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The moral of the story is to buy local, in-season fruit and vegetables. Google Assistant pipes into the conversation: “According to tables assembled by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) for 2020, one tonne of long haul airfreight creates 1.13382 kilograms of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas per kilometre travelled. The distance from San Francisco to Auckland is 10,487 kilometres, so one kilogram of grapes airfreighted from California creates approximately 11.8904 kilograms of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas.” THANK YOU, GOOGLE! Marg, it is so creepy the way he listens in on our conversations.” Marg cracks a smile: “How do you know ‘he’ is a he? Google could be a ‘she’, you know. ‘Computer’ is a feminine word in many languages. And don’t try to change the subject – that 500 grams of grapes you just bought created about six kilograms of greenhouse gas.” That’s probably more than driving the Subaru to Picton.”
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18042021 News Photo: Helen Nickisson/Stuff earth day essay winners Earth Day essay competition winners, from left: years 5-6, Luke Tucker (1st), years 9-10, Sophie Kole (1st), years 7-8, Sayu Weerasinghe (joint 1st), and years 5-6, Elke Stafford (2nd). Missing from the photo is Isabella Frew (years 7-8 joint 1st).
As part of Earth Day celebrations in Marlborough, school children were asked to write an essay, ‘It is important to have Earth Day because .” Marlborough Girls’ College Year 9 student Sophie Kole won her year group and picked up her prize at the Earth Day picnic in Blenheim’s Pollard Park on Sunday. Here is Sophie’s essay.
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Envirohub co-ordinator Tash Luxton said the Earth Day picnic aimed to be accessible for the community and family focused. “We want it to be free, while that gets people interested in the beginning, then we can add in the education side of it,” Luxton said. “It’s very much an environmentally focused, but it has a huge fun factor to it as well. Because obviously we want Marlborough to become a bit more aware and progress along that gradient to being a bit more environmentally friendly.”
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Diana Dobson from Marlborough Falcon Trust with Fern the Falcon at the 2019 picnic.