Coming Soon: Film Screening @ UTAR

Hi folks, just to flash a reminder real quick - we are inviting everyone to our First Film Screening @ Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.

That's right! Everybody's invited to our homeground to catch a movie about environmental issues, speak your mind during the forum right after the film, and hangout!

Details are as follows,




Date: Wednesday - Friday, 21 - 23 October 2009
Time: 2 - 5pm
Venue: Classroom PD102, Level B2, PD Block, PJ Campus, UTAR
Films: An Inconvenient Truth / The 11th Hour (to be decided)




Non UTAR-ians:

You may be required to register yourselves at the guardhouse. It is recommended not to double park unless you are building a collection of parking summons (some of us are). There are several roadside mamaks and an Indian restaurant (SP corner) nearby for your lunch needs. PD Block also has a cafeteria.

Map to UTAR PJ campus:




Please refer any complications to our dashing public relations correspondent, Basil Foo (012-6240360).


P.S. BYOP (bring your own popcorn)

环保酵素 救地球

“环保”就必须要在我们的生活中的细节中做起，这样就必定能切身的感受。来自泰国的乐素昆．普潘翁博士所研制成环保酵素也称垃圾酵素，就是利用菜渣、果皮等鲜垃圾制成的，不但制作过程简单、材料随手可得、节省金钱、用途广泛、减少垃圾量，还对环保起着很大的作用。

如果家家户户都懂得制做环保酵素，亲身参与，利用在每天生活上，我们的环境污染必定能减少，共同拯救生病的地球。

人类发展卻未顾及随之所带來的禍害，地球的臭氧层严重受到破坏。现在人们可自制臭氧，即通過從淀粉及糖的化学转化而得到的酸性物质--CH3COOH溶解在水中後，這個酸性物质解体成分解淀粉，脂肪及蛋白質的醋酸基。从中取得的臭氧有殺菌功能，而且能增加空气中氧的含量，這有助減少空气中的废气与毒气。

另外， 环保酵素能自然有效分解和消灭有害微生物及人工化学污染，酵素也取代了家中的化学用品，最后会流入下水道，还可一起净化河流与海洋，保护我们的环境。制造环保酵素其实很简单，酿制的过程不需担心会产生臭气，只要将酿制的容器盖好，酿制三個月就可以了。

以下是一篇截至光明日报的报导：

雪蘭莪‧巴生（週五，8日）上午，巴生雪兰莪金門會館妇女组和青年团一行人特地携带自制的环保酵素到巴生中路大巴剎進行实验，把兩大桶酵素倒入臭味难闻的大溝渠內，不一會兒，原本臭气熏天的沟水马上不再发臭，环保酵素果真起神奇作用。

当天出席的自然疗法医师師温秀枝表示，环保酵素具有分解沟水中堆积油层的功效，能馬上发挥除臭的功能，解決巴剎沟渠惡臭的问题。

做法：

How "green" are you?

by Joey

Small actions can lead to big effects.

So, how "green" are you?

Here are some points for you to ponder on:

1. Did you know tissue paper cannot be recycled? Use a hankie instead

2. Did you know about organic cotton? It is cotton grown organically and made into clothes. It's very soft and warm.

3. Did you know about real natural beauty products? It is made of chinese herbs or herbs from New Zealand.

4. Did you know the food you throw away can be remade into soil? It takes 48hours with a special machine and the result is soil.

5. Did you know of furniture made of magazines? They're really comfortable and unique in colours.

6. Did you know of bags made of newspaper, coffee bags and coin pouches made of tires? They look really fashionable, mind you.

7. Did you know rice husks can be made into chopsticks and bowls? Yes, they have found a way to process the unwanted husks into usable items.

8. Did you know of eco-friendly lingerie? Yes, it is now available made from organic cotton and bamboo.

9. Did you know of the electric scooter and bicycle? Soon to be available.

10. This you must know which are electric saving bulbs.

Have you learnt more about saving the environment with the list above?

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Before I end, here is something for you to ponder on.

Ask yourself are you a today person or a tomorrow person?

Today person is one who enjoys the present not caring about the future while the tomorrow person lives today but also thinks about the future.

I am sure there is a today in everyone but is there a tomorrow in everyone?

Water Conservation-isms

Right, checking back again for another round of jotting down nature-activism-type messages on this here blog. As I'm typing, wind is blowing the curtains in and the parched earth would welcome the long awaited deluge of wetness. No need to water the veggie patch today!

Water's been an excellent companion to our species' existence, us not being able to live without it, but it can be a destructive life-taking force when it so chooses, especially in the light of the recent natural disasters to have hit our region ('04 tsunami, '09 typhoons).




So it's fitting how, by treating our world better and being more conscious about how our excessive lifestyles are causing the elements to go berserk, the environment, in turn, treats us better by not wiping out coastal communities and causing tremendous amounts of human and economic casualties.

The following Water Conservation Tips has been brought to you by fellow activist, poet, and blogger, Jason Mraz..

- Don’t leave the faucets running! Brush your teeth and wash the dishes conservatively.

- When washing clothes, use full loads. Get in with your housemates on this one. It means you’ll ultimately have to use the machine less. That’s less water AND less energy.

- Stop washing your car. Save it for a rainy day. I mean, really. It’s only a car. Let your dusty driving machine be a symbol of your conservatism.

- Collect rainwater for your garden and houseplants. Use gallon buckets and drums to collect and store water for hydrating your hydrangeas.

- Stop buying plastic water bottles. Every bottle you purchase is a vote for more waste. Fix your tap at home with a filter if the drinking water makes you nervous.

"A bottle of ’spring’ water costs 2000 times as much energy as a bottle of tap water. In other words: the energy it takes to produce one bottle of spring water can be used to fill two thousand bottles with tap water." - SuperForest.org




Instead of generating a sizable amount of plastic trash everytime you get thirsty, get a permanent water bottle for all your hydrating needs! Refillable, reusable, and saves your Ringgits in the long run. This town in Australia has taken conservation efforts a step further and actually banned the sale of bottled water!




Hope you've been intellectually aroused by the liquid facts and are inspired to reduce our consumption levels! Remember, when we lower down consumption, production levels will follow suit, leading to less energy use and in effect, less pollution. There's probably a diagram to show all those connections! But it is late, and I should probably get going. Look it up in your Tingkatan 3 Sains book maybe!

Base.

Inspirational video and some messages

Hi, how's everybody doing? It's approaching the end of our short semester break here in UTAR and classes are about to resume around the corner. It's about time things started picking up around here! To kick off my contribution, here's an inspiring video I caught on BukuMuka.

Some of you might have seen it already as it has been viral for sometime, but for those of you who haven't, it contains a message of hope about the youth of this generation..





Coming Soon:

Look out for our Tree construction videos as we post up scenes of us building a decorative tree to spread the story of climate change!

The first film screening is approaching fast (within the next 2 weeks)! Details in the following posts..


Yours,
Base.

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