Jarrod Coutts(participant)
*Group name
E.A.T. (Environmentally Aware Teens)
*Project name
Our goal is to get all ages of the comunity involved with small yet affective environmental activities.
*Country/Region
Nelson, New Zealand
*Type of Group
Others
*Number of total members of your group/project
3 persons
*Number of regular participants in activities
3
*Characteristic of members
Our group is just interested in having a good time and having fun togeather but making sure that the things we do make a difference. We all play a lot of sports and go to the same school. We're enthusiastic and always know what we need to get done.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Energy Issues, *Wastes and Recycling, *Water Issues, *Urban Issues
*Missions and activities of your group/project
We are really just getting this project underway because we didnt want to start anything near the end of our school year and so our project will truly get up and running with in the next month or two. There are just lots of little things that we would like to get done, we would like to get all age groups involved starting from our kindergarten students 3-5 yrs and carrying
on with primary students 5-10 yrs and then our elderly residents. We would like to do worm farming, recycling, conserving energy within classrooms, cleaning up our local stream and also a little bit of vege gardens.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
Cant really say this as practical has not begun but will update when
projects are underway.
*Major publications and articles
Nothing yet as we are just starting to get the practical work underway.
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
Our group sometimes discusses ideas with the school environmental group and combine to get projects underway at our college. We dont really want to exchange much we just like working togeather and with other groups so that we can combine knowledge and get the best out of ourselves.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
Hi everyone on behalf of our group E.A.T. (Environmentally Aware Teens) we would just like to say that if any one has any questions or are doing any similar projects please feel free to say.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
My impression of the summit was amazing i was lucky enough to be on the Junior Board so i had so much fun and learnt so much with everyone and everthing. Over my opinion of the summit was fantastic.
*Contact person
Jarrod Coutts
*Contact Address
38 Leicester Street, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand
wdcoutts@xtra.co.nz
*URL of Web site of your group/project
Not availible yet but eventually we would like to get a small web-site up and running
