DeforestACTION+Collaborative+Project

=**DEFORESTACTION** =

** The beginning: ** The DeforestAction Project began as a partnership between Microsoft, Taking ITGlobal and six schools from South East Asia:
 * Dallas Brooks Community Primary School (Victoria,Australia)
 * Silverton Primary School (Victoria, Australia)
 * Hermit Park State School (Queensland, Australia)
 * Ngee Ann Secondary College(Singapore)
 * Royal College (Sri Lanka)
 * Crescent Girls School (Singapore)

** The project now has: **
 * Thousands of members
 * Dozens of schools across the world

** The ideas: ** Each school presented their suggested project focus and action in a video conference. All the schools voted on the best project.The most popular project was:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** A campaign to alert the public to the use of palm oil and the devastating effect **** it has on the environment .** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** In 2010 ourSMART GOAL was... ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">To raise awareness of products that contain palm oil and to research rainforest safe alternatives

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Our Actions.... **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students succeeded in having products containing palm oil removed from the School Canteen
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Many students are choosing not to have products in their lunches that contain palm oil
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">DeforestACTION groups ‘adopted’ orangutans
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students wrote persuasive letters to the School Council, Australian Federal Government and to multi-national companies
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students fundraised to support the buy-back of land for an orangutan sanctuary in Indonesia

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** This year we are: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Researching other animals that are affected by deforestation, for example the Pygmy Elephant and the Proboscis Monkey
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Making links between the Australian animals threatened by deforestation and the endangered animals in Indonesia
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Looking at ways we can act locally to help fight deforestation; for example planting native trees and plants and not buying palm oil products
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Fundraising to buy more land for the orangutan sanctuary in Indonesia

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** How can you help? ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You can help by: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">DeforestAction shop: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Signing up to our school’s DeforestACTION Hub
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Encouraging your friends and family to make pledges on theTigEd website to not buy palm oil products
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Donating money to help buy back land for the orangutan sanctuary
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Purchasing items from the school’s online DeforestAction shop
 * ** Where is our DeforestAction Hub? **  ** http://dfa.tigweb.org/school/dallas **  || [[image:dallasps/Carlos_2.jpg width="279" height="278" caption="Click on Carlos to learn more about our "Say No to Palm Oil" campaign"]] ||
 * ** Where is our DeforestAction shop? **  ** http://www.cafepress.com.au/dallasdeforestshop **  || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Examples of items available at our online


 * = <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">**Our World Wrapped Up (in rubbish)** ||
 * = [[image:dallasps/Screen_shot_2011-06-29_at_2.02.13_PM.png width="560" height="313" align="center" link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb1Vu8b_DNo"]] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Students in Years 5 & 6 became interested in the concept of carbon footprints while researching deforestation. The video 'Our World Wrapped Up', highlights student concerns about the unnecessary use of packaging in our community. ||
 * = **Click on the photo to view the video** ||  ||

** [|Click here to view the students’ completed DeforestACTION video on Youtube] **

** Click here to view the students' completed DeforestACTION wiki **