Green For Good 2024 (GFG2024) is Earthlink NTU’s annual flagship event that is organised across March. GFG2024 revolves around four themes: Liveability, Innovation, NTU Biodiversity Week, and Knowledge or shortly abbreviated as “LINK“. GFG2024 will be a culmination of events organised by Earthlink’s 15 portfolios, in partnership with other ntu clubs as well as external partners. Some of our partners include NTU Runners Club, NTU Sustainability Office, Bamboo Straw Girl, ACRES and Plastify. March will encompass events that highlight the four themes of GFG2024. GFG2024 has the primary purpose of engaging, educating, and empowering the NTU community and beyond to actively create a more sustainable future.
- Liveability focuses on adjustments to everyday habits which can create more sustainable lifestyles. As part of liveability, Earthlink NTU will be rolling out campaigns to cultivate more sustainable lifestyles.
- Innovation focuses on research breakthroughs and projects that provide innovative solutions to tackle the effects of climate change.
- NTU Biodiversity Week aims to highlight the importance of biodiversity and raise awareness about human-wildlife coexistence.
- Knowledge includes educational workshops to improve the NTU community’s knowledge base about issues related to sustainability.
GFG 2024, with the theme of LINK – aims to bring together different themes of sustainability and link the NTU community in creating a more consciously sustainable campus.
The Singapore World Water Day 2024 will serve as a platform for us to increase publicity and awareness on the importance of human-wildlife coexistence, and how the general public should appropriately interact with wildlife, promoting a safe environment for our City in Nature. In line with the theme of ‘water’, our outreach booth will put a spotlight on the Smooth-coated otter, commonly seen in Singapore’s waterways.
Date: 9 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 7.00 am – 11.30 am
Venue: Jurong Lake Gardens
Cost: Free
The Vegan Festival aims to expose the NTU community to a wide variety of vegan foods and products. We aim to collaborate with vegan businesses such as Greenhood, Patale Tea and Zeromultiple during the festival (1-day event). These vegan businesses will man individual booths on the day of the festival and sell their products at discounted rates to the NTU community.
Date: 11 March 2024 (Monday)
Time: 12.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Venue: AIA Canopy
Cost: Free
In the consumerist society we live in today, a lot of waste is generated in our day-to-day lives. The sustainable period workshop seeks to raise awareness and advocate for the use of more sustainable menstrual product options among the NTU female student and staff community to reduce consumable use and waste generation in this aspect of life.
In collaboration with Bamboo Straw Girl, a local social enterprise working to bring consumers zero-waste lifestyle goods, the workshop will include a presentation on the sustainability benefits of sustainable menstrual products and instructions for product usage. The founder, Melissa Lam, is a strong green advocate and has engaged schools, organizations and community groups in the movement against single-use plastics. The sharing will also include a question and answer session where participants can clarify their doubts with regard to menstrual products to allay any doubts and fears they might have.
Finally, students will have the opportunity to purchase menstrual products at a 30-50% discount to empower them to make the switch to a more sustainable lifestyle.
Date: 12 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Venue: The Arc TR+05
Cost: Free
This workshop will teach students how to upcycle used plastic bottles into self-watering planters. This will help students learn a new way of reducing waste while enjoying gardening and gaining a deeper understanding of the effort required to grow our food.
Date: 15 March 2024 (Friday)
Time: 3.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Venue: The ARC TR+18
Cost: $5
A guided tour to the S.E.A Aquarium where participants will get a chance to see marine life, discover the marine ecosystems and the roles and functions of the different species found in them and learn about adaptations to environmental changes and how human actions affect the survival of various organisms. Students will expand their knowledge of wildlife conservation and nurture environmental consciousness, inspiring them to take an active role in preserving our planet’s marine ecosystems.
Date: 16 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 12.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Venue: S.E.A aquarium
Cost: $10
Clothes Exchange is a joint initiative between Resources and Ecoventure that seeks to raise awareness about the environmental repercussions of fast fashion and to promote sustainable fashion practices and responsible consumption in the NTU community.
We encourage individuals to donate gently-used garments and accessories they no longer wear, creating a readily accessible resource for those seeking affordable and diverse fashion options. This exchange empowers individuals to refresh their wardrobes with unique pieces and gives clothes headed for the landfill a new life.
Collection Date: 19 & 22 March 2024 (Tuesday & Friday)
Time: 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Venue: Open Green Space outside SAC
Cost: Varied prices for items
Exchange Date: 26 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 10.00 am – 6.30 pm
Venue: AIA Canopy
Cost: Varied prices for items
A series of nature walks held on-campus by the Nature Guiding committee in Earthlink.
Date: 20 March (Wednesday)
Time: 7.45 am – 10.00 am
Venue: NTU Campus
Cost: Free
A dialogue session centered around the topic From Knowledge to Action: Accelerating Biodiversity Conservation in the Urban Age, featuring a diverse panel of guests passionate about sustainable environment conservation
Date: 20 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm
Venue: Online Zoom Session
Cost: Free
The Earth Hour Appreciation Night will be an opportunity for NTU students to observe the global initiative, where people turn off their lights as a show of support. The 1-hour event will showcase the hard work that the students of Wee Kim Wee have put into their Final Year Project. These films will be in line with the theme of sustainability. One such group will be featuring human relationships with the environment, specifically birds. These will foster a deeper understanding and interest amongst youths towards the natural environment and the codependence between humans and nature.
