Thursday, August 28, 2008

Our National Pride


One day I surfed upon a share forum - not for share infos and tips but something on nostalgia. I am surprised to find this article probably in one of our local media from its reader on 'National Pride'.

Like what was mentioned, what is left from our 3 National Pride - National Library, National Theatre and National Museum? Probably on the National Museum is left....and to me, all the 3 above are more of a National Pride than winning the Silver Medal in the Beijing Olympic 2008.

Now here is the article by Mr. Michael Loh;

Credit : Mccool at forum.shareinvestor.com

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cut Down On Our Town Newsletters


I do not understand why I received 3 different newsletters - SPRING, Tampines Tempo and Tampines Changkat in July 2008! One is already too many (started off with Tampines Tempo), then followed by SPRING and now Tampines Changkat.

Frankly I do not bother to read any of these and I wonder how many households really bother to read it? They are of much better quality than our newspaper (of course) and in full color too. All 3 newsletters paper are quite thick and especially the Tampines Changkat quality is very good. Personally I find these very wasteful and much cost have been spent on printing these newsletters. Maybe the respective organisations can consider using online media instead of print media. Although some like the SPRING by the North East Community Development Council is a bi-monthly issue, it will be much better to consider cutting down on the use of paper. The Tampines Changkat has a portal but use it to archive the print media instead of replacing it - I find it weird...

If we have BYOBD on every Wednesday to cut down the use of plastic bags, we should also cut down on the use of paper too. I am not suggesting to use recycled paper for the newsletter as the recycled paper price now may still be higher than new paper. Moreover, a recycling mill may consume more fossil fuels than a paper mill.

To give you an idea how much energy is used to produce new paper, below shows how much energy is conserved by using recycled paper instead of new paper;

CONSERVING through recycling:
A ton of paper made from recycled fibers instead of virgin fibers conserves:
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7,000 gallons of water
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17-31 trees
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4,000 KWh of electricity
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60 pounds of air pollutants
Source : Energy Kid's Page

Come on, let's GO GREEN! Cut down on Global Warming.