Ew. Let’s stop using plastic for now, until someone somewhere comes up with a biodegradable sort, one that won’t be doing so much damage.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday in a revised forecast, raising the prospect of drought in Australia and a even weaker monsoon in India.

The odds for El Nino, an abnormal warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean that creates havoc in weather patterns

Watch the brutal capture of “the Taiji Twelve”, twelve dolphins culled from the annual Japanese dolphin slaughter who are being sold to the Dominican Republic for “swim with dolphins” programs. Amidst the bloody slaughter of 200 dolphins, these twelve were selected and kept alive as they watched their families, their calves and their pods beaten, stabbed and drowned to death.

There many ways you can help.. 1. distribute the story.. – http://eco.gilldivers.com/where-do-stuff-comes-from-and-where-they-gone-to/70/

2. Donate to support their effort.. Click here

3. Reduce, Reuse and RECYCLE… we really need to act on it, people.. 80% of the forest are gone, 70% of fishes are gone too..

4. Educate your friends, your family…..

Gill Divers

So how many of us is really going green?

New concepts come up everyday, this is one that I’ve came across and i find that this is actually very related top our daily working life, being sustainable is the key if not going back to the dark ages would work too,

haha.. lots of us want to be green being human, luxuries are what we tend to go for,

In our working environment, we often do lots of adverting and there’s no choice abt it,

As Advertising works No point denying it as it does work, But how to do it without impacting Mother nature, that would be the key, and this gentleman in Bali has done it in an very nice way,

Check it out,

for me, I’ll be trying to grow some bamboo in the next few months if any results, I’ll be giving bamboo plants away , I’ll keep everyone posted

Cheers for now,

Choon

It is evident in the insane weather that we have been experiencing in the past years that global warming has indeed begun to show very real effects on the common people. Many of us might not be able to process the melting of the snow caps and giant icebergs in the North Pole as having any impact on us, but now you can feel it in the intense heat when you’re out for a walk, in the numerous hurricanes that have devastated the thousands around the world and many more disasters to come.

You know, being typical Singaporeans, we are always depending on the government to come up with campaign and solutions to our problem, what we should really learn is an example from the Japanese who has a reputation of being passive aggressive, adopted this very effective method of getting their residents to go green. In this particular prefecture, there was an initiative set out that all residents trash has to be separated for recycling efforts, if one household does not comply, the entire block’s trash does not get picked up for a week. If it continues, the entire condo’s trash does not get picked up, then the entire street’s. It relies on peer pressure and the Asian mentality of not “losing face”. It has proven to be very effective!

Now, I’m no Captain Planet and I’m not one of the tree huggers who goes all hippy chick about greenpeace, but I like to think that I do my little bit for the sake of not having to burn in hell on earth in the near future (You do know that one day its all gonna burst into flames and roast us like well seasoned Nandos chicken right?…) Well firstly, in my household, we separate our trash into Glass, paper and plastics, at my café, I collect all the aluminum drink cans and give them to the cleaners who makes money from them by selling them to the recycling plant (see! Someone is benefitting already!!) I recycle my old clothes by giving them away to friends, who then in turn pass them on to relatives or their helpers and on and on.

While its all fine and dandy that we’re doing our part but what I really think we need is a collaborated effort to make recycling more convenient, because right now for example, where would we be able to take our trash after its all separated? Its not convenient to be lugging around a big bag of beer bottles to the recycling plant up in Sembawang or down to the 3 big colourful trash bins along Orchard Road… Not glam at all…….. Its fine for those living in condos, but in most estates, its really not easy to find the recycling bins.

So dear Singaporeans, lets do what we do best, complain to the govt to pressure them to put up more recycling bins, do your part by sorting your trash, turning off the bladdy aircon and lights when you’re not in the room and the next time you think of using that extra piece of toilet paper, think again… use water.. wisely….

Photo from the New Straits Times

Malaysian fishermen face fine over shark catch : Associated Press : 4 Jan 2009

Fresh from a diving trip in Sipadan in East Malaysia, it was a timely reminder of the things worth fighting for. The legislation enacted to conserve the marine environment at Sipadan was well worth it when you enter the water and be able to immediately see the vast difference in the vibrant marine and coral life compared to other dive sites. The massive schools of barracudas, vast groups of jacks and bump-head parrot fishes was something i believe one would never see if not for the conservation efforts.

It was an experience to be shared. Not just within friends , but these were experience to be shared across generations. These were stories to be told for all ages and while we are fortunate enough to be able to experience these stories , i shudder to think that some years down the road, a fellow diver might tell me that the bump-head parrot fish or the green turtle is an elusive marine creature only to be found in reference books. It’s a scary thought , but it might just be reality. We have already seen species become increasingly decimated and to let this continue would be a grave grave mistake.

It is not enough perhaps then, to just sit behind desk and think you know what is going in the world, you have to go out and see it for yourself, you have to go out and smell and taste it and experience it and from that experience , realize that it’s something worth sharing , something worth treasuring and preserving for all times.

In the face of all the scientific data and information that we have in relation in the global warming and going green, it’s rather amusing that we are not changing the way we lead out lives. Not big changes , those take time, but making little changes like switching off the lights when you’re done or not using that plastic bag from the supermarket . So perhaps,  the reason why people are not getting message across is how the message is being communicated.

The advertising campaign above took place in the canals of Amsterdam. What better way to attract attention about the rising sea-levels ?

My question is then , how do you think is the best way to reach out to Singaporeans ? The last thing Singaporeans want to do is to be lectured and when the government steps in , it only means more money (see your electricity bills) . What ideas do you have ?

You might think that this will only work in the day but you are wrong, the heat from the ground will reheat the air and channel it back to the chimney.

Its a pilot project by a german company, build in Spain. It is not an officially working plant and the system doesn’t produce a lot of power (maybe enough to power a hundred homes) but the interesting thing is, the chimney is very cheap (comparing to a powerplant) to build, the whole project cost about a million dollar.