Green Week 2K15

Compiled By:
Umair Illyas
SA Sustainability Officer

Contents

1. Introduction to Green Week

2. Brief Introduction of Organizers

3. Green Week Layout and details

Sustainability Development Conference.

Eco-Bazaar.
Ecotourism.
Earth Hour
Tree Planting Alumni Project
4. Budget

Green Week 2K15:

At University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Green Week is traditionally celebrated
every year. The University has had many successful large scale events in the past like:

Nottingham Charity Run: A 10km charity run through Broga Hill.

Nottingham Life Cycle: Cycling for the provision of scholarships to Nottingham

students.

Charity Carnival: Annual Charity Event along with the Open Day for the university.

We also have taken several initiatives to make ourselves much more Green.
Nottingham Clubs and Societies have organized Famine Camps, Earth Hour and Green
Week.
Green Week has been a UNMC tradition for many years. An event which symbolizes
our student communitys, struggle for creating a green and sustainable environment.
Every year the Green Week has its own theme and the intention is to fundamentally
practice sustainability and encourage environment friendly behavior throughout the
year. This year the Student Association is proud to liaise with the Nature Club and
Sustainability Research Network to organize the Green Week 2k15.
Our idea is to promote recycling on campus alongside conducting a Sustainability
Conference to formally educate our student community about sustainability and its
socio-economic importance. We are proud to be able to make Earth Hour a part of
Green Week 2K15. Our slogan: #Use Your Power for a Sustainable Future advocates
the ideology behind this years Green Weeks motivation.

This year the Green Week will have the following events:
Opening ceremony of the Green Week 2k15: Including performances by Unmc Clubs
and Societies and pledge printing to promote recycling.
Sustainability Development Conference: A one day conference to raise sustainability
awareness with students being the targeted audience.
Eco-Bazaar: A one day bazaar to promote recycling by providing initiatives to students.
Ecoteer: A one hour talk.
Earth Hour: A worldwide grassroots movement celebrated on campus to unite the
student body at UNMC to protect the planet.

A Brief Introduction of Organizers:

Student Association: The Student Association at University of Nottingham

Malaysia Campus is a student representative body elected by the student body each
year. The executive team is led by the president and respective SA executives have
their portfolios to follow and work for the welfare of the student community.
The Sustainability Officer represents and heads environmental awareness and
charitable campaigns on campus.

Nature Club: Found in 2009 UNMC Nature Club has a primary aim of promoting
sustainability. They have organized numerous environmental activities and earned their
position as one of the highly esteemed student society on campus.

Sustainability Research Network (SRN): Student led initiative to bring together

students and academicians of UNMC with an interest in sustainability.

Vision:
SRN-UNMC sees sustainability as a way of life that starts from within and aspires to
transform UNMC into a sustainable model campus that inspires others by example.

Mission:
1: Investigate sustainability from multiple angles
2: Facilitate sustainability knowledge exchange within and outside the campus
3: Promote interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion
4: Explore the small steps we can take to have a real impact upon all our futures
5: Support the quality and visibility of sustainability research at UNMC.
Other Organizers include:
Education Network
Y.E.S Club
Enactus UNMC

Sustainability Development Conference

Summary:
Sustainability Development Conference (SDC) at UNMC is going to be a part of the
Green Week 2K15. The conference proposed is a one day event with a maximum
participation of 200 individuals from Universities across Malaysia.
The conference aims to bring about awareness on the notion of sustainable
development whilst promoting the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, to be a
platform for discussion as well as a premier medium promoting sustainable
development.
The proposal below expands on Sustainable Development as well as constructing a
possible list of internal speakers who would like to share their research in the
conference.
Vision:
The World Bank defines sustainable development as "Development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs." People concerned about sustainable development suggest
that meeting the needs of the future depends on how well we balance social, economic,
and environmental objectives--or needs--when making decisions today.
Many of these objectives may seem to conflict with each other in the short term. For
example, industrial growth might conflict with preserving natural resources. Yet, in the
long term, responsible use of natural resources now will help ensure that there are
resources available for sustained industrial growth far into the future. Other conflicts
arise in terms of the long term economic objective of sustained agricultural growth being
met along with the ecological objective of preserving biodiversity.
Sustainable development can be further divided into three sections:

