tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85857324823426006252024-02-21T17:54:51.632+08:00The Green Team Indonesia"Together, hand-in-hand we can balance the world"The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-35334502445448432002016-10-18T14:36:00.003+08:002016-10-18T14:36:57.126+08:00What Wildlife is All About<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi Greensters!!<br />
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My name is <b><span style="color: red;">Jeffry</span></b> and this is my first article!! 1st of all I'm gonna tell you a little bit about me. I live in Denpasar, Bali. I was born in Surabaya at the 7th December of 2000, and I am a grade 10 science student at Tunas Daud School. My hobbies include singing, drawing, gardening, cooking, and baking, my favorite subjects are English, Art, Biology, and Literature.<br />
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So, today I'm gonna talk about <b><span style="color: blue;">Wildlife.</span></b> Now, what is Wildlife? Well, according to Google, Wildlife traditionally refers to <b><span style="color: red;"><i>undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.</i></span></b> Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and even the most developed cities, and all ecosystems have distinct forms of Wildlife.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>As a lot of you may know, our number of wildlife is decreasing every single day, why? Well, because, us humans have been so selfish and taking away their homes and family by cutting down forests, trophy hunting, overfishing, etc. Mike Barratt, director of science and policy at WWF said,<span style="color: blue;"> <b><i>"We have lost one half of the animal population and knowing this is driven by human consumption, this is clearly a call to arms and we must act now."</i></b></span><br />
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So, what makes Wildlife so important?? Well, without it there we wouldn't have existed. Why?? Because, without Wildlife we would have no food, oxygen, and everything we need to survive. The oxygen we breathe is made by plants by photosynthesis, meat like fish, beef, and poultry comes from animals, the vegetables and fruits are from plants, without insects like butterflies, bees, and etc we wouldn't have fruits because, sometimes, plants need these insects to help them with pollination. So, try to imagine the world without wildlife. Scary, isn't it? Without Wildlife, the whole world would collapse. <span style="color: red;"><b>If we were to take away a species out from an ecosystem, it would make the whole ecosystem collapse.</b></span><br />
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For example, When Yellowstone National Park in the USA was created in 1872, gray wolves (Canis lupus) populations were already in decline in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The creation of the national park did not provide protection for wolves or other predators, and government predator control programs in the first decades of the 1900s essentially helped eliminate the gray wolf from Yellowstone.<br />
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Once they were gone, elk populations began to rise. Over the next few years conditions of Yellowstone National Park declined drastically. At around 1926 to 1995, the wolves were absent in the park. By this time many biologists were worried about eroding land and plants dying off. Deciduous, woody species such as aspen and cottonwood suffered from overgrazing. The park service started trapping and moving the elk, and when that was not effective, they kill them. Elk population control methods continued for more than 30 years. Elk control prevented further degradation of the range, but didn't improve its overall condition. In the late 1960s, local hunters began to complain to their congressmen that there were too few elk, and the congressmen threatened to stop funding Yellowstone. Killing elk was given up as control method which allowed elk populations to again rise. As elk populations rose, the quality of the range declined, affecting many other animals. Without wolves, coyote populations increased dramatically which adversely impacted the pronghorn antelope population. However, it was the overly large elk populations that caused the most profound changes to the ecosystem of Yellowstone with the absence of wolves. At around 1995 wolves started to be reintroduced into the park and ever since their comeback elk populations were controlled, the woody species of plants such as aspen and cottonwood were coming back and the park was starting to get better.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>One of the things that we could do to prevent our wildlife from decreasing is to stop using animal products such as leather, horns, antlers, etc. </b></span>Because those leather, horns, antlers, and tusks are from wild endangered animals like elephants, whales, deer, tigers and a whole lot of other animals.<br />
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And another way, is<b><span style="color: red;"> to not litter in biodegradable trash such as plastic on the streets and everywhere else, because, if we were to throw away all that trash on the roads, not only will the road be dirty, but the trash will end up in the sewers and then the rivers which will leads the trash to the seas and oceans</span></b>. <b><span style="color: blue;">Plastic bags are dangerous for a lot of aquatic animals, such as turtles and sunfish or mola-mola. Because, turtles and mola-mola eats jellyfish and since plastic bag kind of looks like jellyfish, they might try to eat it, choke, and they'll die.</span></b> So, please don't litter anywhere, for most of the times it will end up in the sea and hurt our sealife.<br />
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Another way, is <b><span style="color: red;">to start a garden with a good ecosystem, plants that are indigenous to your area, trees, birdhouses, butterfly feeders, and preferably a pond. </span></b>Because, by doing so you are helping some species of local species of birds, insects and other animals find food and shelter, and it is also very beautiful.<br />
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Here is a list of some of the endangered wildlife species..<br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">ANIMALS:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Blue-throated macaw</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Mola-mola/ Sun/ Moonfish</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Siamese crocodile</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Malayan tiger</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Kemp's ridley sea turtle</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Hawksbill turtle</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Javan rhino</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Vaquita</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Blue whale</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Giant panda</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">PLANTS:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Rafflesia arnoldi</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Western prairie fringed orchid</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Georgia aster</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Wiggin's acalypha </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Texas wild rice</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Howell's spectacular thelypody</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Arizona agave</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Enrubio</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Ouachita mountain goldenrod</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Stenogyne kaneohana</span></i><br />
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And the list just goes on and on and on and on. So, please.. people, nature needs our help. There have been too many species of animals and plants that are endangered, and it's mostly our fault.<br />
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I can't imagine how the world would be without wildlife. Without plants, and without animals, we would have no food and a lot of people will loose their jobs. So, please, help nature.<br />
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If someone from the government is reading this article, please do something to help, we can't do this alone.<br />
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So I guess that's it. I had so much fun writing this article!! Thank you for reading this article and have a great day!!<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Here are my sources:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Ms. Sylvie Swinkels</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">(English teacher in Tunas Daud High School)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">My own Biology notes</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">http://save-the-endangered-species.weebly.com/top-10-most-endangered-plants.html</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">https://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction%3Ddesc%26sort%3Dextinction_status&ei=0uAJv-Ok&lc=en-ID&s=1&m=169&host=www.google.co.id&ts=1472437575&sig=AKOVD66zJOlEkE2FZqOVh6TGP6BzpDx8yQ</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wolves_in_Yellowstone</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf</span></i><br />
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Best Regards,<br />
Jeffry<br />
