children describe what they are doing felling smelling and thinking:

What does it feel like?

What’s your recipe?

How are you going to make it?

What will you use to make it?

What about measuring and mixing?

How will you use it when you’ve finished

Are you an EESSA Inc member?

Become a new EESSA Inc member by 31^st July and as a reward we are offering one lucky new member a special gift pack of books and other useful goodies for growing your sustainability skills and knowledge.
To go into the draw for the great gift pack simply join EESSA Inc www.eessa.org.au and you will gain access to our resources and discounted prices on to our events.
By ensuring the payment reaches our account before 31st July 2018 you will have a chance to win.

Get ready for plastic free July: http://www.plasticfreejuly.org/

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