Founded in 2006, the ISB Eco Group has met regularly to discuss and support the school's eco initiatives. It started with a division of labour by handing out an eco audit and using staff from around the school to fill it in. We found out about recycling, contacting local companies and organised the purchase of bins. We learned that recycling does not make you rich! It is a dirty, smelly job and needs to be well organised. So some of the money we raise goes to the staff that have to sort it all each Saturday morning.

We are responsible for initiating recycling programmes in other schools across Brunei, holding the first Green Gala Dinner, completing very successful beach clean ups, recycling cans, paper, plastic, batteries and computers and of course starting the Million Trees Project. We have formed links with other schools around the world, all keen to do their bit to help out.

FOBISSEA and Eco Schools

ISB has been integral in encouraging other schools in South East Asia to join Eco Schools. So far, we have 18 FOBISSEA schools registered, with 2 schools achieving the Silver Award and 6 schools achieving the Bronze award. ISB hopes to achieve the Green Flag award by early 2012.

National Environment Conference

ISB has won 2 awards in the past 2 years at the National Environment Conference. This year, ISB is working with JIS to implement a nationwide Eco Video Competition aimed at encouraging schools in Brunei to promote their eco activities.  The competition is sponsored by HSBC and is being organised in conjunction with STEP and Asia Inc. Over 40 entries have been submitted and the finalists will win an Ipod Shuffle, which will be presented at the 2011 National Environment Conference.

Brunei Nature Society

An integral aspect to environmental sustainability is biodiversity. The Brunei Nature Society celebrates the unique flora and fauna found in Brunei. Members of the ISB teaching staff have been actively involved with them to help raise awareness of Brunei's rich and precious biological resources.

Beach Bunch

The Adult Eco group has worked in collaboration with the Beach Bunch, composed of members outside the ISB community. They are  working to achieve Brunei's first Blue Flag Award. The Beach Bunch have since forged a memorandum with ISB with these goals in mind and have organised successful beach clean-ups together.

The Beach Bunch also conduct workshops to raise awareness and educate on environmental issues. One of these workshops held at JIS was attended by 4 students from ISB.

The students, staff and parents of the International School of Brunei are keen to become the first international school in the world to attain the Eco Schools Green Flag award. The key movers in achieving this challenging goal are the students of the ISB ECO Action Team. Together we have already achieved the Silver Award (2010). We hope to achieve the Green Flag criteria by early 2012.

 

Litter Awareness

 

 

Canny the Can

 

 

Growing Green Minds the Eco Code

All secondary students reviewed  what growing green minds means to them.

 

 

Meet the Team

Secondary 

Topic	Student Coordinator	Teacher Advisor	Student
Water	Jonash and Andrew Marcello	Ms Woolley	Omar (10S) Nathan (10B) Jake (10S) Mau (12I2) Serina 12S
Energy	Kelvin and Chen Alan	Mr Rieger	Baijesh (8B) Yee Heng (12)
Transport	Eve Jack		Precious (9B) Gaustom (7B)
Biodiversity	Yee Thong	Mr Naidoo	Grace (7I) Harmony (7B) Milly (7I) Georgie (7S) Julia (7B) Sheri (9B) Yee Cheng (yr9B)
Recycling/waste	May Yi Ching Yi Rachel Laura	Ms Natalia	Justin (12B1) Ifwat (13S)
Healthy living	Marc and Fleur Sujith	Ms Hancox	Ellen (7I) Daena (7) Abbie (7S) Jasmeen (7S)
School grounds	Zahirah Felmen	Catherine	Yee Xuan (7I) Irvin (yr10B) Marianne (yr10I) Rakshanna (yr10I) Rinni (yr10I)
Litter	Ione & Brian Kai Li Peter Helena (12)	Ms Jinadasa	Holly (9B) Annabelle (9B) Rozi (12)
Global perspectives	Hafizah Sachin/Hitesh		Sandy (yr13I1) Adam Bateman (9B) Claude (Pertuit) Jeffry (10B) Yash

Primary

Eco IQ Quiz

Eco Schools is a great way to make sustainable development a part of the life and ethos of our school. It is designed to fit into the curriculum by focusing around nine key environmental topics.

You can take our quiz to find out what your Eco IQ is

(click on the links below)

• • Water
  • Biodiversity
  • Energy
  • Global perspectives
  • Healthy living
  • School grounds
  • Transport
  • Waste

Once you have completed your quiz (or quizzes), email your answers to ecoactionteam@greenmail.net

A member of the Eco Action Team will get back to you soon.

