Siloso Beach Resort is proud to be a winner of the Singapore Sustainability Awards, which was presented on July 11, 2011. A total of 68 companies submitted for the awards, with 9 winners chosen among the various categories, with SBR being the only Top Honour winner in its category. Although SBR has achieved other awards, this one is the first to take all 3 aspects of sustainability into equal consideration: economic, social, and environmental. For more information about the awards and winners, please see the article on eco-business.com:  http://www.eco-business.com/features/singapore-firms-commended-for-green-efforts/

                    

Time for a rethink of mining exploitation?

Time for a rethink of mining exploitation?

December 2011 Eco Tour Review

Date	Group Name	Pax.
December 1	Singapore Polytechnic Students	40
December 7	Nanyang Polytechnic Students	63
December 14	Simon University of Rochester	22
	Total	125

The power of human and recovered energies

While we are exploring new possibilities of powering the planet and slowly shifting away from fossil fuels, two particular concepts have passed un-noticed.  In fact, they should be an integral part of the solution: human and recovered energies.

The concept of human energy

Human energy relates to the energy from human-related mass movements that can be captured and stored.

November 2011 Eco Tour Records

November was a busy month for our Eco Tour with 107 persons participating!

Date	Group Name	Pax.
November 1	Mount Faber Leisure Group	2
November 3	csr young leaders group	2
November 4	University Nevada Las Vegas(Singapore) Students	40
November 5	SIMtech	12
November 9	Singapore Environment Council (Executive Director)	2
November 10	Ngee Ann Polytechnic Students (Clean Energy Management)	3
November 11	Singapore Polytechnic	2
November 17	Queen Margaret University	7
November 19	MDIS students	1
November 21	University Nevada Las Vegas(Singapore) Students	5
November 22	Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities	9
November 24	MDIS student	1
November 26	NUS MBA Social Impact Club	21

Eco tour Highlight

Students from the NUS Social Impact Club, who came for the Eco Tour and then even stayed for lunch!  These students had many great questions, and we hope they found the tour interesting and beneficial.

Food security: asking the right questions

We have been relying on the same food practices since the invention of agriculture thousands of years ago, but in the 21st century the world needs to deeply rethink these practices and find new ways of feeding the planet. We have to find ways of maintaining our food cultural heritage without continuing to seriously impact the environment in the process. It is without doubt a serious challenge.

October 2011 Eco Tour Review

For October, 19 persons participated in our Eco Tour, and we enjoyed sharing out Eco-Resort with students from University Nevada Las Vegas.  They were a great group and we hope they found the tour beneficial for their studies!

Date	Group Name	Pax.
October 8, 2011	University Nevada Las Vegas (Singapore) Students	17
October 28, 2011	NTUC Learning Hub	2

September 2011 Eco Tour Review

September we were glad to meet students from Simon Fraser University, doing a report on sustainable practices in the hotel industry.    They wrote a nice blog post about us, which can be viewed here http://www.sfumbasinsingapore.blogspot.com/.   Overall, it was another quiet month, with 9 persons joining the tour.

Date	Group Name	Pax.
September 8, 2011	Students from Simon Fraser University in Canada	4
September 16, 2011	Nanyang Technological University, Business Students	3
September 20, 2011	Sentosa Employees	2