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EFS 9 - National Taichung Girls' Senior High School

Question:

 

In Taiwan, there are some climate problems and environmental protection problems that we have to face.

 

  1. The weather here is quite hot and humid. We always have a long summer with air conditioners operating all day, which wastes lots of energy. In addition, due to the geographical position of Taiwan, typhoons and convective rains are frequent visitors, bringing abundant rainfall each year. To deal with this situation, some green buildings in Taiwan have specific devices for air circulation improvement and rain water collection.

 

  1. Taiwan produces about 21 million tons of garbage per year, including 40% of recyclable trash (for example, 46 hundred million pieces of PET bottles). If we line all the garbage on the ground, that would be 36 thousand square kilometers wide and 1.7 meters tall, just enough to bury all the people here! We really should make the best use of recyclable trash to reduce the amount of garbage.

 

One of the pavilions in 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition is a good example of green buildings in Taiwan. Pavilion of New Fashion (also named FE EcoARK) is sponsored and operated by the Far Eastern Group (a company in Taiwan).

 

EcoARK is the world’s first house constructed entirely from garbage---plastic bricks made from 1.5 million recycled PET bottles. Though the building is light, it boasts an extremely solid and stable interior structure.

Semi-transparent PET bricks make the structure strong.

 

Use pond lilies and water plants to purify the water.

The Water Curtain cleans the wall and reduces the heat.

Made from recycled Tetra Pak, the benches are not only solid but eco-friendly.

(856 pieces of Tetra Pak make a bench.)

(If you want to learn more about the Flora Expo, please check here: http://www.2010taipeiexpo.tw/MP_4.html)

 

 

Question:  What we want to know more about is---

  1. Are there any special designs in your school that are "green" and eco-friendly?If so, please tell us about them.
  2. If not, please share some creative ideas that can help us to make our school greener too.

Answer from EFS1

 

Our Canadian climate is always changing. Our homes and schools need to be insulated to handle the ever changing weather. In Toronto, the weather is much different than the weather in a place like British Colombia. For example, we use many more bricks to help control the climate here.

1)      Our school has one special design - large windows which gives us a lot of sunlight. This is called passive solar energy.  We only have one special design because we use the following materials shown:

-Brick

-Concrete

-Glass

-Metal

-Plastic

-Cement Composite

 

 

        Here is an example of passive solar energy

    2) Overall we believe that solar panels are our most eco friendly way to save energy and to also, help us learn how to use less electricity.

-We also believe that planting trees is a great way to have clean air and provides shade. If you consider this you could get provided with fresh air. And if you have the opportunity you could plant trees inside. This will provide a cooler climate.

 

Lastly we recommend that you switch off your lights and the end of class. Or when there is a class that has no one in it, you could turn it off. This a small but efficient way to save energy and reuse it for later.

 

Hopefully you will use these ideas and if you do these will help your school become greener and eco friendly. Also it will help you not take advantage of the resources you already have. 

               

 

 

Answer from  EFS2

 

View our response by following the link below.

 

http://prezi.com/qezx1ljm0m4c/global-teenage-project/


Answer from EFS3

At our school, we have done several things to make our school ‘greener’: we already did some Eco-activities like waste management program (we have in our playground many bins, one for papers and another for biodegradable trash and for ordinary trash, blanchtrees, green Christmas (In the school, every student has made two or more cloth’s bags that we gave them for all the costumers in the supermarket of our village (see previous eco activity section)

But we can add more ideas to make our school greener:

- Use green building materials by using non-toxic, recycled and renewable materials so the school will be a healthier place to learn.

- Encourage your cafeteria to stop Styrofoam dishes and washed. It would be great if you could also convince your school to cook using locally grown foods .You can do a “Salad bar” during spring and fall, which will encourage kids to eat more veggies. You can have your school contact local farmers and see what they can do for your school.

- Post signs throughout each and every classroom that encourages students and staff to turn off the lights during recess, lunch and the end of the day.

- Try having a tree planting day for one day a month or so.

-Encourage reducing! Ask that a note be placedin the staff room around the photo copy machine to encourage printing on both sides of the page (which in turn reduces the amount of paper needed, and therefore saves your school money!).
-  Bring up the idea of planting a natural garden in your school yard (if
it’s possible). Anything can be planted, from beautiful native flowers from your city or area, to a vegetable garden filled with tomatoes, lettuce, etc (plus: if your school has a food and nutrition class, the kids can use the vegetables in the classroom; again saving your school money). You can raise money for the garden by hosting a "movie night" in the afternoon and playing environmental movies such as "An inconvenient Truth", "The 11th Hour" and "The Simpson's Movie".
- "Adopt" the street your school is located on and have a clean-up day once a month of the street.

- Recycle things around your house.