Instagram: @treblejeff_12The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-62610439225002052022016-07-18T23:00:00.000+08:002016-07-18T23:00:01.193+08:00Sharing Love to Children with CancerDear Greensters, <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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It's me ... <b><span style="color: red;">Kezia. </span></b></div>
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<br />On June,1st 2016, I went to Sanglah Hospital. I went to the Hospital with my mom, my mom’s friends and my friends from <span style="color: blue;"><b>Green Team Indonesia</b></span>. We visited children who have cancers in there. We gave many things to them, such as dolls, snacks, money, and some crafts. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>I made the craft for them. My mom helped me. We call it 'eco-craft' because the materials we use to make the craft are from the things we didn’t use anymore. We made a pencil case out of toilet paper rolls, fabric and beads. My mom and I also decorated the envelopes we used for putting some money inside for the children. </div>
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<br />I gave my dolls to them too. We wanted to do some crafting together with the children, but the nurse said we can’t because they had to rest and they just went into some medications. So, we just went from one ward to another ward to gave them the snacks, money and dolls.<br /><br />The doctor said the dolls must be clean and must be wrapped with plastics so that the dolls are not dusty. Dust is dangerous for the children with cancers because it can trigger some disease to them. The nurses then kept the dolls in the playroom for a while.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<br /><br />There are 28 children. They are suffering from cancer such as leukemia (blood cancer), bone cancer or retinoblastoma (eye cancer). They come from unfortunate families from villages around Bali island.<br /><br />I felt happy because I can meet the children and gave them snacks, dolls, and money. I met them one by one and gave away the things we brought.<br /><br />When we visited them, even when they sick, they felt happy too. </div>
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Then, on July 4th 2016, we're back to Sanglah hospital to wrap the dolls in the playing room. We also wanted to give away a package of lunch box, mineral water and orange to the parents who accompany their children during the medications. We were focusing on the children all the time since 2012 and we never paid attention to the parents. They must be very tired, sad and need to eat. We decided to arrange the lunch boxes for the parents. It turned out really fun to see them happy. </div>
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We were surprised when we saw a 'tree of hope' in the playroom. The children wrote what they want or their prayers on a piece of paper and put on the 'tree of hope'. All of them were full of hopes to be healed from the disease they have. We do pray that all their prayers come true. </div>
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The playroom also has a small library or a reading corner. From the notes, we found out that the children love to read also. So, we will manage to bring more books for them one day.<br /><br />We share with love.<br />We should keep sharing to others for a better generations. </div>
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Note: As our respect to the children with cancer, we don't post the photos of us with them. Thank you.<br /><br /> Best Regards, </div>
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Kezia Shafira Aprilianna Putri Wibowo</div>
The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-82878458514436328152016-07-18T18:26:00.001+08:002016-07-18T23:04:17.627+08:00A Visit to Waste Bank (Part 2 - end)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Dear Greensters,<br />
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It's <b><span style="color: blue;">Sharon</span></b> again! This is the part 2 of my previous article.<br />
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I will be sharing some green tips for you guys and hopefully these tips I’m giving will be helpful for you guys later in the future. My first tip is<b><span style="color: red;"> to find a waste bank near your area,</span></b> they aren’t very branched out yet but I’m quite sure you will find a small one near, don’t give up! Or <b><span style="color: blue;">you can create your own Waste Bank with a support from a big company in your city or your country</span>.</b> These waste banks here in Indonesia are mostly supported by <b><span style="color: red;">Unilever company</span></b>. Thank you to Unilever for such a great support for our environment. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>Waste banks just need more recognition, they just stay hidden in places you don’t expect them to be. Personally I never knew waste bank existed until <b><span style="color: blue;">Green Team Indonesia</span></b> told us about a new founding that they found, waste bank.<br />
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We went to another waste bank named <b><span style="color: red;">Saranagathi Waste Bank</span></b> in another side of Ahmad Yani stree, Denpasar - Bali, Indonesia. In this waste bank, we met with the manager <span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Mr. I Made Warsa </span>and the educator Miss <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Ni Wayan Riawati </span>who were so helpful and very informative. </div>
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My second tip is <b><span style="color: red;">to not only collect papers from your house only, ask your friends or relatives that lives nearby, if your parents work in a office you can ask them spare papers they do not use anymore. </span></b>Usually, at the end of the year my mom would hand me boxes of waste paper and will ask me to rip it apart and throw it away because it was no use anymore, just if we knew that waste bank existed we wouldn’t throw out those precious papers! </div>
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My third tip is <b><span style="color: blue;">finding the right timing, papers used to lie around my room unorganized,</span></b> but after I gave out the papers to the waste bank, my room felt much more cleaner now, because this is school break, t<b><span style="color: red;">his is the perfect chance to go to the waste bank and store out your papers to them because you must have collected many past exam papers or worksheets from school. </span></b></div>
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We finally can collect 112.5 kgs of paper and we got 107,100 rupiahs in our saving account in Waste Bank. It's really a cool way to get money for our next campaigns. </div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-18696438765091160812016-07-18T17:06:00.002+08:002016-07-18T23:05:21.509+08:00A Visit to "WASTE BANK" (Part 1)Hey Greensters!<br />
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It’s <span style="color: blue;"><b>Sharon</b></span> and I want to share my experience with you guys.<br />
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Recently, some Green Team members and I went to the Waste bank. Its name is "<b><span style="color: red;">Garuda Wastu Lestari</span></b>" which is located in Ahmad Yani street in <b><span style="color: blue;">Denpasar, Bali - Indonesia</span></b>. For your information, 'waste bank' (or <b><span style="color: red;">Bank Sampah</span></b> in Indonesian language) is a place that collects our wastes that have been sorted out. The waste bank then will distribute them to handycraft persons or plastic manufacturers or other manufacturers according to their products. The waste bank is managed by some environmental volunteers and is using a system like a banking system. You deposit and 'save' your own garbage instead of money to this waste bank and you will get a saving account. It's cool! You change your trash into a cash. </div>
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I found out that they didn’t only receive papers, they receive other types of waste too. We were invited to their warehouse which was full of waste that was stored in big white bags. They had the wastes sorted out by the types. While I was strolling around the warehouse, I found out that they received plastic bottles, sachets, plastic cups and even damaged electronic appliances too but they won’t be receiving batteries because batteries are considered as residues. Other companies will take care of those residues.<br />
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They had an office where they store their already finished made products. They made school bags, tote bags and umbrellas that were mainly made out of sachets, they also had dresses that were made out of plastic bags, we also saw several bags that are made out of the lip of plastic cups that were very durable for carrying shopping items. The waste they collected will then be sent to a manufacturing company is Java then the finished products will be sent back to them again, they also provide you an app that can be installed by android called ‘BANK SAMPAH’ to check your bank account, not to mention they also have a member card. </div>
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It was such a new experience for me as I had no idea that we could get money in exchange for trash. Not only that we would be able to partake in saving the environment, we are also able to save money to be used for a greater cause, for Green Team Indonesia personally, we are thinking of using it for our bio-soap.</div>
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<b>Patricia</b> here! </div>
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I would like to fill you guys in on all the activities we have
