mywaterbottle Goals

mywaterbottle aims to achieve the following goals:

1. Create awareness on the environmental impacts of single-use bottled water and encourage people to use refillable water bottles.

2. Show that tap water is safe to drink and tastes just as good as bottled water.

3. Make it easy to choose and buy affordable refillable water bottles that are safe for both environment and health.

4. Build a map of mywaterbottle refillers (water coolers, cafes, restaurants, food and beverage outlets, etc) for easy and free refilling of water bottles.

5. Showcase events that encourage participants to bring their own refillable water bottles.

mywaterbottle Activities

mywaterbottle conducts the following activities:

1. Organise The Tap Water Challenge

mywaterbottle organises The Tap Water Challenge, which takes the form of a blind taste test for the public. The aim is to show that tap water is safe to drink and tastes just as good as bottled water.

The public is asked to taste two types of water – one is from a brand of bottled water and the other is tap water. They will select which one they prefer or feel that there is no difference between the two. The result is revealed after the taste test.

During The Tap Water Challenge, mywaterbottle also:

• Educate the public on the environmental impacts of single-use bottled water
• Encourage them to use refillable water bottles instead of buying or taking bottled water
• Ask them to show their support by signing the mywaterbottle pledge.

2. Sell Refillable Water Bottles

mywaterbottle provides an easy platform for Singaporeans to choose and buy refillable water bottles that are durable, affordable and BPA-free. 100% of the profits will go to fund water projects in developing countries that provide clean and safe drinking water.

3. Identify mywaterbottle Refillers

mywaterbottle identifies water coolers and invites cafes, restaurants, and food and beverage outlets to join as mywaterbottle refillers and provide free water to anyone with a refillable water bottle. The locations are published on a map of mywaterbottle refillers in Singapore.

4. Showcase Events that Support Refillable Water Bottles

mywaterbottle showcases events that encourage participants to bring their own refillable water bottles, and reduce the use of bottled water.

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Contact

Eugene Tay, Founder of mywaterbottle

Email: hello@mywaterbottle.org

Website: http://www.mywaterbottle.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mywaterbottle

Twitter: http://twitter.com/mywaterbottle

About Green Future Solutions

Green Future Solutions is a Singapore-based business that promotes environmental awareness and action for a green future, through its network of green websites, events, presentations, publications and consultancy. For more information, visit http://www.greenfuture.sg.

For the green case studies, we are looking for five SMEs in Singapore from the following sectors to participate:

1. Commerce
2. Engineering
3. Food and Drink
4. Hospitality and Catering
5. Retail

Free consultancy services will be provided to the selected businesses and they will share information on the environmental and cost benefits after implementing the solutions. The consultation and information will be documented as case studies, which will be available for free download on the Green Business Times website to serve as examples for other businesses who want to go green.

We would like to invite your company to participate in the green case studies. This would be a good opportunity to find out how your company can go green and save costs. If you are interested, please contact us by 30 April 2010.

Singapore Green Landscape 2010 gives an overview of the various non-governmental organisations (NGOs), green groups, business associations and groups, green websites, government agencies, and institutes and centres in Singapore, which are related to the environment.

We hope that this publication is useful for everyone who wishes to find and connect with the environmental organisations in Singapore, and explore personal and business opportunities.

This publication is free for download. Feel free to share this.

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The Singapore Green Landscape shows an overview of the various NGOs, groups, websites, government agencies, business associations, institutes and centers related to the environment in Singapore.

This is not a complete list and is subjected to further updates and corrections. To help us show a better picture of the green landscape in Singapore, do let us know if we missed anything or if there are any errors. Thanks!

Bookchanging is an online community for book readers to find, enjoy, share, discuss and buy green books. You can read environmental books to gain more knowledge, work towards a sustainable future and change the world.

Under the New Books category, you can find the latest books on the environment, including Al Gore’s Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man: Saving the Planet One Family at a Time.

Under the Recommended Books category, you can check out our book recommendations, which includes Alex Steffen’s Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, and Janine M. Benyus’s Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.

You can also choose to buy the book in Singapore from Bookchanging or buy the book overseas from Amazon. Visit http://www.bookchanging.com to check out our books.

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Contacts

Eugene Tay

Founder of Bookchanging

Email: eugene@greenfuture.sg

Social Media: LinkedIn | Facebook

About Green Future Solutions

Green Future Solutions is a Singapore-based business that promotes environmental awareness and action for a green future, through its network of green websites, events, presentations, publications and consultancy. For more information, visit http://www.greenfuture.sg.