Social: This looks into the issues that impact people directly that either helps or hinders
the process of improving the quality of life.
Economic: This looks at the system that determines how the limited resources needed
to improve peoples' lives are distributed. It also examines how these limited resources
are used.
Environmental: When we focus on the environmental aspects of sustainable
development, we look at the natural resources--both renewable and nonrenewable--that
make up our surroundings and help us to sustain and better our lives.
Proposed Plan:
The Conference audience is largely target at University level students; however it is
open for the any member of the public to participate upon registering. The specifics of
the conference are as follows;
Tentative Date: 24th of March, 2015.
Tentative Venue: UNMC (Great Hall)
Targeted number of Participants: 200-250
Primary Target Audience: University level students
The Sustainable Development Conference proposed, conceived by the SA
Sustainability Officer as well as Sustainability Research Network (SRN) in partnership
with UNMC Nature Club and the Education Network, has the following aims:

Creating awareness on sustainable development- both its impact as well as

current development in the sector.

Provide a platform for discussion, where students can exchange their ideas on

how to protect the environment, with the use of new innovations, technologies, etc.

Branding of UNMC as a proponent of sustainable development: to highlight

UNMC as a premier platform for discussion on this issue, as previously there has not
been such programmes specifically targeted at university students.

List of Possible Speakers:

YASMIN RASYID
B.Sc Marine Biology (Duke); B.A Contemporary Religion (Duke); M.Sc. Biotechnology (Malaya); PhD. candidate
(Malaya)

FOUNDER/PRESIDENT, EcoKnights
CHAIRPERSON, Malaysian Environmental NGOs (MENGO)
CHAIRPERSON, Duke Alumni Association (Malaysia)
+6 012-366-5689
EcoKnights
No 41, Lorong Burhanuddin Helmi 11
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail
60000, Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Tel: +(60)3 7731 8361
Fax: +(60)3 7731 8361
www.ecoknights.org.my

Prof Syed Azam Ali

Professor of Global Food Security (with CFFRC), Faculty of Science,
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
Tel: +6 (03) 8924 8241
sayed.azam-ali@cffresearch.org

Dr Svenja Hanson
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
Currently working on Biochar from Agricultural Waste with regard to its potential as a gasification
feedstock, means of CO2 capture and as a soil enhancer. Would like to expand into exploring
the co-combustion and co-carbonisation of those biochars with coals from the South-East Asia
region.
Tel :+6 (03) 8924 8128
svenja.hanson@nottingham.edu.my

Prof Timothy Brailsford

Head of School of Computer Science , Faculty of Science,
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
Main research interests are in hypermedia and hyperstructure, and especially in attempting to find
information structures that fit 'real world' information (such as scientific knowledge) better than the
conventional relational model. Also interested in the use of multimedia and hypermedia in education especially in the application of these to education in areas that include adaptive hypermedia and mobile
learning.
Tel: +6 (03) 8924 8147
tim.brailsford@nottingham.ac.uk

Prof Ernesto Hernandez

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering,
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
Tel: +60 3 8725 3555
Ernesto.Hernandez@nottingham.edu.my

Eco-Bazaar:
The Eco-bazaar is one of the traditional Green Week event which has been successfully
done in the past.
Aims and Objectives:
To create awareness about disposal of everyday items.
To encourage students to develop a sustainable lifestyle and adapt recycling.
To give students initiatives in order to make recycling a part of their life.
Proposed Plan:
Date: 25th of March 2015.
Time: 10 am to 5 pm.
Venue: Student Association Circle.

Parties Involved:
Icycle: A company that will be invited over to the campus for the collection of recyclable
materials given out by the students.
Student Association Sustainability Officer and the Nature Club will be organizing the
event.
Clubs and Societies that are invited to have their stalls are: ACE Society, Enactus and
Baking Society.
External Parties like your organization.
Each Stall given out is the size of 4 by 2 feet and will be charged for 150 Rm
(Negotiable).

