RECREATIONAL CLUB

REPORT

“RE-CREATE IF” PROGRAM REPORT

Green living or sustainable living is fundamentally of the applications of sustainability to lifestyle choice and decisions. One conceptions of sustainable living express what it mean in triple-bottom-lines term as meeting present ecological, societal and economical need without compromising these factors for future generations. Another broader conception describes sustainable living in terms of four interconnected social domains: economics, ecology, politics and culture. Using green living as our main theme, we organized a one day event that called “RE-CREATE IF” program.

“RECREATE IF” program is a program that organized after our group discussing what green living lifestyle is and then we decide to create this event by volunteering for beach cleaning. This program also supporting the government campaign “Separation at Source 2016” and also Beach Conservation program. The event was held on 22^nd July 2016 at Teluk Kemang Beach, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan. The event was attended by 2 lecturers, 8 Degree students and 10 Diploma students.

At 7.30 am, we assemble near B2 car parking to await for bus and leave to Teluk Kemang Beach on 8 am. We arrive at Teluk Kemang around 9 am, after 5 minute briefing, preparations and dividing groups, we start our cleaning beach activity. All the trashes that we collected then is divided into categories, for example plastic bottle cap in category, ice-cream stick, plastic bags and etc. After categorized all of the trashes, we start another briefing for our “RE-CREATE IF” session, where we going to recreate something with the trashes that we collected. After a moment of discussion, we decided to create mermaid sculpture from it.

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QUESTION

This 6 questions below is given after we done our Re-create If program,

1.      How do you describe eco art?

For me, eco art is an art that created using eco product, for example using soy ink colors for printing and using recycle papers. Eco art also look into art that created by artists who are concerned with the state of both local and global environmental situations. Eco-artists are concerned about the environment. As such, they often create art that improves an area environmentally and/or that highlights a specific environmental issue. It must also be noted that eco-art addresses aesthetics, ethics, politics, culture, and economics, and the impact these have on the world’s ecosystems. To remediate and reclaim damaged natural environments, often restoring ecosystems in artistic ways. Eco-art can help bring communities together through their shared respect and love for their environment. Neglected and abandoned spaces can be given new life and purpose. Eco-art serves to highlight environmental issues within communities, and while it doesn’t necessarily make a huge immediate change to the earth, it can make a difference in terms of our thinking and our actions.

2.      Why it is important to reuse, reduce, recycle and refuse?

4R is create to help people to live in sustainable living by practicing this idea.

·         Reuse

Reuse is where you can reusing the item you buy that can be reuse for a long period for example plastic bags, glass bottles. Reuse is one way to save and create something from the waste.

·         Reduce

Reduce is where you cutting down the waste that you produce daily. Waste reduction is preferred approach to waste management as it save the management cost. The idea is you consume less and less waste produce.

·         Recycle

Recycle is a way of waste prevention but it not effective as to recycle, we need to create waste. But recycle also help by looping and remake the item, for example creating the water bottle from the previous water bottle and remaking paper.

·         Refuse

Refuse is a way of thinking or the ideology by some people, where someone need to refuse creating waste, so that waste is not be produce.

3.      Have you ever experience involve in this kind of activity?

Yes. When I still in primary school and secondary school as the 4R program has been conduct for nearly a decade ago. It is exciting activity to be involve with because it help me to contributing to save the nature. It give the morale boost that we see in every ecologist and in everyone that want to live in good eco life.

4.       Do you feel the project is success? If yes, why? If no, why?

Yes. Because I can see many that everyone that involve in the project is happy to contribute in prevent any damage in our nature as in beach. Beach is one of other environment that need to be save as beach population can help to endanger marine species like sea turtle and the ecosystems around it.

5.      What do you find most interesting/satisfying about working as part of this program?

The most interesting part working part in this program is the first time Diploma and Degree students interact in each other to contribute in this project. We enjoy the day by playing and creating sculpture using the trashes. We also give our opinion and idea what we going to create.

6.      What do you differently in future?

I might thinking to bring this project into a bigger scale because it give people idea to think and changing their mentality by helping little by little in protecting our Earth.