Green Plans

Hey readers! If you have read the previous post, you would have known that the main aims of Bru Green Republic are to raise environmental awareness among people and to actually DO something to help reduce the detrimental effects of human misdoings to the environment. Here are some of our plans:

Raising public awareness by :

1. Posting more articles in this blog regarding the environment and what we can do, and then advertising this blog by as many means as we can. Be a supporter and help advertise!

2. Putting up posters like the ones you have seen in the previous post on notice boards of schools, shops, etc. You can help too! Scroll down to our first post to find out how.

3. Writing articles pertaining to the environment to be published in local newspapers.

4. Surveying random public people about environmental awareness. This would give us a clearer picture of their level of awareness and get some feedback on how we can heighten the general public's awareness.

And the more challenging one ...

5. Making a trailer on ways to be environmentally-friendly to be played in OGDC theatre before every movie. The trailer would be focusing on Brunei's environment being one of our national treasures, and how we might risk losing it if we continue with our indiscriminate acts of open burning, littering, and many more. We will also try to include parts on reducing the use of plastics, papers, water and electricity.

For this we would need

- Pictures on environment of Brunei, both the pretty and the hideous.

- Fame-addicts People who want their faces to be well known in KB and Seria. They can make a short clip of themselves saying "Save the Environment", "Jaga Alam Sekitar Kitani" or something similiar. Even better if you can relate it to Brunei.

- And of course, permission to let it run in the theatre.

Please help if you can. We're begging you already. That's because the co-founders of this blog won't be in Brunei for long so we need as much help as we can to be able to make it on time.

I believe that students in Brunei are educated about environmental awareness in schools, but sometimes just being aware is not enough. There is a gap between knowledgeable about something and doing something about it. Bru Green Republic plans to get people to cross this chasm and be proactive in saving the environment. Here are some of the plans we have up our sleeves:

1. Getting the co-founders' school (Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali, Kuala Belait) to impose a one day ban per week on styrofoam containers. This would require us pulling some strings but it is with great hope that we can achieve this and that other schools will follow suit if circumstances allow.

2. Organising cleaning campaigns. May require expenses so to raise money we might -

3. Have an environmental awareness bazaar. Or beg for sponsors, haha! If all is to no avail, last resort would be to use our own money bohoo.

We are still in the process of brainstorming and this is what we have so far. If you have any suggestions or would like to aid us in our efforts, feel free to drop comments to this post or contact us at the email address given at the sidebar. We are also open to any feedbacks on how we can improve.

So those who have been green, stay green =)

Those who haven't >=( , start being green!