Environment

A blogger reminiscents about Miri City in his post, on how the city today is compared to the past how the city has basically forgotten much of its its history and some of its citizens' less than stellar attitudes towards tourists from neighboring countries, not to mention some of the somewhat mediocre infrastructures.

He puts it best here, and I quote him:

"There is so little around us to remind us of its golden glorious history and the bad past when ambitious egomaniac Japs ruled the Asian region and the many past heroes and founding fathers of the ex-town seem to be conveniently forgotten and unrecognised. Case in point: just take a walk to the oldest Mission school in the city and you will soon realise not a single street is named after its Asian founder or the many pioneers who established the first oldest educational institution."

More at link.

What're your thoughts? Please comment.

Miri's attempt to create a Malaysian record in eco-friendly shopping on May 1 will come as a big start to promote greater environmental awareness among city folks.

Miri Mayor Lawrence Lai said the Miri City Council (MCC) had already outlined plans to encourage the people to use less plastics or other materials that could adversely effect the environment.

"We want it to be a memorable event not just for the sake of creating a record but also to eventually make Miri an environmental-friendly city," he told reporters at a reception for the Miri Marriott Resort and Spa charity run here.

More here.

My take:

A better start would be to get manufacturers to reduce their use of plastics in their everyday products, which would automatically produce LESS trash. At least plastic bags are useful, product packaging trash isn't.

What would people use to wrap trash in without plastic bags from their grocery purchase? Thats right - they'd go out to buy MORE readily-available plastic bags to wrap their trash in, defeating the whole purpose of reducing plastics from our environment.

A better solution is to use paper bags, or biodegradable plastic bags, which is certainly not the case here.

This is just another attempt at record breaking & having an "environmentally friendly image", but offering no real actual solution to protect our environment. (The past few months of open burning, thick haze & "ashflake fall" is testament to this hypocrisy).

See "No plastic Bag Campaign"

See also " Why No Plastic Bag Day is Flawed."

There will be a talk on Environmental remediation and the solution for a greener earth using effective microorganisms (EM), speaker Anthony Ng.

Organized by the Lions Club Miri - open to all.

Venue : Hokkien Association
Date & Time : 13th March 2010, 2.00pm.

For more info, please contact the Organizing Chairperson, Mr Scott Wong at 013-8367312 (charngyeon@yahoo.com).

The mayor is expected to be present.

Dry Weather In Miri Taking Its Toll

MIRI, - The dry weather in Miri Division over the last three weeks is taking its toll on the people, with over 1,000 rural folk being in need of clean water supply and 200,000 more affected by the haze.

Miri Resident and district offices would be sending tankers to bring clean water to the affected population soon.

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Who would have expected the yearly haze season would come so early in February?