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…

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 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! When we did our research on light pollution, we realised that suggested initiatives in mitigating this issue are rather limited. Most of the articles focus on limiting energy wastage. While that is a no-brainer solution to light pollution, we felt that there could be other ways to work towards reducing light…

Hello Prof and friends!    In Singapore, flying ants are very common. We always see them crowding around street lights and even the lights in our homes, as seen in the figure below. However, did you guys know that light pollution can drastically affect animals and even insects?   Source: Simone De Peak / Getty…

Hello Prof and friends!   Today we will be talking about how countries have managed this transboundary pollution throughout the years.    In 2002, member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed a legally binding agreement called the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP) (ASEAN Agreement On Transboundary Haze Pollution, n.d.)….

Hello Prof and friends!   In our previous blog posts, we talked about the causes of haze in Southeast Asia. Today, we will be talking about its disastrous impacts not only to Indonesia, but also to neighbouring countries. Flora and fauna as well as the human population are affected. As haze particles travel across long…

Hello Prof and friends!   So far, we have explored how air pollution has changed – for better or for worse – worldwide due to the pandemic! In this blog post, we will delve into something we have read about recently: flights to nowhere. Literally nowhere (as depicted in the picture below)!   Source: User…