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    GREENWOODS

    Feb 2014 Newsletter Vol. 2

    ACTIVITIES REVIEWS:

    Reg DayA new batch of freshmen

    joined the university last August.

    As usual, we set up a booth,

    which carries a green theme to

    recruit our new members. We

    included our event highlights in

    the form of photos and videos in

    the booth. Also, we displayed theharvest from the rooftop farm at

    Runme Shaw Building, which has

    added vibrancy and color to our

    stall. Besides, we also handmade

    some bookmarks as souvenirs for

    new members, who has shown

    support to our society -

    Greenwoods. The bookmarks

    were made from recycled

    newspaper and leaflets. We

    painted plants and created some

    unique patterns on the

    bookmarks. We have to thank the

    Lung Fu Shan Environmental

    Education Centre for lending us

    the venue and the required tools.

    Special thanks also go to the ICA

    for coordinating such a big eventso that all clubs and societies had

    a chance to recruit and get to

    know the new batch of freshmen!

    Thank you again for all your

    support!

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    THE EXECUTIVE

    COMMITTEE OF

    GREENWOODS, HKUSU

    2013-14

    Chairperson

    Ho Kin Sing, Kenny

    Internal Vice-chairperson

    Cheung Man Nga, Clio

    External Vice-chairperson

    Su Tsz Ki, Suki

    Financial Secretary

    Wong Leung Sit, Samuel

    General SecretaryLeung Shue Kwan, Justin

    Programme Secretary

    Cheng Ho Sum, Arthur

    Lai Hoi Yip, Samson

    Publication and Publicity

    Secretary

    You Yi, Nikki

    Chan Chun Man, Clement

    Academic SecretaryLam Chun Shing, Bon

    Chan Kwan Kit, Kenneth

    Marketing Secretary

    Wu Yu Ching, Carrie

    Lin Yiwen, ErosGREEN

    WOODS2013-1

    4

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    Orientation Camp of

    Greenwoods, HKUSU:

    Sai Kung Green

    CanoeistsThe aim of such a design was to

    inform our participants that environmentalprotection is not totally unrelated with us,

    it is closely intertwined with our lives. As

    long as we pay more attention to details

    and take a step forward, such as avoiding

    the use of over-packaging products and

    straws, bringing our own water bottles

    and utensils for take-away food and using

    public transportation whenever possible.

    These seemingly minimal changes will

    end up creating a huge di"erence.

    Judging from the feedback of the

    participants, the tasks shed new light on

    the concept of eco-friendliness and raised

    their awareness in such A resect.

    On October 6th, the much-

    anticipated part of the orientation was

    carried on canoeing in Sai Kung. For

    most of our participants, this was both

    interesting and challenging. On that sunny

    day, we went to the beach of Sai Kung.

    First we canoed along the coastline

    towards the mangroves and gave our new

    canoe learners some time to practice.

    When we approached the mangrove area,

    our executive members briefly introduced

    the plants and their functions. After

    leaving the mangroves, we canoed to an

    island in the sea, then we made our way

    back, with the whole activity lasted for

    around three hours. Through this activity,

    it was expected that students were able

    to canoe in the wild, learn about the

    ecological value of mangroves and

    broaden their knowledge concerning

    environmental protection.

    Although some problems arose in our

    orientation, the schedule could be runsmoothly with the cooperation of

    Greenwoods executive members. What is

    more gratifying is that participants could

    learn how to live a greener live as well as

    make some changes in daily lives. We

    hope the our mission and philosophy of

    Greenwoods could continue to be spread

    out further, encouraging people inside and

    outside HKU to make a contribution for a

    better environment.

    ChuPakFaiDereck:Althoughtherewasatyphoon

    which

    a!ected

    the

    arrangement

    oftheo-camp,Ithinkthe

    preparationworkwasbrilliant

    whiletheactivitieswere

    meaningfulandinteresting.