Probocis Monkey
Brunei Film Star and Singer Wu Chun visits ISB to interview with our Eco students about going green.
ISB TechKids Podcast Series Introduction Welcome to the ISB TechKids podcast series. If you are new to the concept of podcasting, the simplest way to think about it would be as a voice recording played over the internet as and when needed. It should immediately become obvious that this form of technology has numerous educational benefits covering a wide range of learning opportunities.   The ISB TechKids podcasts are broadcast at regular intervals except during periods when the school is closed. The podcasts are almost entirely planned, created, managed and edited by the TechKids while Mr. Lowe acts as the advisor for each podcast.  All music used during the podcasts is found at “The Free Music Archive” and is available under various Creative Commons Licenses and are always clearly attributed to the artists and used in compliance with the relevant Creative Commons license.  Each of the ISB TechKids Podcasts are licensed under the Creative Commons: The TechKids, ISB and I hope you enjoy the broadcasts and appreciate your support. Introduction to Podcast #1 In their first ever podcast, the presenters Caleb and Willy welcomed Lachlan from the school’s ECO-Action group and had a brief discussion about why we need to be concerned about saving the rainforests. The boys then talk about a recent FOBISSEA event many students at the school were involved in. TechKids_podcasts
One Minute Eco Video Competition (Interschool)
Borneo Project Mark Cheng brings ISB a strong message for would be an optimists. As part of our National Environment Day (week) we invited Mark Cheng – a 23 years odd entrepreneur and environment from Singapore to inspire lower secondary students. He used a series of short videos and animations to get his message across to our students. Mark’s stunning CV is attached and I would recommend him for nay event requiring input on global poverty or environment degradation. He can be contacted at markcheng@avelife.org Mark was loaned to ISB by AsiaInc Forum who had engaged him to speak at their National Environment conference held in Brunei. Mark Cheng CV   Brendon De-demonise sharks at ISB Brendon Sing of Shark Guardian visited Brunei in June to talk to ISB students about the role of sharks on the global eco-system. He adjusted his multi media presentation to suit a range of year groups from Kindy toY10 and got the message across that sharks need not be scary. He also showed students how we are managing to exterminate so many species of shark by taking more than 100 million of them out of the ocean each year, mostly for the shark fin trade. Brendon is a very engaging speaker and his presentation is very professional. I can thoroughly recommend him if you would be interested in him presenting at your school contract him at info@sharkguardian.org       Eco Week - March 2011 Primary school students celebrated the wonders of our world during a dedicated week of environmental education. The aim of the activities was to guide students on their journey to sustainability, to explore ways of working together on environmental issues, and to raise awareness. Some of the activities students were involved in were: Eco registration time, No power hour, Pass on the aper, Eco poetry, Shared local snacks, Eco pledges, Making games from recycled materials, Green day, Eco Songs, Can recycling, T-shirt designing, an Idea competition and an Eco ssembly."
Pond / Tree Nursery Club
	A group of students have volunteered to help out once a week on a Wednesday afternoon to support some of the school based eco projects
	The Pond - at the back of Rm 25 is the school pond.  This requires regular clearing and after a few years of adding new life to the pond, the dividends are paying off.  Every week leaves need clearing from the pond to allow the wildlife to  grow and the students generally help with the maintaining of the area.
	The Tree Nursery - once a year our students go to collect seedlings from the forest floor. These are then brought back to our tree nursery which is next to the school swimming pool. On a regular basis, we make sure that the seedlings are weeded and that they are getting enough water. After about a year in the school nursery we then find new homes for our trees to grow. Trees that we have nurtured include the Casuarina, Gaharu, Kerving Sindor and Tulong.
	Tree Site at RBA - one of the Year 9 CAS days was to plant trees in an area allocated by the Royal Brunei Recreation Club.  This small plot of land at the entrance of the club is amass with vegetation.  In this small area, trees were planted and students on a regular basis (once a fortnight during term time) attend to the site, weeding around the trees and ensuring that the surrounding grass does not strangle the up and coming trees.
	E-Waste Skip
	Once a term (usually at the time of ISB's PTA run Car Boot Sale) Daikyo Recycling Co send a skip for us to collect e-waste from the community.
	Students Prepare Tree Tags
		One of the jobs given to our eco students is to create the tags using old phone  cards.  We had to stick our Million Trees Logo labels on the cards and tag them up.
	Recycling at ISB Recycling bins are commonplace around the ISB campus. One of the ways ISB aims to reduce its ecological footprint is through its recycling program. The program has grown from only recycling cans, paper and PET to include mixed paper products, steel cans, aluminium cans, clothes, batteries and plastic bottles, e-waste and food scraps.

