Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations Tree Planting Programme at St. Michael School, Ipoh

12 Aug 2021:

The Lions Club of Perak Silver State (LCPSS) and Ipoh City Council in collaboration with St. Michael Institution (SMI) organised a tree planting programme to plant four more trees.

Under the theme “Green OUR Earth Save Our Future Generations”, the campaign aims at creating awareness among the society especially students on the importance of planting trees. Tree planting helps in carbon emission and reduce earth temperature.

The campaign held in conjunction with Merdeka Month will also involve the flag raising in front of the school to show our patriotism towards our beloved country. Guest of honour is YB Leong Cheok Keng, State Assemblyman for Malim Nawar and Advisor for Chinese Community Affair for Minister of Housing and Local Government.

Four trees will be planted which consists of 3 Mempari (or Pongamia Pinnata) trees and 1 Yellow Flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum) tree. 

The tree planting is part of LCPSS environmental project aims to save our planet earth and mitigate climate change as stated in United Nation Sustainable Goal number 13. LCPSS aim to plant 100 trees by end of 2021.

 To date LCPSS have planted 28 trees since August 2020 and benefitted over 10,000 people. The campaign is also part of Ipoh City Council’s objective of planting 1,500 trees a year. This is to fulfil its mission of achieving a Low Carbon City by 2030. Each tree planted is given a QR Code that contains information about who planted and when planted, name of tree and its detailed information. It will later be link to Ipoh City Council innovative award winning Ez3 system of identification trees in Ipoh.

Mempari Tree (Pongamia Pinnata)

Yellow Flame tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum)

Present to support our campaign is Guest of Honour YB Leong Cheok Keng, who is also the State Assemblyman for Malim Nawar and Advisor of Chinese Community Affair for Minister of Housing and Local Government. Also present include Ipoh City Councillor for Zone 8, Mohammad Iskandar Abdul Rahman and SMI Principal, Sit Wai Yin.

Three Mempari trees (Pongamia Pinnata) and one Yellow Flame tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum) costing RM600 each were provided by Ipoh City Council. These trees when matured after 10 years are capable of absorbing 3,400 kg of CO2 per year. These trees absorb CO2 and produce Oxygen during photosynthesis thus give us fresh air and more oxygen. To date the city of Ipoh has over 200,000 trees of different species. 

Details of Yellow Flame Tree or Pelthophorum pterocarpum can be found in this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltophorum_pterocarpum

Description of Tree:

It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m (rarely up to 50 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m belonging to Family Leguminosae and sub-family Caesalpiniaceaea. The leaves are bipinnate, 30–60 cm long, with 16–20 pinnae, each pinna with 20–40 oval leaflets 8–25 mm long and 4–10 mm broad. The flowers are yellow, 2.5–4 cm diameter, produced in large compound raceme up to 20 cm long. Pollens are approximately 50 microns in size.

Name of Tree: Yellow Flame Tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum) The fruit is a pod 5–10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds. Trees begin to flower after about four years.

Details of Mempari (Pongamia Pinnata):

Features: The tree grows to 6-15m tall. The compound leaves appear in two rows, each heart-shaped leaflet is shiny, dark green and thinly leathery. The flowers look like those of bean plants, and are lilac, appearing in bunches on a stalk. Tiny insects seem attracted to the flowers. Fruits are flat bean-like pods that are somewhat oval with a little beak at the tip, appearing in bunches. Each pod contains one seed.

Human uses: The leaves are fed to livestock. The bark is used to make string and rope. Although the seeds are poisonous, an oil extracted from them (called Pongamol or hongay oil) is used for lighting, to manufacture soap and candles, and in medicinal uses. The roots and seeds are used as a fish poison in Australia and Indonesia. Various parts of the trees are also used in traditional medicine.. According to Tomlinson and Giesen, the tree is often planted as a shade tree along roads, but Corners says it is rarely planted in Malaya.

 

Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations - Dewan Komuniti Pasir Pinji

 30 July 2021

Lions Club of Perak Silver and Ipoh City Watch will be collaborating with Ipoh City Council to plant Two Merawan Siput (Hopea Odorata) trees within the compound of Dewan Komuniti Pasir Pinji, Jln Sultan, Pasir Pinji to replace 2 trees which have fallen due to strong wind in April 2021.

This is an environmental project by the club to assist the Ipoh City Council to achieve the planting 1,500 trees in Ipoh by end of 2021. Under the slogan "Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations, the project hopes to create awareness to the public on the importance of planting trees to increase carbon sequestration, reduce earth temperature and improve air quality. 

Mooted by Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, who is also the Ipoh City Councillor for Zone 14 Pasir Pinji, he wanted to make Pasir Pinji a low carbon zone by planting more trees. He hope that the people will support this effort so as to preserve our environment and help reduce carbon emission which have great impact on Climate Change by 2050.

The trees supplied by the Landscape Department are called Hopea Odorata or Merawan Siput, which is a native tree grown in Malaysian forest. It can grow up to 35m and able to absorb more than 4,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

This is tree number 23 and 24 respectively planted by Clr Dr. Richard Ng and Tuan SM Ramlee Bin Isa.

