Albert getting more volunteers on board
By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 12:44 AM
As you can see here...albert sent out an email to get volunteers who are interested to BUILD this house. These bunch were the same Mentor Youth that helped to guide the 375 youth during this year's NDP to encouage the public to clear up their own trash wearing "Did You pirck up your own trash?" Tee shirt.The email also explained how the project was initially concenptialized....
Cheerios!
Wil
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From: albert ang
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:27:41 +0100 (BST)
To: Kenneth Sim Zhong Zhi
Cc:
Subject: Re: eco house protoytpe
Hi all,
The story came about this way. About a year back, NYC was calling for youths to submit plans of how they would like to see the Youth Park, (*scape, for those who have heard of it). Wilson drew up a plan and submitted it. It was an environment-themed plan where there will be stores, NGOs' booths, 'green' houses, etc.
Among the main setup in the plan is indeed the 'green' house. Some might have heard of eco-villages elsewhere in the world; the main concept is that as much of the resources used are environmentally friendly and sustainable. for more information, see http://gen.ecovillage.org/ There are plenty other websites.
The plan was, however, not taken up by NYC, details of how their current development plans came about shall not be discussed, but we can say that they had their own plans.
If you have looked up the internet, you will see lots of example of eco-villages for rural/suburban settings. Wilson and us believe that such a concept can and should be hatched in an urban city as well.
Through Heartware Network (that Uncle who addressed us during NDP, Raymond, is the head), Wilson could use the Youth Park before the *scape development somewhere next June-July. It has been planned to have a carnival kind of thing where there are activities for everyone, at the same time become aware of sustainable living. A number of eco-house has been planned to be built for competitors to stay in for some competition, pitting against each other to come up with 'greener' solutions to green issues.
Before that event, a prototype of the eco-house have to be built. At present stage, the immediate aim is to have a successful, functional eco-house. One that can showcase urban eco-living (the technologies/ ways). This is in line with ECO's vision of getting the population out of their comfort zone, do those little things that all of us actually know for a better environment.
Ideals, some may say it's a waste of time, at some point requires action. Therefore I want to embrace this belief that we young people are dynamic. Muster the action. At the very least, one good shot at an eco-house. It's a house that we can built.
SmileUp!
Kenneth Sim Zhong Zhi
i still think the what you have explained kinda vague... not sure wad we are
doing... making a house out of recycled material ???
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>Subject: Re: eco house protoytpe
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:37:10 +0100 (BST)
>
>Hi all,
> I've just had 3 more ideas which can increase the 'eco-ness' and
>probably reduce costs, and eventual use.
>
> 1. The 'hull' of the house. I vaguely recall that the proposed house was
>to be built by wood. Now, the Bus was a bus! Mobile offices in construction
>sites are 30/40ft containers. So what other possibilities could the 'hull'
>of the eco house be made of? Such a thing could potentially be sponsored by
>a company who is scrapping of their inventory, and it would be structurally
>sound.
>
> 2. I saw a mineral water bottle on my dining table and thought about the
>plastic bottles collected after NDP. Wilson had events about 'eco-tree' or
>the likes. What is the possibility of using those polypropylene as some
>kind of construction material? If not as a bottle, what about after
>shredding? Mixed with some other materials to strengthen the structure? I
>don't know. (Ryal, Trifolium might be able to capitalise on this. ie We had
>problems finding meaningful work for staffs to do previously. In the
>analogy of plastic bottles, some can collect, others think of ways to
>shred, explore/research mixing possibilities, build a structure with it,
>etc Hmm...)
>
> So, I think besides using new building materials for the house, what can
>we salvage from the junk to use as building materials? Again, companies
>will be alot more willing to donate those things to us, hence reducing
>costs. Additionally, we truly want our effort to be for an Environmentally
>Challenged house!
>
> 3. On further uses of the eco-house, JC students who need to clear their
>CIP can plan events (environmental ones, of course) to be held at the
>eco-house every weekend or once a month to bring in some crowd/ attention
>to the eco-house. Some older volunteers from ECO can serve as project
>mentors. This thought came about when considering that, if everything is
>launched successfully, the hype should not be a one-time explosion, there
>must be continued sparkles.
>
> EYC mentors> You are not receiving a spam or wrongly sent mail. You are
>receiving this email because of your energetic and motivated personality,
>environmentally-concerned attitude. Importantly, you had taken a
>self-initiated step towards a better environment (like our NDP cleanup).
>This proves us different from the rest. And different people undertake
>powerful ideals. Read down the email. If you have the same belief, consider
>an involvement seriously.
>
> SmileUp!
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