Beach clean up

ISB, along with the Beach Bunch and members of the community from local schools join together every year for a Beach Clean Up. A family event aimed at promoting awareness of beach cleanliness and action in protecting beaches from pollution, the Beach Clean Up has grown each year to include different beaches and more members of the community.

 ISB Helps Save the Coral Reef

Having existed for more than 500 million years and known as the 'rainforests of the sea', coral reefs are not only breathtakingly beautiful, but are also extremely important in maintaining the ocean's biological diversity. Due to human activity however, these brilliant 'undersea gardens' are now under threat. Coral reefs are at risk everyday from global warming, pollution, marine debris and almost any human alteration of the environment. If these trends continue, and with 20 percent of the world's coral reefs already dead, it is estimated we may lose them completely within the next 30-50 years.              

Green Assembly 

Assemblies are a great way for students to showcase their creativity and raise awareness about issues they learn about. On top of announcements and updates about eco activities in school, a special assembly is dedicated to Earth Day every year. This special assembly is hosted by the student ECO Action Team and includes musical performances, videos, and special projects. In the past, students have written their own ECO songs, showcased impressive fashion designs made out of used materials, given out seedlings to encourage planting, and presentations about issues such as the destruction of the earth.

Class Activities

While the eco initiatives outside the classroom are endless, the green mindset has also made a presence inside the classroom. Teamwork activities, orientation programmes and PSE (Personal and Social Education) lessons are incorporating activities such as recycle-ware fashion designing and others to spur students to be more creative and open minded about the possibilities of green activities.

Eco Videos

Brunei Schools ECO Videos Competition

Inspired by some ECO videos produced by some ISB students, International School Brunei will collaborate with Jerudong International School to launch a nation-wide Brunei Schools Eco Video Competition to motivate and inspire students to be more proactive about sustainability and eco practices.

Captions

1. Battery recycling by Year 12 students

2. Can crushing by Year 12 Students

3. By Year 9 students

Green Class Competition

The ongoing school-wide competition requires classes to gain points by fulfilling the ECO Action Team's topic criteria such as energy, healthy living and transport. The competition aims to create awareness of ways students can incorporate eco practices on campus and motivate students to act responsibly toward the environment. The winning classes in Primary and Secondary will be announced in June 2011.

Tree Planting

ISB's dedication to re-afforestation around Borneo is not only limited to fundraising for the Million Trees Project. Students in the community are also actively involved in tree-planting efforts in Brunei, such as the Badas 50,000 trees project. Trips are also planned in conjunction with local schools and businesses to spend a few hours during weekends planting seedlings. ISB is in the midst of implementing a FOBISSEA tree planting scheme whereby schools are invited to buy 10,000 trees to be planted in the Kinabatangan region of Sabah, Malaysia as part of the WWF Corridor of Life. 

Recycle Wear

Move over Gucci and Prada! This year's latest trends were couture ensembles made from dollies, rubbish bags, tissue paper and can tabs. The theme: recycle, the inspiration: saving planet Earth!
A lovely assortment of year 12 girls got together and created some gorgeous recycled outfits. Using only the materials they had lying around school, their homes or even the dump! The overall activity was organised for ISB's Earth Day assembly in order to inspire and motivate everyone to get into the 'save your planet' mood. While models strutted their stuff down ISB's runway, everyone cheered and congratulated our designers.

W.E.E.P

A lot of the time, the responsibility of 'saving the planet' seems too big to tackle, too much to aim for. So this year, we decided to emphasise on the small things we do cumulatively that makes a big difference. This was summarised into four letters: WEEP. Save Water, Energy, Environment and Paper. 
A short presentation from the student environmental council aimed to highlight the things we love, and stand to lose if we didn't take action. We were reminded about the carbon footprints we leave behind and reflections on what we can do to change our planet's future. It's amazing how the beauty of a Natural earth can still warm the hearts of people, and spur our motivation to stay green for Earth! So to avoid ever seeing an earth made up of landfills and murky polluted waters, the students were all encouraged to WEEP, in support of our school's environmental efforts.

Can You Save It?

A performance from the drama club and some brave teachers really got the message going with the Jackson 5 adapted song- 'Can You Save it?' lyrics by Ardyn Geddes. With that, everyone can sing along and "spread the world and teach to all, who don't understand just what they can do..."

Welcome to Eco Group page

Links to some Fun and Cool sites 
There are lots of exciting web pages for students to go to and have some fun and games about the environment.

