Padi
Free Waste issue
March 2016
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS
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Anugrah nurman
Andin Anindya
Hello good people! IAAS Indonesia proudly present the very first edition of PADI bulletin with “Free-Waste” issue. From now on, PADI will provide you information about Village Concept Project from each Local Committee every month! So, what are you waiting for? Go grab your snacks & enjoy PADI :) with love, editor(s).
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national garbage day
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fun facts
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reduce-reuse-recycle
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laskar carangpulang
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agri-talk
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announcement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REPORTS
National Garbage Day IAAS LC BRAWIJAYA UNIVERSITY Malang - February 21st is the day that commemorated the national garbage in Indonesia. So, what did we do in this day? We did some action to reduce trash from the earth. This action is centered in major cities in Indonesia. One of the purpose of this event is to campaign that Indonesia free of waste in 2020. This action also is a form of youth and society concern about the phenomenon of garbage in Indonesia, which have given a lot of impact on various aspects of life. The Oration Came from environment engineering’s delegate of Brawijaya University. In Malang, this event take place in the centers “Trash is look like a bomb timer that can explode of the city, CFD Ijen Boulevard. Pioneer of this whenever and wherever it is, if not we who conevent is the “Aksi Malang” comunity which trol it, who else?” he said. We expect that from care about environment and social respect this event, we can educate and open society’s also. it starts from 07.00 am till 11.00 am. And mind to control their own garbage through litits finish line is in Kunang-Kunang Park. In the tle things, for example separate their trash beend, we welcomed by a lot of thing that made tween organic and unorganic garbage or just from recycle garbage. Actually this action is put the garbage in the dump. When everyone done in a variety of forms, including environ- in town aware with the importance of taking mental speeches, educative campaign about care of waste, not an impossibility if Indonesia environtment, user application of the 3Rs (re- can be free of waste in 2020. So, Act Now! use, reduce, recycle), auction of unique things made from secondhand , performing about Malang culture such as “Topeng Malangan” dancing and other crafts typical of the region.
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REPORTS
National Garbage Day IAAS LC GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY Yogyakarta - IAAS LC UGM in collaboration with student organization of Gadjah Mada University held an event called GEBRAK. GEBRAK stand for “Gerakan Bersih Kampung� in Bahasa Indonesia. The venue is in Blimbingsari village, Yogyakarta. The aim of this activity is to build up villagers and community awareness about environmental issue especially garbage issue. This activity begun with signing the campaign poster and express our support toward Indonesia free of waste 2020, signing activity was held in Graha Sabha Pramana Gadjah Mada University. The feedback from communities about this campaign was high, it was shown by number of signature given by them. After that the activity was continued by walking to Blimbingsari village and collecting trash along the way to Blimbingsari Village. The villagers really appreciated GEBRAK activity. In the end of the activity all participant gathered and expressed their opinion about the activity and also introduced their organization. Most of the participant hoped that this activity will be our routine schedule because it brought big impact for the community and environment.
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FUN FACTS
9 SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT YOUR GARBAGE Food Waste Is a Problem Too! Americans throw away 28 billion pounds of food a year, which is about 25 percent of the US food supply.
Disposables Are a Drain 10% of the world’s oil supply is used to make and ship disposable plastics – items like plastic utensils, plates, and cups that are used just one time and thrown away.
Trash Is Expensive Most communities spend more to deal with trash than they spend for schoolbooks, fire protection, libraries, and parks.
Carpet Waste Alone Is Astounding Americans throw away 5.7 million tons of carpet every year.
Paper Waste Is a Shame Americans waste 4.5 million tons of office paper a year. Ask yourself… do I really need to print that?
Opting Out of Junk Mail Makes a Difference According to Humes, the energy used to create and distribute junk mail in the US for one day could heat 250,000 homes.
Too Many Toys Only 4% of the world’s children live in the US, but Americans buy (and throw away) 40% of the world’s toys.