done in the past one year. Both individually and as a whole team. We apologize for not updating our blog for a while due to our busy activities in school and our environmental activities. So, here we are again! </div>
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October 2015, we went on our annual Camping and Hiking trip, along with a new
campaign that we have started last year, <b><span style="color: red;">Forest Clean-Up</span></b>. Over 40 people joined in on last year<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">’</span>s
camping trip, making it our biggest camping trip ever. As usual, it lasted for
two days and one night. Through this camping trip, we learnt how to take care
of our environment while having fun. We sang around the bonfire and laid down
underneath the stars. We talked about life, it was pretty deep haha.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Camping isn't only fun. It also spreads awareness. It reminds us
of how beautiful the world is. It is when we can be closer to mother nature.</span></b> We
completely lost track of time. As dawn came, we realized that we hadn<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>t
slept at all. We were too busy laughing and talking nonsense all night. We
didn't even sleep inside the tent at all! We just somehow decided to sleep
outside, underneath the shining stars.<br />
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When the sun rose, we made hot chocolate and coffee for each
other and prepared for our hike up the protected forest in Mount. Melingkuh
located in Baturiti, Bali, Indonesia. It was tiring and the heat was unbearable
especially considering we didn't sleep in over 30+ hours (bad decisions I know
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When we reached the forest and during our hike up to the forest,
we collected the trash that was left behind by the previous visitors. The
result was terrible. There were 5 big sacs full of trash that we have
collected. It is our duty to keep the forest clean because if it is dirty, it
would be prone to be bought by big companies that would take it down to use for
the company<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span>s industries. </div>
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We have only started this Forest Clean Up and we are looking forward
to our next forest clean up. Visitors often throw their trash in the forest
grounds because there are no trash cans there and they feel inconvenient with
holding on to their trash. So it is our duty to make a difference and change
that. We must take care of our forests as it is the source to plenty of our
resources and it is home to a diverse range of floras and faunas. </div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Tips for you who like to go camping and hiking:</span></b></div>
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<li>I bet most of you have known about this: "bring your own trash!". It means that if you don't find any trash bins or garbage cans around you, then just brin your own trash with you till you finally find a place to throw it away. </li>
<li>Minimize your trash. It means that you can use reusable things during your camping. Bring your own bottle that you can refill, for example. </li>
<li>Always respect Mother Nature by providing garbage bins around the camping area. </li>
<li>Don't leave your trash on the area when you leave.</li>
<li>Do good for Mother Nature by arranging a Forest Clean Up. What you need to have are only gloves and some sacks to bring the trashes you will find when you hike or camp. </li>
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Remember: <b><span style="color: red;">"Together, hand in hand, we can balance the world"</span></b> and<b><span style="color: blue;"> "Spread the word of kindness".</span></b>The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-78901445831482599692015-07-14T14:54:00.000+08:002015-07-14T15:07:27.381+08:00Recyling Used Cooking Oil with Yayasan Lengis Hijau (part 2 - end)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: red;">Patricia</span></b> here! :)</div>
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I am attaching a video about our visit to <span style="color: blue;"><b>Yayasan Lengis Hijau,</b></span> a place in Denpasar - Bali to recycle used cooking oil into biodiesel. In this video, <span style="color: red;"><b>Mr. Tri Hermawan said that you should not throw away the used cooking oil,but it is better you collect and give it to the biodiesel producer like what we did</b></span>. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>In Indonesia, there are only 3 cities that have a place to recycle used cooking oil into biodiesel, such as: <b><span style="color: blue;">Jakarta, Surabaya and Denpasar</span></b>. If it is difficult to find one in your city, please read my previous article for alternative ways to "recycle" your used cooking oil. This is my previous article (just click the following to go directly to the article): <a href="http://green-t34m.blogspot.com/2015/07/recycling-used-cooking-oil-with-yayasan.html" target="_blank">Recycling Used Cooking Oil with Yayasan Lengis Hijau (part 1)</a>.<br />
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In Indonesia, there are some illegal places to recycle used cooking oil and transform it into another "new" cooking oil. Then they sell it in the local market without a brand name. We call it here as <span style="color: red;"><b>"minyak goreng curah" (bulk cooking oil). </b></span>This is very dangerous. But, we don't have power to stop this illegal thing. <span style="color: blue;"><b>What we can do is to buy only cooking oil with a brand name. Don't buy cooking oil WITHOUT a brand name. </b></span></div>
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So, <span style="color: red;"><b>let's save our planet by doing small things in your home. Don't repeat the use of cooking oil more than 3 times. Collect the used cooking oil in your home and do something to recycle it. </b></span></div>
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Let's Love Our Earth!</div>
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Thank you.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Patricia</b></span> here :) So a few days ago, my sister <b><span style="color: red;">Vanessa</span></b> and I went to <span style="color: blue;"><b>Yayasan Lengis Hijau</b></span> to give our used cooking oil so that it could be recycled into biodiesel. We have shared with you the story of our visit to this foundation last year. If you want to learn more about our visit to Yayasan Lengis Hijau and the danger of used cooking oil, please read our past articles, such as (just click the following to go directly to the articles): <a href="http://green-t34m.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-day-in-yayasan-lengis-hijau-part-1.html" target="_blank">A Day in Yayasan Lengis Hijau (part 1)</a> , <a href="http://green-t34m.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-day-in-yayasan-lengis-hijau-part-2.html" target="_blank">A Day in Yayasan Lengis Hijau (part 2)</a> and <a href="http://green-t34m.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-day-in-yayasan-lengis-hijau-interview.html" target="_blank">A Day in Yayasan Lengis Hijau: the Interview (part 3 - end)</a>. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>We all know that we should use our cooking oil up to 3 times only. If you use it many times for cooking, it will be poisonous to our body and it is certainly not good for our health. So, we choose to collect our used cooking oil and give it to Yayasan Lengis Hijau in Denpasar - Bali to be recycled into biodiesel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The receipt to record how much used cooking oil we submit</td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Tri Hermawan (Production Manager)</span></b> greeted us there. We had a very interesting chat and we got more knowledge that we would like to share with you. Here it is:<br />
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There are different types of cooking oil, such as <span style="color: blue;"><b>palm oil</b></span> (in Indonesian language: 'minyak kelapa sawit) and <span style="color: red;"><b>coconut oil</b></span> (in Indonesian language: 'minyak kelapa'). <span style="color: blue;"><b>Palm oil is best used for frying</b>,</span> not for sauteing while <span style="color: red;"><b>coconut oil is best used when you saute the food</b></span>. Why? Because palm oil has undergone a long chemical process. Although, it is better to make your own coconut oil by frying shredded coconut because if it comes from a factory, it means that it has also been processed with chemicals.<br />
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Mr. Tri suggested that <span style="color: blue;"><b>we should be back to any kind of natural food.</b></span> He gave examples such as soybeans. We should choose the yellowish local soybeans. Don't buy a bigger-size soybean that is imported from other countries. In America, a bigger-size soybean is categorized as transgenic and usually it is used for biodiesel as well as corns. Mr. Tri also gave examples to choose brown sugars rather than white sugar. Because brown sugar is more natural and it is heated for only few minutes while white sugar has undergone a long chemical process.<br />