- Tell your friends and family about your projects and ask if they want to help. If they can, find a day when your helpers will be free.

- Put bins around the school for recycling. Then, if at your school you have a weekly assembly, at the end a member of the faculty could measure how much was recycled compared to past weeks.
-  Recycle During Renovation Projects One example of dealing with waste management is curtailing the enormous amount of refuse that overburdens our landfills. During a renovation project, many products can now be recycled.


Answer from EFS4

 

In our school, there is a club responsible for protecting our school and make it green. Last week, we were making discussions to make our school greener and the outcomes we got after lot of discussions are listed below:

 

- Plant more and more trees; because trees absorb CO2, the more you plant, the more you're countering the CO2 generated by schools. Arrange tree planting around the school grounds because it not only gets students involved with science and nature, but also helps to reduce climate changes and makes your school a nice place to work and study in.

- Don't throw away papers, cans and bottles. Put them in the recycling containers your school has for that purpose. In our school, we are designing special containers to sort the organic from the non organic wastes.

- Encourage teachers to include green topics in their curriculum. Offer to present a project or topic for discussion to the class. Cardboards that talk about pollution and environment are, permenantly, posted inside classes.

- Students encourage their friends to join environmental clubs that deal with environmental issues.

- Unfortunately, students in school are not using lunchboxes instead of paper bags. There are plans to guide the students for what positive outcomes it carries on saving papers and earth resources from being depleted.

- Students are told to turn off  lights in their classrooms whenever there is no one in the room, or if it is sunny out, opens all the window shades. This saves electric energy and in turn burning fuels. Students turn off computers when no one is using them.

 

In our school, we have many green designs that are green and eco-friendly. We are still working to develop these designs and create new ones. In playgrounds, trees are planted to make our school green. In our club, students are working to recycle papers and computers that are not functioning anymore. We convert shoe boxes into tissue boxes and recycle the parts of the old computers into bags and cases… Teachers are curious to give the green color a value in kids by assigning “recycling monitors” that make sure everything that can be recycled is not wasted. Moreover, teachers assign “lights off monitors” and “computers off monitors” that guide other students and turn off appliances when not in use. This makes sure that kids become conscious and responsible for conserving energy. Students in our school participated in many projects for saving the environment, such as Youth can and iEarn. Moreover, students in art sessions  recycle every single item that is useless and  make from it creative things that are useful.

 

 

Ask students and parents to save recyclable items for educational projects. If we can get young children to start thinking about ways to reuse items, the reuses may become permanent as they get older and begin to reuse everything they see ‘from old mailboxes to jeans’.

 


Answer from EFS5

 

  1. Are there any special designs in your school that are "green" and eco-friendly?If so, please tell us about them.
  2. If not, please share some creative ideas that can help us to make our school greener too.

 

 

 

 

http://www.archi4.be/bio_ecologisch_bouwen.html

 

 

On the question ‘Are there any special designs in your school that are ‘green’ and eco-friendly’ we unfortunately have to answer negatively. Our school is a quiet old one, and back in the days when this building was built, the architects did not take eco-friendliness in mind. But on the second question (If not, please share some creative ideas that can help us to make our school greener too) we can answer. 

At first, it could be possible to get energy from the sun. It’s a shame that we do not use such a free source as the sun so less. We know the panels to place on the school’s roof are expensive, but once your have placed them you can easily get energy from the sun.

Then, it’s also possible to built buildings with materials who do not have to be defined so much. This causes that the materials keep as much as possible original. By cultivate them over and over, you do lots of harm to the environment.

At third, it’s possible to uses glass roofs in order to get more sunlight. This is a profit, because you can save energy. Now you can use the daylight instead of lights of the usual electricity-lamps.

Now, we understand that your school makes lots of trash. Also, we read that you have lots of rainfall because of your climate. We thought it could be a good idea to make rain pipes of your garbage, so that you can store the water easily. The water that you save with this you can either use for flushing the toilet, or it can be cleaned and be used for washing your hands or as drinking water. The last thing would not be possible, ‘cause that’ll be too expensive.


Answer from EFS7

 

1. Yes, we do have some eco-friendly designs outside our school. We have for example a little forest-like area near our school. Specific types of forms of education go out there and work in nature with animals and plants. Furthermore, lots of people go by bike to school and therefore we have a large bicycle parking.
We do not have such eco-friendly designs inside our school that are ‘green’ or really eco-friendly.


2. One idea that is maybe useful, is to make wide windows in your school building or maybe even in the ceilings, so that sunlight can illuminate the rooms, and not by artificial light. If that is not possible anymore, you can also think of getting some solar panels on the roof of the building. Now you can use eco-friendly energy to make use of the air-conditioning.
 You can also recycle more waste as you already said. About the collecting of rain water. You can maybe ‘recycle’ this rainwater by using it to flush the toilets!


