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NUS Student Leaders‘Green Issues Briefing
Marcus Tay Guan Hock , Sustainability Executive
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Contents
• What should we do to save the environment• What is the bare minimum a club should do• What more can a club do?• NUS Green Commitment
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What does being Environmentally Friendly means to you?
• Especially as student group?• Canoe to clean trash?• Clear rubbish while you trek?• Tree planting for your YEP?
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ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS AS AN URBAN PERSON
What does it mean to you?
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Imagine
• A YEAR WITHOUT TOILET PAPER• (mostly) no shopping for anything except food• producing no trash (except compost)• using no carbon-fueled transportation
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Zero Impact man?
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Zero Impact Family- Colin and Michelle, Isabelle Beavan
“That’s the thing about this current wave of environmentalism,” he continued. “It’s not about, how do we protect some abstract pristine space? It’s what can real people do in their home or office or whatever. It’s also very urban. It’s a critical twist in the old wilderness adage: Leave only footprints, take only photographs. But how do you translate that into Manhattan?”
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What you do daily is more important
While it is nice to protect pristine nature, it is equally or even more important to manage the daily environmental impacts of your life or club activities.
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WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AS A CLUB IN URBAN SINGAPORE?
Bare minimum expected
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Bare Minimum “Green” Behavior expected
1. Recycling for your event2. Catering – Reusable plates3. Recycle your Banner. 4. Get useful Door gifts
– Newater bottles?– Post its?
Courtesy of http://chem-eng.blogspot.com
Courtesy of www.confettistationery.com
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Recycling for your events
NUS Open House 2009Call OED Hotline at 65161515 or write to us at [email protected]
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Reusable plates and cutleryfor catering
• Made from Melamine
Caterers who don’t charge or charge a minimum:
Courtesy of www.machio.com
Recycle your Banners
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WHAT MORE CAN YOU DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AS A CLUB ?
More environmentally responsible things that you can do but some will bring inconvenience.
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Doing more as a environmentally responsible club
1. Ask your camp participants to bring their own spoon and fork and water bottle – for camps.
2. Get more vegetarian food for your catering
3. Bring elderly or other disadvantaged, for nature walks. Can apply for club bonding sessions as well.
4. Rinse your plastic containers after meals and recycle them – for camps
Increasing level of
difficulty
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WHY MORE VEGETARIAN IN YOUR CATERING
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Dr Rajendra Pachuari Chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Links: ABC News
Don't eat meat, do ride a bike, and be
a frugal shopper
Hear from the experts
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Meat Production
• 18% of GHGs, more than world transport sector(13.5%)
Source: Food and Agricultural Organization of UN.
Report says major improvements could be achieved at
reasonable cost
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Reasonable cost???
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No more frightening statistics
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My personal rules on vegetables (meat out)
• At least a vege meal once a day. • Ask Vege when on course or function
• Indulge at mass meals with family and friends• Indulge at special food spots e.g. Changi Village
As a club either for catering or for camp participants:
LESS MEAT , MORE VEGE
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Doing more as a environmentally responsible club
1. Ask your camp participants to bring their own spoon and fork and water bottle – for camps.
2. Get more vegetarian food for your catering
3. Bring elderly or other disadvantaged, for nature walk. Can apply for club bonding sessions as well.
4. Rinse your plastic containers after meals and recycle them – for camps.
Increasing level of
difficulty
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What is there to see in Singapore regarding
nature?
Is there anything worth seeing?
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Photo of Dolphins by Chim Chee Kongoff St. John's Island, 12 Mar 2004
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Dolphin sightings in Singapore(Habitatnews)
• "Best photo ever," of a dolphin in Singapore waters! 21 May 2007• “Dolphins spotted off Raffles Lighthouse." 06 Jan 2006• "Dolphins sighted off St. John's Island." 02 Sep 2005.• "Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin carcass on Labrador Beach." 15 Jun
2005.• "Dolphin's off St. John's island." 01 Feb 2005.• "Dolphins off Pulau Senang." 04 Jan 2005.• "Dolphins sighting at Sisters islands." 22 Jun 2004.• "Dolphins sighted off St John's Islands." 12 Mar 2004.
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Chek Jawa?
On Pulau Ubin
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Chek Jawa, high tide
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Chek Jawa, low tide
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Snakes and sea anemones!
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WildSingapore by Ria Tan
- Weekly updates of all Nature Events in Singaporehttp://wildsingaporehappenings.blogspot.com/
- Important to go on a guided session to see more than just trees.
- Most importantly, it is free! (mostly)
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Doing more as a environmentally responsible club
1. Ask your camp participants to bring their own spoon and fork and water bottle – for camps.
2. Get more vegetarian food for your catering
3. Bring elderly or other disadvantaged, or for bonding sessions for nature walk
4. Rinse your plastic containers after meals and recycle them – for camps.
Increasing level of
difficulty
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Rinsing your plastic containers
Especially for Camps
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Plastics Have “Recycling” Number
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Plastic Food Containers
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Yes! Theoretically, it all can be recycled
- Only plastic bottles allowed in NUS because of infrequent collection and hygiene issue
- Absolutely yes, if you just rinse it
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It is still manual sorting
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NUS Green Commitment
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NUS Environmental Targets
NUS pledge a reduction of:
15%
•Existing Building Emission
20%
•Regularised Laboratory Consumption
30%
•New Building Emissions
by 2015 against a business as usual scenario
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Future Development
• 47% increase in total GFA by 2015
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• OES was set up in Oct 2008 - sign of NUS’ commitment to the environment.
• OES reports direct to DP (admin).
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
• Contact us or SAVE if you need help on how to make your events/organisation more green.
• Share with us how you have made your events more environmentally sustainable. We will be keen to highlight to the rest of the campus.
OES Team:http://www.nus.edu.sg/oes/about/ourteam.html
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We need you…
The environmental movement is not something
only for the treehuggers, it is daily lifestyle choices that has to be embraced by
everyone so as to be able to succeed.
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“I may be only one, but still I am one and I cannot refuse the thing that I can do.”
———— Helen Keller.
Your club matters…