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As you all know, water and oil does not mix. Which is why we should not pour our used cooking oil down the drain or in rivers because this could destroy the environment and cleaning it up would be hard. If your country or city does not have a place that collects used cooking oil to turn it into biodiesel, then getting rid of your used cooking oil would be hard. <b><span style="color: red;">The only thing you can do is to limit the use of cooking oil to cook your food.</span></b> Alternative ways are to bake or steam your food. But if you still utilize cooking oil and it really needs to be thrown away, <span style="color: blue;"><b>pour the cooking oil over organic trash because cooking oil is made of organic materials.</b></span> The used cooking oil could still be decomposed by the bacteria in the soil even though the process takes a long time. If it is only a small amount of used cooking oil, you can also throw it into the soil because the soil can decompose it.<br />
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<li>Collect organic trash, such as leftovers, dry leaves, eggshells etc. Put them inside the container. </li>
<li>Pour the used cooking oil over the pile of the organic trash. Add some water. </li>
<li>Stir and flip over the pile once in a while. Cover the container with the lid. </li>
<li>The compost will be ready in a month. How will you know it? It will produce heat. It means the reaction occurs. If you stir and flip over the pile and it is getting cooler, then the compost is ready for your plants. </li>
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Besides biodiesel, used cooking oil can be recycled into many other things, such as <span style="color: red;"><b>composts, soap, glycerin, biogas, bioethanol, animal feeds </b></span>and many more. <br />
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So, we submitted 3 liters of used cooking oil to Yayasan Lengis Hijau today. It is only from our home. We collect it for months because we try to limit the use of palm oil for frying food. Mr. Tri made a note on how much we submitted today and we received a receipt for that. Great!</div>
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Hi! It's <span style="color: red;"><b>Vanessa</b></span> again! So, this is the last part of the stories about my hedgehogs. As I told you earlier, I have 8 hedgehogs. I name them as <span style="color: blue;"><b>Hedgy Spice</b></span>, <span style="color: red;"><b>Norman</b></span>, <span style="color: blue;"><b>Rambutan</b></span>, <b><span style="color: red;">Durian</span></b>, <b><span style="color: blue;">Squishey Paws</span></b>, <span style="color: red;"><b>Paul</b></span>, <span style="color: blue;"><b>Nala</b></span>, and <span style="color: red;"><b>Spikey. </b></span></div>
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This is all for today. So, whatever your pets are, always take care of them with <span style="color: red;"><b>L-O-V-E</b></span>. Having pets need a <span style="color: blue;"><b>big commitment</b></span>. Please <span style="color: red;"><b>consider them as your family member</b></span> and you will never neglect them a day.</div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-14503048571219092042015-07-11T14:02:00.000+08:002015-07-11T14:02:03.955+08:00The Story of a Hedgehog: Bathing (part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi! It's me <span style="color: red;"><b>Vanessa. </b></span><br />
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I am still talking about my hedgehogs. Hedgehogs need to take a bath. This is how to do it.<br />
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<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Anti-flea shampoo</b> </span>(I bought it around 50,000 rupiahs or around US $3.8)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Anti-flea spray </b></span>(same price with the shampoo)</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Shredded wood</b></span> (I bought in the local bird market here in Denpasar. It costs around 6,000 rupiahs per package or around US $0.5). </li>
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<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Hair-dryer</b></span> to dry my hedgehogs (if needed)</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Small-size cat food</b></span> (I bought it in a pet shop around 115,000 rupiahs or around US $8.8 for 3 kilograms). </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Virbac "Wound-Gard" Antiseptic Spray (</b></span>I bought it from the Vet for around 150,000 rupiahs or around US $11.5. It is a bit expensive but it is good to treat any kind of wounds of our hedgehogs or other animals to avoid infections). <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>A strong large-size cage</b></span> (I bought it in the local bird market here in Denpasar. It costs around 125,000 rupiahs or around US $9.6)</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>A hamster drinking water</b></span> (I bought it in the local bird market here in Denpasar. It costs around 15,000 rupiahs or around US $1.2). Make sure that the water is not dripping from the bottle easily. </li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Boxes out of tetra pack liquid milk boxes </b></span>(just cut the top side, wash it and dry perfectly before you use it as sleeping boxes for your hedgehogs). </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Ceramic or glass ashtray as food container</b></span> (I bought it in a supermarket for around 3,000 rupiahs or US $0.2)</li>
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<li>Fourth, then rinse the hedgehog with clean water. Make sure the water don't get to its face! </li>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-83807360118214890342015-07-10T12:13:00.002+08:002015-07-10T12:29:26.692+08:00The Story of a Hedgehog (part 1)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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It’s me <span style="color: red;"><b>Vanessa.</b></span> It has been a while since I write anything, but anyways I'm back! Today I'm going to talk about <span style="color: blue;"><b>how to take care of hedgehogs as pets</b></span>. I have 8 hedgehogs, 2 parents and 6 kids. Now I'm going to tell you guys how to take care of hedgehogs. let’s start!<br />
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Hedgehogs cannot see clearly. They have poor eyesight. But they have a great sense of smell and hearing. So, in order for them to know you, everyday you play with them until it knows you. If not, then they will hurt you with their 5,000 spines!<br />
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When you touch it and it curls to a ball, shivers, and makes hissing noises, then it means it doesn't know you yet. It takes 2 weeks until it knows your smell and familiar with it. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The baby hedgehog is called 'Hoglet'</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>4. Always change the shredded wood in the cage.</b></span><br />
Always change the shredded wood in the cage once or twice in a week. It would be much better if you can clean its cage regularly by picking up its poops and wet shredded woods because it pees. Wear a washable rubber glove to do this or wrap your hand with a plastic bag but this means you will throw away the plastic bag or else you have to wash it also. I clean the cage twice everyday in the morning and at night. Everytime you change the shredded wood in the cage, you have to wash the cage also.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">5. According to animal facts I read, there are 17 different species of Hedgehogs. </b>My hedgehogs are <span style="color: blue;"><b>"Salt and Pepper"</b></span> and "<span style="color: red;"><b>Brown</b></span>" varieties. And they are categorized as <span style="color: blue;"><b>African Pygmy Hedgehogs.</b></span> Hedgehogs have reproductive cycle to gestation for only 35 days. They are ready to get married when they are 6 months old (but, mine was still so young that time and we didn't know it yet!).<br />
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<li><span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Put clean shredded wood in the cage. </span></li>
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a box in the cage. </span><span style="text-indent: -9pt;"><span style="color: #ce222b; font-weight: bold;">Make sure the hedgehog can
get in and out! </span>You can use the used tetra pack boxes to make this. T</span><span style="text-indent: -9pt;">he box is for sleeping and hiding (they need a dark place
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<li><span style="text-indent: -9pt;">Use a heavy bowl to put the food.</span><span style="text-indent: -9pt;"><span style="color: #ce222b; font-weight: bold;"> Make sure they can reach it! </span>I use a glass ashtray for this. </span></li>
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give too much food or else you overfeed them and they can die. They eat at night when they are awake. So, only feed them once a day at night. </span></li>
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a hamster bottle and hang it at the side of the cage. </span><b style="text-indent: -9pt;"><span style="color: #ff2600;">Make sure they can reach it!</span></b></li>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-1232173429075518172015-07-09T15:18:00.006+08:002015-07-09T15:18:55.542+08:00Plowing the Paddy FieldHi Greensters!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<br /><br />Long time no see. It’s been a while since I wrote an article. This is Shirley by the way. So I wanted to talked about my experience going the the paddy field to plant rice and plow it too. <br /><br /><a name='more'></a>Recently, I went to a camp in <b><span style="color: blue;">Klaten, Central Java,</span></b> Indonesia. There, I did lots of different kinds of activities and one of them was going into the paddy field. So after we went trekking, we went to the paddy field. As soon as I went in, I felt like that I was stepping on poo (*sorry to say that *). It felt really mushy and I had to be careful in order not to fall into it. <br /><br />I started by planting rice, it was actually quite easy since that I already experienced planting rice a few years back in Bali. But, I’ve never tried plowing the field. The only thing that we had to do was to sit on a wood and control the way which the cow is going to. The area that I was going to sit in was quite small so there was a slight chance that I was going to fall into the water. I had to sit in a certain position so that my back didn’t hurt. But overall it was a pretty nice experience though I was reluctant to do it at first.<div>