Answer from EFS8

 

The creative ideas         

 

The school National Taichung Girls Senior School has asked us for creative green ideas for their school. We heve the next ideas:

 

  • The moves of doors convert to energie.     
  • A contest for the third class. Everbody makes an energy station for minimal a strong lamp which works as long as possible. The generated electricity will be used in the school. The station that works best and longest wins a price.
  • Organize a "hot sweaters-day". On that day the heating goes a few  degrees lower.
  • Drop plants throughout the school for decreasing carbon dioxide; students will concentrate better and it less necessary to open the window for refreshing.
  • A staircase that generates energy bij walking on it.
  • No vending machines; they cost a lot of energy. Much more than an normal refrigerator. 
  • Rainwater toilets
  • Double glazing in the windows
  • Solar panels on the roof
  • Windmills ont het roof or in the garden.
  • Lighting in teh hall, calsrooms and other rooms that react on the moving of people. So when there are no people, there is automatically no lighting.  

 

It is necessary that everybody is believing in it; this will be give the greatest effect.

 


Answer from EFS10

 

A green building means such buildings can cause minimal damages to the environment, and can achieve the harmonious coexistence with the surrounding natural environment.  According to our general affairs director, when our school was built about 20 years ago, the concept of green building was not taken into consideration. However, the school authorities have done some efforts and begun to adopt methods to make our campus more eco-friendly. For example:

 

1. Science and Technology Education building:  Our science and Technology Education building is designed with a courtyard, which helps get abundant sunshine to illuminate the whole building.  Besides, the breeze helps ventilate the circumstances. 

Besides, there are some green plants hanging on the wall of the buildings.  The plants not only release fresh air but help to block the heat. 

 

  

 

2.The black curtain on the bike shed. 

 

Our bicycle shed is covered with iron roofs, and the bike shed is next to our classrooms.  In the morning,  the strong sunlight is reflected by the iron roofs and comes into our classrooms, causing some trouble when we are learning and making the classrooms heater.  Sometimes, our classrooms are as hot as an oven. Therefore, we, the students are forced to turn on the fans to cool down. In order to solve this problem, the school authorities put on the black curtain on the bike shed, which can absorb the sunlight and reduce the reflection of the sunlight.  By this way, students do not need to turn on the fans or air-conditioning often. 

 

 

 

3. The power-saving tubes in our classrooms

 

In our school, we have eliminated the old traditional tubes, and installed the power-saving tubes in all of our classrooms. 

 

Those new tubes consume less electricity and radiate more light. 

 

  

 

 

Feng- Hsin Senior High School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are some examples of green buildings in Taiwan below.  

 

1. Tainan Municipal Yizai Elementary School

 

 

 

The eco-environmental pond in the campus not only stores water but also adjusts temperature. 

Air in classrooms with windows on opposite walls are flowing quickly so that students can have a cozy environment.The tilt roofing gather less heat and has few chances to leak. Rainfall collecting system and re-used water system help save more water resources.  People can make the most of the used water. 

If there are solar power panels or wind power systems in the campus, students can understand how they work. Of course, electricity will be saved.

 

  

2. Taipei Beitou Libary

   

 

 

from: http://www.taiwangbc.org.tw/chinese/

 

 

 

 


Answer from EFS11

            

 

 

            

 

 

            

 

 

            

 

 


Answer from EFS12

 

There is no special green design  in our school. To change the current bulding to a new eco-friendly one may cost lots of money.  We think how to make the school greener without rebuilding and find that it is a practical way to make a geen roof  at school.  

This is the web http://www.ehow.com/how_5121471_build-roof-green-home.html that introduces the green roof of  the California Academy of  Sciences. It is a very famous green roof example.

 

According to the website, it is about 3,600 plants on the roof and all of them are local plants.

This kind of roof is able to absorb 90% to 98% of  the daily water every day.

 

 

There are a few solar power boards on the roof,and it provides 5 to 10% of daily electricity of this building. It’s about 60 KW a day.

Also, there is a piece of transparent glass. The sunlight can get through the glass into the inner part of this building. So the light is all enough.

 

The following two videos tell us the benefits of green roofs and how to make a green roof. Green roof are not only good for our health but helpful to solve the global warming problems.

 

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So, we think to design roof gardens at the top of the school buildings is a good starting point to make schools greener. Schools can let classes take care of the gardens. Students can grow flowers but also vegetables. That will be interesting and let students learn by doing. The following websites can help you know more about growing plants and flowers and make you successfully build a roof garden. 

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_6398831_grow-grass-houseroof.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2319721_grow-flowers.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_4998257_grow-flower-seed.html

 

 


 

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