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 22nd 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.
FLYER
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.
