Investigating the creation of a sustainable future
The new Eco-Sustainability Trade Skills Centre, based at the Currency Creek Campus of Goolwa’s Investigator College, had an unlikely genesis. ‘My wife and I needed a new dishwasher and were trying to find one with a four or five star energy rating,’ Principal Don Grimmett recalls.
At the time, we were making annual trips to the Philippines working with communities who made their living scavenging from massive rubbish dumps.’ Don recalls that they re-used absolutely everything, causing him to question whether a five star dishwasher was really the best he could do for the environment. As it turns out, there was so much more!
Around the time of Don’s dishwasher epiphany,