Green Future Solutions has just launched our new website, Low Carbon Singapore, an online community dedicated to help Singapore reduce her carbon emissions and move towards the goal of a low carbon economy. Our aim is to educate individuals, communities, businesses and organisations on issues relating to climate change, global warming and clean energy, and to help them take action and reduce their carbon footprint through useful information, news, tips and resources.

Do take some time to browse around our site at http://www.lowcarbonsg.com. If you have any suggestions to make the site better or to report any bugs, do let us know. Thanks.

TEDxGreen is an independent TEDx event operated under license from TED, and is curated by Green Future Solutions with the theme: Ideas for a Green Future. Our mission is to share, discuss and spread ideas for a green future through monthly salons and annual conferences in Singapore. At our TEDxGreen events, TED Talks videos and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Green Future Solutions is a Singapore-based business that promotes environmental awareness and action for a green future, through our network of green websites, events, presentations, publications and consultancy. We are the publisher of Singapore’s leading websites on the environment, including AsiaIsGreen, Green Business Times and Zero Waste Singapore.

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About TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

At a TEDx event, TED Talks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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About TED

TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future.

And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. Attendees have called it “the ultimate brain spa” and “a four-day journey into the future.”

The diverse audience – CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists -  is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono.

TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TED Talks and TED.com; and the TED Prize.

TED2010, “What the world Needs Now”, will be held on Feb 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with a simulcast event in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2009, “The Substance of Things Not Seen”, will be held on July 21-24, 2009, in Oxford, UK and TEDIndia will be held in November 2009.

We have been focusing on the Dark Green mindset for too long and it’s time to embrace the Bright Green mindset. Our mindsets shape our actions and it is important to adopt the right mindset. There’s nothing wrong with both mindsets except that Dark Green tends to inspire fear and denial while Bright Green tends to inspire creativity and action.

Learn more about Dark and Bright Green from Worldchanging.

Dark Green

It’s about sacrifice and the horror stories.

Use less and buy less.

Switch off the lights and use less energy

Save the whales.

Save the polar bears, the polar bears are dying.

Don’t do this, don’t do that.

It’s about pessimism and negative mindsets.

It’s about “I have a nightmare”.

Bright Green

It’s about solutions and innovations.

Think possibilities and green technologies.

It’s about creating jobs and improving lives.

Better quality lives and environment for all.

Embrace green businesses and clean energy.

Achieve energy and water independence.

It’s about optimism and positive mindsets.

It’s about “I have a dream”.

The time has come to focus on Bright Green and let’s work together towards a bright green future.

Photo credit: Raiden256.

A grid was used to show the 4 different mindsets. The horizontal axis ranges from local actions to global or regional actions. The vertical axis ranges from passive actions to active actions.

Wait and See

Local passive actions are shaped by our Wait and See mindset.

We’re not really sure so let’s wait for others to take the lead.

There’s too many changing factors so let’s wait and see.

Solar energy is too costly so let’s wait for the cost to come down before we see how to adopt solar energy.

Let’s wait for the developed countries to take the lead on climate change and then we see how to respond.

When we adopt a Wait and See mindset, our actions tend to be passive.

Clean and Green

Local active actions are shaped by our Clean and Green mindset.

We want to be a clean and green city.

We want to be a garden in a city or city in a garden.

We want to prevent pollution, increase our natural spaces and achieve water independence.

We want a clean and green Singapore so that we will have a good quality living environment and we can attract tourists and businesses.

When we adopt a Clean and Green mindset, our actions tend to be active.

Little Red Dot

Global passive actions are shaped by our Little Red Dot mindset.

We’re just a little red dot, what can we do?

We’re just a small island state with no natural resources, no hinterland and we import most of our food and fuel.

We’re just a little red dot, who are we to tell our bigger neighbours to take care of their environment.

We produce only 0.2% of global carbon emissions, we’re just a little red dot.

When we adopt a Little Red Dot mindset, our actions tend to be passive.

Help You Help Me

Global active actions are shaped by our Help You Help Me mindset.

By helping other countries, we are actually helping ourselves.

When we help China to build an eco city in China, we are helping ourselves because we benefit when China goes green. We get to export our expertise and help our local companies do business in China.

When we help Indonesia to combat forest fires in the Jambi province, we are helping ourselves because we will have less haze problems.

When we help others, we are helping ourselves and enjoying the benefits.

When we adopt a Help You Help Me mindset, our actions tend to be active.

The four mindsets are not exclusive and our actions tend to involve one or more of the mindsets. What we want to see is more focus on the lower half instead of the upper half. More of the Clean and Green and Help You Help Me mindsets, and less of the Wait and See and Little Red Dot mindsets.