Get Energy Smart

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    Reduce your energy waste. Become efficient.

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    Invest in renewables/direct purchase and investment.

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    Balance the emissions you can't reduce by offsetting (planting trees). Go beyond your own footprint.

     

Student stuff of the Month

Student Photos of Nature
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Two great photos taken by the students at Thomas More PS Belgrave

Our Partners

  • Victorian Association for Environmental Education
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    Providing leadership and voice for the environmental and sustainability education sector
  • CERES

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    Community Environment Park (the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies)

     

  • Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative

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    Encouraging schools to take a whole-system and whole-school approach to sustainability

  • Carbon Training International
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    Helping build carbon-conscious, carbon-skilled and carbon-responsive workforces
  • CarbonetiX
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    Helping organisations cut greenhouse gas emission, save money and demonstrate good corporate citizenship

Our Supporters

NTGovNorthern Territory Government
Positioning itself to deal with national and international responses to climate change

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working in partnerships with individuals and organisations across both the private and public sectors to deliver sustainable outcomes

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EPA Victoria's purpose is to protect, care for and improve our environment

 

Who we are

Planet Savers Australia is a team of highly experienced educators and consultants that help schools and their communities to create a practical and achievable process to reduce their carbon emissions and energy consumption and address the issue of climate change.

Meet the Team...



Environmental Educators
Our mission is to establish a nationwide network of sustainable and energy-smart schools as demonstration centres of green technologies, designs and behaviours linked to a sustainability curricula, therefore influencing local communities to live in a more sustainable way.

Planet Savers provides professional development and customised consultancy to schools to assist them in becoming more sustainable by reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
 
Glenn Davidson
Image Glenn Davidson, Environmental Educator of the Year (Victorian Association of Environmental Education) has a long history of teacher professional development facilitation, sustainability curriculum development and group training. 


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Mark Smith
ImageMark has an extensive history in sales and marketing in representative, state and national management positions within the Textiles industry. For the past seven years Mark has established successful businesses creating, delivering and facilitating effective and practical energy management plans, GHG reduction strategies and Sustainability Management plans.
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Eric Bottomley
Image Eric Bottomley taught geography, economics and environmental science in schools for 20 years, and was coordinator of CERES Education for 13 years before taking on the role of of Team Leader- Sustainability Projects for the last 6 years. He has concurrently been a sessional lecturer and tutor at the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash, and has twice worked on secondment at the University of PNG.
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Nicola Shill
Monday, 26 October 2009 19:07

Nicola is a passionate environmentalist with an IT, mathematics, science and teaching background. She has taught in a variety of educational settings; from primary through to post-secondary and corporate. Nicola currently runs an IT consultancy as well as indulging in her love of literature by writing teenage fiction in her spare time. She is a hands-on, committed mother of five whose philosophy and drive to life could be summarised by the following quote:

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. (Danny Kaye)      Nicola_Portrait_24_Oct_2009

 
Peter Harris

Peter is Planet Savers' Northern Team Leader.

With a long and exciting history of Indigenous education, school administration and enterprise education, Peter comes to Planet Savers with a strong sense of social justice.

 
Susan Wills

Susan is the Teaching & Learning Team Leader for N.T. schools.

Susan comes with a wealth of experience in indigenous education, numeracy and literacy programs as well as environmental education. A passionate environmentalist and teacher.

 
Ron Griep
Ron is a qualified engineer with a passion for sustainability and energy efficiency. Ron heads up the Northern technical team and is responsible the creation of innovative and effective infrastructure development plans.
 
Anthony Manglesdorf
Another CERES AuSSi facilitator who works part time with Planet Savers. Anthony is a qualified architect, providing building and construction consulstancy to PSA clients. A talented facilitator and inspired outdoor and earth educator, Anthony is part of the facilitation and training team.
 
Andrea Hicks

A multi-talented artist, Andrea provides adds breadth and flair to the PSA team.

Andrea is a well known community artist and has been commissioned for major installation art works in various councils throughout Australia. A passionate environmentalist and gardener, Andrea heads up the Queensland team.

 
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