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Rice is the major source of food for most people in Indonesia, as well as Asian countries. The plants need <span style="color: red;"><b>plenty of water and sunlight</b></span>. The island I live (Bali island) is famous with <span style="color: blue;"><b>Subak irrigation system</b></span> in its paddy fields. Indonesia has many rain falls. So, the paddy fields can be harvested 3 to 4 times in a year. The scientific name for rice is <b><span style="color: red;">Oryza Sativa</span></b> or Asian rice.<br /><br />So, let's go green and preserve paddies fields. We don't want to be unable to find any paddies fields in the next 20 years, do we? <br /><br />Thanks for reading. <br /><br />Best Regards,<br /><br /><div>
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A few days ago when I was in an event with Surfergirl and Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, I held a workshop with them and also with <span style="color: blue;"><b>Bintang Felinia</b></span> (Surfer Girl's Green Ambassador for the years 2014-2015. I made a <span style="color: red;"><b>terrarium</b></span> while Bintang made recycled paper. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>Now what is a terrarium? <b><span style="color: red;">Terrarium is the art of planting in a transparent plastic or glass container.</span></b> This art of planting was first introduced to us humans by <span style="color: blue;"><b>Nathaniel Bashaw Ward</b></span> in his book called <i>‘On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases’</i> that was published in the year 1842.<br />
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1 transparent plastic or glass container<br />
1 cactus (or any other plants that don't need that much sunlight)<br />
Coloured pebbles for decoration<br />
Charcoal, mash it roughly<br />
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<li>On top of the gravel, place some charcoal. It is used to absorb poison that is given out by withering plants so that it would keep the plant healthy and your terrarium clean.</li>
<li>Above the charcoal, you can layer it with coloured stones to make your terrarium look pretty and attractive.Above that, add a little bit of soil first, then plant the cactus that has already been cleaned in step one and then you add more soil until it is half the height of the container.</li>
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Easy right? Just remember, use a plant that doesn't need that much sunlight such as <span style="color: red;"><b>cactus, aloe vera, sirih gading (English: Devil's Ivy), small palms</b></span> and lots more. It’s good to <span style="color: blue;"><b>put it out in the sun once a week</b></span> if you want your plant to look super fresh and healthy. <span style="color: red;"><b>Once a week, spray your terrarium on its edges with water so that your plant can get enough nutrition for it to grow.</b></span> Don't over water it though because that could cause your plant to wither and die. If your home has an air conditioner in it, make sure you water your terrarium more often because the coldness can dry out your plant. <br />
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For more craft ideas and if you live in Indonesia, you can read one of our books titled <span style="color: red;"><b>'Craftpreneur Junior: Serunya Menghasilkan Uang dari Kerajinan Tangan" (How to earn money from crafting). </b></span></div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-76446784906688509732015-06-29T21:49:00.001+08:002015-07-12T14:32:19.615+08:00Surfer Girl & Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara: Orang Utan (part 2)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Patricia</span></b> here :) This is the second part of the previous article about the coral reefs. As mentioned earlier, we went to an event held by <b style="color: blue;">Surfer Girl </b>and <b style="color: red;">The Nature Conservancy (TNC)</b><b style="color: red;">. </b>In Indonesia, TNC comes with the name of <span style="color: blue;"><b>Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara (YKAN). </b></span>They talked about small things we can do to help them to protect endangered animals around us.<br />
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Many unique facts about Orang Utan. <b><span style="color: blue;">Orang utan’s DNA structure is almost the same of humans</span></b>. 97% the same to be exact. Orang utans are mammals. They are threatened by wood choppers, hunters, forest fires and humans switch the functions of forests. Forests now are used for farming palm trees or rubber trees. This actions can take Orang Utan out of their own habitats. YKAN Foundation also has an office in Berau (East Kalimantan) to manage Orang utan's habibats so that they are not extinct. </div>
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The current population of Orang Utans are in the range of 40,000 - 50,000 animals in Kalimantan and Sumatra. Only research shows this. The rest are in Malaysia, while 80% of populations are in Indonesia. There’s only 2 countries that has Orang Utans: <span style="color: red;"><b>Indonesia and Malaysia</b></span>. Orang utans breast feed their babies until they are 6 years old then they separate from their mom and find their own house at 16 years old. Their favorite food is Durian. There is a certain kind of Durian named <span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: blue;">Durian Lai. </b>This durian can be found in Berau (East Kalimantan). It has an orange color in the inside. Orang utans loves to it this durian.</span></div>
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Thank you to Surfer Girl, YKAN, Mr. Jaka Setia and Miss Sutra Anjani. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>On June 26th, 2015 we went to a Surfer Girl event. This was one of the campaigns held by Surfer Girl and <b style="color: blue;">The Nature Conservancy (TNC) </b>to protect endangered animals, such as Orang Utan, Anoa, Slow Loris, elephant, Sumatran Tiger, Javan Rhino, Shark, hornbill, Cendrawasih bird and some more. The event took place at Kuta beach. Oh by the way, TNC in Indonesia comes with the name of <span style="color: red;"><b>Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara (YKAN). </b></span><br />
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After half-an-hour of beach clean up (we found so many cigarette stubs and of course: plastics!!!), <b style="color: blue;">Mr. Jaka Setia</b><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">from YKAN explained about the foundation. So, YKAN </span>is a foundation that conserves nature. They have been here since 25 years ago. They’re based in America.They first came to the centre of Sulawesi then came to Bali, Komodo Island, Nusa Penida, Derawan island, Wakatobi and Raja Ampat.<br />
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By the way, Mr. Jaka explained a bit about Nusa Penida. This is a small island close to Bali island. The unique thing about this island that no other islands have is that there is a typical endemic animal around the island named <b style="color: red;">Mola-Mola. </b>Its English name is <b style="color: blue;">Ocean Sunfish. </b>Don't be surprised because this fish has 5 meters in diameter and categorized as the heaviest known body fish in the world (it can exceed 1,000 kilograms!).<br />
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Then, we had a talking session with their marine biologist named <b><span style="color: blue;">Ms. Sutra Anjani.</span></b> She talked about <span style="color: red;"><b>coral reefs and the different animals living there</b></span>. The coral reef is a habitat to a lot of marine animals which makes them very important. <b><span style="color: red;">Coral reef is an animal</span></b> itself which gives another reason to why it is important. It is a community where lots of marine organisms gather. There are algae, fish, crabs and many more. <b><span style="color: blue;">You only can find corals where the water is shallow because it needs sunlight to grow.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Corals are found only in tropical places or in seas where the temperature is warm. T</b></span>here are lots of animals who have a relationship with these corals such as the Mola-Mola fish.<span style="color: blue;"><i> </i><b>The Mola-Mola fish migrates to the coral reef area and the small marine animals that live in the corals will clean off the parasites that sticks on the Mola-Mola’s skin.</b></span> They have to get rid of the parasites because parasites aren't good for them. If there’s too much parasites, the fish will get sick. <span style="color: red;"><b>Manta rays</b></span> also comes to the coral reef to get ‘cleaned up’. Other animals that live in the coral reefs are turtles because they find food there. Marine mammals also come here (for example: the manatee).<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Corals affect on us and for its surroundings are to filter out the dirty water such as the acid from farmer’s fertilisers.</b></span> Corals will filter the water so that it is much healthier for the marine animals to live in. Healthier water, more fish will live there. <span style="color: red;"><b>Corals can act as a shield to the coastal area shores from being damaged by breaking the big waves.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Corals can be damaged by getting hit by big waves, fish bombs, plastics and many more</span></b>. Plactics can give out chemicals when decomposing in the sea and can pollute the water. Plastics can also prevent corals from getting sunlight which makes it die easily. Plastics are also dangerous to marine animals such as the Mola-Mola because the Mola-Mola eats jellyfish and what else looks like a jellyfish? That’s right: <span style="color: red;"><b>P-L-A-S-T-I-C</b></span>! The Mola-Mola fish will think that these plastics are jellyfish and will feed on them and choke.<br />
