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How Energy Efficient are Mentone Girls’ families?

How Energy Efficient are Mentone Girls’ families?. By Erin Liacos and Georgia-May Austin.

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How Energy Efficient are Mentone Girls’ families?

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  1. How Energy Efficient are Mentone Girls’ families? By Erin Liacos and Georgia-May Austin

  2. Mentone Girls’ Grammar pride themselves on providing a sustainable and energy efficient community for their girls. We decided to investigate whether this had an impact on the sustainability of their families at home. We conducted a survey proposing questions about their energy efficiency and water usage at home. We collected a range of data across year levels and discovered that Mentone Girl’s are in fact not energy and water efficient.

  3. Do you think your family is efficient? Number of students 22 17 13 8 Before our survey After our survey

  4. How long are your showers? Even with water restrictions in place it is clear that Mentone girl’s much prefer long showers; With two thirds of the girls we surveyed having showers longer than 7 minutes. Only 1 out of 30 girls left taps running 11 11 6 2

  5. Are certain appliances always switched on at the wall when not in use i.e. Television? Do you turn off unused power-points? Number of students Number of students 18 13 12 5 7 5

  6. Do you substitute turning on a heater for warmer clothes? Are there always lights on in your house? Number of students Number of students 12 12 11 10 8 7

  7. Does your family recycle? Number of students 30

  8. As you can see by the data we have collected of 30 Mentone girls grammar students, we have concluded that MGGS girls are not efficient

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