Green Drinks Singapore - Nov 29. Let's go to this!
Lucy Heffern
This month, two of Singapore's most sought after eco-innovators will be speaking on sustainable living at Green Drinks. Tay Lai Hock, founder of Ground Up Initiative and M. Ibnur Rashad, founder of Sustainable Living Lab will bring their rich experience and insights into living the kampung spirit against our urban landscape.
Join us for this inspiring talk on:
Date: 29 November 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm (talk will be followed by Q&A, then mingling)
Venue: The Hub, 113 Somerset Rd (National Youth Council Academy building)
RSVP: oli...@greendrinkssingapore.com
We hope to see you there!
*On a separate note, we would like your nominations on your favourite green product(s) for 2012. For more information, please visit our website - http://sggreendrinks.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/nominate-your-top-10-green-products/
About our spreakers
Tay Lai Hock
Tay Lai Hock is the Founder and President of Ground-Up Initiative (GUI pronounced as Gee-U-Aye) – and he is best known as the Kampung Chief as he grows GUI from her humble beginning in 2008 and in Apr 2009, started building the SL Kampung at Bottle Tree Park (Yishun) with a small space of 100sqm to 1200+sqm. Without any land and funding from any source in the beginning, GUI is now ever growing with more space and more people (local and foreign) – volunteers, schools and corporations – are coming together to create greater good for humanity and care for the Earth.
Lai Hock aspires to bring more SOUL to Singapore with the community he created nearly 5 years ago, working creatively and passionately on the Hardware, Software and Heartware to inspire more to come on board and making this vision a reality.
Ibnur M. Rashad
A community-oriented ground-up innovator at the Sustainable Living Lab (SL2), Ibnur believes in governance, innovation and learning from Nature. He has worked on biochip nanofabrication and ‘invisibility cloaks’. He has also developed prototypes such as a tap sensor, antennas, filters, fruit dryers and a very cool water roller. At HDB, he worked on vertical greening and rainwater harvesting.
In 2009, Ibnur expanded his wings to Silicon Valley, where he worked at Zong, studying mobile payments, social networks and multiplayer games. He then came back to help refine innovation at Ministry of Home Affairs in Singapore. His teams have won the Daimler-UNESCO Mondialogo Engineering Award for appropriate solutions in rural India, Challenge:Future for an innovation platform prototype, and EDB-BETA for designing a health platform for 2030. He also represented Singapore at the ASEAN Youth Forum on Innovation and Creativity (AYFIC).
About Sustainable Living Lab
The Sustainable Living Lab (SL2) is a social enterprise that aims to nurture the Kampung Spirit of innovation. Striving to be the world’s most effective network of community labs in solving the sustainability challenges we face, SL2 now operates a semi-outdoor community lab and prototyping facility to help local innovators, organisations and students to serve their communities and the bottom-of-the-pyramid better. SL2 also designs and makes products using sustainable materials and closely follow fair share principles in the production of our items. Together with disadvantaged makers and craftsmen in Southeast Asia, SL2 created the iBam 2 – the world’s first electricity-free bamboo speaker for your smartphone. Featured on popular sites like CNET and TechCrunch, the iBam 2 serves to build up local capabilities in disadvantaged communities and a fair trade ecosystem strongly linked to wildlife conservation.
--I still think that we will, and we did not planned anything. GPPN is an important event for LKY, we need to be very careful. I totally agree that we should buy the cups but not doing a "campaign" right now, mainly because of time constraints. Encouraging people to use the cups is better than nothing.However, if you guys have an idea on how to implement the campaign in 3 days, pls share and we can present to gppn comm.Cheers!
Sent from my iPhoneCarol,
Old habits die hard. We are taking the first stand against plastic cups and trying to implement environmental awareness, but we are doing it gradually therefore we are keeping the plates and cutlery. As long as we state that it is a first step and that changing the culture in plastic-addicted Singapore is a challenge, I don't think we would look hypocritical.Best,RafaelOn Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Carolina Lima <caroli...@gmail.com> wrote:
le can use them if they want, but we don't need to do a campaign around that and risk to be controversial.Carol--
Rafael Barreto Souza