Janelle Randall-Court and Nicola Masters talk about the Cooling the Schools Project which is planting 36,000 native trees and plants in schools across Greater Sydney to reduce the urban heat island effect and increase biodiversity.
Greening Australia and Deadly Ed are delivering cultural education sessions as part of the program which has been funded by the NSW Government’s Greening our City program.
Schools can apply to Greening Australia to be part of the Cooling the Schools Project at www.greeningaustralia.org.au/cooling-the-schools
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This story has been produced as part of the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative's Bioregional Collaboration for Planetary Health and is supported by the Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF). The DRRF is jointly funded by the Australian and New South Wales governments.