It was a wet Sunday afternoon as our counterparts from across the CauseWay graced our UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Heritage Site by giving a public talk...
In Part 2 of this 3-part series, Ren Min writes on fashion waste that we unconsciously generate and what we can do, as individuals, to protect the environment we all...
By Heather Pong Yen Ting
The Roots & Shoots (R&S) Awards was organised to celebrate the green efforts of young people in Singapore. To commemorate the efforts of these youths, the...
By: Matthew Foo
Every year, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) Race Village - an annual and well established marque running event - turns the Padang into a sea swarming with...
Every Thursday after school, high school members of SAVE (Students Against Violation of the Environment) and GIN (Global Issues Network) at the Singapore American School (SAS) make their way to...
On 21 October, a group of 32 parents and children together with 4 staff from the Creative O Pre-schoolers’ Bay conducted a coastal clean-up in Sembawang Park as part of...
Held at the Singapore Chinese Girls school on the 8th of the August, the Roots & Shoots Conference 2017 that took place in the school’s auditorium during the 10th anniversary...
Culminating Dr. Jane Goodall`s 8th trip to Singapore during the 10th Anniversary of the founding of the Jane Goodall Institute Singapore (JGIS), was a Volunteer Appreciation dinner that was held...
On this beautiful sunny afternoon of August 7, I had the privilege of accompanying Dr. Jane Goodall and the JGIS management team on a trek through the wilderness of Windsor...
Dr. Jane’s visit to Singapore 2017 was kicked off with a public talk on August 6th for which Dr. Jane shared her stories and thoughts on conservation at the MES Theatre, Mediacorp.
The theme of the event ‘One Nature, Together’, based on Singapore’s National Day theme of ‘One Nation Together’, emphasised the need for different stakeholders, including members of the public, governmental institutions and non-profit organisations, to come together to push for an increase in environmental awareness and action in Singapore. Indeed, people did come together for the day’s event and the auditorium was packed, with approximately 1,500 people present.
The day’s events were kick started with an address by Kae Fong Tay, President of JGIS, who emphasised the growth JGIS has seen over the past ten years, since its founding in 2007.
JGIS has worked with the teachers of Singapore Chinese Girls’ School on an Eco-Literacy module, which was successfully implemented in their Year 2 Integrated Programme. It includes five lessons of...