From Rubbish to Something

As we all know, waste is one of the big problems in the big city like Jakarta. We at least produce 2 baskets of rubbish in a week. So, imagine how it could be if all houses in Jakarta produce waste just like that in a month, in a year, and then years. The waste piles up into one and becomes a giant mountain.

Hey, wake up! That is not in our imagination no more. It is there already! Take a look at Bantar Gebang. You will find a giant mountain full of waste. Thing is this giant mountain brings about the stinky air because of the methane gas it produces. I can’t even imagine how the people still survive there. For the worse, it also makes the Ozone becomes thinner. So, that’s why our land now becomes hotter than ever.

Actually, this methane gas would not be produced if the waste wasn’t mixed between the organic (rice, vegetables, fruit, etc) and the non-organic (plastics, cans, etc). But the problem doesn’t stop only for separating the waste. The waste will still be the giant mountain if we do not act deeper to decrease it. How to decrease our waste if we already separate the waste into organic and non-organic? The answer is we can recycle and reuse it. We can decrease the organic waste into compost and we also can make beautiful things from the non-organic waste.

Recycling the organic waste

We can make compost with “Takakura Basket”. This method was introduced first in Japan from the scientist named Takakura. It is easy.

1. First we need to have the basket, "Takakura Basket". This is what it looks like:

2. Before we do anything to the basket, we need to pile up some husks and cover it with microorganism liquid. After that, put this husk to a net bag. We need also to cover the inside basket with cartoons and cover it with microorganism liquid. Put in a little a bit of compost to the basket and there you go with the rubbish (the organic one).

3. Cover up the rubbish with the net bag full of husks and then with a stocking.

  
4. After that, close the basket and wait for 2 weeks for the result.










Then, there you go with your own organic compost! Easy, right?


Recycling the non-organic waste

This one is kind of hard to be recycled, so we need to reuse it. We have to use our creativity on it. I will give you an example. We can make those beautiful vases you see above. If you have bottles that you do not use anymore, you can make these things. First, you can cover the outer side of the bottle with glue than put on egg skin (that you already washed before) on it. Then, make it looks attractive with putting some color over it. That’s it! 

References:

• All of this knowledge I found when I entered "The Rock 'n Gree Tour" event on one of the subject I took (Environmental Education). So, thanks for SIMPONI (Sindikat Musik Penghuni Bumi) for sharing it to us!
• http://www.keranjangtakakura.blogspot.com/

Six Thinking Hats

 

Everyone has his/her own perspective in seeing things. I believe that one! Even, we can see a single same glass on a table in many different perspectives. You see it right from above but I see it from below. Actually, what we see is the same – a glass on the table, but for sure we see it differently.

Dr. Edward de Bono proposed six thinking hats to give us the pictures of having many perspectives. He determined six different colored hats (red, yellow, white, black, green, and blue) as our different thinking ways. Red is representative for an intuition thinking way. Yellow is informative. White is constructive. Black is cautious. Green is creative. The last but not least, blue is reflective.

When you use a red hat, it means that mostly you take an action of something (that you think is good) by using your intuition. You follow your heart on it.

The yellow hat is the sunshine hat! It means that you think in always the positive side. You build up your spirit by thinking of something in a good way.

White hat is the information seeker hat. You always want to find out the facts. You think in a neutral way, based on the information and the facts you find.

The black hat is the cautious hat. You are always cautious on something, whether the steps you are taking gives you any risk. You are cautious on the risk it follows.

The green hat means that you are creative. The green itself symbolizes the growth and the development. Your mind is full of fresh ideas. It means that you always seeks for new ideas and the solution of something.

Finally, blue hat is the control hat. You are the controller in here. You make things under control. You are focus and you could provoke the use of the other hats. You like to reflect on something that happened to you.

I think from those six thinking hats, Dr Edward de Bono is trying to say that we have many kinds of thinking ways. It is good to have our own perspectives in seeing things, but it is better if we also see others perspectives. So that we dont see only the bad side of something happens, but we also see the good side on it, and we could make new ideas for the solution it takes for the risk it follows.  

Reflection: 

Now think about the situation around us. The simple one: when the flood occurs. What would you do? Try to apply these six thinking hats for you to think before taking a further action. Use the red one, then you will take an acting using your intuition, what will you do next when you are stuck on the flood. Sometimes your feeling tells you something right. Then, when you use the yellow one, you will think positively that may be this flood happens because God is blessing with water He gave. So, you do not always have to see the negative side like this flood happens because the goverenment fails to cover it up and so on and so forth.

Beatboxing

           
          Be creative and be environmental friendly with this beatboxing! Beatboxing is some kind of vocal percussion in producing an art (in this case music). It is more like an acapella but it is kind of a different thing. You sing acapella in groups but you beatbox all by yourself. So, it is kind of cooler! 

          This kind of music (beatbox) doesn’t need any usual instruments to produce the rhythm and the sound (e.g. guitars, keyboards, drums, etc), but except for the microphone to make your sound coming out from your mouth bigger. All you need is only your mouth (lips, tongue, and voice), that’s it! You can produce the sounds of drum beats, the rhythms, and other musical sounds all by using your mouth.         

Me, Angga, and Melly

          A cool beatboxer (based on my thought) can produce at least 3 kinds of sounds in a time. That is the crazy one! I don't even know how they could do that but I have seen that one before (directly!). This picture you see (on the left side) is a picture of me and my friend with a beatboxer name Angga. This guy is cool! He could make a beatbox producing 3 kinds of different sounds in one time!  I met him on "Rock 'n Green Tour" event on my campus.

          So, again, this kind of art is actually very environmental friendly because you don’t need to cut off the trees to make musical instruments such as guitars. Yet, you still could be hell creative, even more creative than using other musical instruments.

References: 
www.wikipedia.com