Being Green: Sat 22 Sept 2012 Session Announcement

Hello Good People!

Sorry the delay in getting this out. Let's celebrate annual Car-Free Day (22 Sept) and World Clean-Up Day (16 Sept) together...and take some green actions!

TIiA Session Announcement

Date: Sat 22 Sept 2012

Time:  1:30-4pm

Place:  Member Christine Hsu's house (Thank you, by Christine!) Christine's apartment building is a 3-min walk from LiuZhangLi MRT Station (on the brown line), on the same Side of Keelung Rd. There's only 1 exit at the this MRT station, so you cannot get lost  After you register, you'll be sent the exact address ...


The Topic:  Being Green

In this session, we'll DEcIDE what action to take about the the Fulong lunchbox shops' plastic bags We'll also draw up a list of actions we, as people living in Taiwan can do, to FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING. These will be used with some Neihu Jr high school students on Fri Oct 5. I (Lynn) have been invited to do an English lesson about GLOBAL WARMING. :)

 

For planning purposes, please register for this session by 12 noon on Fri 21 Sept. Just reply to this email ... Thanks! It would be great to see you!

Cheers
Lynn

25 Aug 2012 Session Minutes

TAIWAN ISSUES in ACTION MINUTES by Christine

Saturday 25 August 2012 Attendees: Lynn, Yvonne, Christine

Venue: Christine's house

Time: 13:30-18:00

Apologies: Rosie, Hal, Phil, Louis, Joyce, Caroline, Bi-Shia

Icebreaker: Lynn – Share 3 important changes in your life/behavior/hobby/routines and why you made the decision to change.

Yvonne

(1)   Did a somersault, rode a roller coaster, entered Japanese speech contest...motivation: to

take a risk.

(2)   Decided to study overseas: job wasn't busy; felt need for a change; friend took IELTS exam

sso she did too; found out about scholarship, applied and got it!

(3)   Resigned from job– had thought about it for a long time; was influenced by a friend

Lynn

(1)   Decided to re-start doing the Alexander Technique – she'd recommended it to a colleague, so felt she needed to do it herself

(2)   In the late '70s, vowed never to own a car: 1979 environmental movement, oil crisis

(3) Stopped playing the cello: wasn't making enough progress; it wasn't enjoyable any more

Christine

(1)   Decided to join a gym: to develop the habit of regular exercise

(2)   Decided to slow life tempo down, adjust priorities, less activities, go to bed earlier, get up earlier

(3)   Agreed to participate in Commonwealth magazine's year-long customer survey

It's interesting to find out people's motivation to change. Does it usually come from inside onself, or from other people influencing us/pushing us?

Session Topic: Experience a Group Problem—Solving Activity: Design for Change+TIiA (Part 2)

Design for Change framework:

Step 1 Feel

Step 2 Imagine

Step 3 Do

Step 4 Share

Lynn stated her current feeling about TIiA: We focus on Taiwan issues, but not so much on actions. No actions taken this year!

She asked Yvonne and Christine:

How can TIiA be more active, motivate and inspire people?

Yvonne suggested we go out on day trips sometimes...Christine said Lynn could directly ask members to host sessions. She thinks the session topics have been fine. Regarding membership, we need to recruit more members so there's a larger base of people who can possibly attend sessions. Decisions made:

1.     TIiA will go out on an outing 1x per season, ie 4 x a year

2.     Lynn to remind members they can give ideas for Session Topics, eg from:

bilingual magazines—台灣光華雜誌Taiwan Panorama -- http://www.taiwanpanorama.com.tw/en/index.php

Commonwealth—天下雜誌http://www.cw.com.tw/

3.     Lynn to make more copies of our promotional flyer—will bring to sessions and ask members to hand them out

Announcements: Next Session: Trip to Fulong to check out lunchbox shop's plastic bag situation...to celebrate and possibly take action about World Clean Up Day! (16 Sept 2012)

Donations collected: 200 NT.

Expenses: 0 NT

As of the end of this session, TIiA's balance is now 8490 NT.

Trip to Fulong: Clean Up the World! Sat 8 Sept 2012 Session Announcement

SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT

Date:  Sat 8 Sept 2012
TRIP TO FULONG: Clean Up the World!

Time: 10am-4pm (Note the earlier start time!)

NB: This trip is inspired by 2 people:

a) Yvonne, who suggested at our last session that we have outings sometimes;

b) my 12 yr-old environmental activist student named Alex, who informed me that Clean Up the World Day is in mid-Sept (http://www.cleanuptheworld.org/en/):

                                        

                                        

Place:  Meet on Train No. 654, in the front car, to go to Fulong. Here's our schedule:

10:15 dep Taipei Main Station on Train No. 654 (Everyone please buy your own ticket beforehand--go to the very first car to find TIiA members!)

(This train dep Banciao at 10:01, if that's more convenient for you.)

10:15-11:38 Ride on train to Fulong, do Icebreaker

11:38 arrive Fulong, buy return train ticket to Taipei, check Lunchbox Shop Plastic Bag situation*

*The last time I was in Fulong, I noticed that the popular lunch box shop gave every customer a plastic bag...most people threw away the bag 10 seconds after receiving it!

We will check to see if this is still happening...and then decide what ACTION to take to try to encourage the shop to be more environmentally friendly--to celebrate and participate in Clean Up the World!

12 noon: Eat lunch at the Fulong Lunchbox Shop (Please bring money to buy lunch--it was 65 NT a few months ago...)

12:45: Take our ACTION about the Plastic Bag Situation

1:30: Hire bicycles, and enjoy one of the bike trails along the coast (Please bring money to hire a bike if you want!)

14:40 Return bicycles to bike shop

14:45 Enter Fulong train station

14:50 Take Train No. 175 back to Taipei

15:55 Arrive Taipei Main Station (16:08 arrive Banciao station)

For planning purposes, please register for this session by 12 noon on Fri 7 Sept. Please click on REPLY to this email (Use lynn_conant@hotmail.com). In your email, please tell me the number of your cell phone that you will have on Sat morning so we can contact you if we can't find you on the train.  

Thanks! It would be great to see you!
Cheers
Lynn