Today is Earth Day.
My girls were told by their pre-school to wear green or brown clothes in order to celebrate Earth Day. Juliane wore a green dress while Marieann wore a green flowery blouse. Juliane's class celebrated by creating and decorating their own paper bag titled "Save Our Home". Marieann's class did a class painting of Earth and they also had a discussion on how to save our Earth.
Both girls enjoyed celebrating Earth Day.
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However, on a more sombre note, I am sad to say that Singapore is not friendly to our Earth.
The BCA Green Mark Scheme was launched in 2005 with the intention to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise environmental awareness among developers, designers and builders when they start project conceptualisation and design, as well as during construction of environment-friendly buildings. It is a applaudable move by our government to help conserve our Earth. But another act of the government has totally eroded this good effort.
I am talking about the enbloc law in Singapore. Structurally sound buildings, namely condos are being enbloc-ed and demolished, all in the name of profit, opps I meant to say the politically correct term of "urban renewal". It is definitely a waste of resources and energy tearing down structurally sound buildings and definitely not very environmentally friendly. As long as the current enbloc law remains, Singapore will be "one step forward, two steps back" in its effort to be environmentally friendly. As long as the current enbloc law is not changed, the Singapore will be far from ever becoming an enviromentally friendly nation that it aspires to be.
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