    YuanShuaiSwacky:Theo-campheldbyGreenwoods

    wasthefirstoneIparticipatein

    HKU. EveryoneisveryniceandI

    reallyenjoyit!

    WORDS FROM

    PARTI:

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    Sabah Eco TourThe carbon footprint generated from traveling,

    consuming and the use of disposable supplies is generally

    believed to be not eco-friendly. However, we do not totally

    agree. Traveling can take place in a way that may not be

    as detrimental to the environment as people expect and

    this is what the six-day eco-tour organized by

    Greenwoods in July 2013 has successfully proved.

    A series of activities were organized during the trip.

    First of all, we had an interflow session with students who

    study wood management in the Universiti of Sabah. Wevisited the aquarium and museum in their campus. More

    remarkably, we had a chance to plant mangroves by

    ourselves. It is a unique experience since we had to

    immerse ourselves into the mud in order to insert the

    mangrove seedlings deep into the mud ground. Via this

    activity, we highly appreciate the enthusiasm and

    willingness of the local students in Sabah in handling

    tougher tasks that Hong Kong students may be reluctant

    to do so. In Hong Kong, people live in a concrete jungle,

    where apartments and skyscrapers are closely packed

    together. We hardly have the chance to experience living in

    the wild and with nature. We simply do not notice how

    beauty and amazing nature is.

    UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH SNORKELING MOUNT

    KINABALU

    MANGROVE

    PLANTING

    LOCAL SCHOOL

    VISIT

    SABAH ECO TOUR

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    THE ROOFTOP

    FARMING

    PROJECT AT HKUThe Rooftop Farming Project at

    HKU is co-organised by theGeneral

    Education UnitandSustainability

    O!ce, supported byTime To

    Grow,Greenwoods (HKUSU)andBijas

    Vegetarian Restaurant, and sponsored

    by theBOCHK Charitable Foundation.

    The project started in July 2013 and

    the

    rooftop farm is located on the Runme

    Shaw Building in the main campus.

    TheGeneral Education

    UnitandSustainability O!ce manage

    the farm and give instructions to

    students participating in the project.

    Meanwhile, city farmers were invited to

    teach students the techniques of urban

    farming. As one of the green groups in

    the university, we are glad to join the

    project and handle

    regular farming work

    with other students.

    The daily work includes

    watering, removing

    grasses, loosening the

    soil as well as setting

    up the farm and

    harvesting before and

    after the planting. It

    would be a new

    experience for students

    to witness how

    vegetable grows stage

    by stage.

    The project promotes the idea of a

    sustainable life and thus the ultimate

    goal of reducing wastes. The harvested

    vegetable would be served in Bijas

    Vegetarian Restaurant. The food waste

    from restaurants in the Centennial

    Campus will be transformed into

    fertilizer after being processed by the

    food waste disposal machine. The

    fertilizer can then be used at the

    rooftop farm as a more natural

    alternative than chemical fertilizers.

    Furthermore, vegetable should be

    planted according to suitable seasons.

    As a matter of fact, the green houses

    used to plant vegetable in winter trap

    much heat from sunlight and further

    exacerbate the problem of global

    warming. Thus the farm would also like

    to raise greater concerns over such an

    issue. Insummer, corns, bitter melons,

    eggplants, RedAmaranth, Ghost

    Pepper, Perilla and Cucumbers were

    planted, with some herbs such as

    Common Rue, Rosemary, Clary Sage

    and Basil. In autumn and winter, we

    planted Bak Choi, Spinach, Lesser

    Tong Hao, Lettuce, Broccoli, tomato,

    White Radish, and Carrots etc. We sawan abundant of reaps and our team

    members felt gratified to harvest the

    vegetables they planted themselves.

    HKU Rooftop Farming webpage:

    http://

    rooftopfarmhku.wordpress.comm/

    Birds crashing to glass

    walls in centennial

    campus

    The newly built centennial campus has

    been in operation since 2012. The new

    and modern campus makes use of

    large glass walls to introduce natural

    light into the interior. Due to centennial

    campus sustainable design and the

    outstanding strategic plan to reduce

    disruption to the ecosystem nearby, it

    is awarded the highest performance

    Platinum certification under LEED.

