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Ching Shin Elementary School (2008 CyberFair Project ID 5158)
Taiwan,
Taiwan Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 10 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: “The Day After Tomorrow”, “An Inconvenient Truth” are a few of the world’s hottest subjects in these years. With global warming worsening the nature, even presidents and leaders must worry about the eco system. The Kyoto Treaty also states that for making the earth able to sustain life forever, we must reduce the amount of carbon dioxide. Because we all live on this planet, we can’t run away from environmental protection, so we will use the internet to give every person all the information we can get about being green.
Even everyone knows about energy saving, since “man” is a specimen that is unique, it is still hard to do most of the things right at a time if there is no specific plans. But if we use designed programs to help the nature, we will help it “unconsciously”. We found out that the Taipei zoo which is nearest to our school is a best nature-helping facility. They have more than once won the honor of saving energy by using a low amount of water and energy. We have built our website around them since they can save a lot of energy and they can work with nature perfectly.
From the year 1997, followed the new exhibits opening every year, the using of water and electricity also accelerated tremendously each year, but in ten years time, the zoo has succeeded in reducing the amount of water and electricity. They use by building numerous water-saving devices, using solar, wind, and water powered electricity, and modifying their buildings to save energy.
Maybe energy saving has involved major corporations and organizations, but the zoo’s concerns have more things to worry about other than energy saving. They have to save energy while maintaining the numerous “lives” that they host in the zoo, so that is why energy saving is so different in the zoo, ‘being in harmony with every lives’ is the main subject we will probe in our website.
Project Description: While it has been twenty years since Taipei Zoo moved from Yuanshan to Muja, we may know very little its history. To many of us, it is merely a nearby place at a distance of a few MRT stops. For this reason, we treat Taipei Zoo like a backyard garden, very easy to get access to and going there whenever we like.
In the past, we did not know what was so special about Taipei Zoo and its environment. Our understanding is very simple: we beg our parents to go to because we are enthusiastic to have fun to watch either the old-aged elephant Linwong, or the cute, newly born koala bear and penguin. Taipei Zoo is also a popular site for holding extra curriculum activities welcomed by students in either elementary schools or kindergartens. Even now, we are still a child at heart, and still appreciate a lot whenever we go to the zoo.
Since Taipei Zoo is so close, going there is like going to a nearby park for us. It is in such a mood that we found now and then that it is not just a zoo, but a botanical garden with wide varieties of plants attracting migrating birds and insects, such as Danainae, to stay. In all, Taipei Zoo is such a beautiful natural environment that is actually enshrined great stories of green-made miracles about environmental protection and energy reutilization.
In Taipei Zoo, clean water is at first conserved in the pond located high in the hill, which is at first used to flood area in which ducks and crabs reside, and then to apes’ territory. In the end, the waste water which is filled with wide varieties of nutrients is directed to the area to cultivate plants. Energy saving facilities is the other example here. For instance, electric power in Taipei Zoo is generated mostly by wind and daylights. The Zoo we see today is actually a product of careful design aiming at environmental protection and energy reutilization.
Indeed, at the time when environmental protection and energy saving have become an issue most concerned nowadays, we are proud to have Taipei Zoo As a member of Wen Shan community, we want to make our own effort to this energy-saving “backyard garden.” Other than building this webpage, we proudly announce “Saving Energy in the Zoo.” We are joining the worldwide community to protect the environment.