Recycling and Conserving

• Recycle all you can. In many countries, recycling is taken seriously. They have one trash can for bags, one for glass, one for cans, one for boxes, one for plastic, one for paper, even one for decomposed food. Try disciplining yourself to recycling the necessities we use when done.
•  Avoid using disposable item. Anything you use only a few times and throw away consumes resources only to spend centuries in a landfill.
• Carry your own reusable cup or water bottle, eating utensils, and cloth shopping bags with you. Keep them in your car or bike panniers.
• Don't take a plastic bag if you don't need one. If you only got one or two things, you don't need a bag.
• Use rechargeable batteries instead of disposable batteries. Batteries not only take up landfill space (they can't be incinerated), they can leak acid into the Earth. Even then, only use the appliance when you must. If you have the choice, plug in the device instead of using batteries.
  Make sure to dispose properly of any batteries you discard, including rechargable batteries that are past their usable lives.
•  Avoid using plastic whenever you can. Steer clear of things like disposable plastic cups, plastic bags, and any item you don't need. It never breaks down, and has led to the poisoning and death of numerous sea creatures. Look into ways that plastic can be recycled in your area. Some cities have programs for recycling plastic bags and other difficult to recycle types of plastic.

•  Don't waste food. The best way is to use up your leftovers and plan your meals so you buy no more than you need. If you do have an overrun, share it with friends or (if appropriate) with local wildlife.

                                                                                                       Mohd Faizal Bin Mohamed Din A2

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GO GREEN !!

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World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour event is taking place world wide tonight and Kelowna's mayor has issued a challenge to residents.

City of Kelowna communications supervisor Tom Wilson says residents are encouraged to shut off their lights and unplug appliances this evening.
"The Mayor's issued a challenge to people to try and turn of their electrical lights and appliances for one hour from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM."

Wilson says everyone will be shutting off their power for one hour this evening including the City.
"We turn off the lights at City Hall and any other lights that can be turned off. A lot of them are hardwired for safety reasons."

Earth Hour began in 2007 in Sydney Australia and has grown into a global symbolic climate change initiative with more than 152 countries participating last year.
 
"MY FURTHER ADVISE, LET CELEBRATE EARTH DAY EVERY DAY  NOT FOR AN  HOUR"
                         
BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS TOO PRECIOUS, NOT JUST FOR US BUT FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION.

BE GREEN TO GO GREEN!

NATURE DOES NOT HURRY, YET ANYTHING IS ACCOMPLISHED.

                                                                                          -LAO TZU-

 
Inevitably, in going about our daily lives, each of us uses energy by commuting, sheltering our families or even eating.   Yet there are many things each of us as individuals can do to reduce our consumption.   The choices we make in our homes, our travel and what we buy can lower energy costs and promote the conservation and improvement of the environment.  Everyone can make going green a part of their daily lives by just implementing a few simple changes.

1.USE BOTH SIDES OF PAPER
American businesses throw away 21 million tons of paper every year, equal to 175 pounds per office worker. For a quick and easy way to halve this, set your printer's default option to print double-sided (duplex printing). And when you're finished with your documents, don't forget to take them to the recycling bin.

2. RETHINK BOTTLED WATER
Nearly 90% of plastic water bottles are not recycled, instead taking thousands of years to decompose. Buy a reusable container and fill it with tap water, a great choice for the environment, your wallet, and possibly your health. The EPA's standards for tap water are more stringent than the FDA's standards for bottled water.

3. BRUSH WITHOUT RUNNING
You've heard this one before, but maybe you still do it. You'll conserve up to five gallons per day if you stop. Daily savings in the U.S. alone could add up to 1.5 billion gallons--more water than folks use in the Big Apple.

4. TURN OFF LIGHTS
Always turn off incandescent bulbs when you leave a room. Fluorescent bulbs are more affected by the number of times it is switched on and off, so turn them off when you leave a room for 15 minutes or more. You'll save energy on the bulb itself, but also on cooling costs, as lights contribute heat to a room.