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Corals are also mined for decorations and also to get fish. Fishermen nowadays still use fish bombing which damages the corals. They poison the fish with potassium so that the fish will faint and will be easy to grab but this is bad for us humans because we eat these fishes which means we are eating the poison.<br />
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Did you guys know that <b><span style="color: blue;">Manta Rays are actually not that dangerous</span></b>? This plankton eater is still a wild animal who though so you should still be careful when you see one. Around its body,<span style="color: red;"><b> there’s slime that coats its outer body and prevents bacteria from damaging its health.</b></span> If these slimes are gone, even just a part, this will make the manta rays get infections easily. So don't touch them!<br />
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Patricia Cornelia xx</div>
The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-63187026703896467992015-06-27T15:52:00.002+08:002015-07-10T11:19:35.487+08:00The Blanco Renaissance Museum and Bali Starling<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Last week, The Green Team Indonesia went to <b><span style="color: red;">The Blanco Renaissance Museum</span></b> to give our books titled as ‘<b><span style="color: blue;">Craftpreneur Junior: Serunya Menghasilkan Uang dari Dapur’ (<i>How to earn money from your kitchen)</i></span></b> and <b>‘<span style="color: purple;">Chefpreneur Junior: Serunya Menghasilkan Uang dari Kerajinan Tangan’ (<i>How to earn money from crafting)</i></span></b><span style="color: purple;"> </span>because <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Mario Blanco</span> </b>was one of endorsers for the books.<br />
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He invited us to his father’s museum in which he has inherited. This Museum was built by <span style="color: red;"><b>Don Antonio Blanco</b></span> himself. Don Antonio Blanco was a Spanish painter who was born in the Philippines and was an American Citizen. He first came to Bali long ago in search of Paradise. Back then, Singaraja was our capital city. He met the deputy governor who brought him to Ubud.<br />
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Back then, ladies in Bali were bare chested, which meant that they were only covered till just below their breasts. <span style="color: red;">Don Antonio Blanco</span> wanted to preserve the culture of Bali. People who visit the museum now a days get rather negative once they see these paintings even before their guide explains the real meaning behind each painting, which is a shame really. Don Antonio Blanco never meant for these paintings to be some sort of pervertedness. He wanted to show the world the different cultures we have here and that you cannot find it anywhere else. <br />
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Back to last week, once we got to the museum, <span style="color: red;"><b>Mr. Mario Blanco</b></span> greeted us warmly. He told us about the different kind of birds they take care of there. Mr. Mario Blanco owns 205 <b><span style="color: blue;">‘Jalak Bali’</span></b> or more known as<span style="color: blue;"><b> the Bali Starling</b></span>. He told one of his staff to take us around so that we could see the Bali Starling. Their eggs takes 14 days to hatch and after 7 days, they take them and put them in the incubator. After about 40 days. they keep them in a small cage. 4 months later, they’re moved into a big cage.<br />
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Mr. Mario Blanco has a breeding permit and a distribution license in our country so he owns them legally. If you want to have a Bali Starling, all you need to have is a cage and the ability to take care of it because the Bali Starling is already very very endangered and is super close to extinction. You need to have a hobby of being with these birds and take care of them with passion. The cage is easy to get, or if you cannot get it, you can make it. The cage is made of plywood in the size 25x25x30. Young coconut leaf (called <b><span style="color: blue;">Janur</span></b> in Bali) is cut and the birds will make their own nests out of it.<br />
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It’s really easy to differentiate the male Bali starling from the female ones. The male’s crest is longer than the female ones. This Bali Starling in the museum was taken from Solo, Java island. Most of them are in Negara, Bali and some are kept in the Taman Nasional Bali Barat (West Bali National Park). For now, we don't know yet how long a Bali Starling can live up to but so far, one of the Bali Starling in the museum is 16 years old. How can you spot a Bali Starling? That’s easy! <span style="color: blue;"><b>They have blue eyes and white feathers.</b></span> They eat chicken feed and crickets, easy to find. <br />
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After the Bali Starlings, we saw other birds such as peacocks, hornbills and chickens and many more. You could even take pictures with parrots and hornbills. Then, they took us to see the museum. At the entrance to the museum, there are two huge dragon statues at each sides of the stairs. These dragon statues represent guards to the museum. It is a Balinese, Chinese, Spanish, Muslim and other concepts combined into one. Their logo is very creative. <span style="color: red;"><b>It is Don Antonio Blanco’s signature being folded and then opened again on a piece of paper so it mirrors one another which actually looked like a sitting and meditating person</b></span>. Sometimes it also looks like a woman figure. </div>
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Once you enter the museum, you’ll be greeted by a portrait of Don Antonio Blanco. You can only take picture with the portrait. You are prohibited to take pictures of the collections and inside the museum. When you go around it, you can see four pillars, representing his four children. The museum contains 150 of Don Antonio Blanco’s works, not only paintings but also poems and collages. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When Michael Jackson visited Mr. Blanco</td></tr>
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After an hour tour of the museum, we had lunch at the <b style="color: red;">Rondji Restaurant </b>managed by <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Mario Blanc</span>o </b>and his family. It was an awesome as well as inspiring day for us. </div>
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Special thanks to <b>Mr. Mario Blanco </b>and <b>miss Agustine </b>for the friendliness. </div>
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Greensters, thank you for reading and i hope you have a great day!<br />
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If you want to visit the museum, the location is :</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The Blanco Renaissance Museum</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Jalan Raya Penestanan</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Ubud - Bali </b></span></div>
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Love,<br />
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Patricia Cornelia<br />
Surfer Girl's Green Ambassador 2012-2014<br />
Founder of Green Team Indonesia<br />
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-37804635479149966822015-06-27T14:18:00.000+08:002015-06-27T14:18:13.821+08:00Receiving the "2014 International Young Eco-Hero Awards"Dear Greensters,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honorable Mention - 2014 International Young Eco-Hero Awards</td></tr>
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It is actually a late post about one of our achievements to date. We would like to notify you that we (<b>Patricia and Vanessa</b>) were awarded as ones of the young people to receive "<b>2014 International Young Eco-Hero Awards"</b> from <b>Action for Nature</b>, an International non-profit organization based on San Francisco - USA. This organization was founded by Mr. Shimon Schwarzschild, an environmental activist, in 1984.<br />
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Thank you very much, Action for Nature!<br />
Thank you so much, Miss Beryl Kay for interviewing us although we were late in replying back to you.<br />
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Thank you for all members of Green Team Indonesia.<br />
Never be afraid of dreaming because dreams do come true with our efforts and persistence!<br />
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To learn more about <b>Action for Nature, </b>please visit their website at: actionfornature.org .<br />
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Let's spread the word of KINDNESS to the world.<br />
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Best Regards,<br />