Ecotourism:
Introduction and Vision:
Ecoteer is a travel company with a radically different brand of eco-tourism. While there
is doubt that recycling bottles, washing towels less often and composting kitchen scraps
can make tourism green, Ecoteer offers volunteer work and working holiday
opportunities that have the tourists actively contributing to conservation by donating
their time and money. A key to all of Ecoteers projects is that the local community
benefits from the project, and a relationship is built between the volunteers and the
people living in the area. That way a start is made for the outsiders to understand the
reasons why people for example eat turtle eggs or poach Sambar deer and Sun Bears,
and for locals to learn why outsiders come in hoping to save those species.
This presentation will explain the Ecoteer concept by using examples from Pulau
Perhentians and Merapoh.

Proposed Plan:
Speaker: Daniel Quilter, Founder of Ecoteer
Date: 25/03/2015
Duration: 13:00-14:00 h
Venue: F1A11

TREES FOR LIFE : ALUMNI ARBORETUM PROJECT 2015

Event Details
Proposed Event : TREES FOR LIFE :
ALUMNI ARBORETUM PROJECT
Organizer
: UNMC Nature Club
Date
: 25th March 2015 (Wednesday)
Venue
: University Of Nottingham Malaysia
Campus
Time
: 5.00p.m. - 6.00p.m.

Aims & Visions:

To provide UNMC students with an additional free, healthy asset.

To improve campus aesthetics and provide positive public relations

for the university.

To provide a more sustainable campus.
To raise awareness of the values of biodiversity and the steps they

can take to conserve and use it sustainably.

To connect students to the benefits of trees and foster

environmental stewardship
To learn the species of trees we will be planting, how to properly

handle and plant the trees as well as to discuss the value of trees.
To lay the foundation of a school community garden and nutrition

programme.
To fulfil our goal of fostering a love of nature and the environment.
To provide students with a lasting memorial to the university
To offer a great opportunity for students to get together and be
active in shaping the future of the University landscape

To connect both the graduate and current students

Introduction of Trees For Life

Effective utility of space in the University of Nottingham Malaysia

Campus (UNMC) through the planting of indigenous trees at a selected
plating site and the continuation of landscape plantings is very important.
The proposed botanical garden would be complemented by planting trees
around UNMC in conjunction with the graduation of UNMC students in
2015. The opportunities of adopting a tree open solely to all UNMC graduate
students while current students in campus serve as the primary planters
under technical assistance of experienced planters so as to give them a sense
of ownership and responsibility for the project.
Planting trees in the UNMC provides a way for the university to interact
with the wider community, while improving aesthetics and health on
campus.

Proposed plan:

5p.m. - 5.15p.m.
5.15p.m. - 6.00p.m.

Committees involved gather at planting site.

Tree planting

Earth Hour 2015

Background of UNMC Nature Club

UNMC Nature Club was founded in 2009 with a primary aim to
promote sustainability as well as increase staffs' and students'
awareness of their responsibility towards our mother nature. UNMC
Nature Club had organized plenty of nature-related activities such as
FRIM trip, Enzyme Week, Photo Pledge, White Water Rafting and the
highlight event which was Earth Hour 2014 in 2013/2014 Academic Year.

Event Details

Proposed Event:
Organizer
:
Partnership With:
Date
:
Venue
:
Time

UNMC Earth Hour 2015

UNMC Nature Club
Youth Entrepreneur Society
27th March 2015 (Friday)
University Of Nottingham Malaysia
Campus-Great Hall & Amphitheatre
5pm-12am

Aims & Visions

To raise awareness about global climate change and
conservation of energy among students, staff and the

local population of Semenyih.

To relay the importance of recycling.
Aims to encourage an interconnected global
community to share the opportunities and challenges
of creating a sustainable world.

Introduction of UNMC Earth Hour 2015

Earth Hour is a worldwide grassroots movement uniting people to
protect the planet, and is organized by WWF. Engaging a massive
mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues.
This year, the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is
supporting this green event continuously with an aim to involve and
educate the students of UNMC and local population of Semenyih as well.
All participants will be given a reusable bag with booklet of Earth Hour
and Earth Hour Badge. During Earth Hour, there will be performances,
candle-lit procession; carnival stalls which selling food, beverages and
green products such as Energy Saving Souvenirs, and UNMC Earth
Hour 2015 themed T-shirts.

