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Over 250 students and teachers from three states will converge on Mildura in September to discuss the management of our natural resources, sustainable development and our urban landscape.

This is a crucial time in our history for young people to have influence over environmental decision making.

Already some students have begun researching their chosen topic to ensure a factually correct and exciting workshop for this prestigious event.

Registrations are now open – www.onelifeoneworldourfuture.com/tas/ to register attendance and presentations as soon as possible. A similar conference dealing with Melbourne water issues has already sold out.

Schools can register 3 - 15 students and 3 teachers per school, there is also opportunity to register for a student led workshop presentations! Students from Primary and Secondary participate from years 5 right through to year 11.

The 2008 MDBC Youth Environment Conference is the State-wide version of the International River Health Conference, Australia’s only environmental event for kids and by kids. Facilitated by Arron Wood, the current recipient of Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award; and winner of the 2001 Young Australian of the Year for the Environment.

The Mildura Conference will provide hands on, student-centred learning to bring about a cultural change in the way we perceive our natural environment, to raise awareness of the importance of environment education, and the value of the “Kids Teaching Kids” model of education.

Students will come away from the event with skills in acting on their concerns for the environment, more knowledge about environmental issues and how other communities are dealing with those concerns, but more importantly it builds students who are more resilient and optimistic, have a sense of future, are capable public speakers and can communicate ideas in many different forms’ he said.

The Conference is a culminating process that involves students working with expert mentors many months prior to the Conference, and results in curriculum methods that will lead and compliment existing school curriculum.

Most importantly, the process is about promoting kids teaching kids as the highest form of learning and aiming for a cultural change in the way we view, use and perceive our natural environment.

The Conference is proudly supported by the Murray Darling Basin Commission and related sponsors. River health conference returns to Mildura.