Term 2: Weeks 4 - 8

Sustainability

Over the past few weeks Room 1 has been looking at 'Sustainability for the Future'. Here are some of our students and what they think about Sustainability.

What is Sustainability?

By Madison Given

Sustainability has helped me understand the consequences that we will have to face if we don't take care of our environment, respect all our items and most importantly our safe, healthy water.

Sustainability has also made me think of the earth in a different way, for example, our earth can lead to danger just by littering and not caring for things. 

Sustainability is a huge part of all of our lives.  If we don't grow our own crops and vegetables than we could go very low on clean and healthy products.  I am always making sure I am being sustainable, but not just myself but everyone around me. 

In my animation film for ‘Sustainability for Tomorrow', I covered the following questions:

How to be more sustainable as a child? How to recycle? How to live sustainably?

I think it is going to teach kids and adults to be more aware about this situation.

The three camera shots\angles I used were: 

Long shot, mid shot and level angle.  I also used a low angle a few times in my video/slide show.

My Understanding Of Sustainability Is...

By Caleb Stockley

It is about the environment and caring about things because if you don't, you can cause things like global warming and there are much more other things that are not being sustainable like gas, smoke, factories.  A lot of these things are not sustainable and there's many more things that are not sustainable as well.  

There are different types of pollution like: air pollution, water pollution, gas pollution.  These types of pollutions affect the environment badly, but there are things we can do to stop it. People have already invented electric cars and they don’t run on fuel, which means that it won't cause air pollution.  This is one good way of being sustainable.

For water pollution, we need to stop littering in the ocean.  Then there won’t be rubbish floating in the ocean and that could help stop the water pollution.  I understand that there are  a lot of things we can do to stop polluting but no matter how hard people try to stop other people littering they don’t seem to listen and keep on doing it.  Every day, it just seems to gets worse and worse.  A lot of factories are also making a lot of smoke and this air pollution makes a lot of  people feel very unwell.

Water pollution is killing a lot of fish and I understand that some things that get chucked in the water can take up to 200 years to disintegrate which is really bad.  Land pollution is another grave concern, as all the landfills have become really bad for the environment.  With all the sewage, the sewers are normally tipped into the ocean which is also causing water pollution.  This is my understanding of sustainability and how we need to be more sustainable particularly with our environment.

The Definition of Sustainability Is ...

By Chloe Keene

Sustainability is the ability to maintain a level to keep forests and wildlife living for a long time or even forever!  

Sustainability means putting things in the rubbish.  No littering, recycling, walking or biking to school or work and trying to maintain from polluting your city.  For example Zabol, Iran is so polluted that children play in clouds of dust that can damage their lungs in around an hour and may lead to death.  Another fact is, that the dirtiest city is Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The airport itself was voted most dirtiest in the world. It also had unhelpful staff, broken air conditioning vents, lack of seating compared to anywhere else. The people living at Port Harcourt are also considered to be at serious health risk because the waste disposal is contaminating Nigeria’s rivers.  

In New Zealand, we are lucky that we have fresh green grass that is sweet. We also have good skies and don’t have much pollution like China or Zabol in Iran.  That is why we should look after our country and not pollute or trash our community. It also helps to keep clean because it will help with any body odour that lurks around.

What Sustainability Means To Me….

Written by Jasmine Vong 

Sustainability means using resources without the resources running out.  People need a better environment, this means green spaces, play areas, no litter, nice gardens, decent homes, less noise and less pollution.  People also need a better economy.  This means jobs, reasonable prices, cheaper heat and light.  Lastly, people need better social conditions.  This means good leisure facilities, lots of community groups offering sports and arts.  The global textile industry uses over 99 billion gallons of water each year and 145.5 million tonnes of coal.  The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world, the first being oil.

Sustainability
By Upokoina George.

To me, sustainability means to try keep and respect the environment.

It's about not littering and keeping our nature clean so we don't kill our native environment.

In our film:

We did a film about ‘not littering and trying to care for our land.  We had 3 actors and 1 cameraman.

We should not be littering so we don't kill animals.  A lot of animals eat litter and they can get very sick and maybe die.  The same is with humans.  At Stanley Avenue School, we all need to try and care for our school environment and this can continue across the world.

 

Camera angles and shots used:

                                    High angles/

                                    Low angles/

                                      Mid shot/

                                    Close shot/

Thanks for reading.

 Post by Jonathan Voss