This project is about raising awareness of our environmental problems through music, more specifically a CD album that consists of songs that have an environmental theme. Each song is centered on a specific environmental problem, namely – deforestation, global warming, water pollution, and also about the consequences of our irresponsible actions and music is a universal language and has a big outreach, we used it as a medium to bring our thoughts and hopes for our environment to the people. (Remember Live Earth?).

This album contains 5 songs, each focusing on different problems of our environment. They are fully self-composed songs with self-written lyrics and compiled into a self-made album. From writing the lyrics to composing the music to recording the CD, we have enhanced our knowledge and understanding of our environment and dying planet.

Track 1 – The World is Dying. This is a piece which highlights the severity of Global warming and its impact on the environment. It shows how humans are destroying the environment around us (for example cutting trees) and also highlighted some solutions to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted such as taking public transport.

Track 2 – Save the Trees. It emphasizes the importance of us taking initiative and actually saving the trees and keeping our ecology.

Track 3 – The Great Web of Lift. It is the issue of The Species Extinction / Loss of Biodiversity, General, this song emphasises that life is all interconnected, and the delicate balance that connects the great web of life is hanging precariously now. Hence, we must not upset the delicate balance by our destructive actions, as firstly, it would bring about great devastation to the ecology of the earth, and then, we would suffer as we too, are connected to this food chain.

Track 4 – Pollution! The song focusing more on the sea. Water pollution is a drastic problem that we are facing at the moment and this pollution such as oil leakage has affected the marine creatures and has also turned the waters from blue in colour, to brown and maybe black.

Track 5 – In A Hundred Years. This last song brings the environmental problems that we are creating closer to listeners’ hearts, by emphasising that we are killing our own descendants. Rhetorical questions are used to great effect in both verses and chorus, hopefully leaving listeners’ with a final lasting impression and inspiring them to act quickly.

We hope that those who have listened to the album will be able to understand how important the environment is to us, and how we can solve these problems. Throughout the course of the project, even we have learnt a lot about our Earth.

Extracting the vegetable juice and planting vegetable is not expensive, these are the items needed:

1. Blender $40 or below
2. Seeds $10
3. Container for germinating used styrofoam or plastic containers seeds from hawkers
4. Cloth for filter use old tee shirts
5. Containers for store juices used box such as ice creams etc…

We have also designed a simple flyer to educate people of reusing unwanted vegetable. We hope to make it a Community Involvement Project for our school and our neighbourhood to educate them on reusing vegetable waste and thus reducing vegetable waste.

Our project is about developing a prototype of a water purification system that is portable, cost effective, and efficient in getting rid of bacteria and suspended solids from raw water that must not contain chemicals exceeding allowable limit for human consumption. We made use of disposable materials, sand filters and a micro-filter, while ensuring that no energy was involved in the procedure so that it would be easy to us. To remove the remaining bacteria smaller than 5 micron, the users can boil it or use solar boiling – leave it to the sun radiation and heat to kill the bacteria. Bacteria and turbidity tests conducted in the laboratory reflects our success in satisfying the minimum water drinking standards.

wEAR.TH stands for wear earth. The purpose is to investigate the various means to increase environmental Awareness, such as using T-shirts and accessories as mediums. Firstly, we researched on design techniques that others have used to convey their messages effectively, and environmental problems that Singapore is currently facing or is likely to face in the near future. Following our research, we embarked on the designing of original T-shirts and accessories with environmental messages in them. Finally, our action plan includes setting up a blog and an apparel line focusing on spreading environmental awareness in collaboration with an environmental organisation in Singapore.

We have some supply of ceramics tiles and glass bottles from our friends and teachers, and it is with this that we use it to make our concrete. We depend on the internet and trial and error to guide us on how to make concrete using cement and aggregate from recyclable materials. We have sort of mastered this skill through trial and error. We manage to make quite strong concrete but most of it is quite not as strong due to time allowed for them to dry. The moulds we use to make concrete blocks are crude and are made of waste wood from our Design and Technical workshop.

After we have did what we could in this project we felt we could have done certain things better using proper equipment. But nevertheless we felt quite sure that glass and ceramics definitely can be a good substitute for granite in some situations like making floorings and pavement walks. We hope by doing this project it will encourage others to experiment with concrete in a proper way using proper tools and making breakthroughs in using recycled materials in concrete making.

Trace amounts of some heavy metals is essential to living organisms. However, excessive levels or accumulation over time of heavy metals in the bodies of mammals is detrimental to their health. Hence through this study, orange peels were chemically modified to yield different bioadabsorbers and their biosorption of three metal ions investigated. The effect of pH on biosorption and the efficiency of a prototype made from the bioadabsorbents in removing heavy metals were also investigated. Biosorption was found to be pH dependent. With pH adjusted to 6, most of the chemically modified orange peels showed better ability to remove the three metal ions than the untreated orange peels. The prototype made was also effective in removing all the three metal ions. The bioadsorbents made from orange peels showed great promise in removing heavy metal ions from waste water.

Mangrove forests in Singapore have been facing an increasing threat of depletion due to the factors arising from human development, such as pollution and shore like erosion. Greater media visibility has emphasized the significance of mangroves in protecting the environment, hence bringing about increased mangrove reforestation and preservation efforts. However, reforestation efforts to date have been largely in successful. Thus, we plan to develop a feasible and sustainable and reproducible system of planting mangrove (specifically Avicennia Alba) seeds to aid reforestation efforts such that the germination rate of the seeds will increase, thus improving the success rate of future reforestation efforts.

We intend to convert water hyacinth into paper. The idea came about when we noticed our school pond was choking with water hyacinth and they have to be hauled up to the side of the pond to dry before being disposed. Thus, we decided to make good use of the water plants and convert them into paper rather than leaving it as an environmental waste.

In our experiments, water hyacinth was collected from the school pond, blended into pulp, and treat it with chemicals before turning it into a slurry pulp. The slurry was then spread thinly and evenly over a paper-making mould to make into sheets of paper. Investigations were carried out on the effects of the use of different parts of the water hyacinth and the duration of treatment of the pulp with chemicals.

Water hyacinth is cellulose-rich, grow rapidly in ponds, soft and easy to process and thus potentially can be an alternative source of material for paper making. Besides, processing water hyacinth into paper requires much less energy and produces less chemical waste as compared with processing wood chips. Therefore, this will reduce the use of trees, consumption of energy and thus reduce global warming, at the same time converting an environmental waste to a useful product.

The consequences of global warming are increasingly apparent on the international front. The greenhouse effect, spurred on by escalating amount of carbon dioxide in the air, has contributed to the disastrous calamities and climate change. As vehicles are a significant contributor (up to 40%) to carbon emission levels, we aim to convince drivers to adopt fuel-efficient driving habits, in a bid to lower fuel consumption and reduce carbon emissions. To educate the public, especially motorists on such practices, our products include:

a) A comprehensive research on the practice of fuel efficient and green driving among Singaporeans motorists.

b) A proposal to the LTA and Singapore Traffic police Force to include an additional section on fuel efficient driving in the theory driving handbook and the theory driving test.

c) A series of attractive, educational ZoCard (postcard) designs and green driving among Singaporean motorists.

d) A handy booklet on fuel efficient driving and green fuel technology.