Room 3’s Blog

This is a website created by Genesis Energy for New Zealanders of all ages who want to help the environment. It’s different because it reveals how small lifestyle changes can have an impact on the real world.

You start by adopting a tree. When you make small changes to your lifestyle your tree grows. When you encourage others and they make changes your tree grows even more.

These changes are called Pledges. There are Pledges for the household, kids and grown-ups. You just choose a Pledge that appeals to you. You can start easy and work your way to the harder Pledges.

You can choose your type of tree. Your tree is part of a virtual forest and a nationwide community. You can see what Pledges your friends are doing, join a group, give gifts to trees owned by other people, and win prizes.

Like all the best things in life, it’s simple but effective. And it only takes a moment to join up and adopt a tree. You can start here.

This is something we could discuss as a class and have a class pledge – like turning off the computers everyday, turning off the lights when we really don’t need them on. Any other suggestions?

This morning, at Lake Karapiro, our two top single sculls rowers will go head to head in the third and final trial race to see who will represent New Zealand at the Olympics. Will it be Rob Waddell or Mahe Drysdale?

I hope it’s Rob Waddell! We won’t actually know who is going to the Olympics until Friday.

Green Party MP Sue Bradford has asked for her new anti-smacking bill to become law. But this will only pass if it gets 61 votes. What are your opinions about the anti-smacking law and do you think it should pass? – Hamish