Go Green "Small Steps at a Time" For Schools that haven't got a lot of money. How to overcome challenges. The story behind the story. Lessons Learned.

1. “Go Green” Small Steps at a Time
2 June 2012
André Schlemmer
André Schlemmer
2 June 2012

2. Settlers Park Primary School
• History • 107 Years
• How do we look • 70% - 20% - 10%
• What are we doing • Same as other Schools
• What makes us special • Staff & Work ethics
• Problems we experience • Money …!
• What has been working • Build on successes of
for us in the past the past
• What do we want to • Leave something
achieve worthwhile behind

3. Some men see things as they are and say
“WHY”
I dream things that never were, & say
“WHY NOT”
George Bernard Shaw

7. Successes
• Science Expo • 10 Years
• Growing Mushrooms • Feeding Scheme
• EduSwift • Internet Based
• Tree Planting • 250 Trees (Last 4 Years)
 Water Project • Phase One …
• Wind Turbine • Phase One …
 Harvesting of Rainwater • Phase Two …
 Toilet Flushing Systems • Phase Three …
 Bottling Plant • Foreign Investment

8. SETTLERS PARK PRIMARY
SCHOOL

10. Growing Mushrooms
&
Feeding Scheme

13. Next Generation School
Management System
What it is … Advantages
• Online • Save on Paper
• Web Based • Money
• Interactive • Time Effective
• Secure Login System • Affordable
• Interactive Communication • Effective Management

15. PLANTING TREES

17. TREES FOR AFRICA

18. WATER PROJECT

29. WIND TURBINE

31. LAUNCH
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34. HARVESTING OF RAIN WATER

35. WATER TANKS

37. TOILET FLUSHING SYSTEMS

38. Small steps at a time

40. BOTTLING PLANT
 Foreign Investment • …√
 R100 000.00 • …
 Currently Three Similar
• √
Projects in Africa
 Planning
 Managing • √
• √

42. The value and uses of Water
Impacts of Climate Change
Need for Sustainable
lifestyles
Making Practical Changes

43. There is a lot of water on earth, but
only a small amount is easily
available for us to use

44. O n ly 3 % o f a ll t h e w a t e r in
the w o r ld
is f r e s h w a te r

45. South Africa is a semi-arid country with an average
rainfall of 450mm that is well below the global
average of 860mm.
• The average person, within a middle class home, uses 200 liters per day, to
water the garden.
• A garden hose can spray about 30 liters of water per minute
• The average shower runs at 22 liters per minute.
• The average tap runs at 10 liters per minute.
• The average washing machine uses about 100 liters of water per wash
cycle.
• About 50% of rural households have no piped water.

46. Toilets are flushed by
drinking water
• A toilet is the single biggest user of indoor
water. On average, it uses 11 liters of
water when flushed. A family of four will
use 176 liters of water when each uses
the toilet four times per day.

47. C L IM A T E C H A N G E
• Shifting ocean currents & warmer air will
lead to profound climate changes:
– Eastern E-Cape will become wetter
– Western E-Cape will become drier
– More extreme floods and storms

49. Growing demand for water from
growing population and new industry

50. ‘Stepping Up to Sustainability’
Good News from across South
Africa!
“Stories of Change”
WESSA SETTLERS PARK PRIMARY
• What is Happening around • “Small Steps at a Time”
Port Elizabeth

51. R A IN W A T E R H A R V E S T IN G
FOR OUR G ARDENS

52. T h r e e C r o w n s P r im a r y
Water Treatment Plant
Toilets
Bio digester Food Garden
Gas-fired kitchen Chickens

53. U s e r e c y c le d
w a te r

54. Rain gutter pipes to pools

55. If everyone aspires to European or South African lifestyles, we
are going to need 3 planets. And for a North American lifestyle,
4!

56. There is not enough fresh water in
the world for everyone!
Fresh water per
person
Population growth

58. What Next for Settlers?
• Windhoek in • Grey Water Project
Namibia Prime
Example
• Do Research
• Learn from others
• Black Water Project

59. B I O DI GE S T E R S

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61. Next Steps
• Summarize any actions required of your
audience
• Summarize any follow up action items
required of you
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62. CHALLENGE
It is not the years in your life, but the life in your
years
that count
GOALS
No one can predict to what height you can soar.
Even you will not know until you
Spread your wings.
BELIEF
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of
their dreams.
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63. What are you prepared to do to reduce
What are you Prepared to do to Reduce your
your footprint and increase your handprint?
Footprint and Increase your Handprint?

64. The Beauty of our School
• “Coming together” is a beginning.
• “Keeping together” is progress.
• “Working together” is success. "
~ Henry Ford ~

66. Thank you for the Opportunity to Walk with me through our
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