Mega Earth Day @ Kota Damansara Community Forest
-Pictures and video
Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Justlife Green Ribbon Movement!
Create/spot your GREEN RIBBON and post it on Justlife Facebook! 50 eco-note book to be given away! This note book is made of FSC paper, printed with mercury-free ink. I have already posted my green ribbon!
Plastic is OUT!
by Edeline Ho.
Green Ribbon Movement Promo Video
My green ribbon! =D
I think mother nature already did her part
by Aris Mohlis
I am the little one
by Kampung Kasih
by Kuan Haw
by Shawn Ong
Plastic is OUT!
by Edeline Ho.
Green Ribbon Movement Promo Video
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Taylor's ECA Day for March Intake Students 22/04/2010
Taylor's ECA Day for March intake students was held in MPH on the 22th of April. Taylor's Environmental Club hopped on board for a booth to promote our club & what we do, and of course, to recruit more members!
Stage 1: Preperation
As usual, we were determined to include recycling into our agenda. Incorporating this element into our booth however, is easier said than done. But thanks to our president Sonia, we solved that problem, on top of coming up with a pretty bad-ass booth concept!
What you see is here is what our both concept is based on. By using cardboard boxes, we can construct "towers", and on each tower, information about the club and our events/activities can be read! Not only does this maximize the space we have, we can now focus more on the recruitment part of the plan.
There aren't any pictures of us making preparations as we were all too taken up and busy, but rest is assured, we stalked every photocopy center (MAC, Ichiban etc) for cardboard boxes. A significant amount of time was spent on ripping the boxes apart and turning them inside out as well as decorating them, but there wasn't a task too big for the club as the members got really hands on in helping out.
We also made 10/10 fliers to be given out. In order to reduce our paper usage, we reused some old/misprinted paper to print our fliers on. The 10/10 flier is mainly a list of ten things that you, as an individual can do for the environment.
Stage 2: The Day
Stage 1: Preperation
As usual, we were determined to include recycling into our agenda. Incorporating this element into our booth however, is easier said than done. But thanks to our president Sonia, we solved that problem, on top of coming up with a pretty bad-ass booth concept!
inspiration
What you see is here is what our both concept is based on. By using cardboard boxes, we can construct "towers", and on each tower, information about the club and our events/activities can be read! Not only does this maximize the space we have, we can now focus more on the recruitment part of the plan.
There aren't any pictures of us making preparations as we were all too taken up and busy, but rest is assured, we stalked every photocopy center (MAC, Ichiban etc) for cardboard boxes. A significant amount of time was spent on ripping the boxes apart and turning them inside out as well as decorating them, but there wasn't a task too big for the club as the members got really hands on in helping out.
We also made 10/10 fliers to be given out. In order to reduce our paper usage, we reused some old/misprinted paper to print our fliers on. The 10/10 flier is mainly a list of ten things that you, as an individual can do for the environment.
Stage 2: The Day
Our finished product!
Our preparation involved a lot of effort, which I must say, paid off! But our booth didn't just involve the "towers", we included something else as well!
It is a mock toilet! Hahah, this toilet was actually used for another event, The World Longest Toilet Queue Campaign. Seeing that there will be a lot of people during the ECA event, why not jump at the chance to promote water awareness as well?
Using the mock toilet was a really good idea, it was a real attention grabber as people gaped and gawked at it. The reason why was because.....
... our members were in it! We were posing and acting as if it was an actual toilet, peeing and pooping and apparently having bubble tea while doing it.
It is a mock toilet! Hahah, this toilet was actually used for another event, The World Longest Toilet Queue Campaign. Seeing that there will be a lot of people during the ECA event, why not jump at the chance to promote water awareness as well?
an inside view
Using the mock toilet was a really good idea, it was a real attention grabber as people gaped and gawked at it. The reason why was because.....
sonia
joseph
random guy
janice
kuan haw
the towers
No pain no gain, and no work no towers. We certainly worked hard at making them, so I'm posting some pictures of them NYEHEHEEH.
We took up quite a lot of space with our towers, but thank god the clubs stationed next to us didn't really mind.
Quite a lot of people from the March intake joined our club, which is always a good thing! If you happen to be reading this and are from the march intake, note that our meetings are every Tuesday, 4pm at room D16
The icing on the cake was when we won the Best Booth Award! We took our World Water Day signs and ran onstage and made full use of this opportunity of promoting our club while on stage.
Stage 3: After
Seeing that there was a lot of cleaning up to do, we actually stayed back and helped to clean! We even took the recyclable materials and sorted them (plastics and paper). Overall, it was a success. We managed to recruit quite a lot of members and managed to interest a rather lot of people about our up coming events.
See you at our next meeting!
World Water Day Sandwich Mob 20/03/2010
On the 22nd of March 2010, Taylor's Environmental Club organized a "sandwich mob" in Kuala Lumpur! Our aim was to raise public awareness in conjunction with World Water Day.
So what is World Water Day (WWD) all about?
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.As water crisis becomes a global predicament, WWD aims to raise awareness of the importance of fresh water and the necessity of saving & reducing water wastage in order to combat the issue of our depleting water supply.
