Look out people!

We are on a move.

Join us at Taylor's University Main campus this Saturday anytime from 8 to 5pm and drop all the recyclables you've got!

It will help us and also Mother Nature!

Calling all environmentalists! All those who care about Mother Nature!

We should kick off that old habit and start recycling!

Join us on 24th OCT 09 at Taylor's University College Main Campus to help 350.org help you make a change for OUR ENVIRONMENT!

All recyclables will go to PASS, Persatuan Amal Seri Sinar,an organisation that collects recyclable items for CHARITY.

Everyone is welcomed to attend the event.

Those who are not sure of which materials go into which category

or have difficulty getting the recyclables to us on event day, just let us know.

Sincerely,

Your very friendly environmental club.

These photos are actually from 350.org's site. All credit goes to their photographers.

There are more of these lovely photos from where they came from. So look out for more posts from our blog.

Videos on 350.

Interesting videos on what 350 is all about!
Action day is on OCT 24!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqof641pWys

Facts on Glass

Glass that is dumped in the landfills will never decompose.Glass can be used again and again and is 100% recyclable. A 100-watt light bulb can burn for four hours by the energy saved from recycling one glass bottle. Recycling a bottle will cause 50% less water pollution and 20% less air pollution.A new glass food jar contains at least 35% recycled glass.

Green Consumer Day

September 28 Green Consumer Day
The problems of consumerism and its impact on the environment is an area of major concern in today’s world. Awareness building on the importance of reducing, reusing, & recycling should be taken up seriously.



Quote for the day:
The best way to be a green consumer is not to be a consumer at all!



It is easy to get excited about all the new green gadgets and organic products out there. These products may be green, but they will never be as green as the product that isn't made at all, and this is an important thing to keep in mind. The greenest path is to make do with what you have. If you do need something, consider buying used. Giving a product a second life is always a green way to go. When you buy something used, it prevents a new version of it from being made, and a perfectly good one from being wasted. If you simply must buy something new, then by all means, look for green or organic products. Develop a sharp eye for distinguishing legitimately green products from products that are simply "greenwashed."

Cited from : http://greenopolis.com/myopolis/blogs/liv-greene/be-a-green-consumer

I found what he/she said is interesting. Even though we may can't stop consuming but we can do it the "green" way. =]

Garbage Enzyme

Check out this video on the garbage enzyme.
I hope everyone tries it at home!

Facts from National Geographic Channel

State of the Earth
Earthquakes

• A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China’s western province of Sichuan leaving 70,000 people dead and nearly 5 million of them homeless.
• Studies show that ground earthquakes may be a result of electrical charges in the atmosphere.
  The compression of rocks before an earthquake occurs acts like batteries and produce electricity.
  

Volcanoes

• Half a billion people live near the world’s 1,500 active volcanoes.
  Instead of a cone, super volcanoes have a circular caldera where magma and earth have been sucked inward during an explosion.
  

Typhoons, Cyclones, and Hurricanes

• On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar killing nearly 100,000 people.
  Hurricane Ike, the most damaging of the 2008 Atlantic hurricanes, reshaped the coast of Texas, obliterating small islands that once dotted the coastline.
  Experts have found that 90 percent of Atlantic hurricanes were preceded by lightning storms over the highland of East Africa.
  The changing weather that produces intense lightning in East Africa interrupts the path of trade winds, which may result in hurricanes.
  Part of the formation of hurricanes is caused by the rising sea temperature.
  

Coral Reefs

• An atoll is a ring of ancient coral reefs that are left behind when an island sinks back into the ocean.
  The process of making an atoll can take up to 30 million years, making coral atolls some of the most ancient and rare ecosystems on Earth.
  Coral reefs are home to a quarter of the plants and animals in the world’s ocean.
  

The Arctic

• Locked inside the eons-old permafrost in the Arctic is more carbon dioxide than already exists in the atmosphere.
  

Animal Extinction

• Researchers have found that one in four mammals is in danger of extinction--one in seven birds, one-third of amphibians, and 70 percent of plant life is threatened.
  In an isolated swamp of the Congo, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society located a previously unknown population of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, more than tripling the known population.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/earth-day/4246/Overview#tab-facts#ixzz0RHlixAPq

Hope all of you are aware of the situation at hand.
Thank you for reading.

reminder

I HOPE EVERYONE REMEMBERS OUR CLUB MEETING ON TUE AT D16 FROM 4pm ONWARDS.


SEE YOU GUYS THEN!

