Asia Pasific Region Scouts Jamboree 2009

Yesterday, on 28 December 2009 - 03 January 2010, The 26th Asia Pacific Regional Scout Jamboree has been held. As cited in its name the jamboree was held only for Scouts in Asia Pacific Region. The jamboree itself took place at Mount Makiling, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippine. There were 15.000 Boy, Senior, and Rover Scouts, Adult Leaders met there. They stayed in Mt. Makiling a cool area with temperatures ranging from 22-28 degrees Celsius.

The Jamboree Theme

The theme of the Jamboree is "Scouts Create a Better World". This theme is epitomize the spirit of Solidarity, Harmony, Altruism, Respect and Equality (SHARE) among Scouts of Asia Pacific Region (APR) despite variances in race, creed and beliefs; that if all people in this world live the scouting way, together we can create a better world.

The Jamboree Logo

The basic structure of the logo is an abstract of the Scout Sign - the universal symbol that unites its members all over the world.

The three bars that taper upwards are rendered in green to emphasize of balance the harmony of socio-economic concerns, technology enhancement, and the preservation of natural environment as emphasize in the bars colour.

The overlapping blue and red archers circling the APR badges means the excitement of fun, adventure and challenges that welcomes Scouts in the Asia Pacific Region during the jamboree.

In the top you can see "Salakot" with the Boy Scout of Philipines badge depicting hospitality and industriousness - the common traits of the Filipino people. It also represents the Philipines as the host of the jamboree.

The gold-yellow background is a reminder of the golden years of Scouting in BSP from the 10th World Scout Jamboree (1959) to the 26th Asia Pacific Regional Scout Jamboree (2009), which are held in the same venue.

A Climate Change Story (2)

Yesterday we have talk about what is climate change and why is it important to us. Today we will talk about the impact of climate change to our lives and humanity.
The climate is very important for us, so important that minor changes can bring big and complex impact to earth. The change have a countless change and treating earth. The example impacts of climate change is: coral bleaching, polar region become smaller, melting glacier, extreme weather (now, in my country Indonesia, spring season is much longer than 10 years ago and it was verrrryyyyyy hooooottttt at the day), and extinction species.

We have to care about this. We have to care about our life. This earth were not belong to us, but its belong to our child. We have to prepare it to inherit to them. The next question is what can we do to reduce the impact of raising climate change?

The answers is we have to keep below 2 degrees Celsius. What's that mean? It means to avoid the danger of climate change we have to keep the climate temperature not more than 2 degrees Celsius. Warmer than it was at pre-industrial time (around 1800).

It has already shown that 2 degrees Celsius would bring with it a set of devastating impacts to coral reefs, arctic systems and local communities. The earth cannot afford to go above this.
We must start reducing emissions now and stay on low emissions track to avoid loading the atmosphere with too much CO2. Here is a few things that you can do at home to reduce the emissions:

• Recycle

Recycle everything you can't reduce or reuse.

• Turn it off

Turn off everything that you have finished use or idle things that use electricity such as TV, lamps, computers, etc. You save your money too.

• Save paper
  

Around the world we use 1 million tonnes of paper every day. Too much of this paper usage is wasteful and unnecessary and puts huge pressures on the environment.

• Use water efficiently

Public water systems require a lot of energy to purify and distribute water to households. Saving water, especially hot water, can lower greenhouse gas emissions. And fix your dripping tap. A tap dripping 45 times per minute wastes around 1,000 liters of water a month, the equivalent of 10 baths per year.

• Buy energy-efficient appliances

If you plan on buying a washing machine, refrigerator, dishwasher or oven, choose the most energy-efficient model you can afford. They might be a little more expensive but they pay for themselves through lower energy bills.

This article maybe just a little effort to contribute in fight the global warming. Hope it will inspire you up. Scout Salute!!