The cause is good....but seriously why must go thru' such
wayangs? 
....and of course the biggest carrot here is that 10K
prize.....without it u think anyone wud want to put thru' with
this?
Switch off aircon & fans....what humbug!
Tell people dun use hot water to bath 1st lar!
...and might as well garner more efforts to pick up
rubbishs from our parks! It's spick and span every mornings and
come the evening the parks would turn into 3-rd world ghettos
green city my LEG!!
how about gather people to repair the botak'ed turfs that
farking singaporean luv to take short cuts on despite properly
paved pavements for them to walk on!
Pick out the cig butts and tissue papers stuffed into
bushes along walkways! Where there's seats, u bound to find em!
The only way to push our locals to go green is only with $$$$$.
No $$$ NO Talk!
It's either Incentives or Fines! without either, they "choy
ley doo ong" ahhh!
PPTTUUUIIII! Sinkaporeans!
3 people spending 24 hrs in small stuffy boxes to spread
green message
By Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel
NewsAsia | Posted: 21 June 2008 2210
hrs
SINGAPORE: Try living in a hot, stuffy see-through box for
24 hours. Three Singaporeans are doing just that to spread the
green message.
They are participants of MediaCorp's 'Gaia Life Challenge', a
competition to find Singapore's most eco-friendly individual.
The box is a small Perspex house measuring 2.4 metres on all sides,
and it can get really hot in there. There is an air-condition unit
and an electric fan inside for the contestants to use if they want
to.
Contestants get 15-minute breaks every two hours, and some use them
to cool off a bit.
"Splash my face with some water and then hang around in the
coolness of the (Bugis Junction shopping) mall," said contestant
Michelle Scully, a retail executive.
It is a challenge to beat the heat, especially when one is trying
to reduce one's carbon footprint.
"I will avoid switching on the air-con, because it eats up a lot of
electricity. I'll use the fan, because it's really warm here, 35
degrees Celsius," said contestant Chin Chainn Hui, a student from
the National University of Singapore.
For the third contestant, he is going for moderation.
"I'm still going to watch the TV...but if I'm going to be outside
for quite a while, I'm going to switch off not only the TV, but at
the source as well. I'm not going to stop myself from using the
air-con when it gets too hot, but at least stay at 25 degrees
Celsius," said Marcus Tay, an environmental engineer.
The contestants have drawn curious stares from shoppers at Bugis
Junction, and MediaCorp hopes the efforts of the contestants will
inspire the public to go green.
"A lot of us would have a very vague notion that.....switching on
the air-con would be less Gaia, less friendly, less green, than
using the fan. But there's nothing more visual and more impactful
than actually living in a glass house like that," said Shaun Seow,
MediaCorp's Deputy CEO (News, Radio, Print).
Contestants will also compete in games - from sorting out
recyclables from their trash to collecting water from the nearby
fountain.
At the end of it all, one of them will leave with the grand prize
of 10,000 Singapore dollars. - CNA/ir
