新加坡报业控股出版的《健康no.1》杂志在3月31日在莱佛士会议中心 (Raffles Convention Center) 举办健康展览和讲座。主办当局邀请地球协会当天在1点30分到Sophia
Ball room呈现环保讲座。
地球协会成员在当天1点到达现场。我们呈现了30分钟的《饮食对健康/环境的影响》讲座，并分发环保手册，向民众传播健康/环保讯息。观众们都专心地聆听讲座。
健康展览和讲座活动在下午4点钟圆满结束。
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
《健康no.1》健康/环保讲座（3月31日）
新加坡报业控股出版的《健康no.1》杂志在3月31日在莱佛士会议中心 (Raffles Convention Center) 举办健康展览和讲座。主办当局邀请地球协会当天在1点30分到Sophia
Ball room呈现环保讲座。
Earth Hour event @ Vegan Burg (23 Mar)
Mr Alex, CEO of Vegan Burg, invited Mr Low to attend their Earth Hour event @ Eunos Vegan Burg.
Vegan Burg supports Earth Hour by switching all lights from 8.30 to 9.30pm. They also donated all sales during Earth Hour to Tzu Chi Foundation.
Some celebration program (i.e. singing, story-telling) were held during the lights-off hour. Mr Balakrishna, a yoga teacher, read some stories to the children during the lights-off hour.
Mr Low attended the event and supported Vegan Burg’s effort for Earth Hour.
Pro-Teach (Horizon) GW talks (21 Mar 2013)
Staff’s Feedback:
The statistics presented were alarming. It will prompt the audience to contribute towards prevention of Global Warming. Young audience may have difficulties understanding though.
- Ms Patrica Ong, Manager of
Pro-teach (Horizon)
Pace of presentation was just nice for the students. Lots of animation to keep them interested.
- Ms Ayu, Student Care teacher
Very interesting and engaging presentation. Easy for the kids to
comprehend. The kids’ feedback was that they love the videos and the quizzes
especially.
- Ms Linda, Student Care teacher
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Assembly Talks & Booth @ Nanyang Primary (11 & 12 Mar)
Last year, Earth Society conducted 2 Assembly talks for Nanyang
primary students/ teachers. The talk received lots of positive feedback from
pupils and teachers.
The following are some feedbacks for the Assembly talk:
This year, Mdm Rebecca Goh, Subject Head of NE/SS in Nanyang Primary,
invited us again to conduct 4 Assembly talks for Nanyang primary’s P1, P2, P3
& P5 pupils on 11 Mar & 12 Mar.
On 11 Mar, Earth
Society members reached Nanyang Primary (King’s Road Campus) on 9.20am. We
conducted a Global warming talk (Upper primary version) for P3 pupils from 9.30
to 10am, set up a booth at the canteen from 10 to 11 am and conduct another
talk for P5 pupils from 11 to 11.30am.
On 12 Mar, we reached Nanyang
Primary (Toh Tuck Campus) on 8.20am. We conducted a Global warming talk (Lower
primary version) for P2 pupils from 8.30 to 9am, followed by a talk to P1
pupils from 9 to 9.30am. We set up and manned a booth at the canteen from 9.30am
to 11 am.
Students and teachers
listened attentively to the talks and learn more information about
environmental protection.
The following are some feedbacks for the Assembly talk:
Students’
Feedback:
I learn that we must take
good care of the planet.
- Clarice, P2 pupil, NYPS
- Clarice, P2 pupil, NYPS
I like the videos that you showed
us. I will try to do some stuff that I learn at home. - Joy Goh, P2 pupil, NYPS
I learn that I should
protect the Earth. I learn that cows produce a lot of green house gases, I will
eat less meat and hamburgers. - Zachary Mok & Ester Wong, P3 pupil, NYPS
I loved the talk. I learn that
we should not cut down trees. I learn about having Veggie Thursdays.
- Iann Tan & Goh Cher Maine, P3 pupil, NYPS
- Iann Tan & Goh Cher Maine, P3 pupil, NYPS
Teacher’s
Feedback:
·
The
assembly talk was very meaningful, it made pupils know what is the condition of
our mother earth now, and what we can do to save the earth. Those
video clips were interesting, Bravo Speaker.
·
The
talk was informative and create awareness. Especially the part that encourage
us to eat vege rather than meat and giving us the reasons.
·
The
assembly topic was a good social topic, though quite an abstract one for
our young pupils, but the excellent graphics help a lot. The speaker was very
patient and he managed to contain his message within time constraints.
·
I
liked the talk a lot. Convinced me to reduce my intake of meat. I'm not sure if
the children could understand all of that though. May wish is to tackle just
one or two environmental issues.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Earth Society's "I Will If You Will" Challenge
This year, Earth Society decided
to participate in WWF Earth Hour’s “I Will IF You WILL” Challenge
(IWIYW) to encourage everyone to adopt sustainable actions beyond the hour.