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Patricia and VanessaThe Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-55838052531037147662015-06-27T13:12:00.003+08:002015-07-02T22:19:24.114+08:00Volunteering: The School for Deaf Children (Part 2 - end)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Visiting a school for deaf children was one of our inspiring moments. We make friends with them. They are so clever. In one video, you can watch how Mrs. Dede (the teacher) greeted us with "today, let's learn together" and "thank you" in a sign language.<br />
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The second video: you can watch the pantomime performed by Deni Aristian. He won a pantomime competition months ago. Congrats, Deni!<br />
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The third video: Gresya Sinaga performed 'Peacock Dance' very beautifully. She won many dance competitions so far. She can't hear the music but she dances with her heart! Awesome! Congrats, Gresya.<br />
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The fourth video: It is me! I can say 'nama saya Javier' in a sign language.<br />
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Thank you for watching.<br />
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Best Regards,<br />
Javier<br />
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It's me <b><span style="color: red;">Javier. </span></b> A couple of months ago, we went to a special school that is for people who cannot talk. They also cannot hear well. Both disabilities make them cannot speak well. They use a sign language when they communicate to each other. The name of the school is <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">SLB-B Jimbaran - Bali. </span>The school was opened since May 7th, 1984.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Although they cannot hear and speak well, they still need to learn oral language because not all people can use or understand sign language. If we want to talk to them, we need to speak really slowly to make them understand because they "read" the movements of our lips in speaking. Some of them wear hearing aids in their ears so that they still can hear a bit.<br />
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We learn that usually they cannot hear since they were babies. Please note that <span style="color: red;"><b>characteristic of babies who cannot hear are they don't answer when people call them and they always keep quite all the time. </b></span><br />
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<b>Tips to prevent us from deafness:</b><br />
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<li>Be careful when you clean your ears. Don't push the cotton bud too deep inside the ears. But, clean your ears every week so that the holes are not full with earwax. </li>
<li>See ENT doctor regulary every 1 - 3 months for checking up. ENT stands for <b>Ear - Nose - Throat.</b> In Indonesia, it is called <b>'dokter THT'</b> or '<b>dokter Telinga - Hidung - Tenggorokan'.</b></li>
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We went to the school to learn sign language so that we can communicate with them. We also learn some shortcuts for sign language, for example: I, you, together, thank you and much more. It took only half an hour for us to almost master the sign language. You only need to remember and practice it regularly.<br />
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It was also a time to say goodbye to Valerie who moves to Malang city in Java island.<br />
Thank you very much for all participation, Valerie.<br />
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We had fun and made new friends with those students in SLB-B Jimbaran.<br />
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Javier<br />
<br />The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-53171006969372827032014-08-25T14:48:00.002+08:002014-08-25T14:48:52.262+08:00The Green Island: Preparing the Coral Reefs (part 3 - end)<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is how the preparation before we planted the coral reefs. We have to provide substrates first. Substrates are a kind of media to grow the coral reefs. The materials are simple, such as: sand, cement, tile grout and small PVC pipes which you install in a concrete. It take a couple of hours to make the substrates dry. Then, we write our names on a piece of water-resistant paper with a permanent marker to stick into a piece of coral inside the substrate. Then, it's ready to be planted under the sea in the depth of 5 to 10 meters.<br />
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Best Regards,<br />
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Patricia Cornelia<br />
Surfer Girl's Green Ambassador 2012 - 2014<br />
Founder of the Green Team Indonesia</div>
The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-25736489153689463622014-06-19T00:37:00.000+08:002014-06-19T00:37:11.070+08:00The Green Island: Photo Gallery (part 2)Dear Greensters,<br />
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A memorable moment at <span style="color: red;"><b>The Green Island floating dock of Serangan Island - Bali.</b></span> Let's check our photo gallery of today taken by our mentor <b><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Dewa Gede Agung Dharmayasa. </span></b><br />
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We can adopt <b><span style="color: red;">seahorses</span></b> there. Adopting seahorses does not mean you take the beautiful creatures home. But, you release them back to the sea to their natural habitat. They should be at leats 8 months old to be released to the sea.<br />
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Before, fishermen caught and kill these<b><span style="color: red;"> black-tip reef sharks </span></b>because fishermen think these unique creatures disturb the area of fishing. The actual threat to this kind of sharks are us: humans!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Green sea turtle</b></span> is an endangered species now. Its scientific name is <span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">Chelonia Mydas. </span>Although they are turtles, but their heads cannot retract into their bodies like common turtles.<br />
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Corals are the home for most of marine animals, like crabs, small fishes, jellyfish, sponges and many more. Healthy coral reefs means healthy water because they are signs of water quality in that area.<br />
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Starfish cannot swim. They are spiny skinned sea urchins (echinoderms). Most of them have spiky shells to protect them.<br />
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Best Regards,<div>
Vanessa Monica</div>
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Co-founder of the Green Team Indonesia</div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-51101082758683407662014-06-19T00:02:00.001+08:002014-06-19T00:02:15.403+08:00The Green Island: Planting the Coral Reefs (part 1)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Coral</span></b>, a very colorful animal that has interesting facts. Corals are very interesting and made <b><span style="color: blue;">The Green Team Indonesia </span></b>wanted to know more about it. </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><a name='more'></a>The Green Island</b></span> is a perfect place to know about the corals. <span style="color: blue;"><b>Mr. Wayan</b></span> is the guide. He told us some facts about the corals. <span style="color: red;"><b>Corals are animals, not plants.</b></span> Corals can be cut into small pieces, but some parts aren't allowed to be cut. <span style="color: blue;"><b>Corals grow 0.5 - 1 cm every month</b></span>. After 15 minutes without sea water, corals get stressed and give away saliva that marked the time when it needs water. Small sea creatures live in corals such as small fish, prawns and other creatures. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: red;">The Green Team</span></b> had 1 coral for each member to be planted under the sea. Most members went snorkeling under the sea to plant their corals. The corals contain our names. After some few months we could check out our corals and see how it grows. Our names will still be visible.<br /><br /><br />Not just corals, <span style="color: blue;"><b>The Green Island</b></span> also contain <b><span style="color: red;">seahorses, sharks, turtles and fish</span></b>. Seahorses also have interesting facts. Seahorses are different from other animals.<span style="color: blue;"><b> The male seahorses are the ones that are pregnant</b></span>. Each time they are pregnant, theycontain around <span style="color: red;"><b>100 eggs</b></span>, but the chances of it living is 10%. <span style="color: blue;"><b>Seahorses can stay without sea water for 5 minutes.</b></span> We took photos with the seahorses and the corals.<br /><br />This has been a very fun and educational day. Especially the moments when something fun happens such as the moments when we feed the sharks, see turtles and starfish and the time <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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when we play. Very strange moment happened, <span style="color: red;"><b>fish from their pond were jumping everywhere</b></span>. It was very weird because it has been the first time they saw this moment happening. The Green Team had a memorable day. We will always visit places that will help us to know more about the environment.</div>
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<li><b><span style="color: red;">The Green Island</span> </b>is a floating dock located in <b style="color: blue;">Serangan Island (Bali). </b>It is managed by fishermen under the team of '<span style="color: red;"><b>Kelompok Nelayan Karya Segara</b></span>' with <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Wayan Logo</span></b> as the leader. </li>