    Despite its much-touted design, its

    well-known glass walls are deadly to

    birds. The centennial campus has a

    number of of man-made gardens,

    attracting birds to gather around the

    area. However, unlike human beings,

    transparent panels are invisible tobirds. They are also attracted by the

    lighting at night, as the illumination

    system of the centennial campus

    remains in operation. Therefore, it is

    not rare to see birds crashing into

    curtain walls, which resulted in injuries

    or even death. Greenwoods has

    reported the issue to the Vice-

    chancellor o!ce, Dr Steven J. Cannon,

    Executive Vice-President

    (Administration and Finance) who has

    shown his deepest concern on theissue and will discuss the solutions

    with the Estates O!ce.

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    Green Route Outing

    Last year, the work of Eco-Trip around DoubleHaven won the Green Route Design Competition.

    As promised, we have organized a one-day trip on

    January 10th so that our participants can learn

    more about the ecosystem of the suburb areas in

    Hong Kong, as well as fully unwind themselves after

    the examination.

    To our delight, the level of participation was

    keen and the number of participants reached the

    limit within one week. The hiking trip commenced

    from Wu KauTan() and we walked across

    Upper and Lower Miu Tin() and Sam A

    Tsuen () to the coastline of Double Haven (

    ). After passing Lai Chi Wo () and Kuk Po

    (), we finally reached the destination---LukKeng

    (). Along the trail, students could take a look at

    the wide variety of ecological landscape, such as

    the Fung Shui Woods, Derris, Wetlands, Mangrove

    and etc. Our students spotted a sea of red mapleleaves during the trip. The scenery was eye-

    catching, the weather was cool, yet comfortable

    and the air soothed and refreshed our mind.

    When we reached the Five-finger Camphor at

    Lai Chi Wo Village, eco-tour guide told us that one

    finger of the Camphor was cut during the Second

    World War by the Japanese army for its high market

    value. However, country has shown a high concern

    for environmental protection throughout the years.

    This made us to reflect on the issue of international

    environmental protection. If everyone, when

    traveling, holds the belief of it is not our own place

    and thereby ruins the local ecosystem deliberately,

    our environment will su"er a lot. Therefore,

    cooperation among all global citizens is a key to

    conserving the ecosystem. Gladly, we discovered

    that there was very little rubbish on the trail we

    passed through and we only collected one plastic

    bottle throughout the trip! As responsible travelers,

    we should be aware of their own behavior while

    traveling so as to minimize our disruption to the

    beautiful mother nature.

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    Hall Recycling Campaign At the very beginning we thought the job of our

    committee members was simple but it turned out to

    be the opposite.

    Originally we just planned to assist the halls to

    arrange permanent bins for other recycling

    materials. However, after our small-scale data

    collection, it is discovered that some halls in our

    campus do not even have a bin for basic recycling

    (i.e. paper, plastics, & metals).

    The recycling management is so poor thatnumerous useful resources are being dumped every

    single semester.

    You can imagine the amount of resources being

    wasted every year, every semester, and every hall, I

    hope the answer would break your heart... What is

    even worse is that fact that there is no organisation

    here in Hong Kong that collects quilts and pillows,

    meaning that all of them are directly transported to

    the landfills. Although those quilts (in the picture)

    have just been sent to poor families in rural China

    with the help from CEA (China Education

    Association, HKUSU) & Prime Care HKU, this is

    definitely not a long-term solution to curb the waste

    problem.

    The University of Hong Kong is well-known in the

    academic field, however, when it comes to

    conservation and waste reduction, there is still room

    for improvement.

    If you think these

    are washed

    clean quilts piled

    up by a tidy

    person,

    Im sorry that

    youd be wrong.

    They are quilts

    being abandonedby our students...

