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Handy Manny Gets Handy With The Earth!
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Previously, I wrote about how we can show our support for the environment through our everyday habits and “Earth Hour” campaign. Not only that – I also mentioned about raising the awareness on environmental sustainability in our young kids.
Yes, building our kids’ early awareness is important. Yes, we also know that engaging them in environmental campaigns and activities do help *smile*.
So, we have several environmental campaigns like Earth Hour and World Environment Day. Coming our way on 22 April 2010 will be the 40th “Earth Day” – a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment, with Earth Day activities participated by more than 1 billion people in the world.
On this Earth Day, you can engage your kids to show their love for Mother Earth in a FUN way!
Let your kids learn the environmental message through these fun activities with your family on this Earth Day:
1) Where possible, walk or bike to your nearby destination. Reduce car driving and reduce the undesirable carbon monoxides which will harm the earth.
2) Enjoy a little picnic, using non-disposal utensils. Recycle and keep our environment clean.
3) Start a new plant life. Treasure the greatness of Mother Earth as the plant grows and blooms.
4) Play friendly penalty games or quizzes with your young ones to bring across to them the significance of :
Saving energy – by turning off lights or electricity when not in use
Recycling – get hands-on in creative art activities with recyclable items like bottles, cans and paper boxes.
Saving water – by turning off water when brushing teeth and applying soap during bath.
For more useful environmentally tips to share with your young ones, do check out http://www.playhousedisney-asia.com/earthday.html.
Besides, Playhouse Disney has ready activities to enable your ones to learn the environmental message in a fun way, together with Daddy and Mommy 
Handy Manny, our handy man of Sheetrock Hills, will champion Earth Day on Playhouse! Your young ones will love their favourite Handy Manny episodes, focusing on the importance of preserving the environment – specially aired by Playhouse Disney on 22 April.
Oh yes, Handy Manny and his useful tools, will be showing how to “Get handy with the Earth”!
More from Playhouse Disney!
Join your young ones to participate in the Handy Manny Earth Day Contest and stand a chance to win Handy Manny Gardening Tools. Contest starts on 22 April.
To participate, log on to http://www.playhousedisney-asia.com/earthday.html. Also, encourage your friends, relatives to also participate in this contest with their young ones!
(Pl read the terms and conditions to qualify).
With Handy Manny and our fun activities, I am sure your family will have both an Enjoyable and Educational Earth Day. Let your children learn more about Earth Day on Playhouse Disney (Starhub Channel 34) 22nd April, 9am – 2pm.
[I am also sure our young generations and their future generations will be THANKFUL to us in years to come - for spreading the environmental message among parents, who in turn will play an important role in influencing your young ones to love our Mother Earth and protect the environment.]
Earth Hour on 27 March 2010 - Join Many To Show Your Support
Participate in Earth Hour by turning out your lights from 8.30-9.30pm on 27 March.
Not only that…spread the message to your friends, relatives and colleagues….Oh yah…and to your blog readers too.
To show our support, I have also signed up for Earth Hour at http://www.earthhour.org. I am glad my organisation and family are playing a part too *smile*.
Why not you show your support by signing up too? And not forgetting to join many in the world to turn out your lights at 8.30pm on 27 March!
Actually, we can do much more for our mother earth besides participating in Earth Hour. You might be interested to read my earlier post on Go Green Episode 3.
Here’s an official video on Earth Hour 2010.
Go Green Episode 3
A small part of my job requires me to think about environmental sustainability and also as part of a team that leads in sustaining green or eco office for my organisation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY seems such a “IN” word now. However, how many actually appreciate its meaning and significance? We are aware of the damages caused by both natural and anthropogenic factors on our environment. Perhaps, many still could not feel the direct impact of our actions on our future generations.
All of us could do our part for our eco-system and future generation either at work or in our everyday lives by reducing our carbon footprints and working towards environmental sustainability - ultimately to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of our future generations to meet their needs.
Start by being a little more conscious, cultivating ”green” habits, and building our sense of responsibilities towards the environment. Do not forget our little ones too in sharing with them the importance. They deserve to be aware and do their parts early in sustaining the environment that they and their future generations will co-exist in.
You might like these earlier related posts.
Today - World Environment Day and Launch of the film “HOME”
I came across some videos that might be interesting in educating our young ones.
[Do share the environmental message and impact with them while viewing these videos. There are many other useful and animated videos on the web. Do check them out! One site is The Green Gorilla (the kids are cute!).]
