‘Rainbow’ posters to launch Earth Day today
TODAY is Earth Day, an event first celebrated 25 years ago by activists in university campuses in the United States.
They buried cars and poured sewage on the carpets of big corporations to protest against pollution, to focus attention on environmental problems in a shocking way. But it has since become a mainstream event, with governments worldwide recognising and supporting it.
In Singapore, the newly appointed Acting Environment Minister, Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean, will be the guest of honour to unveil a special commemorative poster at Fort Canning Park.
Depicting a rainbow showing the way to a pot of "green" gold — the model environment city shaded by a tall tree — it is one of Singapore’s contributions to the Asean Environment Year this year.
Guests at the event will also be taken on a Discovery Walk of Fort Canning’s plantlife. The event is organized by the National Council on the Environment, with support from the National Parks Board.
About 2,500 copies of the limited-edition poster have been printed. Some will be distributed to schools, others will be available at the NCE offices at the Environment Ministry Building in Scotts Road. Copies will also be given out at today’s Fort Canning Park walks, starting at 2 pm and 4 pm.
Other Earth Day activities include:
will be displayed on a notice board and a wish tree at the zoo’s entrance. The best messages will be eligible for prizes.
Staff of Hard Rock Cafe and about 340 students from Raffles Institution and the Overseas Family School will clean part of the East Coast beach near the McDonald’s outlet.
The Nature Society (Singapore) will be building a wildlife garden at the old Bin Kiang School in Pulau Ubin.
Nature Society volunteers and 50 students from Chung Cheng High School, Temasek Junior College, Chai Chee and Commonwealth secondary schools will repair roosting boxes for bats, paint old chairs and tables and paint green messages on an abandoned pick-up in the old school’s backyard.
The Science Centre will hold a series of activities until Wednesday. The highlight is an international exhibition of 220 children’s artwork on the theme, Our Fragile Environment.
At Forum the Shopping Mall, a three-hour workshop on recycling will be held for about 100 children under the National Council of Social Service’s Shanty Programme.
The children will make photo frames from recycled materials and also toys which will later be donated to less fortunate children at the Ang Mo Kio Social Service Centre.
Source : The Straits Times 22nd Apr 1995
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