The highly imaginative interactive educational resource built around the award winning documentary film Waste Not, is now up and running, said Total Environment Centre (TEC) today. The site has been designed to engage students, teachers, their families and communities in the practical, philosophical and scientific issues and innovations surrounding recycling and waste management. Based around clips and characters featured in Waste Not, the website provides a stimulating interactive environment for exploring our present challenges. It also encourages imaginative thinking about the future, by introducing the latest ideas around sustainable living, urban planning, social responsibility, renewable energy and alternative economic models. The website places current discussion of the environment into an Australian, Indigenous and also global historical context. The learning activities have been meticulously researched and curriculum matched for junior and senior high school students studying Science, English, Geography and Art. The History of Waste, written by TEC Director Jeff Angel, uses an interactive timeline to explore waste management in Australia from pre-contact times to the present day. Designed by Monica Monin, the Waste Not website was funded by the Pratt and Myer Foundations through Documentary Australia Foundation. The site was officially launched by SOC Councillor John Mant, Ian Kiernan AO, Chairman of Clean Up Australia, Tim Silverwood from Take 3, Professor David Booth (UTS), and Professor Iain Suthers (UNSW), at Sydney Girls High, on June 14th 2013. Waste Not has been translated into Chinese, Turkish and Spanish. It is distributed in the AustralAsia Pacific region by Ronin Films. It has screened at over 25 international film festival and has won several awards including Best Documentary Film at St Kilda Film Festival 2011, and Best Cinematography at WOW Film Festival 2012. It has been purchased by corporations such as the NAB, Qantas, Fujitsu, and hundreds of universities, TAFEs, schools and local councils around Australia and overseas. wastenot.org.au
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:32:12 +0000
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