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About Enviroweek
Enviroweek is an annual, week-long celebration of our environment that highlights the challenges we are all facing to preserve it. In the lead up to Enviroweek participants sign up to take on a challenge. This is a challenge that is good for our environment and is actually challenging (which is why it’s called a “challenge” as opposed to an Enviroweek “doddle”).
During Enviroweek these normally modest Clark Kent environmentalists become Green Heroes, a source of inspiration for us all and a beacon of hope for our environment.
To become a Green Hero you register to take on a challenge, get sponsored by your friends and fundraise for your favourite environmental organisation. It’s that simple.
Enviroweek began in 2009 with around 200 people taking on an environmental challenge. These Green Heroes were sponsored by around 1000 of their mates raising more than $58,000 for environmental organisations around Australia.
It’s all about taking on a challenge that suits you, changing your behaviour during Enviroweek and getting into good habits for the rest of the year.
Enviroweek is operated by Cool Australia.
About Cool Australia
If you’re concerned about pollution, climate change or habitat loss and want to know what you can do to help our environment – we’ll show you. Saving water, reducing waste, going solar and (this is the good bit) saving money in the process.
You don’t need to be a greenie to be green. It just makes good sense to take care of our life support system – our environment. At Cool Australia we don’t tell you what you can’t do – we concentrate on what you can do.
It’s not about sacrifice – it’s about living smarter. Who wants to breathe foul air, swim in polluted water and live on a poisoned planet?
Sister sites – Cool Sydney, Cool Brisbane and Cool Melbourne host the top rated educational resource: Our Cool School for students and teachers. It is free, curriculum based, rich in classroom projects and activities that can be downloaded and taken straight to the classroom.
Each year Cool Australia speaks directly to more than 9,000 school kids about what they can do at home and at school to turn things around.
Top fundraisers
Total Raised $67,347.00
Individuals
| 1. | Emma Kimberley | $1,180.00 |
| 2. | Anna Phipps | $300.00 |
| 3. | Caroline Kimberley | $230.00 |
| 4. | Biddy Myres | $195.00 |
| 5. | Fionnuala Maye | $180.00 |
Teams
| 1. | Cool Australia Trust Team | $2,900.00 |
| 2. | Team HSNTECH | $1,011.00 |
| 3. | MKT | $545.00 |
| 4. | Dean World Cargo | $450.00 |
| 5. | Reece Australia | $270.00 |