Recycle City

http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/

EPA Environmental Kids Club

http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Quest of the Ringleaders

http://www.hi-cone.com/ringleader/quest/welcome.asp

Global Footprints

http://www.globalfootprints.org/kids/index_flash.htm

Ollie Recycles

http://ollierecycles.com/recycle/index.html

Recycle Zone

http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/home.aspx

Kids Planet

www.kidsplanet.org

National Geographic Kids

www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/rainforest

  Quiz and Puzzle linkLink

Welcome to Green Families

Green Families is a group of ISB parents working together for the environment. Our main goal is to incorporate eco-friendly practices into our daily lives. We also aim to support ISB's Million Trees Project.

History

It all started at the Green Gala Dinner 2007. An ISB Mum attended and was so inspired to join in the fun, she got a small group meeting monthly to discuss and implement simple ways in which we can change our world.

We decided early on that our focus would be on making our homes more environmentally friendly, so...this is what we did:

Put bricks in our toilet cisterns to save water each time we flush.

Bought or made composters (see contacts) to recycle all our kitchen waste-fruit and vegetable peelings, old rice, bread and pasta etc (and our rubbish bins are no longer stinky!).

Built vegetable gardens to grow our own fresh vegetables and herbs (see contacts).

Recycled all paper and cardboard, tins and cans, bottles and containers.

Always said 'no plastic bag, thankyou' to shop assistants and used reusable bags.

We are still doing these things, they are part of our daily life now. It feels GOOD!

Plans for the Future.

We are currently looking for keen individuals who will be willing to work with other parents as part of Green Families. If you have any ideas, do let us know!

Useful environmental contacts   
 

Recycling Co   

ISB is very happy to take your paper, plastic, aluminum cans, domestic batteries car batteries and scrap metal. However if you have very large quantities and wish to sell your materials general re-cycling of please contact the following   

Daikyo Industrial Gas Sdn Bhd - this is the wrong name Mr Hung Ah Hing 111 Bersurat Building Jalan Batu Bersurat Mile 2½, Jalan Gadong
Tel : 2441823, 2422796 Fax : 2441797 daikyo@brunet.bn
 

• The company pays for the materials by weight by the buying rates vary depending upon demand. Most of the materials are shipped either to Singapore or China. The centre is at Serasa but they also have collection depot in Kuala Belait   

Oil waste

For responsible disposal of waste oil or other hazardous chemicals contact:  

CIC Environmental Services Sdn Bhd Mr Lau Ah Hwa 6, Jalan Carey Kuala Belait KA1931
Tel : 3330266/3330267 Fax : 333 0268 cickb@brunet.bn www.cicbrunei.com

• The company makes a nominal charge for the collection but re-processes and recycles  the materials.  

Recycling Bags

For cloth shopping bags contact:   

AEWON GARMENT & EMBROIDERY Mr Lau Chai Seng 4 Simpang 50 jalan Dato Ratna Kiarong, BSB Tel : 2611120/2670491 Fax : 2670487/2611017 jsl@brunet.bn aewonbrunei@gmail.com     
          
SAHABAZ (B) CO SDN BHD Mr Henry Tay 2, Simpang 600, Pusat Bunut 7 ½ km, Jalan Tutong BSB BF1320 Tel : 2652527 Fax : 2652531/2652532 sahabaz@brunet.bn      

• Prices vary with size, quantity and the nature of the material  

          
Recycled Paper Suppliers

It is very difficult to obtain recycled paper in Brunei, though the more established printers are able to get small quantities upon request, notably Brunei Press and Nyuk Lin (add contacts)   

WINPAC PAPER PTE LTD 5 Kaki Bukit Cresent #05-03 Singapore 416238 Tel : 64766666
Fax : 68440388 winpacpl@singnet.com.sg

Other suppliers are:

    PAPER DIMENSION (S) PL pdspore@singnet.com.sg     
          
    RJ PAPER PTE LTD rjpaper@pacific.net.sg     
          
    MARCLAM TRADE PTE LTD marclam@magix.com.sg     
          
    BEHN MEYER INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD bmissales@behnmeyer.com.sg      
         

General Advice

For general advice and information about environmental issues contact:   

DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT PARKS AND RECREATION MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT Haji Mohd Zakaria Sarudin, Director Tel : 2383222 ext 500 Fax : 2383644     
           

Composta   

If you wish to re-cycle home landscape and other organic waste buy a home composting tumbler :   

COMPOSTA - Home Compost Tumbler bruneicomposta@yahoo.com  http://composta.freehostia.com     
          
Help ISB to

REDUCE REUSE AND RE-CYCLE

AND WORK TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION