• Jackson Peak

The Green Issue Q&A: Jackson Peak

Jackson Peak is a local 15-year-old who has been involved with a couple of environmental clean ups and has teamed up with his gran to work with church volunteers to do environmental work.

 

Channel Magazine: What is the latest change you made to benefit the environment?

Jackson Peak: Picking up pieces of rubbish around school to make it a cleaner place and have less litter going in to the oceans and polluting them.

CM: Name three things people can do to have a positive environmental impact in their daily lives.

JP:

  • If there is rubbish on the ground and a bin nearby pick it up and put it into the bin.
  • Have recyclable bags for food shopping or carrying something around.
  • Use a keep cup for take away coffees instead of the paper cups at the shops because most of them can’t be fully recycled or reused for other things.

CM: Please share a favourite local environmental initiative you know about

JP: Going to the cleanups for Sustainable Coastlines or Auckland City Council clean-ups in my area at the beach and the mangroves. I have done some of these with the Duke of Edinburgh [programme] and completed some of my own with neighbours and friends.

CM: Who is your eco hero?

JP: My eco hero is Sir David Attenborough because he does so much to show everyone the environment and promote sustainability and trying to help the global problems in the environment.