Our SG Conversation for the Green Community

In our earlier post, Our (Green) Singapore Conversation, we mentioned that we are planning to organise an OSC session for the green community. Here’s an update:

Our SG Conversation for the Green Community is organised by Faizah Jamal, Nominated Member of Parliament (Environment and Heritage) People and Civic Sector, and Eugene Tay, Director, Green Future Solutions, in collaboration with the “Our Singapore” Programme Office, Public Service Division.

The ongoing Our SG Conversation (OSC) provides an opportunity for Singaporeans to come together and discuss our vision and priorities as a country. We believe that the green community would also be able to contribute and make a difference to this national conversation. The diverse views of the green community, which includes environmental NGOs and groups; individual environment, animal and wildlife activists; and environmental businesses, associations and research academics, would add an important voice to the overall conversation.

To that end, we are organising the “Our SG Conversation for the Green Community” session with the following objectives:

• Allow the green community to come together and voice our thoughts and vision for Singapore
• Input the views and discussions of the green community into the OSC process
• Foster greater interaction and discussion among the green community on national issues beyond the OSC process

As we are adopting the existing OSC format and facilitation questions, our discussion is on general issues and our vision for Singapore, and not just on green issues. Although as members of the green community, our focus will naturally be on green issues, we should aim to communicate and weave our concerns in line with the OSC process so that our concerns can be seen as relevant to all Singaporeans and the country as a whole, and not just the views of a small group of people.

We are inviting 64 representatives from the green community to join us for this session on 19 Jan. So far, we have confirmed representatives from these groups:

1. Earth Hour Global
2. Action for Singapore Dogs
3. Singapore Institute of International Affairs
4. Sustainable Living Lab
5. Nature Trekker
6. Green IT Chapter, Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation
7. EART-H
8. Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities
9. Department of Geography, NUS
10. Waterways Watch Society
11. Residues & Resource Reclamation Centre
12. Kranji Countryside Association
13. Singapore Polytechnic Environment Club
14. Energy Research Institute @ NTU
15. Edible “Garden City” Project
16. Energy Studies Institute
17. Blue Water Volunteers
18. Ground-Up Initiative
19. SPCA
20. Avelife
21. Environmental Challenge Organisation (Singapore)
22. Waste Management and Recycling Association of Singapore
23. Environmental Rangers Club (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)
24. Conservation Interest Group (Republic Polytechnic)
25. Environmental Management Association of Singapore
26. Nature Society
27. Singapore Green Building Council
28. The Living! Project
29. Vegetarian Society (Singapore)
30. ITE College East Environment Club
31. Cat Welfare Society
32. Bachelor of Environmental Studies Student Committee (NUS)
33. GEO Council (Nanyang Polytechnic)
34. NIE Green Club
35. Wildlife Conservation Society
36. Green Kampong
37. International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
38. Raffles Museum Toddycats!
39. The Hantu Bloggers
40. WWF Singapore
41. SMU verts
42. 350 Singapore
43. Naked Hermit Crabs
44. Kampung Temasek
45. TeamSeagrass
46. Energy Carta (NUS)
47. Hemispheres Foundation
48. Green Drinks
49. Keep Singapore Beautiful Movement
50. Singapore Environment Council
51. Wildsingapore
52. EARTHlink NTU
53. NUSSU SAVE

Our SG Conversation is an opportunity for all Singaporeans, including the green community, to contribute our thoughts and discuss our vision of a better Singapore.

Join us for updates on the Our SG Conversation for the Green Community Facebook page, and share your views too!