Go Green

With a rare opportunity, we can listen to the Guest Talk by Dr. Yu Yuen Ping William. He is the CEO of the World Green Organization, which is difference from other organization. They is not only focus on environmental, but also people’s live hood and economic. And determined to establish a sustainability environment to push and solve social problem.

After introduce their think tank, a novel topic is show on our eyes. Energy Poverty. Energy Poverty is meaning the family use 10% of their income to pay the utilities, which is a high expense. Beside economic aspect, there are two other aspect we should consider, they are social and environmental. For social aspect, poor people are easier to pay more utilities expense. They maybe turn on the air-conditioning for a long time because they have no window in the house. And they need use the natural gas, and natural gas is a high expense resource for them, so that is also relate to the economic aspect. For the environmental aspect, the poor people are lack of money to buy the energy-saving products to decrease the utilities expense. They will use rice cooker to boil water, they don’t know to use fan and air-conditioning alternately to save energy. So these three aspect are relate to each other, and we should use the social worker to teach people how to use electrical in a right way to reach the purpose of social aspect. And should find some company to invest the fund in economic way to subsidize people. And for the environmental, improve energy efficiency is the most important thing, I think everyone should take a part in this action, to saving the energy and help other people who need helps.

World Green Organization also from a programme is about water conservation called “Half Cup of Water”, that is encourage people to take a photo of who drink left half cup of water, for this reason to advocate to saving water. I think saving water can starting from our life, like don’t on the tap when you are brushing teeth, or don’t shower over 15 minutes. And we can use the water after wash rice to flush toilet.

And the food waste also is a problem of Hong Kong, everyday 3,600 tons per day. The organization is planning to form teams to advocate everybody to decrease the food waste. Like don’t eat left food, or discard the residues of vegetable. Or use the food waste in other approach, like make fertilizer, kill two birds with one stone.

After listening the talk of Dr. William, I learn a lot method to saving the energy in our life, I think this is very important for the earth, because this is our only home, we need to make good use of the resources. We should protect our home, everyone do a little force in environmental, that will be change a lot, we should implement the sustainability concept to make a wonderful life.