    The hall recycling work was much

    challenging than we imagined.

    Situations were shocking.

    Schedules were stumbled by

    unexpected difficulties.

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    Greenwoods commentary!"# %&'()* +, (%- '+../*%+0 *+ "#(.*" (01*"# 21#3#.+'%04 )+/0*-5 (%- 6/(.%*5 7*(01(-18 /7#1 %0 9+04 :+04 ;5::

    The environmental protection department in Hong Kong

    announced the replacement of Air Pollution Index (API) with Air

    Quality Health Index (AQHI) in December 2013. The new index

    concerns mainly the short-term health risk of air pollution

    according to the department, but exactly what kind of pollutants

    are involved and how these pollutants can a"ect peoples health

    in Hong Kong?

    According tothe Hong Kongs Environmental Protection

    Department, air pollutants in Hong Kong mainly include sulphur

    dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), respirable suspended

    particulates (RSP or PM10), volatile organic compounds (VOC)

    and carbon monoxide (CO). All these pollutants are harmful to us

    and PM10 would be our main focus in this article.

    RSP(PM10):

    Respirable suspended particulates (RSP or PM10) are

    particulate that can penetrate toalveoliand hence thecirculatory

    system and with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 10

    micrometers, thus also named as PM10. They are tiny pieces ofsolid or liquid matter associated with the Earth's atmosphere.

    Burning offossil fuelsin vehicles,power plantsand various

    industrial processes generate significant amounts of

    particulates. Sea spray consisting of mainly sodium chloride is

    another important source of particulates.[16] Atmospheric

    particulate matter can be of di"erent sizes but PM10 is more of a

    concern because of its small size. The small size of the particle

    helps it to penetrate the deepest part of the lungs such as the

    bronchioles or alveoli while the larger particles are generally

    filtered in thenoseandthroatvia cilia and mucus.

    Since 1970s, the e"ect of anthropogenicparticulate air

    pollution on health has been heavily studied. Many studies

    suggested that exposure to fine particulate matter in the air was

    associated with life shortening and some found significant

    e"ects of particulate matter with a diameter of less than 10 %m

    (PM10) on non-malignant respiratory deaths in men and women,

    and on lung-cancer mortality in male, non-smoking individuals

    [1] The e"ect on shortening life expectancy has been estimated

    at 12 years for realistic exposure contrasts. [2]

    Within the group of PM10, PM2.5 is a subgroup which with

    diameter smaller than 25 %m that can penetrate into the gas-

    exchange region of the lung and have a greater degree of lung

    penetration than PM10.TheWorld Health Organization

    (WHO)estimates that "... fine particulate air pollution (PM(2.5)),causes about 3% of mortality from cardiopulmonary disease,

    about 5% of mortality from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and

    lung, and about 1% ofmortality from acute respiratory infections

    in children under 5 yr, worldwide." [17]

    The actual situation is that the concentration of RSP remains high. [17]

    A beautiful figure from the government showing

    the gradual decrease in amount of RSP in HK.

    [18]

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    Mechanism of health problems:

    A number of models are suggested on the mechanism of how

    the fine particulates can cause health problems.

    According to some epidemiological studies, inhaled

    particulates can cause increase in respiratory and

    cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The particulates can

    cause proinflammatory e"ects involving lung epithelial cells

    [8]and alveolar macrophages. [7] They directly uptake into

    epithelial cells [8] and macrophages, and oxidant pathways areactivated with the downstream consequences of stimulating

    cytokine and mediator release, resulting in extensive neutrophil

    migration, but also T lymphocyte recruitment and activation. [9]

    [10] Acute tissue damage will activate the epidermal-growth-

    factor receptor (EGFR) pathway, and organ-repair responses

    and results in epithelial mucus metaplasia, as does ongoing

    cytokine and chemokine secretion that contributes to airway

    inflammation. [9]

    As for PM2.5, it can lead to high plaque deposits inarteries,

    causing vascular inflammation andatherosclerosis a

    hardening of the arteries that reduces elasticity, which can lead

    to heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems.