Plastic Bags On average, Americans use 500 plastic bags per capita each year. Such bags make up the second most common type of garbage found on beaches.
More Than 100 Tons of Waste for Every American That’s 102 tons in a lifetime, more than any other populations on Earth.
source : http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/16/10-shocking-facts-about-garbage.aspx
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ISSUE
REDUCE - REUSE - RECYCLE You’ve probably heard of The Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Committing this into practice in your home can significantly reduce the amount of waste your family generates while also saving you money. You can do your part by taking the following action steps that reduce your plastic consumption and generation of waste, which will benefit your health as well as the environment.
Reduce your plastic use If at all possible seek to purchase products that are not made from or packaged in plastic. Here are a few ideas... Use reusable shopping bags for groceries. Bring your own mug for coffee and bring drinking water from home in glass water bottles instead of buying bottled water. Take your own leftovers container to restaurants. Store foods in the freezer in glass mason jars as opposed to plastic bags. Request no plastic wrap on your newspaper and dry cleaning. Avoid disposable utensils and buy foods in bulk when you can.
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reusable single-use
Recycle/Repurpose what you can Take care to recycle and repurpose products whenever possible, especially ones that are not available in anything other than plastic. This includes giving your clothes or gently used household items to charities and frequenting second-hand stores instead of buying new. Make use of online sites like Freecycle.org that allow you to give products you no longer need away to others instead of throwing them away. I’m sure you can think of more!
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Be innovative and make something new
This includes non-disposable razors, washable feminine hygiene products for women, cloth diapers, glass bottles for your milk, an old t-shirt or rags in lieu of paper towels, and so on.
If you have a great idea, share it! Your capacity to come up with smarter designs and creative ideas is limitless and many heads are better than one. Innovations move us toward a more sustainable world.
Compost your food scraps and yard waste A simple bin in your backyard can greatly cut down on your landfill contributions while rewarding you with a natural fertilizer for your soil.
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source : http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/16/10-shocking-facts-about-garbage.aspx
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REPORTS
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Laskar Carang Pulang is one of the program
of Project Departement IAAS LC IPB. This program aimed to make the students get a knowledge about agriculture, environment and english. We spent our time together with the students to teach them about agriculture, environment and english. There are three classes of SDN 02 Carang Pulang that participated in this program and 21 members of IAAS LC IPB. The project officer of this program are Ni Putu Ayu Eka Sundari and Abdul Rasyid. The program was so interesting. We started by introducing ourselves to the students. We demonstrated about clean water and polluted water. We studied english together by playing games. The students divided into two group per class with differents colors as a mark for each group. They should remember the directions in english and then follow the instructions which had given to them. They also looking for some bottle with water in it and pour the water into bucket with trash in it. It aims to make the trash which had been in the bucket float.
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The program was started at 09.00 am and end at 11.00 am as like as schedule. We did not get any significant problems. Unfortunately this program was schedule at 13th February 2016 but it is realized at 20th February 2016. This is because there was an event in SDN 02 Carang Pulang. This program will be held every two weeks. This week is the first time for Laskar Carang Pulang in 2016. The objective of this first week’s program is for getting closer with the students in SDN 02 Carang Pulang. The next action in Laskar Carang Pulang will be more attractive.
AGRI-TALK
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AGRI-TALK
How to Feed THE Planet T he environmental chal-
lenges posed by agriculture are huge, and they’ll only become more pressing as we try to meet the growing need for food worldwide. We’ll likely have two billion more mouths to feed by mid-century— more than nine billion people But sheer population growth isn’t the only reason we’ll need more food. The spread of prosperity across the world, especially in China and India, is driving an increased demand for meat, eggs, and dairy, boosting pressure to grow more corn and soybeans to feed more cattle, pigs, and chickens. If these trends continue, the double whammy of population growth and richer diets will require us to roughly double the amount of crops we grow by 2050. How can the world double the availability of food while si multaneously cutting the environmental harm caused by agriculture?
