All About Green Transport

With our busy schedules, getting from point A to point B on time can sometimes be a significant cause of stress. Therefore, TRANSPORTATION is of key importance in our daily lives. Our reliance on cars contributes to damaging the natural environment.

Driving a car is probably the most polluting act an average person can commit. It has been estimate that as much as 20-30% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation. Once on the road, the average car can produce more than three kilos of air pollutants including carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, for every litre of petrol.

Even the best conventional car only operates at 30%-45% fuel efficiency. Up to 70% of each litre of petrol burning in the engine is wasted in the form of heat and overcoming internal component friction.

You can make a difference -- both by trying to “travel green” yourself, and by influencing your family, friends, co-workers, and employers to do the same.

Let’s GO GREEN by taking Public Transport:

1) Take Bus 176, alight directly in front of West Coast Park.
Bus 176 originates from Bukit Merah Central and Bukit Panjang Interchange.

2) Take Bus 30, 51 or 143, alight in front of Clementi Woods Park (West Coast Road) and take a 5 minute walk through West Coast Link to West Coast Park.

1. Bus 30 originates from Bedok Interchange and Boon Lay Interchange.
2. Bus 51 originates from Hougang Central Interchange and Jurong East Interchange.
3. Bus 143 originates from Toa Payoh Interchange and Jurong East Interchange.

3) Take Bus 175 from Clementi Interchange, and alight along West Coast Highway.

Our GREEN Actions

There are lots of little things that we can do to benefit the environment:

1. Bring your own bag when you go shopping.
2. Shopping at the neighbourhood grocery shop or market reduces the need for you to drive and gets you more exercise.
3. Brush up your knowledge of environmental issues and innovations, and devise more ways to green your lifestyle. Good websites include www.treehugger.com.
4. Take the stairs instead of the lift. This helps to save electricity and will tone up your legs (Best way to get ready for LEAN Walk-A-Jog!).
5. Learn to cycle if you don’t know how. It is a healthy, eco-friendly and economical habit for life. Plus, you get to exercise regularly, gaining a fitter body and a stronger heart.
6. Consider buying a hybrid or fuel-efficient car instead.

Most immediately, we can start by bringing our own water bottle for refill at water points – this will significantly reduce waste generation at LEAN Walk-a-Jog!!

The first 500 participants to reach the finishing line at each session will get an exclusive Limited Edition LEAN souvenir!

Seeds of Hope Exhibition to be featured at LEAN Walk-a-Jog

The world is an intricately interwoven web of infinite relations.

When we apply this worldview to matter and to all living things, including people, we can see the world as one great life entity. This is the true nature of our own life.”

~ Soka Gakkai President, Dr Daisaku Ikeda ~

Going green is not as hard as typically perceived. With a little bit of inspiration, motivation and efforts, we all can be leading sustainable eco-friendly lifestyles.

As First Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi said,

“Plants awaken the aesthetic feelings within us, soften our more violent emotions, inspire us to poetry, and thus nurture our hearts and minds”

Let us make the first move by viewing the newly launched “Seeds of Hope” exhibition at LEAN Walk-a-Jog. The “Seeds of Hope” exhibition was created by Soka Gakkai International in partnership with the Earth Charter International as a resource for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-14).

The "Seeds of Hope" exhibition stresses our interconnectedness with the rest of the community of life and the need to broaden our sphere of compassion and concern. It encourages viewers to overcome feelings of powerlessness and highlights the fact that a single individual can initiate positive change.

It also introduces the positive vision for sustainable living expressed in the Earth Charter, and gives examples of individuals and groups who have successfully taken action for change, from Africa to the Arctic and Eastern Europe.

The message "It starts with one," is key -- the slogan that the Earth Charter International have chosen for their "Earth Charter Plus 10" campaign in 2010.

The exhibition uses the "Learn, Reflect, Empower" formula outlined in SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2002 proposal on education for sustainable development and is a tool for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

"Seeds of Hope" is a successor to the "Seeds of Change" exhibition which was created for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002, and has since been shown in 27 countries in 13 languages and seen by 1,500,000 people around the world.

"The world is an intricately interwoven web of infinite relations. When we apply this worldview to matter and to all living things, including people, we can see the world as one great life entity. This is the true nature of our own life."