    Also, there is evidence that particles smaller than 100

    nanometers can pass through cell membranes and migrate into

    other organs, including the brain. Brain damage similar to that

    in Alzheimers patient can be caused by this kind of particulate.

    The standard

    To conclude the risk of particulates on health, there is an

    excess risk of death of 05% per 10 %g/m3PM10 [14] Taking

    Hong Kong as an example, with mortality figure of 43672 in

    2012 [14] and the annual average PM10 level of 50ug/m3, the

    number of death attributable to day-to-day variations in PM10

    would translate into at least 1092 deaths brought forward by airpollution per yearalmost 2.5 times the number of deaths due

    to diabetes.

    Though the RSP is posing a great risk to our health, the

    guideline on regulating the concentration of of RSP in Hong

    Kong is not up to international standard. According to the

    WHO air quality guideline for PM10, the 24-hour and annual

    concentration of the particulates should not be greater than 50

    and 20 %g/m3 respectively. However, the Hong Kong standard

    are only 100 and 50 %g/m3for the 24-hour and annual

    concentration. The di"erences in Hong Kong and WHO

    standard are even greater for PM2.5. The Hong Kong standard

    is almost 3 times than that of the WHO one.

    Due to this high tolerance of RSP concentration, the general

    annual concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 are about 50 ug/m3

    and 35 ug/m3 over the past 10 years. The figures fit perfectly

    with Hong Kong standard but they are a few times higher than

    the WHO standard. We do not know how does the government

    come up with the Hong Kong air quality objectives, whether

    the similarity between the measured concentration and the

    Hong Kong standard is an coincidence or not. But Hong Kong,

    which claims itself as Asias world city, should not have an air

    quality control standard that lag so much behind the

    international standard. The WHO standard was published in

    back in 2005.

    Another point that is worth mentioning is that according to the

    government website, there is a gradual decrease in the total

    amount of RSP production in Hong Kong. However, when

    comparing with the documents obtained from the Legislative

    Council, such a decreasing trend was not found in the annual

    concentration of the RSP, which remains high for past few

    years. So, is there anything wrong in the RSP measuring

    program? Or there are more sources of pollution that we do not

    know? The answers of these questions remain unclear but

    what we know is that many new findings suggest that health

    e"ects can be seen at even lower concentrations and air

    pollution problem will remain one of the most crucial

    environmental problems waiting for solution.

    Comparing Hong Kong Air Quality Objectives (from the EnvironmentalProtection Department) and the WHO Air quality guidelines [16][17]

    PollutantAveraging

    time

    Hong KongConcentrationlimit (g/m3)

    WHO

    Guideline

    10-minute 500 500

    24-hour 125* 20

    Respirablesus ended

    24-hour 100* 50

    particulates(PM10) [ii] Annual 50* 20

    Fine suspendedparticulates

    24-hour 75* 25(PM2.5) [iii] Annual 35* 10

    1-hour 200 200

    Annual 40 40

    Ozone 8-hour 160* 100

    # the Hong Kongs AQOs was updated on 1 January 2014.* means the concentration limit is greater than the WHO guildlines.

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    Thank you for the support

    this year!

    Hope to see you guys soon!

    To conclude...The 21st cabinet of Greenwoods,

    HKUSU witnessed a fruitful school

    year, denoted with the variety of

    activities, outings and campaigns

    we held. We have strived to

    achieve the following goals: to

    promote harmony between

    mankind ourselves and our

    environment, to urge our

    university body to align its

    operations and administration

    with environmental objectives and

    to heighten our students

    awareness towards an eco-

    friendly lifestyle. In the coming

    academic year, a new group of

    committee members will be

    handed over the baton and more

    importantly, they will continue to

    uphold the spirit of Greenwoods,

    HKUSU and make a positive

    impact on all HKU students.

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