Newsletter Aug 2015

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“Take Away Your Rubbish” Country Park Cleanup and Survey Hiking is getting more and more popular in Hong Kong in recent years. At the same time, the amount of rubbish generated in country parks has been increased. We strongly recommend hikers to reduce waste generation and not to leave your trash behind in the parks. FoE (HK) has organised a country park cleanup and survey to investigate the cleanliness of country parks, as well as to clean up rubbish from some popular hiking trails in country parks. We sincerely invite your organisation to join this meaningful event to convey the message of "produce less waste". Registration is now open on a first-come first-served basis. For details and registration, please email emmaleung@foe.org.hk.

Acknowledgement of Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited’s support Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited has been a generous supporter of FoE (HK). For the past financial year, a sum of HK$142,093 was donated to FoE (HK). Not only do we appreciate the company’s kind support but also its efforts on environmental sustainability via its services to the customers, particularly on paper-saving. FoE (HK) will continue to engage businesses, to create a healthy and sustainable environment for all.

Become a COOL Ambassador now! To enhance awareness and knowledge about the importance of COOLiving and change attitude and environmental practice, as well as to advance the public education of FoE (HK)’s flagship programme – Trees．COOLiving, we have launched COOL Ambassador Reward Scheme. By evaluating the contribution by the participants on the environment and FoE (HK) with a scoring system, the participants may get rewarded. For details of the Scheme, please visit (TBC).

Floral tribute to charity From 26 August to 24 September, three special floral bouquet varieties will be sold at BLITZ (Lane Crawford Tsim Sha Tsui), representing friendship, happiness and love. For each bouquet purchased, HK$100 will be donated to FoE (HK) for planting a tree at the headstream of the Dongjiang River.

Say NO to O Camp wastage Join Green! O Camp on or before 14 September and pledge to implement green elements in your orientation camp. You may even design your own green camp to win a $3,000 subsidy! Over 30 local orientation camps have joined Green! O Camp. You are also welcome to participate in this meaningful activity. Let’s say NO to O Camp wastage together!

Articles (in chronological order) The Water Supplies Department must quickly address the loophole in water testing (04/08/2015) (Chinese version only) Lead-in-water incident - one must review its effects on human (17/08/2015) (Chinese version only) How to get rid of grievances when trees are cut down and air pollution worsens (18/08/2015) (Chinese version only) Axing trams will not cut congestion (27/08/2015)

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