Talks on Environmental Issues

Sorry for the late notice but to those who didn't know about the talks going on, the details are as follow :-

Speaker from Sunway University College
Date : 24th August 09
Venue : LT2
Time : 3.40pm onwards

Talk on Ocean Health by Ms Robin of University of Arizona
Date : 25th August 09
Venue : D16
Time : 9.15am / 11.45am

Talk on Environmental Protection Matters by Mr Robert
Date : 26th August 09
Venue : D16 (if not mistaken)
Time : 9.15am onwards

Anyone interested is welcomed to attend the talk.
Thank you!

PS : Don't forget about our club's meeting tomorrow!

MBPJ to make greening mandatory

MBPJ to make greening mandatory

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I don't wanna gross all of you out but..

Take a look at what we have collected from the recycling bins from the classrooms today!

We have coffee dripping inside the recycling bins and our garbage bags!

And it stinks too!

So a fair warning to everyone. Please separate your recyclables properly before simply dumping them into any of the recycling bins. DO YOUR PART!

Yes! I dare you to care! =)

Great job my fellow members. cheers!

Public Forum on Malaysia's Nuclear Energy Policy

Whoever is interested can attend the event on their on expenses.
No transportation from TEC as amount of students willing to attend is unconfirmed.

Venue : Auditorium on the 1st floor of the KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall,Jalan Maharajalela, KL.

Date : 18th August 2009

Time : 7.30pm

Have a nice day!

Attention people.

There's a meeting coming tuesday (28th july) at D16 from 4pm to 5.30pm.

Meeting agenda :
1) Discussion on ECA day/charity drive activities - poster painting

Idea list from previous meetings
-recycling of ink catridges and toners
-regular updates on TEC's environmental board
-setting up a booth for 'Charity Carnival' on 12th August

PS : Members can come to the meeting whatever time convenient for them.
PPS : Interested but unregistered individuals are also welcomed to attend the meeting as well.

Your scribe,
yi wen.

Taylor's Environmental Club 2009-2010

First meeting in room D16 at 4pm tomorrow Tuesday July 14th.

See you there.

Tree Planting Event

TEC will be joining in on the tree planting event so we would like you to volunteer to help.
Many hands make lighter work.

The tree planting event is an effort jointly carried out by the Subang Jaya Municipal, the Subang Jaya State Assemblyman's Office and Residents Committee (JKP Zone 1).

Date: June 6 2009 (Saturday)

Time: 9.30am-11.30am

Venue: Millennium Park, SS13 Subang Jaya

Visit http://www.sjecho.com.my/ for more information.

Presentation (19th May 09)

Please support TEC and attend Tuesday's presentation (19th May 09) from 3.30-5pm.
Representatives from WWF-Malaysia and trees.org.my are coming.
First of all, we have more than 1000 signatures for the 'Egg=Life' Campaign. *a round of applause*
Thus, TEC is given the privilege to become official partners of WWF-Malaysia for this campaign.
It's an honour seriously. A big thing for TEC.
Not forgetting from Earth Day, we've collected a total of RM655 to be donated to trees.org.my. *another round of applause*

Thank y'all for supporting TEC and have a nice weekend!

Coming Tuesday, Taylor's Environmental Club will be collecting signatures for WWF-Malaysia "Egg=Life campaign". This campaign will be running from the 22nd of April to 30th of September 2009.

So please drop by the booth(red tent) near the SAM block of TUC's main campus and support us by signing the pledge.



Think of what u can do with just 1 signature!

April 21st - Dato' Eadon Ching of Recycle Charity Speaks to TEC

I encourage everyone to visit http://www.recyclecharity.org and learn more about this active and impressive local charity founded by Dato' Eadon Ching.

He came and gave a talk to TEC and some Taylor's Students here yesterday to OPEN THE EARTH DAY events.

This organization helps a diverse group of community groups and organizations for people in need through recycling - what an idea!

Thank you for those who attended and as promised we will continue to work with this great organization.

Some plans:

Tree Planting
Field Trip
Subang Area Recycling Collection

April 26 - Garden International School Event

Garden International School's - Get the Recycling Bug


Dear All
In conjunction with Earth Day celebrations, Ms Linda Landers (Primary Art Teacher) of Garden International School will be hosting a craft session at Bangsar Village 1. The event is open to the public and Ms Landers will lead a team of students who will be showing off their recently acquired skills in construction techniques to build 3D bugs from used shopping bags (pics attached). Children (7 years and over) have the opportunity for a hands-on experience in making their own 3D bugs. A nominal fee of RM10.00 (per bug) is charged to cover costs and all proceeds will be channeled to charities. Details of the event can be found in the attached poster. Much appreciate if you could disseminate this information to students & your friends.
In brief
Event: Get the Recycling Bug
Date: 26 April 2009
Venue: First Floor (next to NZ Natural)
Bangsar Village 1, Bangsar Baru
Kuala Lumpur
Cost: RM10 per bug
We look forward to your support.
Thank you & kind regards,
Rebecca Arulsamy
Marketing & Communications

http://www.greenbuildingindex.org/

Some tips on how to help save the environment.