To honour the theme of Earth Hour, the event will take place in the dark, with the lights of certain areas of North Spine turned off, providing a fitting ambience for the showcase.
Date: 21 March 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Venue: Green Space outside SAC
Cost: Free
A unique hands-on workshop in which participants get to make their own terrariums with a NTU twist. Participants will be provided with small animal figurines found in NTU, such as otter and pangolin to customise and accessorize their terrarium.
Date: 21 March 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Venue: LHS TR+5
Cost: $5
In an era marked by technological advancements, the environmental and financial repercussions of electronic waste have become increasingly pronounced. With a focus on fostering awareness and practical skills, the Repair Hacks workshop aims to empower participants to understand the environmental and financial benefits of reducing e-waste through electronics repair.
By delving into common PC/laptop technical problems and providing hands-on guidance for troubleshooting, the workshop seeks to equip participants with the tools to diagnose and repair their devices independently. Additionally, participants will learn the art of basic system optimization and hardware upgrades, transforming older or faulty computers into sustainable, functional assets.
Date: 22 March 2024 (Friday)
Time: 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Venue: The Arc TR+1
Cost: Free
NTU Biodiversity Week is an annual festival organized by NTU Earthlink that aspires to promote biophilia amongst the NTU community. In conjunction with this event, NTU students, hosted by the Earthlink NTreeU committee, will replace 23 saplings that have died with new plants at the Learning Vision plot and add 6 new saplings to the total plot count. These plants consist of butterfly-attracting species that will greatly boost the utilization of the plot by our local biodiversity.
Date: 23 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 9.00 am – 11.00 am
Venue: NTreeU Learning Vision Planting Site
Cost: Free
This event serves as a unique platform to spotlight NTU’s rich tapestry of environmental research initiatives to raise awareness within the NTU community. The symposium aims to illuminate the impactful strides made by NTU’s sustainability-related research institutes and schools. By providing a platform for open discussions, the event fosters connections, and shares innovative solutions, and actionable insights, contributing to a greener and more compassionate future.
This event is a collaboration with the NTU Sustainability Office, which will be in charge of bridging NTU Earthlink and the sustainability-related research institutes at NTU. These research institutes may include ASE, NEWRI, EOS, ERI@N, SCELSE, and SCARCE (depending on confirmation by the research institutes).
Participants will be entitled to free ice cream upon completion of some activities.
Date: 25 March 2024 (Monday)
Time: 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: AIA Canopy
Cost: Free
This Recycling drive seeks to raise awareness for both Earthlink Resources portfolio’s recycling initiative and the generation of plastic waste in Singapore along with how Singapore has been handling it.
Through this event, the NTU community, staff, and students can learn more about how NTU and Singapore have been recycling their waste, and the avenues for them to do so. For individuals who already regularly recycle their items, this event aims to reward them for their efforts and to encourage them to continue these habits. This will perpetuate the recycling habit and improve the waste management system of our recyclables in the NTU community.
Here are the details:
- Plastic bottle recycling, Save That Pen, Trash-to-Treasure
- Plastify booth
- Surveys and giveaways
Plastify booth:
By using recycled plastic bottles, Plastify will turn these recycled plastics into a new product which participants can have it for free.
Date: 25 – 27 March 2024 (Monday – Wednesday)
Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: AIA Canopy
Cost: Free
From the knowledge gained from external partners in the NBW exhibition, carnival-style games will be created by NBW subcommittee members that are fairly simple to play. The games would test the knowledge participants have learned from the exhibition, rewarding those who have learnt the most from the display.
One of the booths will be organised and handled by Earthlink NTreeU. The booth will include carnival-style games as well, enforcing knowledge on how trees play a role in ecosystems and human well-being, along with common plant species and their significance.
Date: 25 – 26 March 2024 (Monday – Tuesday)
Time: 11.30 am – 2.30 pm
Venue: LT 1A Foyer
Cost: Free
The Exhibition will be held in the form of unmanned exhibition panels. This exhibition will showcase the efforts of organisations in the biodiversity and conservation scene.
Date: 25 – 29 March 2024 (Monday – Friday)
Venue: North Spine Sky Deck
Cost: Free
NTU Green Run is a funding-raising event that seeks to spread sustainability awareness and action in the NTU community. NTU Green Run is a brand new event under the latest iteration of Earthlink’s flagship campaign, Green For Good (GFG) 2024. Collaborating with NTU Runners Club, NTU Green Run will serve as the flagship event for GFG 2024, marshalling various NTU clubs, external stakeholders, and notable persons to join the sustainability movement.
NTU Green Run is a bold initiative that aligns with the mission of Green For Good – to establish synergies and devise creative platforms on which genuine discourses about environmental protection, green innovation, sustainable and healthy lifestyles can be held, maintained, and spread.
Date: 28 March 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 6.30 pm – 9.00 pm
Venue: The wave and SRC
Cost: $5