Earthlink NTU is the only environmental club in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) dedicated to promoting environmentalism in NTU. Since its initiation in 1993, the club has been actively spreading the message among staff and students through their various campaigns such as the most recent Bring Your Own Bag Campaign, NTU Earth Hour 2010 and upcoming activities such as Ecoventure 2010 (Vietnam) and its collaboration with the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee to spread the environmental awareness activities.
If you are currently a student of NTU living in one of the sixteen Halls of Residences, then you are just the person we are looking for! The reason? Hall Recycling Drive 2010 is here!
From 23rd to 31st December, special recycle bins will be catered to you right at your Hall for you to dump all those used paper notes and clothing! Get rid of all that exam stress and dump all those filthy notes out! You'll never need to see them again!
Athletes visiting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) booth at the Youth Olympic Village (YOV) had a firsthand experience of why incandescent bulbs are so shunned upon when they attempted to use pedal power to generate electricity.
Its not all training and competition at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. Amidst all the hustle and bustle of the competitions islandwide, the athletes afford themselves some time at the Youth Olympic Village to address some important environmental issues. Read on to find out whats cooking at YOV!
Were you there at the 99 day countdown to the Singapore Youth Olympic Games @ Scape yesterday? If you were, you might have been stopped by a horde of Green Wanderers from Earthlink NTU, there to spread the message of environmental awareness to the general public!
"You do not need to be a hero to save the earth, just use less plastic bags!" says Earthlink NTU's Bring Your Own Bag committee. The club, NTU's only environment club, has managed to convince the school to adopt a weekly BYOB Wednesday which has been in effect since 6th January 2010.
Yuniik (pronounced as “unique”) aims to inject creativity into our daily lives while being equally concerned about the environment that we all live in. In a nutshell, Yuniik is all about creativity, inspiration, general health and care for the environment.
I am shifting the focus of my project from recycling to reducing consumption and/or re-using of things...(a)series of objects created for the bathroom setting that create user awareness of water consumption through thought-provoking design. The system is effective in conserving water, and at the same time, causes the user to reconsider the way he uses water.