HALLOWEEN 2009....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!

JOIN US AT FILM CLUB!!!

Have you seen BOLT yet??? No?

Then you should come along to the Kelt Film Club.

Well, it’s such a fantastic movie that you should come and watch it again!

It will be held on this Sunday, May 24th, 2009 on 10 o'clock!!!

After the film there will be a quiz with excellent prizes and free snacks and ice-cream for everyone. And also, there will be a lot of funny games.

So, don't miss it and hope to see U all there!!!

HAPPY VESAK DAY

Vesak is a very sacred festival of the buddhist.

It is celebrated to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Buddha. For all of you who celebrate Vesak Day on 9th May 2009, we wishing you:

"HAPPY VESAK DAY"

ZERO WASTE CAMPAIGN AT TAMAN BUNGKUL

Did you go to Taman Bungkul last sunday ( 26th April 2009) ?
Hundreds of people did. We did too. It was really good. It was to celebrate Earth Day. The fun was for people who are concerned about the world we live in, and who wanted to have a nice time together.

They brought plastic bags with them and we exchanged them for zero waste bags. The plastic bags we took are going to be recycled and made into something useful again. They were also given saplings to plant by Ecoton, the ecology NGO, to help make surabaya a better place to live in.

KELT JAWA's SECRETARIES

If you need any information about KELT.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us at (031) 502 3333, or you can send an e-mail : jawa@k-elt.com.

Don't forget to visit our website www.k-elt.com

HAPPY EARTH DAY !!!

Yesterday, April 22nd, 2009 was Earth Day. It’s a good time to bring even more attention to being ecological responsible.

What are you doing to help save the earth?

Be nice to the earth and all the creatures....

HAPPY EASTER DAY !!!

BUT, DO WE KNOW, WHERE THE EASTER EGGS COME FROM?????

Easter, was in fact an ancient Spring festival which was taken over by Christians to celebrate Christ's death and ressurection. Eggs (and bunnies) are symbols of the new life that comes after winter.

Eggs are used in different ways. They can be painted and then hidden for children to find or roled down a hill. Nowadays the most popular tradition is to make them out of chocolate and eat them!

The purpose of all this is to include one and all in Easter celebrations and to spread happiness and goodwill among everyone. After all, that is what Easter is all about. Anyway, Happy Easter, Everyone!!!!

ZERO WASTE at KELT

To make the Zero Waste System a success, KELT Jawa has already taken an enthusiastic first step. At the beginning of this term, we gave all our beloved students a fabulous reusable bag..Here are the students who also want to take a part in making the Zero Waste System successful..

THIS IS OUR SCHOOL....

ZERO WASTE

ZERO WASTE???

What is that??

That's the first thing people ask when we talk about Zero Waste. In fact, the idea of Zero Waste is more popular in Europe or America than in Indonesia.

Well, what is Zero Waste all about??

Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society.

Zero Waste System (ZWS) began in the middle 1970s as a company name in Oakland, California, which was founded by Paul Palmer, a chemist. The first mission of ZWS was to find new homes for most of the excess chemicals being produced by the nascent electronics industry.

Then, why we should care about ZWS??

As we know, tons of trash is thrown out every hour worldwide. If we don't reduce it, our lovely world will be covered with trash. Can you imagine that??

A lot of trash can also bring a lot of disadvantages:

1. Increasing green house effect

31% of waste going to landfill is organic material, either food or garden waste. Another 25% is paper, timber and other wood products. Once in landfill this material breaks down and releases methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. (we know, what that means, don't we?)

2. Burying money and resources
Material discarded in a landfill is a waste of money and a waste of resources. When waste materials are buried, all of the energy, water and minerals that went into creating them are buried too. In turn, that drives the demand for more energy, water and minerals to be extracted from the planet with steep costs to the environment

3. Carrying toxins
Many materials that end up as landfill contain toxic substances. Over time, these substances leach into soils and groundwater, forming a hazard to the environment for years

We can do our bit to make ZWS successful. We can just follow the simply hierarchy of ZWS that most of us are already familiar with:

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Yes, we have already put this well-known symbol on Kelt bags

We can start with ourselves by reducing our use of plastic bags, by trying to separate non-degradable trash and degradable trash.

KELT wants to start this with a simple thing so at the beginning of this term, we gave our students the fabulous reuseable KELT Zero Waste Bag. Use this bag instead of plastic bags whenever possible.

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