Hey greenies, week 7 is coming and we are sure you are waiting for midbreak! it doesn't mean that we will be free during midbreak but at least we don't have classes to be attended so we save our energies for doing assignments and tests! haha. but don't forget to relax and enjoy the environment around you. We need a blue sky holiday, indeed! who doesn't?
let us dO project for ourselves. Every single day, we do a small change. A small change x lots of people = BIG CHANGE!
ACTION #1
Go on, tell me more
Every person in the country uses an average of 167 plastic bags every year. That's 10 billion bags all together. A plastic bag can take up to 500 years to decay in landfill. There is an alternative. It's called a shopping bag, and apparently in France, it's very chic!
1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one
10. Upload your 'on the night' photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the respective Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.
First of all, If you are seeing this post, most certainly you are more fortunate than other people in the world.
how privilege are you? if you are reading this, of course you have electricity access on your PC or laptop or another high technology gadgets, so you are more fortunate than 1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity — who live without electricity.
If you are reading this and you see you have roof on top of you, so you are more fortunate than 640 million children in the developing country who don't have even an adequate shelter (1 in 3 ratio, with the number of children in poverty is 1 billion (every second child)).
if you are reading this and you are close enough to reach your mineral water, you are really so much more fortunate compare with some 1.1 billion people in developing countries who have inadequate access to water, while 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, and only able to consume around 20 litres per day only. we are thankfully more fortunate than we realize.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, there was a devastation caused by the magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake in Haiti. The people in that country are suffering until now, they need a helping hand. They slept in the streets and anywhere since their houses have been destroyed in the nights following the earthquake, while we are here just watching the news about that and says, "Oh that is too bad". We have enough water to drink and easy-to-access transportation to go anywhere and they are suffered shortages of fuel and potable water even before the disaster happened.
Many countries responded to volunteer for humanitarian aid. Doctor without border, engineers, pledging funds, dispatching rescue, and soon. They help. and what we can do?
The Valentine's season is still in the atmosphere. Rather than you spend your money for chocolate that might be make your loved one getting unhealthy-fatter and has many pimples because consume too many chocolates, -or spend your money for the roses that might be only last for one day, let's donate it. rather than you are being offended because you are single and there are nobody that you can give the chocolates, let's share the love to our less-fortunate people.
oh, you are not an engineers? a certified doctor? don't have time to be a volunteer? don't know what to donate? don't even know how to do? the hottest issue is You can donate through your iTunes. Just sit in front of your laptop, type and click click click. you can donate to Haiti by download WE ARE THE WORLD 25 FOR HAITI. We know it's 20 bucks, but if you want to do, I know you will.
For your information, We are the world 25 for Haiti is a remake of the song by another all-star cast of singers was recorded on February 1, 2010. It was released as a single on February 12, 2010, and proceeds from the record will aid survivors of the impoverished country. "We Are the World" has demonstrated that diverse musicians can productively work together, and has further influenced the movement within pop music to create songs that address humane concerns.
We can’t go on Pretending day by day that someone, somehow will soon make a change
that someone is you!
Like Katrina, Africa, Indonesia and now Haiti needs us, the need us, they need us
please, do more! here is the ways :
Donate with your iTunes
Please purchase this track on iTunes as all proceeds go to support relief efforts in Haiti. It costs you $20.
or you can :
Donate over the web for Haiti :
Free The Children
this organization is the world's network of children helping children through education. Their mission is Free children from poverty. Free children from exploitation. Free children from the idea that they are powerless to change the world.
this organization is is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people. Here is the link for Haiti : http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti
World Vision is supplying families in Port-au-Prince with rations of water, food, and other emergency items including hygiene kits, tarps, blankets and water containers.
World vision ever came to do an exhibition about HIV-AIDS and human trafficking victims in The Spring Mall to collect donations. and why not for this too?
Sorry folks for this really late post (better late than nothing) that we've kept you all waiting for. It has been ages since the last posting had been done. Well, here again.. we stand (or should we say, dump?) all the memories of what Swinburne Green Club has been through this semester.
As usual a recruitment drive had been done with the hope that more students as well as Swinburne staffs join the club. It's free. huh? yeah it's free by the way. do you know what is the cool thing about joining this club???
It is not only FREE as we mentioned about. You can make friends from there too! Of course, NEW FRIENDS, apart from learning, sharing, conserving, and preserving the Earth.
GREEN CLUB = FRIENDS + NEW FRIENDS + FUN + SAVE the ENVIRONMENT
One perfect combination we would say..
There are more things that have to be done for MOTHER NATURE and let’s lend helping hands to her.
For now we’ll let the pictures talk about our past activities...
RECRUITMENT DRIVE 2009
Clean Up the World (Beach Cleaning) 2009
Clean Up the World is a community based environmental program that inspires and empowers individuals and communities from every corner of the globe to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment.
Now in its 18th year, Clean Up the World, held in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), mobilises an estimated 35 million volunteers from 120 countries annually, making it one of the largest community-based environmental campaigns in the world.
and as you know, Swinburne Green Club has taken a part of this community since 2008.
we decided to go for beach cleaning, as our annual activity, at Pasir Pandak, Kuching.
Where the fun begins:
Creative Designs: Sand Art Competition
***Simple but Meaningful***
To the End of the Day Good work Everyone
Photos compliment to our official photographer: Gary Chan
P.S : we would like to do this event annually, with some improvements by providing you a volunteer certificate and member certificate. still in progress, wish us luck! ;)
oh yeah, let's do this resolution, folks.. "conservation starts from home" let's do conserve, from your self first, from you home sweet home!
For farmers of Southern China, rice is more than just food - it is the very basis of their culture, however, it's a way of life that could be under threat as the spectre of genetic modification (GM) creeps up on the planet's most important food crop.
Photographs and story by John Novis. Additional photographs individually credited.
Unplug appliances when you're not using them. Using a power strip makes it easier to conserve electricity because you just have to unplug one cord instead of many. Also unplug any chargers that aren't in use because they still use electricity even when they're not actively charging something.
Step2
Set your thermostat at a reasonable temperature. Set it as high or as low as you need to be comfortable, but don't heat or cool excessively.
Step3
Use your appliances efficiently to conserve electricity. Refrain from opening your oven unnecessarily because it has to work harder and use more energy to heat back up; only run the dishwasher when it is fully loaded; adjust the water level on the washing machine for smaller loads and clean out the lint filter in your drier before every load.
Step4
Turn off the lights when you leave a room. If your lights have a dimmer switch, dim the lights as much as possible. Also use sunlight to your advantage during the day and turn off artificial lighting.
Greenpeace has released a new campaign banner for promoting the use of energy efficient light bulbs.
to be honest, IT IS a really great banner.
firstly, the message is delivered without putting many words.
secondly, it is black and white which is you can save many watthours. Black doesn't produce many energy because it is not a colour. Black means the absence of color. They absorb all such frequencies of light.
so by using black color in your lovey laptop or PC, you can save more watthours. You can save the electricity bills, reduce the CO2 which your PC produces everyday, and of course (and again) you can save MORE ENERGIES.
so have you set up your computer with black?
either your wallpaper or search engine, maybe?
small action will lead to the bigger result, friend.
one tip,
if you want to use search engine, try www.blackle.com instead of google.
they are from same provider,
check and how cool blackle and you.. for saving about 1,424,587.540 watthours?
Swinburne Green Club is one of clubs in Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus).
environmental issues, humanity issues, earth community,
we are all about them :)
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