22.4.2009 EARTH DAY!

Mark your calendars people! Earth Day 2009 is less than 48 hours away.

This 22nd of April, come support us and drop by the booth near the guard house of Taylor's Main Campus.
We'll be having a big message board for any GREEN shoutouts.
Come buy a nice and small potted plant with your dedications written on them.(a gift to your best bud maybe??)
We also have Earth Day badges with 4 different cool designs up for grabs.

Wait, there's more! Be on a lookout for our Environmental Club members wearing their funky Earth Day T-shirts!

Earth Day, Water Day, Everyday

Come join us in hand for Earth Hour and turn all your lights on 8.30pm Saturday March 28, 2009.



Lights-off to see your world in a new light.


World Water Day event has been pushed to the 29th of March.
We will all meet in school at 8.00 am that day...
Posters are greatly welcomed,has to be centered around water.

Great Videos

The Story Of Stuff



And

Someone we can learn from,
A 12 year old girl speaks to the U.N on the state of the environment



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

-Melvin-

Great Meeting.

Really impressed by the turnout.

Some dates to keep open

March 22nd - Water Day
March 27th - Environmental Speaker Day
April 22nd - Earth Day

If you are interested in joining the Organic Camp contact Christine Cheng or go to meeting in B28 Friday 2-3pm.

See you next week.

The Planet Trailer

The trailer of the movie for our very first movie night...

Join Us...

Join us and help preserve the beauty that is Mother Nature... There is only one Earth and it is our obligation to preserve it for future generations...

3rd meeting

Wow TEC.

What a meeting! Our club has almost 100 members. This is a true 'environmental movement'.

We have the potential to start something great, and really make a difference - Our club will incorporate the idea of 'less talk, more action'.

Some committees have sent me their mailing list and I still need lists from others.

Everything we do in our groups (ideas, dates, etc.) should be recorded and passed on.

Thank you for being a part of this club (and for singing happy bday).

Next meeting is Tuesday, but I hope all of you will try to do a little planning before then.

Cheers.

"Wake Up, Freak Out, Then Get a Grip" - Scary but Excellent Video!

Hello, fellow greenies!



If you follow this link you'll find an excellent video by someone named Leo Murray about what will happen to our planet if we don't take action and move towards fighting climate change. United we stand, divided (or lazy) we fall!

If you want the script for this video, use this link:

http://wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html

Happy Watching - and really, freak out, but then get a grip! And share it with anyone else you think needs some shaking into action!

Booth Schedule for ECA DAY (Thursday, Jan.22)

3:30 – Mr. Colin, Melvin, Ambhi
4:00 – Mr. Les (so lonely)
4:30 – Ms. Lindsay
5:00 – Paalini, Aish, Kelly
5:30 – Thilla, Afyqah, Ainaa (5:45-6:15)
6:00 – Mr. Dave

*if you are not signed up please join a time slot and help out!

Second Environmental Club Meeting

As the title suggests,we had our second environmental club meeting today in D10.(Is it me or did we have less people today??)
Anyways, we assigned people to activities we wanted accomplished such as

-Reduce Plastic Bags Campaign

-Recycling Program

-Environmental Movie Screenings

-Tree Planting Initiative

-Environment Day and Week

-World Issues Conference Involvement


As of now, I don't think we have a calender of events set yet except for ECA day.

And members are encouraged to take down outdated flyers in all their classes and pass them to Mr. Colin to be recycled into our own flyers, preferably those flyers with the due date of 2008 on them.

And we also gave Miss Nicole a surprise Happy Environmental Birthday song since they were just having a party 2 classes down...

I am currently working on a layout for this blog to make it more "visually" appealing and anyone who wishes to help may do so...
Of course it would be environmentally themed...

I'm guessing that's all for now....

-Melvin-

-Food For Thought
We can vote and not just voting at a voting booth for the next president or a new government.
Anybody of any age can vote, because you vote everyday that you pay for something.
Every time you lay your money down on a counter to buy something, you are saying that,
I approve of this object. I approve of how it was made,the materials that are in it and whats going to happen when I no longer need it and throw it away.

ICPU
Environment
Club

Meeting every week on Tuesday
Time: 3:35pm in D10

Organized by:
Mr. Colin Shafer
Mr. Leslie Hussack
Ms. Lindsay Sommerauer
Mr. David Borden

For more information contact :

Mr. Colin Shafer
colin.shafer@taylors.edu.my
Taylor's University College

Anyone can join.
Do you want to:
Make a difference?
Stop Global Warming?
Change the world?
Be an active citizen?
Watch films?
Raise awareness?

Join us.