Sunday, May 18, 2008

Worldview 360 Briefing: Group Discussion Summary
This is what we discussed yesterday at the briefing:

Firstly, we are going to scrape the outline we had before the briefing.

Ideas we discussed yesterday:

We are intending to focus on more than one point.

Firstly about water:

Stagnent water in various part of the school. We can try to eliminate stagnant water, although the school still fog the area regularly.

Water wastage. We can put up posters in the toilet and around the tap areas to remind people to save water. Also, we can propose to the school to change all the faulty and leaking taps and toilets in the school (there are quite a number of such taps and toilets).

Research! We need to find out more about the system in the school like what the cleaners do and spot out all the parts where water is wasted and propose changes to minimize the water loss and conserve more water in school.

Next, about waste management, which we are most likely going to focus on paper usage and paper recycling.

Unwanted paper. We can collect unwanted paper from people in school especially from the staff room. we can recycle these paper, some of which we recycle ON OUR OWN (& maybe we can involve the school to do this together) on a monthly or termly basis and send the rest for recycling at factories (it is definitely impossible to recycle all on our own)

Printing. Encourage people (both staff and students) to print and photocopy double-sided.

Lastly, about energy conservation.

Conservation. conserve energy regarding air con, lights, fans and computers.

Lights, fans, Air con. can put up reminder notices near the switches of the rooms.

Computer. Encourage people to shut down the computer terminals instead of logging them off and leave it there when nobody is going to use them.

Policies. Maybe we can propose to the school to set a rule that the aircon in classes can only be on during lesson times.

Monitoring. We can try asking the school to show us the bills so that we can monitor and keep track whether our plans are working well (we need them for green audit too).

Okay, thats about it. there are some considerations that we have to take note when planning:

can we monitor the progress?

the plan need to be long-term, which means the green committee can continue taking it up.

it has to be related to global climate, but it can be an indirect relationship.

when our plan is fixed, we will have to justify on this blog how our plan/proposal is related to the environment and the theme.

anymore ideas can communicate through email (on the blog), or can also directly post it up here! tagboard can also be used but it may not be that efficient.

Conclusion:

we need to research on how to recycle paper.

brainstorm of more ideas and hopefully some special enough that nobody else can think off.

update this blog very often. so any ideas just put it here!

Environmentalist (14degrees) Blogged:2:14 PM

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TIMELINE

17th May, Saturday
- briefing @ science centre
22nd May, Thursday
- meet up with facilitators in school at 2pm
24th May, Saturday
- inform mentors of blog URL
28th May, Wednesday
- 2nd meeting with facilitators in school at 2pm
- 1st draft of proposal, posters, letters to principal
- finish research (recycling factories, ways to recycle paper
30th May, Friday
- completion of posters
4th June, Wenesday - 3rd meeting with facilitators in school at 2pm
- completion of proposal
17th June, Tuesday
- submission of proposals, blog, and any visual aids
18th June, Wednesday
- fourth meeting with facilitators in school at 2 pm (tentative)
20th June
- notification of selection
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