NUS Fights Climate Change – What about you?

NUS joined numerous other individuals and organisations worldwide in observing Earth Hour by switching off all non-essential lights in its participating halls of residence, offices and other premises around the campus on 27 March 2010. This is the second consecutive year that NUS participated in the global movement aimed at creating mass awareness of the need to conserve energy and take action against climate change. This time, NUS’ initiatives in conjunction with Earth Hour went beyond merely creating awareness of environmental issues.

For more exciting details head over to:

www.nusearthhour2010.wordpress.com

Save3s’ first ever nature guiding programme, in collaboration with National Geographic Young Explorers!

We had our first training at Sungei Buloh with Robert, a professional nature guide. After the trip, we did our research on the flora and fauna and practised on our guiding techniques. It was a rather intensive preparation; however, all of us had much fun as we gained new insights into Singapore’s biodiversity.

Finally, it was our turn to show our guiding skills and pass on our knowledge! The first tour was held on 15^th March while the second was on 19^th March, during the primary school March holidays. We are honoured to have the chance to be big brothers and sisters to the primary school and teach them about the wonderful flora and fauna of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

The guided tour was centred along the theme of exploration where the children were giving the mission of spotting 5 organisms while learning about the mangrove habitat and the ecosystem. The tour ended off with a classification activity where they could show what they learnt about the characteristics of plants and animals in the mangrove.

Overall, it was indeed an eye-opener and a new experience for many in Save3s. We look forward to more of such sessions and hopefully, to get the NUS community to participate in our guided tours in future.

Last but not least, we would like to thank National Geographic for inviting us to pilot this programme and for guiding us through the process!

The work shop was conducted by Wei Tao and Lee Gang with the objective of upgrading SAVE members’ poster designing skills. The response was overwhelming, and the limited vacancies were quickly filled up.  Do look out for more such workshops coming soon..

SAVE Camp concludes with a bang!! Starting off with camping at the Changi beach to running riot in Pulau Ubin the SAVE Camp was jam packed with fun activities and games!

A big thank you to all the 40 participants who joined us to make this event a big success.

Zerowaste led old clothes collection at several strategic locations in NUS to raise funds for Southwest CDC’s needy.
Thanks for the generous donations and the overwhelming response!!

As of Monday 18th Jan, all canteen stalls will be charging 10 cents for each plastic bag requested. Refuse plastic bags or bring your own to help reduce waste from disposables! (money collected goes to fund Project Box – bring your own box to takeaway for 10 times and get $2 discount off your meal!)

Friday 15th Jan saw Rebate 2 Earth members running to 7 different canteens all over campus to give out new coin boxes and brief canteen vendors for the launch of the extended plastic bag tax on Monday! Thanks to the hard work of the volunteers the distribution was completed on time!

Food 4 Thought has unleashed the next phase of our Meat Out! Thursdays campaign…

Head over to the central library every Thursday for some mouth watering pure organic vegan food ranging from Vegan Sushi to Vegan Tortillas… Or if you are looking to satisfy that sweet tooth try our famous Vegan Muffin..

Hurry.. Stocks run out fast!

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