It is an educational program suitable for years 7–9 students. It was designed to match the curriculum requirements for science and has practical learning activities based on home energy efficiency.

This program shows:

- That small changes in the use of energy accumulate into substantial financial and environmental savings.

- Students how to be more responsible and aware of their energy uses and encourages them to communicate the energy saving methods to family and friends.

- How energy use can be reduced so that energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions are smaller.

The program also involves an energy efficiency calculator so that you can instantly calculate the energy consumption of each room in their house and what each appliances energy consumption is.

With the activities in the program encouraging students to discuss science ideas with their families, it will educate students to help minimise the energy costs at home and bring new thoughts to the table on how to save in costs as they become more aware.

Other tips and ways to save on resources can be found here.

Though it is traditional to cook for your dad on Fathers Day, I feel that this spirit is starting to dwindle for the easy option of just buying the latest expensive gadget you find in your most recent junk mail magazine.

So how about this Fathers Day you cook for dadand try to make it something special, something more remembered, more touching.
After all, you get to eat the breakfast too! Pancakes anyone?

It’s always good to reflect upon how someone so important to you has helped you develop into the person who you are today, and even if it has been years since this person has helped you, even if you don’t live with them anymore, even if you have children of your own now, it’s always nice to think back to those days when you could turn to Dad and everything would be alright.

With Father’s Day only a few weeks away, start to think of how much Dad has helped and shaped you over the years. What are some stories that come to mind when you think of Dad and how special he is to you?

We are once again offering two lucky people the chance to win a 12 month subscription of this bi-monthly magazine valued at $25 each.

To go into the running for this wonderful prize click HERE- remember, you must be subscribed to our newsletter to enter. Adding your answer as a comment in our blog will not count as an entry (and won’t be published to keep it fair for everyone!)

Full terms and conditions are available here. Competitions close on 9 September 2008 and winners will be announced here and in our September newsletter.

Usually these complications can be fixed. For more information and links visit our breastfeeding problems page.

You can very easily put a smile on someone’s face by simply telling them what it is that makes them so beautiful to you. By doing this you can spread the worth of an easy compliment further, as for each compliment sent Nivea will donate 50 cents to Look Good…Feel Better. This is a charity to help women who are undergoing treatment for cancer.

Just by sending an “I think you’re beautiful” message you can help others as well.

Baden-Powell tested his scouting ideas at a camp on Brownsea Island, England, in August 1907 so the 1st August has been accepted as the anniversary date for scouting which means that today is the 100th birthday of Aussie scouts!

This is the year of the scout in Australia and there are many celebrations and acknowledgements happening throughout the year and in August in particular. What celebrations have you seen or been involved in?

Tomorrow, Tash is joining scouting people from around Victoria for the Fantastic Race and the Scout Street party in the city - will you be there? Cubs are meeting at the museum and then visiting various city landmarks to collect points towards a centenary badge - it will be a BIG day but loads of fun and a great way to show the children different parts of their capital city.

Even if you are not in scouting, why not say hello and happy birthday to any scouting people you spot this month?

From everyone involved in Save Time Online, we wish scouts everywhere a great year and another fantastic 100 years of funn and growing!

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) runs for the first week of August and is purely for the purpose of encouraging awareness and the use of breastfeeding. WBW brings forth the reasons why breast feeding is better and simply more natural for the development of both baby and mother.

Breastfeeding is the natural way to provide your child with optimal nutrition and immunological and emotional nurturing. Each year WBW has a theme to focus on. This year the theme is “Mother Support: Go for Gold”. Mothers often need support and perseverance when breastfeeding and this year the theme focuses on assisting mothers and their need for help and patience while they provide their child with the best support that they can offer.

Breastfeeding helps protect your baby against ear infections, chest infections, childhood diabetes, asthma, urine infections and many more potentially life threatening illnesses.The nutritional value of breast milk makes it reliable to sustain the immunity and health of your child. However, breastfeeding is not only beneficial for the child. Women who breastfeed are more likely to return to their pre-pregnancy figure faster as well as less likely to develop ovarian and breast cancers.

Raising awareness of the benefits of breastfeeding is important as it improves the lives of the women taking care of the child as well as the health of our future generations.

If you are forwarding emails, here are a couple of tips to make the process better for everyone:

• if sending to a group of people, use the bcc field instead of the to field to protect people’s privacy and make it harder for spammers to get hold of addresses (your friends may not abuse an email address, but  if they forward it to someone who forwards it…)
• when forwarding a newsletter you are subscribed to, delete the information at the end of the email (this can be login details, unsubscribe links and subscription management details) first so that no one else can access your subscription
• double check what is in the email - the final part of an email may be great to send to Fred, but check that earlier parts of an email trail are suitable for Fred to read
• consider who you are forwarding to - don’t send it just because you can. Send emails that are likely (or at least possibly) of value to the recipient. You may not be selling anything or trying to distribute a virus, but your friends still don’t want piles of irrelevant emails

We’ll also mention that we didn’t get a lot of links from being part of this and it took a lot of time and mucking around to include the list. If anyone esle had better results, please share them with us!