This is the first slide show that popped out. We can feel the tidiness in our chest. It is time to wake up everybody!!!
After the impressive talk in our college, we looked deeper into the environmental issue where a few of us, APR1 students, attended the ‘The Awakening The Dreamer Changing The Dream Symposium” at Millennium Hotel.
This symposium’s purpose:
Bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our times.
There were 3 people who gave talk on that day. The one we are most familiar Greenest Person - Mr. Matthias, Awakening the Dreamer Outreach Director from The Pachamama Alliance - Jon Symes and a girl who is full with passion from Hong Kong- Jo Fok.
This symposium was really awesome!! Waoh!! Most of the time they were showing the videos that has great impact on us. Before they start the videos, they threw us 4 questions at us:
1. Where we are? – An examination of the state of environmental, social and personal well-being
2. How did we get here? - Tracing the root causes that lead to our current imbalance.
3. What’s possible for the future? – Discovering new ways of relating with each other, with the Earth and looking at the emerging Movement for change.
4. Where do we go from here? – Considering the stand we want to be in the world and our personal and collective impact.
The way they conduct the symposium was pretty special. They asked many questions during the symposium in order make the audiences to think about the problems that are faced by Mother Earth and what we can do about it. After every video shared, we will form into groups and discuss about it, then share the conclusion to others.
After watching the video, we will form into groups, discuss about the environment and later share our opinion with those attended. Mr. Jon asked, “Who give you hope?”
Jon Symes, he loves the earth that he even sacrificed his 1st year wedding anniversary celebration with his wife just to attend a talk at Hong Kong. How passionate is that? What about you?
On the other hand, Mr.Matthias, the Greenest Person on earth, who claims himself as a ‘Kampung Boy’ that tries hard to learn some Malay language and even said a few words like ‘Teh O Limau Kurang Manis’ and ‘Mamak Buka Dua Puluh Empat Jam’ in order to blend in to our culture. Can you see his effort?
Lastly, Miss Jo Fok. She flew over to our country just to try her best to help to bring success to the symposium. She almost cried when she shared her feelings on the Julia Butterfly Hill’s sharing video clip.
Julia Butterfly is an American activist and environmentalist who lived on the tree. Julia, affectionately also known as "Luna," stayed there to prevent loggers of the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting the tree down. Her spirit to protect the tree was really tough and we should really learn from her. There was one sentence that wakes us; “There is nothing so called ‘throw AWAY’! Where is the away?!”
However, the video that have most impact on that day was the results of a research done on our beloved earth. We never knew that 90% large fish disappeared from ocean. We never knew that 75% of world’s forest has been eliminated. We never knew that lung and breast cancer has doubled its count in the past 30 years.
Shocked by that? We are. We felt useless that we are not aware of what that is happening to Mother Earth.
Everyone knows Nike’s tagline “Just Do It”. Let us apply this to the environment actions to help Mother Earth. Just do it to get a better Earth.
For more information, log on to http://www.globalmindshift.org/ OR http://www.oneearth.org/ OR http://www.awakeningthedreamer.org/
P/s: ‘Inconvenient Truth’ is a movie recommended by Mr. Matthias.
‘I am of the opinion that my life belong to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can’
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
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