SP Environment Club

Written By Ying Sheng

On a rainy Saturday morning on 21st April, I attended my first Earth Day celebrations that SP Environment Club and NParks collaborated. I was going as a helper under SP Environment Club. Initially, I was sceptical as to whether it would be worth the time due to the weather and my bed was calling out to me.

We took approximately 5 minutes to Pasir Ris Park from the MRT station. When we reached, the rain was getting heavier. I started doubting as I feared lacklustre participation and boredom.

I had been assigned the role of a Game Master. However, due to the rain, I was reallocated to the Art & Craft station instead. My duty was to help the children with their origami and drawings. As the morning progressed, I realised that I enjoyed myself! In the process, I have learnt that many people do indeed care about saving Mother Earth as many people had turned up to celebrate this occasion together.

In this event, I had learnt a lot about the environment and enjoyed myself. During my break time, I went around to listen and educate myself from the other areas, such as the Seashells Booth and the Mangrove Walk.

Overall I feel that Earth Day has been an extremely enriching and fun experience and I would definitely attend it again next year!

Written By Ling Li Min

TEDxSingapore: Inspiring Ideas To The Max made its debut on 3 April 2012, in conjunction with the opening of MAX Atria @ Singapore EXPO,Singapore’s first MICE venue awarded with the Building and Construction Authority’s (BCA) Green Mark Platinum award. This year also marks TEDxSingapore’s third anniversary!

The event was curated by the TEDxSingapore team led by Founding Curator Dave Lim. It is created by the community to bring people from all walks of life together to share, inspire and act. Through interaction, learning and the sharing of knowledge, ideas are brought to life by passionate individuals and these ideas are spread through the community.

This year, members from the SP Environment Club attended the TEDxSingapore: Inspiring Ideas To The Max conference. We met a panel of seven speakers, of various different backgrounds, who touched on topics spanning across environmental and sustainability issues and measures.

The speakers were: Jason Pomeroy, Masami Sato, Scott D. Anthony, Thaddeus Lawrence, Michael Totten, Ananda Avalokita and Zann Huizhen Huang.

The event ended with a bang, with a surprise by the Founding Curator. After the conference, we mingled with other attending members, and exchanged many greetings and contact details with people from all over the world. We even met some who flew in from other countries just for the conference!

It was a very enjoyable and enriching experience, and it helped to broaden our perspective on many things. We hope that in the next conference, you could join us too!

Join us in this special 3 days of Environmental Exhibition together with interactive workshop and exciting activities to engage all of you in the exhibition panels.

Get Inspired by Earth’s Beauty, Learn about various global crisis, Reflect on the way we lives affects our global environment and Empower ourselves to take concrete actions to resolve the issues we face.

Take some time off one of the 3days and let our friendly exhibition guides to embark the journey of Inspire, Learn, Reflect and Empower together!

View Earth from a fresh perspective

Seeds of Hope Exhibition

Vision of sustainability, step towards change

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“Seeds of Hope” exhibition stresses our interconnectedness with the rest of the community of life and the need to broaden our sphere of compassion and concern.

“It starts from one” – the slogan that Earth Charter International had chosen for their campaign in 2010.

It encourages viewers to overcome feelings of powerlessness and highlights the fact that a single individual can initiate positive change.

Below is some of the highlights of the exhibition:

1. Handmade Door Gifts made from Recycled paper

You will be given a sakura flower handmade from unwanted magazines paper. Get one from us after viewing the Exhibition. It also come with a bookmark that will remind you the date where you decided to make a change for the Earth.

2. Interactive workshop conducted by our students

Do you know there is lots more things that can be made using many of the common materials that we throw away daily? Here is one of the many examples. A basket that can be made from newspaper! It can be made into many different shape and sizes. We will be making this basket during the workshop!

3. Exciting activities

To engage you further in this environmental exhibition, we will be having some simple activities throughout the 3days event. Come to celebrate this 3days together with your friends and enjoy the activities we had.

Remember the details of the event:

Date: 2 May to 4 May ( Wed to Fri)

Time: 11am to 5pm daily

Venue: Open Area outside FC5

So, come down with your friends and have lots of fun together!!

We hope to see all of you there!!! Be inspired in this environmental exhibition!

Written by Siti Nazurah

Earth Hour, an annual event held globally falls on the 31st of March for this year 2012.

This year, for the first time, SP Environment Club reaches out to the public to spread awareness of Earth Hour and spread the green message to urge all to save electricity!

We collaborated with NTU EarthLink to help out at the Southwest district of Singapore. As we went from door to door, we interacted with the friendly residents and encourage them to give a little gift for Mother Earth! We practiced our good communication skills and spoke in different tongues as we encourage the residents of all ages to pledge on this special day.

Every volunteer was given a chance to explain to the residents that Earth Hour was from 8.30pm to 9.30pm and during this period, they were asked to switch off their lights to support this cause. This one-on-one interactive platform allows the public to personally know and get involve in Earth Hour. This also allows them to know more about saving the environment!

It had been an enjoyable and enriching experience for the SP Environment Club members and we hope that everyone will do their part to save electricity and the earth!

Written by Ng Jian Ming

YES2012 is Asian Journeys’ Youth in Environmental Stewardship event held on March 31 in conjunction with the Earth Hour. Organised by Asian Journeys and supported by UNISIM, the youth forum was held in one of the new SIM’s lecture theatre and attracted about 100 youths from secondary schools, junior colleges, institutes of technology and polytechnics.

