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Our Environment

Great Green Idea By KLIA Express

3 March 2010
Go Green Idea KLIA Express

Was traveling on the KLIA Express and happened to pay attention to the flyers that were given out by the cashier staff.
Information cards are given out by them and next to the dustbins are collection boxes for you to drop the cards into so they are recycled.
I think this is a really brilliant idea and [...]

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Green Tips

25 July 2008
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When I was back in SG … I got a ride in a friend’s Toyota Prius. Its a hybrid car … he got it 6 months ago and he just needs to fill it with petrol once a month. Once a month!!! That’s amazing. When the engine runs on electric mode …. its so quiet!
http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/
Anyway [...]

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all things vegetarian – part 1

16 June 2008
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its been an eye opening experience since i decided to go meatless on 29 Mar.
there are quite a lot of insights i wanna share …. to get it into digestable bits for easy reading … i’m gonna write this in parts ….
here goes part 1 …….
after 80 days … calculated at this website http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html [...]

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petrol price hike

4 June 2008

took me 30 mins to get to a pump to fill up my car … and i use BHP instead of Shell or Esso. The queues around petrol stations were horrible all over KL and the resulting jams that saw cars backed up for kilometers were not pretty.
the ugly malaysia reared his/her ugly head in [...]

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Environment Update: Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming

6 May 2008

Excerpts from a report I read. More disturbing news about the toll of farming on the environment:
. . . Factory farming takes a big, hidden toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America’s economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock increasingly demanded by American consumers, concludes an independent, [...]

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