Adventures of Water Wally - Camp H2O by PUB (Singapore’s National Water Agency)
Lets Make Our World The Most Beautiful Home by The National Environment Agency Singapore
Turn It Up Day (Gorilla in The Greenhouse)
Today - World Environment Day and Launch of The Film “Home”
Today, 5th June like many other 5th June, signifies an important date in the world calendar. It is World Environment Day.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” ~Native American Proverb.
Hence, for the sake of the environment and for the sake of our children and their future generations, I feel that parents play an important role in setting a good example for our children in practising that Eco Action, not only today but also in our daily lives.
Some eco tips of how we and our children can help protect and contribute to the sustainability of the environment”
1) Turn off the lights and fan when not in use
2) Turn on the fan instead of air-conditioner unless necessary
3) Avoid the use of disposable cups, cutleries and bottles
4) Bring along reusable bags
5) Do not keep water running
6) Do not waste paper and recycle them
7) Turn off the main power switches when not in use
8 Turn off electrical appliances when not in use
9) Many others
It may not be easy to ensure that our kids appreciate the true value of environment at their young age. As parent, I am just putting in a little more effort, to remind and remind my kids and domestic helper and perhaps, posters at home might help.
Today also marks the launch of the much awaited film about the environment, HOME. Do watch it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/homeproject and at the same time it will also be made available in DVDs and cinemas (at least in France), and it will be shown as a primetime broadcast on France 2.
Directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and produced by Luc Besson (Producer of The Fifth Element), this is the first time that a full-length movie makes its debut both on YouTube and in theaters.
Meanwhile, enjoy the movie trailer.
Go Green Episode 2
Here I continue my Go Green Episode 2. These are some ways that you may consider encouraging your family members to also do their parts in reducing the utility consumption:
1) Reduce Electricity Consumption
- Turn on fan instead of air-conditioner
- Turn off main power switches when not in use
- Switch off lights and electronic products when not in use
- Use energy-saving lamps and equipments
- Configure PCs to energy-saving mode
2) Reduce Water Consumption
- Do not leave water flowing unnecessarily during bath and when washing utensils
- Use half flush in toilets whenever possible
- Turn the tap off after filling pails with water
- Use water use for rinsing clothes for other purposes like floor washing
- Use watering cans to water plants instead of using a hose
- Fix leaking faucets
A little effort means so much…….
1) Stick friendly stickers, posters to remind family members and domestic helper to constantly reduce utility consumption.
2) Introduce tips in the forms of quiz questions and children get to remember the tips better in the process of thinking
3) Play the “penalty” game with the children if they do do not cooperate
Go Green
I support environmental protection and believe we can all do our parts by practising “Green” actions at home and at workplace. Build the environmental awareness in our kids and lead them to follow the good examples and the effort can go a long way.
Something meaningful by David Haahr (extracted from www.aforestry.com):
“We have borrowed this planet and the RIGHT TO LIVE HERE from our children and we owe it to them to take care of their planet and give it back to them better then we found it.”
Would like to share some recycling and reusing efforts that are worth practising at home in this Go Green Episode 1. Thanks to my mum as some practices are passed down from her. The benefits are many like environmental protection, cost savings, setting good examples to the kids, promoting some creative ideas along the way and…… So why not?
1) Paper boxes (eg. tissue boxes, game boxes, electronic product boxes)
exercise art and craft skill here to create i) handy boxes for storage of jewelleries, stationery items, toys etc. ii) “piggy” banks iii) magazine holders iv) friendly signages at home v) bookmarks vi) cards vii) compartments in drawers and others
2) Used plastic/glass containers
i) contain salt, sugar, flour, sweets, cookies, sauces, liquid toiletry items and others ii) paint on glass containers and create self-designed vases and others
3) Old clothes
used as rag and colourful old pieces can be cut as materials for artwork
4) Tin containers (eg. mooncake boxes)
used to contain sewing kits, cards, small items like toy figurines etc. and as compartments in drawers and others.
5) Old torned blankets
cut out the beautiful cartoons and pictures on the blanket to create beautiful artwork
6) Ice cream sticks
painted and used for kids’ art and craft and as base of reused boxes
7) Traditional calendars, old diaries and one-sided used copy papers
for the kids to take down notes, draw etc and to jot down my daily instructions for my domestic helper, always practise printing on both sides of paper (wherever possible)
Water for rinsing handwashed clothes
wash balcony and compound outside the house
The examples can go on and on and so just let your imagination go creative! Will continue in Episode 2…
So next time before you discard these items, think twice on how you could recycle and reuse them. Before you depart for your next shopping trip, you might want to bring along your reusable bags:)
Most importantly, REMEMBER, our children, their children and grandchildren and so forth will benefit from our thoughtful practices.
