Aussie school girl wins the MyGreenSchool 'Meet Al Gore' competition
The recent release of the Garnaut report on climate change has reinforced the urgent need for environmental action across the globe.
A prominent figure in the environmental arena is the Honourable Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States and winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Al Gore was the guest speaker at the launch of the FEX Sustainability and Cleantech Investment Market - the FEX-SIM, where he presented the MyGreenSchool prize to Daina Reid from Carcoar Public School in western NSW. The event was held on the trading floor of the new FEX-SIM stock exchange in late 2007.
MyGreenSchool is an initiative created by Endless Solar Corporation and Green Plumbers International, to help Australian schools access government grants for environmental products and services. MyGreenSchool is already helping hundreds of Australian schools access the Federal Government grants, and then install water and energy saving products.
The MyGreenSchool Meet Al Gore Challenge was created by Endless Solar Corporation and Green Plumbers to coincide with the launch of the FEX-SIM.
The competition was open to every primary and secondary school student in Australia, offering students the opportunity to meet the Honourable Al Gore at the FEX-SIM launch and ask him a question about climate change. Daina Reid from Carcoar Public School in western NSW was the national winner of the competition.
Daina’s question was how long will it take for global warming to stop. Al Gore explained the complexity of the climate change issue, and the speed at which climate change is now taking place.
Al Gore suggested that if both industry and individuals changed their activities to reduce their carbon outputs, the climate change problem could be neutralised but it could take up to 50 years before half the CO2 now in the atmosphere returns to the earth. He noted that one person cannot do everything but every person can do something to help reduce global warming.
Daina was presented with a prize pack by the former NSW Premier Bob Carr, on behalf of Endless Solar Corporation and Green Plumbers International.
9-Apr-2008