Students lead Greentown Challenge
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| Kuranaui College students in the Greentown wheelbarrow challenge |
Pupils from Kuranui College and Greytown Primary School led the charge during Greater Wellington’s “Greentown” initiative by walking to school, planting native trees, handing out reusable shopping bags packed with environmentally friendly products and participating in their school’s green events.
Drawing on the theme of World Environment Day – “kick the carbon habit” – Greater Wellington organised a month of activities in June/July to help Greytown residents become more sustainable.
Greater Wellington‘s Chair Fran Wilde says she was thrilled with the involvement of the students throughout the Greentown initiative. “I want to thank those students and their teachers for leading the community effort to become more sustainable and making Greytown greener. I am also very grateful for the support of businesses who participated in Greentown and donated prizes for our ‘buy local, buy green’ promotion.”
Chair Wilde was hopeful that the Greytown community would continue with the Greentown initiative and that the concept would be applied to other communities in the future.
Greentown was funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Meridian subsidiary Right House Ltd and Greater Wellington.