Hmmm...I almost foget to pst on saving gaia.

Everything Alternative. Monday's theme for saving gaia. So what is it all about. I shall bring you to visualise a fashion show, the famous teletubbe town and the great hot sun.

Let me bring you to Hog Kong, an ideal shopping place with fashions too, that is my main purpose in bringing you there. the designers there are going green. In this october there will be a fashion show call "Eco Chic" there is a mini one held on March over at Jarkata, here is a pic of it:

Source: www.daylife.com/photo/02N98eT1RhfLJ

So what is their main purpose? Main objective? People,especially women are great shoppers n clothes, and of course constantly keep themselves up to fahshon. These designers are trying to bring the "un-fashioned" clothes, with their flick of their fingers, transformed them to something up to fashion. Objective? To bring green on the catwalk.

These designers do it for a purpose, they would like to educate their citizens the important of going green, it seems that Hong Kong does not had a great waste management systems, where "waste" are dump at landfilled, there wont be enough space for rubbish if they keep piling up. Moreover everyday, the place acculmulate 347 tons of waste. Why so much rubbish, especially on clothes? This is patly due to the mentally of people, they have the mindset of clothes are cheap, thus making them disposable just like your plastic spoon and fork. Which is highly un encourage!

www.green2greener.com had created another great idea. They collect stained table cloth from restuarants and make this material into handbags, These handbags are for sales, at their website, and the sales of it will go to WWF.

The moral? We need not scarfice fashion for environmentally friendly. But when we shop, we shop with a conscience. And support organic cotton!!!!!!!

Now lets travel to India, please wear your sun glass, it is hot and humid there. It is a land that is very poor, and there is drought. Woman there walk barefooted just to collect water. A great lady, changes the way that the villagers cook, as firewood, and gas are relatively scarce in that area. they would ahve to walk very far in order to be able to access to these resources, moreover gas tank only able to last them for 10 days...since it is hot why not use the sun? That great lady set up solar panels, collecting solar power. With these solar power it harnass the energy from the sun, reducing the amount of trees being cut down. From there, they make use of these electricity to have a puppet show at night, but not ordinary puppet show, but it is a puppet show that teach being environmentally friendly. These puppets are made from waste paper, and travel around the villagers teaching about being eco friendly. With the solar power, it enable the children to study at night, and encourage family gathering. Isn't all that great?

Travelling on to taiwan.

They had make use to the golf balls collected in the chuck recycling. It serves as a reflexology area, where many of us would go "ee, ar, ouh" haha...pain pain. But it is indeed creative. They had even created fence using sping from mattress, and a toilet build from bamboo, the retuns of nature.

Last station: Indonesia
Teletubbie land! In this particular place it is known as a dome village, where the houses look like the ones in teletubbie, the only difference is you cannot enter the house through the top. These houses are indeed handy as:

it uses half as much concrete and steel as traditional buildings.
The curved shape of the dome makes it resistant to wind and storm damage.
During earthquakes, it move with the ground instead of collapsing.
it cannot be damaged by fire, rot, or insects.
The thermal mass of the concrete walls makes it energy-efficient.
Unique in structure

How is it constructed:
A circular concrete slab floor is reinforced with steel rebar.
Vertical steel bars are embedded in the outer edge of the foundation to support the dome.
Blower fans inflate an Airform made of PVC coated nylon or polyester fabrics.
The Airform swells to assume the shape of the structure.
A grid of vertical and horizontal rebar surrounds the exterior of the Airform.
2 or 3 inches of concrete is applied over the rebar grid.
After the concrete is dry, the Airform is removed from the inside. The Airform can be re-used.

A pic of it:

Source: http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Monolithic-Dome.htm

But this dome cannot be implemented in Singapore as we are a relatively small country, it will consume a lot of land, making it land deficiency to hold the population. Contruction is a great contributor of waste, it had contributed a 40% of the waste generated. Thus we should try to reduce the amount og waste created, REDUCED the usage, REUSE them if possible, and lastly RECYLCED them.

To all environmentalist: Going Green, and encouraging others to do so, is our way of life!

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