Step One Step TWO FREEZE AGRICULTURE’S GROW MORE ON FARMS FOOTPRINT WE’VE GOT For most of history, whenever we’ve needed to produce more food, we’ve simply cut down forests or plowed grasslands to make more farms. We’ve already cleared an area roughly the size of South America to grow crops. To raise livestock, we’ve taken over even more land, an area roughly the size of Africa. Agriculture’s footprint has caused the loss of whole ecosystems around the globe, including the prairies of North America and the Atlantic forest of Brazil, and tropical forests continue to be cleared at alarming rates. But we can no longer afford to increase food production through agricultural expansion. Trading tropical forest for farmland is one of the most destructive things we do to the environment, and it is rarely done to benefit the 850 million people in the world who are still hungry. Most of the land cleared for agriculture in the tropics does not contribute much to the world’s food security. Avoiding further deforestation must be a top priority.
Starting in the 1960s, the green revolution increased yields in Asia and Latin America using better crop varieties and more fertilizer, irrigation, and machines—but with major environmental costs. The world can now turn its attention to increasing yields on less productive farmlands—especially in Africa, Latin America, and eastern Europe—where there are “yield gaps” between current production levels and those possible with improved farming practices. Using high-tech, precision farming systems, as well as approaches borrowed from organic farming, we could boost yields in these places several times over. Ten years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to have up to five displays in a tractor cab with a stream of wires hanging out the back window connecting the tractor to the implements it controlled. Today, those monitors have morphed into one screen called a virtual terminal. The wires have combined to form one big cable called a binary unit sys-
AGRI-TALK tem (BUS) that plugs into any brand of implement. The enabling technology is called ISOBUS, a communication protocol based on the agricultural electronics standards ISO 11783 and Controller Area Network or CANBUS technology. Step THREE USE RESOURCES MORE EFFICIENTLY We already have ways to achieve high yields while also dramatically reducing the environmental impacts of conventional farming. Commercial farming has started to make huge strides, finding innovative ways to better target the application of fertilizers and pesticides by using computerized tractors equipped with advanced sensors and GPS. Many growers apply customized blends of fertilizer tailored to their exact soil conditions, which helps minimize the runoff of chemicals into nearby waterways. Organic farming can also greatly reduce the use of water and chemicals—by incorporating cover crops, mulches, and compost to improve soil quality, conserve water, and build up nutrients.
Many farmers have also gotten smarter about water, replacing inefficient irrigation systems with more precise methods, like subsurface drip irrigation.
of food across the world. Because people in developing countries are unlikely to eat less meat in the near future, given their newfound prosperity, we can first focus on countries that already have meat-rich diets. Curtailing Step FOUR the use of food crops for bioSHIFT DIETS fuels could also go a long way It would be far easier to feed toward enhancing food availnine billion people by 2050 ability. if more of the crops we grew ended up in human stom- Step Five achs. Today only 55% of the REDUCE WASTE world’s crop calories feed people directly; the rest are An estimated 25 percent of fed to livestock (about 36%) the world’s food calories and or turned into biofuels and up to 50 percent of total food industrial products (rough- weight are lost or wasted bely 9%). Though many of us fore they can be consumed. consume meat, dairy, and In rich countries most of eggs from animals raised on that waste occurs in homes, feedlots, only a fraction of the restaurants, or supermarkets. calories in feed given to live- In poor countries food is often stock make their way into the lost between the farmer and meat and milk that we con- the market, due to unreliable sume. For every 100 calories storage and transportation. of grain we feed animals, we Consumers in the developed get only about 40 new calories world could reduce waste of milk, 22 calories of eggs, by taking such simple steps 12 of chicken, 10 of pork, or as serving smaller portions, 3 of beef. Finding more effi- eating leftovers, and encourcient ways to grow meat and aging cafeterias, restaurants, shifting to less meat-inten- and supermarkets to develop sive diets—even just switch- waste-reducing measures. Of ing from grain-fed beef to all of the options for boostmeats like chicken, pork, or ing food availability, tackling pasture-raised beef—could waste would be one of the free up substantial amounts most effective.