5. DOWNLOAD YOUR SOFTWARE
Most software comes on a compact disc, and more than thirty billion compact discs of all types are sold annually. That's a huge amount of waste, not to mention the associated packaging. Another bonus to downloading your software is that it's often available for download at a later date when you upgrade to a new computer or are attempting to recover from a crash.

6. SHARE!
Take what you've learned, and pass the knowledge on to others. If every person you know could take one small step toward being greener, the collective effort could be phenomenal.

"Indeed, We (God) offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant. (Qur'an 33:72)

In Arabic the word for earthling is Khalifa (خلِيفةً) pronounced kha-leaf-ah. This is a magnificent word with multiple meanings like deputy, guardian, 'friend of Earth' and viceroy, although it all boils down to Stewardship. Human beings are the most intelligent beings on earth so it makes sense that we have the responsibility to care for our planet, to give it a hug and a health check now and again .

"And it is He (God) who has made you successors (khala'ifa) upon the earth and has raised some of you above others in degrees [of rank] that He may try you through what He has given you. Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful." (Qur'an 6:165).

BY:FATIN NADZIRAH BINTI MD ZOLKFLEE

Think Globally, Act Locally

Ilman Mhd Ilham , A1

More cities around the world are making streets, roads, and special paths just for bicycles and pedestrians. On special days each week, month, or year, many cities close some of their roads to cars and other vehicles in order to promote walking and bicycle riding.

Earth Day isn’t the only day when the world can and should celebrate the planet we all share.

Here are a few ways you can help Earth every day.

• Walk or ride a bicycle to school, the park, or the store. Encourage your parents to walk or ride to work, too. This is a great way to help reduce the pollution created by cars, trucks, buses, trains, and airplanes.
• Plant trees. Trees help keep the air clean.
• Do not litter. Pick up litter on the sidewalk, street, beach, or riverbank. This will help keep the environment free of contaminants.
• Create a compost pile for food scraps and plant waste from the garden. This is a good way to cut down on the amount of trash that goes into a landfill. As a bonus, compost helps create rich soil for gardening.
• Recycle! Recycling is an important part of keeping Earth clean. It is very easy to do. By giving old things a new life we put less pressure on important resources all of us will need in the future to survive.Understanding how long something takes to decompose in a garbage dump or landfill can help motivate all of us to reuse and recycle everything we can. The best thing any of us can do for the environment is to rethink the way we use things and to use less. The fewer resources and products we use, the less stuff there is to throw away and recycle. Can you guess how long it takes the things we use every day to turn into soil in a landfill.

HOIST THE SAILS!!!

HOIST THE SAILS!

By John McConnell

Four billion years ago
Our lonely Earth
Set sail on cosmic seas
Guided by an unseen hand
Of nature, God or chance.

As life evolved
Through endless echo-cycles
Man was born, destined
To destroy or enrich
the Precious Ship.

And now his hand
Has seized the tiller
But his ear has not
Yet caught the Captain's
Quiet command.

The sails are down, the ship becalmed,
Its fragile life at stake.
No longer do we ride the gentle swells of
Silent seas and breathe
The fragrant air.

Broken are the rhythms
Of our cyclic plants
And other living things.

But now the Captain speaks again
Our quiet thoughts at last reveal his voice.

"Hoist the sails, Earth Man.
Set them for celestial winds.
Hold the tiler firm,
The course ahead is clear."

Be He nature, God or chance
His voice is heard
And we shall heed
The Captain's quiet command.

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green

1. Save energy to save money. 

2. Save water to save money.

3. Less gas = more money (and better health!).

4. Eat smart.

5. Skip the bottled water.

6. Think before you buy.

7. Borrow instead of buying.

8. Buy smart.

9. Keep electronics out of the trash.

10. Make your own cleaning supplies.

Smarter Lighting: A Bright Idea

1. Replace your most frequently used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights.

Fluorescent light bulbs use only a third as much electricity as a standard incandescent bulb. Fluorescent will usually last ten times as long as a regular bulb, which means it is will easily pay for itself. If every household in the U.S. replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), it would prevent enough pollution to equal the removal of one million cars from the road.

