Yes, you can power your phone with food scraps
When diners at the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall toss out their food scraps, they join the vanguard of environmental sustainability. By composting unwanted food, the students take the first step to generate power that will eventually charge their cell phones. Confused? Here’s how the energy is created: The Raffles Hall discarded food scraps […]
YESC to ration out power
angon Electricity Supply Corporation (YESC) yesterday issued a statement, saying that it will save and control its power production and distribution in order to stabilize the power system until the upper region gets rains. Power production from hydropower plants have declined as temperature soar to record highs this summer. Since May 1, this year, Yangon […]
Young climate activist wants to phase out fossil fuels, move to cleaner energy, but is realistic
The climate change movement around the world is being spearheaded by youths, such as 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg. Singapore has its very own young climate champions too, including those who spoke at the inaugural Singapore Climate Rally earlier this month. TODAY speaks to three of them on how they are spreading the message on climate […]
Young inventors create device that converts noise to electricity
The Sound – Light or “S-Light” was created by “Team Voltage 5” composed of Grade 11 students Kirsten Dianne Delmo, Nico Andrei Serrato, Joecile Faith Monana, Frelean Faith Engallado, and Raphael Francis Dequilla. While electricity is normally used to power up speakers, this invention reverses that process and uses sound and converts it to electricity. […]
Young Thais battle seniority culture to raise climate awareness
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nanticha “Lynn” Ocharoenchai organized Thailand’s first climate strike in March, more than half of the 50 people who showed up at the rally in Bangkok were students at international schools and expatriates. The same day, Ralyn “Lilly” Satidtanasarn, then aged 11, and a group of fellow pupils submitted an […]
Youth climate strikes sweep Asia ahead of UN Climate Action Summit
MANILA, the Philippines – In 2013, Marinel Ubaldo was just 16 years old and Matarinaw, her seaside village in Eastern Samar, was paradise. She considered herself a simple barrio lass who found contentment in collecting seashells for decorative uses and sea cucumbers for dinner. Sometimes, she went out onto the Pacific Ocean along with his […]
Zamboanga suffers from lack of power supply
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Exasperated by the regular brownouts, Mayor Maria Isabelle Salazar demanded the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative (Zamcelco) to pay up its overdue accounts to electricity supplier Western Mindanao Power Corp. (WMPC) to resolve the daily power outages. WMPC cut off the supply of electricity to Zamcelco — now under the management of Crown Investments […]
Zero-waste masterplan launched in Nee Soon East
For the first time in Singapore, a district is launching its own zero-waste masterplan, with a concrete timeline for eliminating or drastically reducing the use of products such as plastic straws. Announced by Nee Soon GRC MP Louis Ng on Saturday, the masterplan in Nee Soon East spans two years, with a focus on several […]
Zuraida plans to turn rubbish into ringgit
KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin has big plans to change the country’s waste management industry during her first term in office. Her idea, which was first mooted in Dewan Rakyat on April 2, will see a centralised waste park handling plastic waste recycling projects. Any plastic waste factories […]