Source : http://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/
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AGRI-TALK
Vertical garden Green Wall with the another name Vertical Garden is the term of used to refer to all form of vegetaded wall surfaces. This magnificent idea was invented by Stanley Hart White. He invited the Living walls that he called a ”Botanical Bricks” and latter on a French botanical called Patrick Blanc developed the verticulture to the whole new level. There are two types of verticulture : Living walls and Green Facades. Living walls system are composed or vegetated panels, vertical moduls or planted blankets. Green Facades are type of green wall system in which climbing plants or cascading vegetation. It might looks quite hard and difficult to implement right? But don’t worry be happy, you can make your own simple Living walls! But don’t forget! Make sure that the simple walls that you choose is suitable to your plants and also make sure that you provide everything that your plants need such as water, media, and sun light. There are some suitable media for plant, such as haul of rice, burned haul of rice, ashes, sand, soil, vermicompost, and many more. Try to use these mixture materials to make a loose soil with good porosity. You can choose small herbaceous species such as ivy-leaved toadflax, wallflower and plants such as mosses, lichens and grasses. and other species that naturally adapted to climbing up and over obstacles such as rock faces, trees and shrubs for your green facades. And for your living walls you can use any type of plants, but you have to make sure that the type of verticulture and media is suitable for your plant.
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After you got your dream verticulture, don’t forget that there might be a pest that lurking in the dark going afther your plant. Don’t worry! We got a solution for you, it is “Yellow Trap”.
AGRI-TALK Yellow Trap absolutely can decrease the population of pest. This pest trap is really easy to make. You just have to paint a bottle with yellow colour, then after the paint dry, spread the pest glue to the bottle.
pest glue Well, there are a lot of benefits when you’re using Verticulture! Beauty The application of vertical gardens is shown to increase property values by dramatically increasing the amenity of buildings, and establishing higher public acclaim, transforming them into recognisable landmarks Covers up views of plain or ugly walls and provide building protection Decreased temperature fluctuations reduce the expansion and contraction of building materials and extend the building’s lifespan also shield the building envelope from ultra-violet rays and acidic rain by reducing cracking and carbonization of the building envelope, the buildings durability is improved and its servicelife extended Decrease voice level Soil and plants which used for plantal arrengements in Vertical Gardens, have a voice absorption feature. For this reason they perform to decrease voice function which happened both in building and its close area Green Walls provide a noise buffer which significantly reduces outside noise and vibration (up to 40dB) inside our homes and workplaces.
Conserves water and watering takes less effort One of the biggest benefits of vertical gardens is how they manage water. For starters, watering is very efficient as it is done using a drip irrigation system or a hydroponic system . Any waste water is collected at the bottom of the garden in a special tray where it is drained away. Alternatively, it can be recycled and put back on the garden. This means that practically all the water is used up by the plants and there is very little waste. Prevent from dust and harmful microorganisms Plants reduce wind-speed also they prevent dust with wet environments which created with their roots and leafs. By means of this event, plants bring about extinction to harmful microorganisms with on site sap and juice. Air quality improvement from plants has been shown to reduce coughs by 30% and dry throat and irritation by 24% also, the plants clean the office air by absorbing pollutants into their leaves and transmitting the toxin to their roots, where they are turned into food for the plant. Reduces CO2 levels and increases oxygen and improved air quality A greenwall offers immediate environmental advances in reducing existing greenhouse and other volatile organic compounds from our polluted cities. Plants act as bio-purifiers and can play a dramatic role in improving the quality of city air through a number of biochemical processes by removing and breaking down airborne contaminants from both inside and outside a building.
Source : http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/45441/InTech-Vertical_gardens.pdf
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