The designated theme for this year's WWD is "Clean Water for a Healthy World". The overall goal of WWD 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at a political level to ensure that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity. More information on WWD is available *here*
Taylor's Environmental Club: Sandwich Mob!
So what is World Water Day (WWD) all about?
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.As water crisis becomes a global predicament, WWD aims to raise awareness of the importance of fresh water and the necessity of saving & reducing water wastage in order to combat the issue of our depleting water supply.
The designated theme for this year's WWD is "Clean Water for a Healthy World". The overall goal of WWD 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at a political level to ensure that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity. More information on WWD is available *here*
Taylor's Environmental Club: Sandwich Mob!
Despite the presence of the word "sandwich", a sandwich mob does not translate to a mob involving edible sandwiches. Sandwiches in this context means a mob whereby a group of people gather together and sandwich themselves with posters or boards on their front and backs.
We first gathered at the Bangsar LRT station for briefing and coordination.
It was most exciting to see the participation of not only our club members, but their friends as well , bringing us one step closer towards achieving the goals of WWD!
After briefing and coordination (and fuelled with enthusiasm!), we made our way to Petaling Street via the LRT and got off at the Pasar Seni station.
We decided to promote our cause of the day along the way as people were already staring at our boards. Might as well seize the opportunity! Being quite the noisy lot, we managed to get quite a bit of attention. You can say that it was sort of a prep for our actual mob at Petaling Street!
There was a lot of people there by the time we arrived, so we quickly stationed ourselves right in the middle of Petaling Street! Once again, people stared at our sandwiches and we jumped at them, telling them of our cause and overall, promoting water awareness. Not many people knew about WWD, but quite a few paid attention to us. There was the ignorant one that we stumbled upon every now and then, but I suppose you can't win them all!
We even had the co-founder of Malaysian Youth Climate Justice Network, Adrian Yeo join our sandwich mob!
If anything, ignorance is NOT bliss. Though to some, parading about and having people gape and gawk at you may be embarrassing, we carried through anyway, because the first step to remedying our dire water situation is awareness and acknowledgment.
After our reception at Petaling Street, we moved on to Central Market. And so the rumpus began! There was a stage somewhere in Central Market, where a group of people were performing. When one of the performances ended, we ran up onstage!
We were subsequently shooed off stage, but our point was made. There was A LOT of people who stared at us, and hopefully our message boards alone were adequate in pushing the message across.
This is the point where the Klang River and Gombak River meet. It is also the origin of our capital, Kuala Lumpur's name.It was rather heartbreaking to see how polluted this significantly historical site was. The water was murky, reflective of the water conditions some parts of the world are subjected to.
Overall the mission took a little over four hours. We were hot, thirsty and tired. Our day involved a lot of err.....attention whoring. I don't suppose there has ever been a moment where we proudly claimed ourselves as attention whores!
In our efforts of being an environmentally friendly club, we were determined to include recycling in the agenda. The message boards that were used were made of recycled cardboard boxes (opened up).
Our message boards, made with the help of our members
Taylor's Environmental Club members with their message boards!
at the Pasar Seni LRT station
After briefing and coordination (and fuelled with enthusiasm!), we made our way to Petaling Street via the LRT and got off at the Pasar Seni station.
On our way to Petaling Street
We decided to promote our cause of the day along the way as people were already staring at our boards. Might as well seize the opportunity! Being quite the noisy lot, we managed to get quite a bit of attention. You can say that it was sort of a prep for our actual mob at Petaling Street!
Smack in the middle of Petaling Street.
There was a lot of people there by the time we arrived, so we quickly stationed ourselves right in the middle of Petaling Street! Once again, people stared at our sandwiches and we jumped at them, telling them of our cause and overall, promoting water awareness. Not many people knew about WWD, but quite a few paid attention to us. There was the ignorant one that we stumbled upon every now and then, but I suppose you can't win them all!
This man here is Steve McCoy, the founder of Green Drinks KL. He founded Counterpoint, a boutique consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur which provides support services on sustainability for the Corporate, Government and Non-profit sectors. He took time out of his busy weekend to join us!
Adrian Yeo
We even had the co-founder of Malaysian Youth Climate Justice Network, Adrian Yeo join our sandwich mob!
promoting our cause
If anything, ignorance is NOT bliss. Though to some, parading about and having people gape and gawk at you may be embarrassing, we carried through anyway, because the first step to remedying our dire water situation is awareness and acknowledgment.
at central market
After our reception at Petaling Street, we moved on to Central Market. And so the rumpus began! There was a stage somewhere in Central Market, where a group of people were performing. When one of the performances ended, we ran up onstage!
crashing the stage
In front of Masjid Jamek, the confluence of Klang and Gombak River.
This is the point where the Klang River and Gombak River meet. It is also the origin of our capital, Kuala Lumpur's name.It was rather heartbreaking to see how polluted this significantly historical site was. The water was murky, reflective of the water conditions some parts of the world are subjected to.
end of the mob
Overall the mission took a little over four hours. We were hot, thirsty and tired. Our day involved a lot of err.....attention whoring. I don't suppose there has ever been a moment where we proudly claimed ourselves as attention whores!
We had our pictures taken,
and we appeared in a Chinese daily!
A successful event? You betcha!
stop the drop. Support the cause
A successful event? You betcha!
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