1. faulty taps and toilets
a. posters (Gd job on that posters, is there any more? 2-3 more would be better)
b. system to inform estate department of faulty taps and toilets. (are we going to talk to the estate about this? when can we talk to them? anyone free to ask them?)
2. flushing system
a. brick in cistern (One day the whole groups should get together in a toilet to measure the flush volume with and without a brick in the cistern. We have to talk to estate about this? when are you all free?)
b. dual flush cistern (i think we should keep this in view in the proposal. just ask the estate if it is possible. need to negotiate about funds with school that will take long and do not worth the time.)
B. For ELECTRICITY, we would be:
1. electrical appliances
a. interesting posters and reminders to switch it off! (no poster yet... =( I think if we are at wit's end, just print out small plastic reminders and paste it at the switches)
b. policy for student to switch computers off (policy can extend to lights, fans and air-con)
c. auto shut down (talk to Jone Chia~ the IT person~ about this)
d. policy for teachers to off air-con after class (again the policy can be merged)
The whole of the electricity part is more of awareness and policies. But how are we to ensure and prove that our effort works? A monitering system?
Also, how are we to ensure renewed interest of students in the policies. Such policies if continous could cause students to lose interest and not care about our reminders. Do you all want the day for NE mentoring to also be the day for energy conservation where we have all our policies in place.
C. For WASTE MANAGEMENT, we would be:
1. Paper
a. default double sided for photocopying (is it easily done? if not, just have a simple tutorial at the photocopying machine for easy double-sided print. Most of the waste should be due to students not knowing the orientation of scaning their documents for double sided print)
b. electronic notification (any ideas on how to make this idea unique? NUS High is already doing a lot in this aspect)
c. awareness on paper recycling. eg.: school to collect newspaper from nearby HDB (how is getting students to collect newspaper creating awareness? i still like the idea of hands-on experience of recycling paper during art week. need more ideas in this area!)
2. Plastic bottles
a. class reps to collect plastic bottles from classrooms and dump them in recycling bins (ok. we would be heading this as a project under green comm. Next, we would extend the scope of recycling to paper too, as students are in the first place not allowed to bring drinks into the classroom. So now we need to build more recylcing boxes!)
3. Reference Books
a. system for seniors to sell their textbooks to juniors and get half their money back. (Nic Leong mention that he is not sure if council is accepting his textbook resale proposal. If council is accepting his proposal, WE WILL DROP IT, if not, we would be doing it. So temporally we should just start on the system under worldview. I would most probably get Nic Leong to involved in this if we are going to implement it)
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All the above project should start off small, taking baby steps. So we would have a trial run to test the success and to troubleshoot anything that goes wrong in these projects. Which year do we want to trial run on? Personally, i like to try on the year 3s.
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Systems to create:
Posters & reminders to create:
One-time-off task to do:
Shaky ideas to think about:
Curently, we have 11 goof ideas to work on and 2 shaky and unstable ideas that have been identified. PLEASE THINK THROUGH WHICH WE SHOULD DROP. WE ARE OVERLOADING OVERSELVES! (so much of carpet bombing... haha). I want to drop at least 3 ideas, so that we can move on faster.
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BTW, we still have two A2 boards to do up, a proposal to finalize, powerpoint to create, and most importantly START ON THE IDEAS!
Environmentalist (14degrees) Blogged:11:59 PM
