South East Regional Workshop for grassroots leaders and partners 25 March 2011

In the year 2010, College East enters into an enhanced tripartite partnership with South East CDC and NEA South East Regional Office to promote environmental sustainability for the resident of South East district. The tripartite first joined forces in the Greening@CE event held in College East on 15 July 2010. College East further supported the South East Clean and Green Carnival and the Litter-Free Ambassadors programme.

The South East Regional Workshop for Grassroots Leaders and Partners was held on 25 March 2011 at Bliss Garden Singapore Expo. Besides informative presentation, the evening was also an appreciation dinner for Grassroots Leaders and Partners for the close partnership and collaboration spent on ensuring the environmental programmes for South East were ran successfully. College East was represented at this event by Ms Catherine Soh and Ms Soh Beng Choo from College East’s ECO Team. The event was graced by Mr Matthias Yao, Mayor of South East District.

Mayor, in his speech, shared that 2010 was an exciting year for the South East district. The South East GreenPlan, a five-year community-wide environmental action plan was launched on 21 November 2010 to mobilise a community movement in going green, promoting environmental awareness and fostering ground-up action.

He further highlighted the partnership with College East, complimenting College East as the first school in the South East district to receive the Green School award in developing an ECO Portal that is not only for the school itself but for its communities. He is also delighted that this year, College East staff and students will be supporting the Home Aware Challenge organized by South East CDC and also co-organising the ECO Race with NEA at NEA Community Day in May.

Besides College East, Tanjong Katong Girls School, Ping Yi Secondary School and Broadrick Secondary School were other schools represented at the event.

The workshop commenced with the showing of a video on the South East GreenPlan produced by 6 students and 2 staff from the Digital Audio Video Production course in College East. The evening’s event also featured 3 interesting and informative presentations by students from Tanjong Katong Girls’ School on Gap Analysis on Recycling, Climate Change Studies by NEA and The Dengue Research Clinic by Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

                     Mr Stanley Fong, Head, NEA South East Regional Office giving the opening address

                     Guest of Honor – Mr Matthias Yao, Mayor of South East District giving his speech

Mr Lee Keng Seng, Deputy Director General, Public Health, NEA presenting a token of appreciation to Mayor

Earth Hour 2011 – Together Let's Care for the Environment

Recycling craft workshop

LFAs in ACTION @Bedok

LFAs in ACTION @Bedok Central 19 & 26 Nov 2010

After professional training and rounds of preparation, Litter Free Ambassadors(LFA) from ITE College East went on patrol duty around Bedok Central on 19 & 26 Nov 2010. They were stationed at hotspots such as Bedok Bus Interchange, Bedok Hawker Centre and Bedok MRT station to advocate good habits of waste disposal (by offering a souvenir) and to give proper advice to the public who litter.
Supporting NEA’s “Let’s Bin It” initiative launched in June this year, LFAs find it a very good experience being in action as an ambassador. Subsequently, the LFAs will be patrolling other hotspots in the East zone, at least once every month

Clean and Green Carnival 2010

ECO Ideas Challenge

ECO Ideas Challenge

Take the challenge @ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KV8228T

Application Guidelines

Submission specifications:

This in an open category challenge, we welcome entries from all schools (Primary, Secondary, ITE and Tertiary). You are required to describe your ECO suggestion in no more than 100 words. There is no limit of entry, you can choose from one of the following categories per entry:

• Green Environment

-          ideas on how to improve our surrounding environment. Eg. Our neighborhood, parks, shopping mall etc.

• Green Organization

-          ideas on 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle).

-          ideas on saving energy and water within a work environment.

• Green Education

-          ideas on curriculum or activity to be included in a primary, secondary, ITE or tertiary schools to educate the students in environmental care.

• Other areas

-          Other green idea, product, or service which does not belong to any of the three categories above.

Judging criteria:

• Thematic relevance
• Originality
• Creativity
• Viability

Prizes:

• 1^st Prize:  $300 cash voucher
• 2^nd Prize: $200 cash voucher
  • Cash Vouchers are sponsored by Academus Software Engineering and;

• 2 Merit Prizes:

-          2 Ink Jet Printers sponsored by Cartridge World

Submit your entry via: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KV8228T

Date of Launch: 15 July 2010

Deadline:  15 September 2010

Results of the competition will be announced and posted on EcoCityZone from 30 Oct 2010.

