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Mr. Speaker: >> The Honourable Member for Rossmere.
Ms. Erna Braun (Rossmere): >> Mr. Speaker, Education for Sustainable Development teaches
our children to care for the environment by reducing waste, by recycling and composting.
ESD has been the focus for our government, and our educators are world leaders in developing
high quality, innovative approaches to ESD.
Could the Minister of Education update the House on some exciting recent achievements
in Education for Sustainable Development?
Hon. Nancy Allan (Minister of Education): >> I was delighted to be invited by the principal
of the Landmark Elementary School, Principal Val Ginter, to join the community in Hanover
School Division to celebrate the opening of an Education for Sustainable Development pilot
project, and that is a greenhouse that they have, and the young people in the school have
built soda pop can heaters and they are heating the greenhouse with solar panels and they
have--they're growing plants and they're using those plants to contribute to their community
by helping a project in the community who need to access fresh vegetables and herbs,
and they've reduced--
Mr. Speaker: >> Order, please.