Hello Prof and friends! In this final post, we’ll be concluding what we’ve learnt in this module as well as our reflections.  We started off the module by learning about important concepts in pollution such as basic pollution chemistry. Next, we learnt about the causes and consequences of different types of pollution – aquatic, air,…

Hello Prof! Hello friends!   We hope everyone is hanging on this very last week of the semester! Based on the title, we will be delving into… pesticide pollution! To be honest with you, we did not know anything about soil pollution – what more pesticide – prior to this module. When the common (wo)man thinks…

Hello Prof and friends! Today we’ll be talking about noise pollution coming from our Singapore military jets. Since Singapore is a land-scarce country, the land must be utilised effectively so that the needs of the people and the country are met. Inevitably, this results in air bases located nearby to residential estates. As seen from…

Spilling Oil News Hello Prof! Hello friends! In the early part of the semester, Dr Chen Mengli  covered marine pollution and the devastating episodes of oil spills such as Deepwater Horizon spill and Torry Canyon Spill. Today, we will shed light to recent oil spill events. On 25 July this year, an oil spill hit…

Our Public Transport    Most of us ride public transport daily to attend school or work. In Singapore, we have a sophisticated and efficient system of land transport such as the buses, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT). Due to our limited land space, it is important for the government to…

Hello Prof and friends! In our previous blog posts, we talked about how important it was to reduce our consumption of fast fashion as well as our general water footprint. Today, we will be sharing cool places to shop, in light of the rise of thrifting in Singapore! According to Goodwill of Central and Northern…

Hello Prof and friends! For tutorial 4, we were tasked to create a poster based on our individual dematerialization. Dematerialization here refers to reducing the quantities of materials we use. Here are our posters!  Figure 1: Ellysha’s Poster   Figure 2: Adilah’s Poster   What we learnt from this task is that the smallest things…

Hello Prof! Hello friends! Today, we will delve into the environmental social injustices in the fashion industry.  With the globalization of the fashion industry, there has been an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social impacts – a large proportion of the environmental impacts of fashion consumption has been shifted from developed to developing countries (Wiedmann…

Hello Prof! Hello friends!    Today, we will be talking about the impacts of fast fashion, especially in light of the pandemic.   Economically, clothing production has doubled in the last 15 years, mainly due to an increasing middle-class population worldwide (Ellen McArthur Foundation, n.d.). With more people earning higher income, this typically results in…

Hello Prof! Hello friends!   We will be delving into the topic of Fast Fashion. This topic is very known to us; yet, how much do we know if its details like where it came from and how it affects the environment? Fast fashion brands exist in almost everyone’s closet. It is thus necessary and…