Winning entries will be posted on EcoCityZone.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues

All submitted entries may be used for the purposes of marketing and promotions by the organiser in connection with or without relation to their products and services as well as events organized or sponsored by them, including but not limited to the competition.

The organiser, in their absolute discretion and in such manner as they deem fit, may use the entries or parts of the entries for the said purposes without any reference to or acknowledgement of the participants.

Winners will also be notified via email or call.

Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained.

Late submissions will not be entertained.

Greening @ ITE College East

Greening @ITE College East

Date: Thursday, 15 July 2010
Time: 0930 hrs – 1130 hrs
Venue: The Amphitheatre, ITE College East
10 Simei Avenue Singapore 486047

Greening @ITE College East aims to create an ECO Lifestyle in our organization and our communities. This event will announce the launch of an ECO Portal for ITE students, staff as well as the public. The Mayor of South East District will be presenting ITE College East an inaugural Green School Certificate in recognition of the efforts taken by a school in the South East district in greening the environment. Greening @ITE is organized in partnership with South East Community Development Council (SE CDC) and National Environment Agency (NEA).

About the Green School Initiative

The South East District believes that schools, as an organisation, and as a part of the community in our District have an important responsibility to take a leadership role in environmental awareness and sustainability issues.

The “Go Green @ South East” Environmental Action Plan which is initiated by the South East Community Development Council and the National Environment Agency aims to engage schools in the district to be part of the Green Schools @ South East Challenge.

Under Green School @ South East, schools can choose to self initiate (based on a stretch target concept), establish their own reachable targets and challenge themselves to think out of the box to effect change through day-to-day, action based education or get involved in environmental initiatives such as recycling programme; in-house recycling opportunities and other programmes or initiatives by other partners. Examples of programmes that schools can be involved in: Green Homes @ SE where the schools can support as voluntary home auditors in the programme as well as the 10% Energy Challenge and 10% Water Challenge and taking care to minimise the environmental impact when organising events (Green Events @ South East) and in engaging staff and students in environmental themed CIP projects be it a collaboration with other partners or a self-initiated one.

The involvement process helps students to recognise the importance of environmental issues and take them more seriously in their personal and home lives which inevitably impact the community.

The Green Schools @ South East Challenge is also a synergistic platform for schools to consolidate and share positive experiences / initiatives with other schools in South East.

Event Exhibits (The Atrium, ITE College East from 9.30am to 3pm)

Greening activities themed: Green Education, Green Organisation and Green Earth.
1. ECO Portal
The key features of the ECO Portal and Green Collar Worker Training portal will be demonstrated. Visitors can also get to know more about the ECO idea contest for all students (Primary, Secondary and ITE).

2. PowerClean
Powerclean is a bio-degradable, environmental friendly detergent made of enzyme produced from fruit waste. It is created by the College East Environmental Club students and marketed jointly by the College East Environmental Club and Entrepreneur club students. So far more than 200 bottles have been sold. Powerclean is for sale at the booth for $2 per bottle.

3. Green Fashion
This booth show case Green Fashions made from recycled materials. They are the creative and unique fashion designed by nursing students from the School of Applied Health Science in ITE College East, made in celebration of Nurses Day 2010.

4. College East Environmental Club
An exhibit of the activities and event held by the student club in ITE College East that is actively promoting environmental care in ITE College East. College East students can also sign up as member in this recruitment drive.

5. Anti-Littering
An exhibit and game booth set up by NEA on its new anti-littering campaign “Do The Right Thing. Let’s Bin It!”. The new campaign seeks to instill a sense of responsibility in individuals to keep Singapore clean and beautiful and to encourage them to take action to bin their litter.

6. Recycling
An exhibit and game booth set up by NEA to create awareness on the process of recycling and to learn the right way to recycle through fun games.

7. Go Green with SMRT
As part of SMRT’s commitment to the environment and sustainable development, Go Green with SMRT is a four-month (5 June – 30 September 2010) public education campaign aimed at raising awareness on green issues and promoting public transport as a greener travel alternative.

8. Toner/Ink Cartridge Recycling
An exhibit setup by Cartridge World to share on the process involved in recycling of cartridges. There will be video on carbon footprint on cartridges, flyers and brochures on refilled cartridges and components on re-manufacturing.