<li>Thanks to our mentor <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Dewa Gede Agung Dharmayasa</span></b> for the nice photos. </li>
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Hillary Elizabeth Kristanto</div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-39205246690511408902014-06-17T12:24:00.001+08:002014-06-17T12:24:11.072+08:00A Letter from President of TGTI: Chloe Carissa PutriDear Greensters,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi, my name is <b><span style="color: red;">Chloe</span></b> and I am the President of the Green Team for 2014 - 2015.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><b>Green Team </b></span>is a group that does good things for the Earth. Well, not only the Earth but for everyone else. Green Team to me is like a part of my life already. Everything that we do is like our routine. Sometimes, I feel really grateful for helping the Earth to grow better and helping others-in-need. Even though we sometimes do something we don’t like, at the end we’re always happy to have the chance of making a better future.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>I joined Green Team because of the activities that they do. It actually amazed me and made me want to join the Green Team. We started from small things to save the Earth. But now, we had a lot of improvements. From a very small chance of being able to help the Earth to a really big chance of being able to make the Earth a better place. It needs a lot of hard-work and commitment to do it, but I believe it can come true if we do it together and by hand-in-hand.<br /><br />It is an honor for me to have a chance of being the <b><span style="color: blue;">President of the Green Team</span></b>. I will do my best to try and help the Green Team to reach their higher state of being able to save the Earth and help others-in-need. </div>
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<br />Please join Green Team and follow our blog for more information and there will be more excitements to come! I hope this blog and our activities can inspire us all to do the same or much better than these. Always remember that small things will have great impacts if we do it together with heart. </div>
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Thank You! :)</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Chloe Carissa Putri</b></span></div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-48410329388260734482014-06-15T17:47:00.003+08:002014-06-15T17:49:55.315+08:00Vanessa's Essay in 'Collective Biodiversity Map' of Tunza-Ecogeneration & UNEP<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This is <b><span style="color: red;">Vanessa! </span></b></div>
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I am so happy because I found so many frogs in my garden. There are 'green frogs' and bigger frogs. So, I wrote about one of them which is a river toad called <b><span style="color: red;">'Bangkong River Toad</span></b>'. In Indonesian language, it is called '<span style="color: red;"><b>Kodok Bangkong Sungai'.</b></span> I sent the photo and the essay about this Bangkong River Toad to <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Tunza-ecogeneration & UNEP</span></b> for their monthly event of May 2014. The title of the competition is <b><span style="color: red;">"Collective Intelligence Project: Our Neighborhood World Biodiversity Project".</span></b> The event was to celebrate <span style="color: blue;"><b>International Day for Biological Diversity.</b></span> We just need to submit photos and essays about endangered-to-extinction species in our country. So, I sent this Bangkong River Toad. I found it was hiding under the shrubs of my Turmeric plants. I didn't win the competition, but I am happy because <span style="color: red;"><b>Tunza-Ecogeneration & UNEP included the photo and essay I sent in their 'Biodiversity Map'. </b></span></div>
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they have an important role to our environment. <span style="color: red;"><b>They can predict the rain and they eat mosquitoes / bugs / insects / flies</b></span>. I also heard that toads are very sensitive to the environment. <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">They breath through their skins. So, I think our garden is healthy because I still find many toads around</span></b>. It means there is no pollution in my garden. It also means I don't use any chemicals in my garden. </div>
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Thank you for reading.<br />
Thank you, <span style="color: red;"><b>Tunza-Ecogeneration & UNEP. </b></span><br />
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Vanessa Monica</div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-87681915197533446982014-06-15T16:12:00.001+08:002014-06-15T16:13:46.409+08:00A Day in 'Yayasan Lengis Hijau': The Interview (part 3 - end)<div style="text-align: center;">
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It was fun and interesting to visit '<b style="color: red;">Yayasan Lengis Hijau</b>'. For us, technology can help us a lot, but technology is also ruining our beautiful Earth. Including the technology of creating cooking oil. Cooking oil is one of the important ingredients for cooking. But, if we don't use it wisely and properly, it can create diseases to ourselves and harm our planet. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>This is one of the best ways that people can do to save the Earth by recycling the used cooking oil into biodiesels. But, it still needs a lot of hard work to do. And without the help of others and community, the mission to save our Earth and to be healthy is really hard to achieve. It must come from ourselves. <span style="color: red;"><b>Don't use cooking oils more than 3 times and don't dispose it on the ground or in the sink.</b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: blue;">If you can find a collecting point of used cooking oil in your city or community, that would be very helpful. But, if not, then all you can do is to put the used cooking oil in a plastic bag, close it tightly and put in the trash bin. This way, you don't poison the Earth by throwing it directly on the ground. </span></b></div>
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I hope that more and more people like 'Yayasan Lengis Hijau' will do the same with the help of government. But most of all, <span style="color: red;"><b>just start it from small: our own family</b></span>. </div>
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To understand more about this, please watch the video of interview between <b><span style="color: red;">Kirana Putri Kusnadi</span> </b>and <span style="color: blue;"><b>Mr. Endra / Mr. Tri of 'Yayasan Lengis Hijau'. </b></span></div>
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Thank you. </div>
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Let's Love Our Earth!</div>
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The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732482342600625.post-77006008524541572042014-06-15T15:54:00.000+08:002014-06-15T15:55:53.392+08:00A Day in 'Yayasan Lengis Hijau' (part 2)Dear Greensters,<br />
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Hi! It's <span style="color: red;"><b>Sharon</b></span>!<br />
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Today, I will tell you guys tips on how to use cooking oil properly. We got lots of knowledge from <b><span style="color: red;">Yayasan Lengis Hijau</span> </b>that we visited few days ago. Thank you to <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Endra Setyawan</span> </b>and <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Tri Hermawan</span> </b>for the useful information.<br />
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<li><b><span style="color: blue;">Using the same cooking oil 3 times in maximal :</span></b> It is much more better and healthier to use the cooking oil 3 times in maximal, because when you use it many times it will become dirty and unhealthy for your body and it contains toxins already. The toxins may cause degenerative diseases like cancer. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Avoid disposing the waste cooking oil to the ground </b></span>: Waste cooking oil have dirt or sorts of poison in them. So, if you disposed it to the ground,the ground will be poisoned and when you plant fruits or vegetable, the result will be a poison also and when you eat it you will be poisoned too.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">Avoid disposing to the rubbish bin </span></b>: When you dispose the waste cooking il to the rubbish bin, the cooking oil will also end up to the ground.</li>
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Avoid disposing to your sink</b></span> : When used cooking oils dry, it will become solid and when it becomes solid your sink will be clogged and it will also be broken.</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Store your cooking oil in a proper place:</b> </span>Close the cap tightly and store it in a cool and dark place. Direct sunlight can accelerate the breakdown process.</li>
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Make sure to heat the oil before frying your food:</b> </span>so that the frying process is not taking so long. Don't fry your food too long because the longer you heat the oil, it will produce chemicals that are poisonous. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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(grade 6 student)The Green Team Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430224679834970271noreply@blogger.com0