2. Replace outdoor lighting with a motion-detector equipped bulb or fixture.

Outdoor lights that are left on all night can add unnecessary waste energy and disturb wildlife. You can safely and efficiently light the outside of your home by installing light fixtures that are activated by motion sensor or a timer. These devices will keep areas well lit when you need them to be while reducing your energy bill.

Deep In My Heart

Assalamualaikum. Well hello the world! lovers, haters and all my fellow friends. Base on the idea above, now i'm gonna write my own idea in this paragraph. Actually my ambition is to be a climatologist and work for NASA or World Meteorology Department. I want this badly because i love the earth, i want to study about the earth and also want to take a good care of it. Unfortunately, there is no climatology course in Malaysia and there is no climatologist in Malaysia. Insyaallah after i graduated from Austrialia's University , i will futher my study in climatology. Even now, i have study a lot about the nature because i want to find an idea to make people today change their attitude in making earth dying. If we can't change our attitude, we need to train our future generation to not to be like us. I know, it hard for us to change something that we are usually done but if we try our best insyaallah we gonna be better. If we done something 40 times consecutive, insyaallah it will stick as our own habit. If we train our self to done something good then we gonna be someone good, but if we train our self to done something bad the we gonna be someone bad. Actually, majority know what the right thing to do but because no one started to do a good thing then nobody gonna follow it. So, be the first person to done something positive. Stop everything that make earth dying with sincere heart, insyaallah there gonna be someone following you. That's all from me. Thank you. and sorry for grammar mistakes. Heee =) 

by: Mohamad Hilmi Faris Bin Azahari
      A2     

What is the use of development if it means harming our nature.

is it worth it? some would probably say yes to my supposedly rhetoric question but the real answer is no.

Why do I say it is not worth it? I can list down quite a few answers for that.

1. Nature lost creates a non-healthy environment to the area which will result in a shorter life span of the residents. This means that most of the residents of a fully developed area die earlier. Now I ask you again, is it worth it to die early for some more buildings?

2. Lack of nature as in trees and grasses can cause a variety of natural disasters. some environmentalist call this Natures' Revenge. This 'Revenge' can cost lives of hundreds, thousands, and even millions. Again, is it worth it? to have children trapped in rubles because of earthquakes, to have women screaming for help during a landslide. is it?

I'll let you ponder those points. what i really want to say is

THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS

And so it is up to us to choose whether we want it to be the better for our children or not.

The famous Native American saying states that "We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors. we borrow it from our children." It is our work, our job, our task no matter how arduous it may be, to preserve mother nature for those whom we borrow the earth from, Our Children.

juts choose either we want to give them a

CARING EARTH

OR VENGEFUL EARTH

-DIN-

Taking Care of the Earth Every Day

You can do lots of good things for the earth. Here are ideas to keep in mind.

• Keep Your Neighborhood Clean
  If you see trash on the ground, toss it in a trash can.
• Recycle Cans, Bottles, and Paper
  Save them at home and at school, and help your family recycle them.
• Help Keep the Air Clean
  Ride your bike or walk to school. Too many cars cause a lot of pollution.
• Save Paper
  Use both sides of your paper at school and at home.
  To clean up messes, use sponges or washable cloths instead of paper towels.
• Help Save Water
  Don't leave the water running while you brush your teeth.

• Help Save Energy
  Turn off the lights when you leave the room.
  Turn off the TV when you're finished watching it.
  Don't leave the refrigerator door open. Get what you want quickly.

And Remember . . .

Don't ever think you're not important to our earth. You are!

by:mohamad azamudden bin mohd adnan a2