Each Monday the Age discusses current issues giving for and against arguments and a pepole's opinions on the issue

Some of the issues discussed so far this year are:

Climbing Uluru, Michael Jackson, The Chaser's War on Everything, Violence against international students, Jumps racing, Swine flu

http://www.education.theage.com.au/cmspage.php?intid=135&intversion=292

On July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong, the commander of the Apollo 11 Space Mission was the first man to step on the moon.

Check out these great sites with all the facts about this amazing story of space exploration

http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html

http://www.google.com/moon/

WANT TO SAVE A

GORILLA?

IT’S YOUR CALL –

SUPPORT THE LIBRARY WHO WILL COLLECT YOUR USED MOBILE PHONES AND FORWARD THEM TO THE MELBOURNE ZOO

“They’re calling on you” Mobile Phone recycling campaign

Did you know?

• More than 800 million people around the world currently use mobile phones and that figure is growing daily!
• In Australia alone, it is estimated that there were 9 million new mobile phones sold in the last 12 months.
• Australians typically upgrade their phones every 18-24 months! This exerts enormous pressure on the mining of resources such as coltan needed to manufacture new phones.
• 80% of the world’s coltan reserves are located within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• As the forest is denuded for mining, the protection once offered by the habitat in its pristine state is now no longer able to shelter gorillas.
• In Kahuzi Biega National Park, more than fifty percent of the mountain gorilla population has been lost, leaving the species on the brink of extinction.

You can make a difference

simply by donating your old mobile phone!

$2.00 is raised for each phone donated.

Click on the picture below to SEE Gorillas playing deep in the Congo

Click on the picture below to SEE Pulitzer documentary on Coltan mining:

SO SEND THOSE MOBILES YOU ARE NO LONGER USING

TO THE MEC LIBRARY AND WE WILL ORGANISE

DELIVERY TO THE MELBOURNE ZOO.

Check out the Zoo web site for more information http://www.zoo.org.au/Calling_on_You

Thank you for supporting this initiative.

Jenny Hurse and Grace Sutton for MEC Library Staff

http://www.insideadog.com.au/