Anti Global Warming Ideas Win Toyota Awards For Students, Villages: Thailand

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Anti global warming ideas win Toyota awards for students, villages

Pongphon Sarnsamak

The Nation

Tokyo, Japan

Students at Saingam Pitthayakom School, in Kamphaeng Phet province, switch off their motorcycle at the school

KAMPHAENG PHET: -- For their outstanding work in reducing the impact of global warming, Kamphaeng Phet province's Saingam Pitthayakom School and Chiang Mai province's Ban Num Hlong community will receive this year's prestigious Stop Global Warming Award.

They will be presented the award by a representative of His Majesty the King next month.

Toyota Motor Thailand, in collaboration with Thailand Environment Institute (TEI), initiated the award to promote low carbon living and selfsufficient communities.

Established in 2005, the Stop Global Warming Project has contributed over Bt153 million as financial support for environmental projects in 152 communities and 190 schools across country during the past 7 years.

This year, three educational institutes and three municipalities were listed to receive the awards.

Thirty representatives from schools and municipalities associated with the 7th Year Stop Global Warming Project winners were invited by Toyota Motor Thailand to join an environmental and educational field trip to Japan to encourage the participants to tackle their communities' environmental issues.

The first prize for the Stop Global Warming project's Educational Institute Award went to Saingam Pitthayakom School, in Kamphaeng Phet province. Their winning sustainabletravel project involves a database of students who share the same route to school together daily - and their activities to reduce energy consumption during the travel.

"We could reduce fossil fuel use in our daily life by stopping our motorcycle engine at the school's main gate and wheeling the machine to the park. Or we could invite a schoolmate to share the bike," Nilawan Krajiewpha, a representative of Saingam Pitthayakom School, said.

Second prize went to Chiang Rai province's Chiang Khong Witthayakom School. Their project was called "CK Ranger". It encourages school friends, teachers and people in the community to reuse and recycle waste materials from the school - such as making chair stools from plastic bottles and giving them to elderly people in the community. As a result of the wastereduction project, over 1,064 kilograms of carbondioxide emissions was saved.

Thirdprize winner was Nakhon Pathom province's Wang Krasae Witthayakorn School. They used solar cells to generate electricity for school scientific lab activities and to heat water for use in the school.

First winner of a municipal award went to Chiang Mai province's Ban Num Hlong Community, where villagers campaigned to reduce the use of plastic bags and polystyrene foam. They also encouraged people to increase village green areas by planting trees on members' birthdays, and by reducing food miles by growing vegetables for household consumption.

Second municipal prize winner was Phatthalung province's Ban Na Ma Praew community for their stop global warming bicycle caravan, which encouraged communities to recycle waste into products for sale and community consumption.

The third municipal award went to Lamphun province's Ban Pa Buk community. Villagers helped save resources in funeral ceremonies by avoiding the use of wooden castles in burning ceremonies. "We just want [the young people] to know about how to save energy and reduce waste when they grow up," Toyota Motor Thailand's senior vicepresident Ekachai Ratanachaiwong said.

-- The Nation 2012-06-05

[jaltsc]

I congratulate all the participants and the winners in the Stop Global Warming Project. The world's population needs to be made aware of the effects of individual actions and community energy policies on the environment.

While reading about the winning project, it occurred to me that a better solution would perhaps be for young, healthy and strong students to be riding bicycles instead of motorized vehicles. This would serve many purposes. Fossil fuels would not be used. People would be getting needed exercise. It would serve as an example to children and encourage them to get more exercise throughout the entire day.

This would address various issues which have been written about recently... Saving petrol... Getting people healthier... Reducing air pollution...and...if bicycle paths could be built so that there is an effective barrier between them and car/motor cycle traffic, there would be fewer road accidents by removing many motor cycles from the roads.

[Thaddeus]

I congratulate all the participants and the winners in the Stop Global Warming Project. The world's population needs to be made aware of the effects of individual actions and community energy policies on the environment.

While reading about the winning project, it occurred to me that a better solution would perhaps be for young, healthy and strong students to be riding bicycles instead of motorized vehicles. This would serve many purposes. Fossil fuels would not be used. People would be getting needed exercise. It would serve as an example to children and encourage them to get more exercise throughout the entire day.

This would address various issues which have been written about recently... Saving petrol... Getting people healthier... Reducing air pollution...and...if bicycle paths could be built so that there is an effective barrier between them and car/motor cycle traffic, there would be fewer road accidents by removing many motor cycles from the roads.

Well said +1

[NCFC]

Nice to read another good news story from the education sector. Well done Thai students.

[metisdead]

Nonsense troll posts have removed as well as the replies.