Cool radiator wins national award
12th December 2005
Ariah Park students won’t be sweltering in their classrooms this summer. Instead, they will be using a quirky cooling system that won them a national award in this week’s Sustainable Living Challenge at the University of New South Wales.
The students picked up the Sustainable Schools Eco-Initiative Award. It is the first time in the history of the challenge that a school has won an award in consecutive years.
Last year, a class of Year 9 Ariah Park students won an award for using pedal power to make their school more environmentally friendly. Their entry, a novel way to heat their classroom in winter, involved pedalling a bike to power a classroom heater through a solar collector in the playground.
This year, the students have designed a 100-percent greenhouse efficient system by using a bit of bush ingenuity and a collection of discarded car radiators.
Eco-Cool, as the invention is called, pumps air through the school’s rainwater tanks and a series of old car radiators, providing CO2- free air conditioning to the school’s overheated demountable classroom.
The Sustainable Living Challenge engages secondary teachers, students and their schools in the learning challenges presented by sustainable living. It is run by the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. It is one of Australia’s key activities for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
More than 350 schools have entered this year’s program in the hope of winning an award in one of seven categories.
School contact: Justin Dunn, 02 697 1105
Media contact: Mary O’Malley, 02-938 2873, 043 888 1124, m.omalley@unsw.edu.au
Challenge organiser: Ben Roche, 0412 355 721, 02-9385 4916, b.roche@unsw.edu.au
Date issued: Dec 7, 2005
The students picked up the Sustainable Schools Eco-Initiative Award. It is the first time in the history of the challenge that a school has won an award in consecutive years.
Last year, a class of Year 9 Ariah Park students won an award for using pedal power to make their school more environmentally friendly. Their entry, a novel way to heat their classroom in winter, involved pedalling a bike to power a classroom heater through a solar collector in the playground.
This year, the students have designed a 100-percent greenhouse efficient system by using a bit of bush ingenuity and a collection of discarded car radiators.
Eco-Cool, as the invention is called, pumps air through the school’s rainwater tanks and a series of old car radiators, providing CO2- free air conditioning to the school’s overheated demountable classroom.
The Sustainable Living Challenge engages secondary teachers, students and their schools in the learning challenges presented by sustainable living. It is run by the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. It is one of Australia’s key activities for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
More than 350 schools have entered this year’s program in the hope of winning an award in one of seven categories.
School contact: Justin Dunn, 02 697 1105
Media contact: Mary O’Malley, 02-938 2873, 043 888 1124, m.omalley@unsw.edu.au
Challenge organiser: Ben Roche, 0412 355 721, 02-9385 4916, b.roche@unsw.edu.au
Date issued: Dec 7, 2005
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