Earth Hour Team 2015

Organizing Committees Structure

SA Sustainability OfficerOrganizing Chairperson

External Affairs

Deputy
Deputy Organizing Chairperson(2)Deputy Organizing Chairperson
Deputy Organizing Chairperson
(3) Organizing Chairperson (4)
(1)

Secretary

Treasurer

Coordination

Marketing

Design

Logistic

Performances

Sponsorship

Creative

Food
& Beverage

Proposed Plan:

6.00-7.00pm:

7.00-7.30pm:

7.30-8.30pm:
8.30-9.30pm:
9.30-12.00am:

Carnival around the campus Amphitheatre.

All the participants are welcome to visit the
food beverage and other booths selling
green products
Speech from World Wildlife Fund
(WWF), CEO and Provost of UNMC,
Organizing Chairperson of UNMC Earth Hour
2015
Performances (music and fashion) by
University students
Candle-lit procession around the University
of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Green Week & Earth Hour Closing Ceremony

Proposed Sponsorship levels:

Below are the details concerning this years sponsorship levels.

Level of
sponsorship
s

Publicity and Benefits

Main
Sponsor

Taken

RM
5,000
and above
Platinum
Sponsor

Company name and logo in event posters

Company advertisement in event web pages

TWO Full-page advertisement in the Earth Hour Night

Co-Sponsor
(2)

booklet 2x (14cm x 20cm) that will be given on

Earth Hour Night

Free allocation of booth to showcase products and/or

services at Earth Hour Night

Distribution of company flyers

RM

Company name and logo in event posters

3000-5000

Company advertisement in event web pages

Gold Sponsor

One full page advertisement in the Earth Hour Night

booklet (14cm x 20cm) that will be given on Earth Hour

Night

Distribution of company flyers

Company name and logo in Earth Hour Night event

RM
2000-3000

posters

Silver Sponsor

Company advertisement in event web pages

Advertisement (14cm x 9cm) in the Earth Hour Night

booklet that will be given on Earth Hour Night

RM

Distribution of company flyers

Company name and logo in Earth Hour Night event

1000-2000
Bronze Sponsor

posters.

Advertisement (6cm x 9cm) in the Earth Hour Night

booklet that will be given on Earth Hour Night

Below
RM1,000
Standard
Sponsor

Company advertisement in event web pages

Distribution of company flyers

Company name and logo in Earth Hour Night Booklet

Company advertisement in event web pages.

Advertisement (6cm x 9cm) in the Earth Hour Night

booklet that will be given on Earth Hour Night

Non-Monetary

Company name and logo in Earth Hour Night Booklet

sponsors

Company advertisement in event web pages.

(Min quantity:

Advertisement (6cm x 9cm) in the Earth Hour Night

200 units)

booklet that will be given on Earth Hour Night

*All Sponsorships Benefit are subjected to change by sponsorship team of UNMC

Earth Hour with prior notice.

Proposed Collaboration Agreement with Setia Ecohill

1.Collaboration between Setia EcoHill & UNMC activities, e.g. tree planting, marathon run
organize by Setia EcoHill. (By inviting UNMC students to join their events)
2. Career opportunity/internship for UNMC students via UNMC career advisory service and
clubs promotion
3. Promote company advertisement on our campus / Allocate booth for Advertising /
Flyers

Proposed allocation of funds:

The funds obtained from the sponsors will be used to purchase the following items and
services:
candles for the candle-lit procession
printing of banners, posters, flyers and the Earth Hour Night booklet (made from
reused A4 papers)
decorations (with keeping in mind its carbon footprint) and lighting system

Earth Hour themed wristbands, T-shirts, key-chains and re-useable (and recyclable)
bags to place all those souvenirs in
Food and beverage for participants during the carnival

Propose Budget List of Earth Hour 2015

Particular

Amount (RM)

Particular

Amount (RM)

Subsidy
Sponsorship

500

Stage & Canopy

Electrical & PA
System
Decoration
Candles & Holder
Food & Beverages
Merchandise
Performances
Promotion
Materials
Travel Claim

4,000
2,500

Donation
Balance

25,750

25,950

Proposed External Budget:(By the SA)

250
500
750
2,100
15,000
850

25,950

Budget( Student Association)

Expenses
Banners and Buntings

400

Videos

300

IT Equipment Mussoc

300

Food

1000

Placards for Panelists

100

Essay Competition Prizes

700

Token of Appreciation

500

Earth Hour Sponsorship from SA

5000

Merchandise (T shirts 200)

3000

Other Expenses

700

Total

12000 Rm