IPB Stages Launching of Green Movement
Bureau of Legal Affairs, Promotion and Public Relations (HPH), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in collaboration with the Student Executive Body of Student Family (BEM KM) IPB and the student organization (ORMAWA) of environmental activists initiated a concrete clean-up action at the working units of IPB Campus, and the Launching of Green Movement on Friday (22/4) on the yard of Andi Hakim Nasoetion Building, Dramaga Campus of IPB Bogor.
IPB is targeting to achieve the real Green Campus in 2020. Such condition is described as an eco-friendly green campus with energy efficiency, low emissions, conserved resources and enhanced environmental quality, by educating its citizens to live a healthy lifestyle and create a conducive learning environment sustainably.
Chairman of the Green Campus Team of IPB, Dr. Agus Oman Sudrajat said, the movement toward IPB Green Campus in 2020 aims to develop the environmentally-based behaviors of IPB communities. It is also to realize an environmentally-friendly campus of IPB (zero waste, zero emission, rich in bio-and cultural-diversity), create a campus condition that is safe, comfortable and conducive to a successful learning system, reduce the use of plastic bags by introducing ecobag, monitor the energy use in buildings, carry out waste and liquid waste management, apply an environmentally-friendly transport system, promote energy-saving habits and increase the use of solar energy or alternative energy sources.
It is said, IPB launches the Green Movement program in which the students as initiators will enforce the environmental movement. The great agenda of the green movement includes eco-labeling of healthy canteens, reducing plastic use, the use of tumbler and ecobag, integrated waste management and the movement Hayu atuh! (Let’s do it!). Hayu atuh! is a movement with the concept of a thematic day, that is, every day campaign of environmental awareness and local wisdoms through offline and online media. This includes Monday Let’s use Ecobag, Tuesday Let’s use bicycles, Wednesday Let’s use Sundanese Batik, Thursday Let’s speak English, Friday Let’s walk and Saturday Let’s do jogging.
On this occasion, Rector of IPB, Prof. Dr. Herry Suhardiyanto also declared IPB as a Campus of Biodiversity. It is a campus with high biodiversity and consider the preservation of biodiversity in its development through the commitment of the academic society to the biodiversity conservation. In 2015, the Student Association of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism (Himakova) of the Faculty of Forestry (Fahutan) IPB recorded that there were as many as 22 species of mammals, 88 species of birds, 36 species of reptiles, 12 species of amphibians, 72 species of butterflies and 169 species of flora in IPB campus, "This does not include insects, aquatic biota, mold and fungi, fish and underwater plants," said Rector.
Meanwhile, Head of HPH Bureau of IPB, Ir. Yatri Indah Kusumastuti, M.Sc. explains that, to realize it, IPB is making efforts through the four programs of the Green Campus namely: green transportation, green movement, green energy and green building. "We have made the implementation stage of IPB Green Campus consisting of preparation and socialization (2015), capacity building and infrastructure (2016), green energy initiation (2017), preparation of waste management (2018), green building reorientation ( 2019) and IPB green campus (2020)," she said.
On March 1, 2016 and, Yatri said further, IPB has implemented green transportation by integrating bus transportation, electric cars, bicycles, pedestrian (walk) and reducing private vehicle traffic (cars and motorcycles). Green Transportation is urgent to start early because the problems of emissions, safety and social unrest have become a major issue in the campus.
While the implementation of green building and green open space is done by limiting the use of Air Conditioner (AC), improving room ventilations , reforestation of parking spaces in order to improve the comfort and beauty of the campus and the development of agriculture germplasm collection (fruits, wood, etc.). "Equally important, IPB is doing green movement or green culture, a process of cultural development by changing the mindset, attitudes, and behaviors of community members oriented to the environmental friendliness through a campaign of awareness, massive social movements, and development of green champions and so on," explains Yatri.
This Launching of Green Movement started with students riding together with the leaders of IPB. At this event a symbolic handover was carried out of biopore equipment and tree seedlings to the working units, the prize submission to the winners of the logo competition of the Green Campus, and Lyrical Prose reading "Restore my Green". It was also enlivened by the Percussion Team of Department of Marine Sciences and Technology (ITK), Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences (FPIK)-IPB and IPB Agriaswara Choir. The event ended with the cleaning-up action in all of the working units in IPB, removing kiambang on the lake and sowing the seeds of grass carps in Situ Fisheries. To motivate community members, IPB gives reward to the working unit that has performed the best cleaning action. (Mtd)
