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What a commitment on No Drive Day!

Two weeks ago, LEAF held another No-Drive Day in school where people were encouraged to take public transport or walk into school instead of driving into school. We had a very successful result, with about three hundred people walking into school. However, one Grade sixer named Slade, did a wonderful job of actually walking all the way from his house in East Coast to school!

Slade says that walking into school has ‘become a tradition since grade 4. The 15kms takes him about three and a half hours including drink breaks and photo taking.’ Slade enjoys bonding with his father and reducing his carbon footprint.  LEAF are very impressed with his efforts, and we hope to see more students do the same, like Slade.

Some staff too have made remarkable efforts with Activities co-ordinator Neil Allsop commuting in on a mammoth journey on public transport from over the causeway in JB! Well done Neil and to all those who made the effort to give up the cars on No Drive Day!




Gauri Shukla, Leaf GC December 2016

Thank you to everyone for supporting another successful No Drive Day on the 18th September 2013. Once again, LEAF members and student volunteers ensured infant school's safety and others did their part for the environment by taking public transport. 

This time, a total of 380 cars drove into school (usually between 700-800 on a normal day) and 890 people walked into school! 

As LEAF is planning to have a total of 6 No Drive Days this academic year, we hope to take small steps in improving and benefitting both the environment and UWC. This No Drive Day, there were a few changes here and there:

1) Instead of just bananas, another healthy food choice, of apples, were given to people who walked in. Leftover apples and bananas were given out for free to further encourage healthy and vegetarian eating on Green Wednesday. People from the Budden Initiative also joined in, by setting up a composting bin under the tent for banana peels and apple cores. 

2) The AYE gate was open on that day to increase convenience. Although there were about 10 people entering through that gate, every person counts. The gate should be open for future No Drive Days to encourage more people to take public transport. 

Transport Policy
Clearly the levels of pollution and congestion caused by traffic on the Dover Campus is a serious threat to our attempts at achieving environmental sustainability, as well as causing distress to students and parents concerned about health and safety and just getting to college on time!

With lobbying over the last two years from the Greenjas student environmental group among others, the College's transport policy is under review as part of the wider Sustainability Review led by Frazer Cairns, Head of Campus. We are hoping for more details soon....

In the meantime if you can come to school by bike or on foot or use public transport, you'll be doing a great deal to make the College a more sustainable place.