Eco-events in Singapore

Living Worlds: An Animal Planet Experience is the world’s first travelling wildlife and exploration exhibition. It promises the audience an immersive experience through various interactive multimedia to narrate stories of animals in their natural environments and the importance of protecting their habitats.

The exhibition is produced by Kingsmen and made in collaboration with Discovery Inc and Science Centre Singapore.

Date: 16 Nov 2019 to 22 March 2020

Time: 10am to 6pm

Where: The Annexe: Science Centre Singapore (15 Science Centre Rd, Singapore 609081)

Cost: $18 child│$23 adult│$66 family

For further information and to buy your tickets, click here

The Singapore Biennale is a platform for contemporary art and engages the public through exhibitions, guided tours, workshops, nature walks and more. As a part of this ongoing event, many environment related events have been scheduled over the next few months.

18 Jan, 19 Jan & 8 Feb | Nature Walk By Biennale Artist – Robert Zao Renhui | For more details, click here

Till 23 Jan | The Posthuman City | For more details, click here

Till 5 Apr | 2219 Futures Imagined @ ArtScience Museum | For more details, click here

To know more about what’s on, click here

If you visit the Singapore coastline often, you already know that the tides bring in marine debris – straws, cigarette butts, plastic bottles and all kinds of trash. Help cleanup the coastline and meet like-minded eco warriors when you join these cleanup events.

Here is a consolidated list of all cleanups happening this month.

Jan 5 |New Year Coastal Cleanup by Seven Clean Seas| Sembawang| 1.30pm to 4.30pm| For more details, click here

Jan 12 |Yishun Dam Clean by Save the Seas| Yishun Dam| 3.30pm to 5.30pm | For more details, click here

Jan 18 |Parkland Green by Trash Hero Singapore| East Coast Park| 9am to 11am| For more details, click here

Jan 18 |Palau Ubin by Palau Ubin Cleanup| Palau Ubin| 1.30pm to 5pm| For more details, click here

EcoBank, a CDL initiative in partnership with Eco-Business and The Salvation Army, is back in 2020 – for the fifth year in a row. Here is how you can participate

1. Donate your pre-loved clothes, bags, shoes, toys, electronics, stationary, artwork, fashion accessories and home decor items. The collection drive will be running from 6 to 31 January, 2020 and there will be 7 collection points island-wide. See poster for drop off locations. 

2. Buy pre-loved: The items collected will be sold at the EcoBank Bazaar from 28 Feb to 1 March 2020 at City Square Mall. The proceeds from the sales at the Bazaar will go towards supporting the Salvation Army Red Shields Industries.

3. Volunteer: Help sort the donations received from and/or set up and manage stalls at the EcoBank bazaar. As a token of thanks vouchers of $10 from City Square Mall will be offered for every shift volunteers take part in. If you are interested, do sign-up via this online registration form.  Have questions, get in touch with the organizers at ecobank@eventslab.sg or sustainability@cdl.com.sg.

For more details about the event, click here.

The Marine Science R&D Program and St. John’s Island National Marine Laboratory have announced a research program, EXPLORE for young marine scientists.  They hope it will encourage students to develop an interest in marine sciences and choose a career in it.

The program will provide funding for students exploratory marine science research at SJINML.

Age Criteria: 17 to 25 years old

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2020

Interviews: 3rd week of March, 2020

Award: 1st April 2020

For more details on this program, click here. 

Hitmaker Global Academy and The International Seakeepers Society have organised an international songwriting competition on the theme – What a wonderful World. The aim of this contest is to create awareness about marine preservation and unite music lover across the globe for a common cause.

Send in your musical compositions and winners will get to perform at a gala event in March 2020

Details:

– No registration fee.

– Songs have to be in English and 100% original content

– Minimum age is 16 years and above

Last date for submissions is 10 February 2020

Email entries to festivals@hitmaker.sg

For further details about the contest, click here

Capitalism is often the cause of overconsumption and the latter in some cases may have an impact on climate change. At this panel discussion hosted by Green Green Is The New Black and Straits Clan, hear the experts discuss whether capitalism does have an impact on climate change and to what extent.

When: Wednesday, 29 January 2020 from 6.30pm to 9.00pm

Where: Straits Clan ( 31 Bukit Pasoh Road, Singapore 089845)

Tickets: $22 (Standard + light bites)│ $12 (Standard)

To know more about the event or book your ticket, click here

Share your ideas on how you or your organisation plan to do your bit for the environment in the new year – be it eating a plant based diet, giving up on fast fashion, being more sustainable in your lifestyle or more. You will also hear what other eco enthusiasts have planned for themselves; sharing ideas is often the best way to spread them and world definitely needs individuals doing more for the environment.

This event is hosted by Mother Earth Toastmasters Club.

When: Wednesday, 29 January 2020 from 6.30pm to 9.30pm

Where: Room 701, NTUC Centre (1 Marina Boulevard, Singapore 189989)

Cost: $12 (Adult)│$5 (Student)│ Free (Members)

To book your tickets, click here

As a part of the Yale-NUS College Diversity Week 2020, there is a movie screening of ‘The Game Changers’ followed by a panel discussion with experts from various fields about sustainable diets and their importance to humans, animals and the environment. The aim is to create awareness about our food habits and how they impact the environment.

When: Friday, 31 January 2020 from 5.30pm to 8.00pm

Where: Tan Chin Tuan Theatre (Yale-NUS College, College Avenue West, Singapore 138527)

Cost: Free Entry 

For more details about the screening and to register, click here.