[ More info on IWIYW
Challenge: http://earthhour.wwf.sg/iwiyw.php ]
This is our “I Will IF
You WILL” Challenge:
“Earth Society will
commit to conduct 50 FREE Environment talks for schools
and NGOs IF 800 people
will commit to support Veggie Thursday or Go
meatless one day a
week.”
To View our IWIYW
Challenge, pls visit:
[ Pls close the pop-up
window to view the Challenge.
Pls consider if
you would support Veggie Thursday or go Meatless one day a week to support the cause.
To accept the
Challenge, pls click the “Accept this Challenge” Button.
You would need to sign
in with your gmail / youtube account to accept
the Challenge.
:>]
For more info on
Veggie Thursdays, please visit : www.veggiethursday.sg
Let’s work together to
create a sustainable future for everyone.
Earth Hour 2013
WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is organizing Earth Hour, one of the most successful global environmental movement , on 23 Mar (Sat).
Last year, Earth Hour took place in more than 7000 cities and towns
across 152 countries with more than 5 million people participating in the
event.
This year, WWF invites organizations/ companies/ individuals to switch
off light on 23 Mar from 8.30pm to 9.30pm to raise awareness about the need to
take action on Climate change.
The official 2013 Earth Hour video is available on youtube:
Apart from Switching off light for 1 hr, WWF also initiates the “I Will
If You Will” (IWIYW) Challenge to encourage world citizens to adopt sustainable
practice beyond the hour. http://www.youtube.com/earthhour
IWIYW attracts many government officials, dignitaries, companies,
organizations etc to participate in the challenge:
e.g. The Mayor of
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will ride a bicycle from his house to office on 25 Mar,
if 50 buildings in KL will switch off for Earth Hour 2013.
Singapore Marina Bay Sands will raise its air-con by one
degree for one day every month of the year, if its top 20 vendors raise their
air-con temperatures by one degree. IKEA
Singapore will have a free reusable blue bag day if 20,000 pple pledge to use
reusable bags instead of plastic bags.
……..
In 2013, WWF organizes various
activities in different countries to encourage sustainable development.
In Singapore, WWF holds
road shows in various locations to educate the public on how to reduce energy
consumption.
WWF Singapore also
produces various Earth Hour Action Kits for schools/ companies/NGOs to
download.
Earth hour Action Kit: http://earthhour.wwf.sg/action_kits.php
The kit encourages
Singaporeans to take 4 key actions to reduce the ecological footprint of
Singapore:
1. Reduce usage of Plastic Bag
2. Turn up the air-con by 1 degree
3. Change to LED light bulbs
4. Take shorter showers
In US, WWF initiate an
“Earth Hour City Challenge” movement to encourage cities to take practical measures
to prepare for increasing impacts of climate change and promote renewable
energy. U.S. cities that participate will receive resources and gain
recognition for their efforts to curb carbon pollution and prepare their
communities for the harmful consequences of climate change.
US, WWF “Earth Hour
City Challenge”:
In China, WWF launches a
“Green V Week” campaign. The campaign encourages the Chinese population to
adopt one green action a day every week to promote sustainable living.
The recommended Green
actions are as such:
Mon: Eat More Veggie
(similar to the Meatless
Monday campaign that many countries have adopted)
Tues: Use reusable bag
Wed: Don’t Drive
Thurs: Bring your own
Chopstick
Fri: Don’t waste food
Sat: Love the animals
Sun: Walk out of the house to enjoy the Natural
surroundings
……
In recent years, there has been growing awareness on the detrimental
effects of meat production on the planet. Thus, we can observe that the
“eco-conscious people” are becoming more vocal to urge the public to reduce
meat consumption to protect the environment.
Some examples from WWF Earth Hour/ IWIYW are:
1. Green School Bali (Indonesia) Grade 7 students will organize a Green
School community beach clean up, if 1000 people will go without fast food for
one month.
2.Treehugger's
Food and Wine writer Jerry James Stone promises to go vegan for a whole month
if 1000 people do the same for a week.
3. In 2012, Nadya
Hutagalung (WWF Singapore and Earth Hour Ambassador) challenged 6 of her
husband’s friends to go vegetarian for 1 month. Her husband, in turn, challenge
60 of her twitter followers to go vegetarian for 1 month and he will cycle from
his house to the Earth Hour event.
4. In 2011, Li Bing Bing (China Star and Earth hour Ambassador) promised
to eat 100 days of veggie meals in the year to do her part in protecting the
environment:
5. WWF 2013 “Green V Week” campaign encourages the Chinese population to
“Eat More Veggies” every Monday.
It’s encouraging to see this less meat/ more veggie trend.
Let’s join in to do our part in protecting the environment. :>
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