The forum commenced with a screening of a cultural music video “Trash is Cash” by some kids of Wafalme, a group of 16 young, talented Kenyans between the ages of 9 – 23 years old who are spreading the word about climate change through hip hop. Shortly after, the forum showcased Asian Journey’s Green Desert Project as an example of youths with the mission for environment conservation and reproduction. An Asian Journeys’ video which narrated the journey of Green Desert over the past 10 years in Inner Mongolia, was launched at the forum too.

Youth participants were later disseminated into different groups to brainstorm and develop ideas which can be implemented to transform their school into a greener environment that were presented afterwards. The forum came to a closure after the winning teams were presented with their prizes, their very own Terrariums!

Join us for Earth Hour 2012 on 31 March from 12pm to 4pm as we spread the message on Earth Hour and encourage them to pledge to turn their lights off on that night from 8.30pm to 9.30pm!

Date: 31 March 2012
Time: 12pm to about 4pm
Place: Jurong West Area (Meeting Place will be at Boon Lay MRT)

CCA Points will be given, so stop hesitating and join now by filling up this simple form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFJpY3BDUVBwdH​VuZkRPNmNIQjVPSlE6MQ

Do you know less than 1% of the Earth’s water is fresh water that we can actually use? There are 7 billion people on Earth, will fresh water be enough?

World Water Day is a day whereby we focus on the importance of freshwater and the ways where we can make fresh water sustainable. The day is held annually on 22 March since 1993 and this is the 20th year this day is held as World Water Day.

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect on fresh water with different themes. Find out the theme for previous years here: http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/about.html

This year, the theme for World Water Day is Water & Food Security. As we know, there are many people living in hunger everyday and it is becoming a growing concern as the income gap is widening. Furthermore, we need to cope with a growing population overtime. This means we need to seek for sustainable diets and less water-intensive products so that more people will have food to eat.

What can you do on this day is to participate on events organised by various organisations in Singapore to enrich yourself topics related to Singapore’s water supply. One of the main events will be held at Marina Barrage where there is a mass walk, carnival, stage performances and more!

For the full list of events, visit http://singaporeworldwaterday.com/index.html

More information about World Water Day at http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/index.html

SP Environment Club has won the Outstanding Contributions Award (Group Category) for the 6th consecutive year at the SP Excellence Awards 2012!

We would like to thank the club members and committee members as well as the school for supporting us to win this award. With this recognition, we are more motivated to do better year after year with the burning passion for the environment!

Asian Journeys’ Youth Environment Stewardship 2012 is back with a new theme;
Green Desert: GREEN TRANSFORMERS

A forum organised by Asian Journeys’ Green Desert Club, in partnership with SIM University’s School of Science and Technology.

It is back to inspire young environmentalists to dream big and make bigger contributions in the future. This is a time when youths, like us who share similar passion gather to discuss on our next step in the grand mission of saving Mother Earth.

Programmes include invited theme speakers to presents talks and share their knowledge with us, and aspiring performances to spark the flame of passion in those whose hearty candles have yet to be kindled.

Also, there will be a photography competition in this event! The theme is GREEN TRANSFORMERS!

So, get your cameras ready and start shooting some winning photographs now.

More details will be given to registered members, so register now! (Refer below for the hyperlink)

Date: 31 March 2012, Saturday (SP Earth Hour is happening later in the evening too!)

Time: 8.30am – 12.30pm

Venue: SIM HQ University, Lecture Theatre 3.37

We will be meeting at Clementi MRT Station @ 8am and take bus 52, 61, 74, 151, 154, or 184 to reach our destination.

It is highly recommended for those who are going to the OCIP YEP Green Desert trip to Inner Mongolia, Northern China to participate as Asian Journeys’, the organisation in charge of this event, is running the trip itself.

For more information, visit www.asianjourneys.com

You may register as either a participant or a helper for the event;

*Photographers wanted as helpers too!*

To register: Click Here

(Deadline for registration ends on 23 March 2012, Friday, 2359hrs)

Hope to see you at the forum and SP Earth Hour too!

DO YOU WANT TO A PART OF THE SINGAPORE RECORDS HOLDER?

Have your names etched on a plaque and placed on a tree in SP Campus?

If you do, help us show Singapore that we can make it BIG through our collective efforts?

Started from last December, SP Environment Club has been embarking on a 9-months collection project with PAYM Nee Soon Central.

We will be collecting recyclables (clothing, newspapers, etc.) from the West region of Singapore, and with the collected items, we are going to break the Singapore Book of Records!

Proceeds generated from the sale will go towards the SP Needy Fund campaign.

CCA Points will be awarded to all participants and a Certificate will be issued to participants who have helped out for more than 20 hours!

The Top 3 teams with the most amounts of recyclables collected will have their names etched onto a plaque and have a tree named after their team!

So, what are you waiting for? Sign up now!

You may sign up either as a team (3-5pax) or individually.

For Team Sign-up: Click here

For Individual Sign-up: Click here

Recycling Drive Sessions in MARCH

Dates: 24 March 2012, Saturday

Time: 9am – 1pm

Venue: Bukit Batok

A reminder will be sent to all registered participants 3-5 days before each sessions, to remind them the time and location to meet.

Also, a notification about this collection drive will be sent to all members monthly.

For enquiries, please direct them to spenv@cca.sg with the subject as “Enquiry about 3RCC”.