 

Program Green Our Earth, Save Our Future Generations with Lions Club of Perak Silver State and MBI

12 December 2020

Program Hijaukan Bumi, Selamatkan Generasi Akan Datang merupakan sebahgian daripada Program Penanaman 1 Juta Pokok Perak peringkat Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh Zon Pasir Pinji anjuran Lions Club of Perak Silver State dengan Sokongan Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh. Ia bertujuan untuk membantu menghijaukan bumi Ipoh khasnya dan Perak amnya bagi membantu mencapai misi Ipoh Bandar Raya Rendah Karban 2030.

Program ini akan dirasmikan YBhg Dato' Hj Rumaizi Bin Baharin, Datuk Bandar Ipoh. Turut hadir, YBhg Datin Seri Dr. Nomee Ashikin Binti Dato' Mohammed Radzi, Pengerusi Perak Foodbank yang juga peneraju Tindakan Iklim Perak.

Pada tahun 2021, MBI telah mensasarkan penanaman sebanyak 1,500 pokok di sekitar Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh. Di sekitar Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh kini mempunyai anggaran 400,000 pokok. Ini bermakna pada tahun 2030 kawasan Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh akan mempunyai 415,000 pokok.

Anggaran bilangan kereta di kawasan Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh pada tahun 2030 adalah sebanyak 160,000. Setiap kereta biasa akan menghasilkan gas CO2 sebanyak 4,600 kg setahun. Ini bermakna pada tahun 2030 jumlah CO2 yang dihasilkan kereta adalah sebanyak 736,000,000 kg CO2. 

Setiap pokok yang matang pada usia 10 tahun dengan anggaran berat 1,000kg akan menyerap sebanyak 3,670kg CO2. Ini bermakna 415,000 pokok dapat menyerap sebanyak 1,523,050,000 kg CO2.  

Pada tanggal 12 Disember 2020, sebanyak 6 pohon pokok Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta) akan ditanam di Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh. Program ini adalah hasil cadangan Ahli Majlis Dr. Richard Ng, selaku Ahli Majlis Zon Pasir Pinji. 

Tanggal 12-12-2020 dipilih supaya generasi akan datang terutama warga Taman Housing Trust dapat mengingati tarikh keramat ini di mana pokok perlu ditanam demi menangani perubahan cuaca yang kian ketara.

Setiap pokok yang ditanam ini mempunyai surat beranak yang dipautkan ke sistem EZ3 dengan code QR bagi membolehkan generasi akan datang mengetahui bukan sahaja siapa dan bila ianya ditanam tetapi juga jenis pokok dan faedahnya.

Pokok Pongamia Pinatta ini dipilih untuk dijadikan sebagai teduhan kepada warga emas yang sentiasa santai di kawasan ini.

Lions Club of Perak Silver State turut menyumbang 2 kerusi taman yang turut disumbang 3 kerusi taman oleh MBI.

Enam Pohon Pokok Mempari telah ditanam seperti berikut:

Pokok # 1

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 007/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg Dato' Rumaizi Bin Baharin, Datuk Bandar Ipoh

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Pokok # 2

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 008/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg Datin Seri Dr. Nomee Ashikin Binti Dato' Mohammed Radzi, Pengerusi Perak Foodbank

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Pokok # 3

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 009/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, Ahli Majlis MBI merangkap Presiden Lions Club of Perak Silver State

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Pokok # 4

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 010/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg Dr. CK Yeoh, CEO AXG Industries Sdn. Bhd.

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Pokok # 5

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 011/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg Cik Girlie Lim Hong Lian, Pengerusi JPP1 Pasir Pinji merangkap Region 3 & 4 Chairman (Services), Lions Club international District 308B2 

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Pokok # 6

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 012/12/20

Name of Tree: Mempari (Pongamia Pinatta or Milletia Pinatta)

Family Name: Fabaceae

Genus:  Milletia

Common Name: Sea Shore Mempari, Indian Beech or  Pongam Oil tree

Height: 6 m to 15m

Planted by: YBhg En Teh Chin Han, Pengerusi JPP2 Pasir Pinji

Date Planted: 12 December 2020

Place: Padang Housing Trust, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations

Description:

Millettia pinnata is a legume tree that grows to about 15–25 metres (50–80 ft) in height with a large canopy which spreads equally wide. It may be deciduous for short periods. It has a straight or crooked trunk, 50–80 centimetres (20–30 in) in diameter, with grey-brown bark which is smooth or vertically fissured. Branches are glabrous with pale stipulate scars. The imparipinnate leaves of the tree alternate and are short-stalked, rounded or cuneate at the base, ovate or oblong along the length, obtuse-acuminate at the apex, and not toothed on the edges. They are a soft, shiny burgundy when young and mature to a glossy, deep green as the season progresses with prominent veins underneath.^[5]

Flowering generally starts after 3–4 years with small clusters of white, purple, and pink flowers blossoming throughout the year. The raceme-like inflorescence bear two to four flowers which are strongly fragrant and grow to be 15–18 millimetres (0.59–0.71 in) long. The calyx of the flowers is bell-shaped and truncate, while the corolla is a rounded ovate shape with basal auricles and often with a central blotch of green color.^[3][6]

Croppings of indehiscent pods can occur by 4–6 years. The brown seed pods appear immediately after flowering and mature in 10 to 11 months. The pods are thick-walled, smooth, somewhat flattened and elliptical, but slightly curved with a short, curved point. The pods contain within them one or two bean-like brownish-red seeds, but because they do not split open naturally the pods need to decompose before the seeds can germinate. The seeds are about 1.5–2.5 centimetres (0.59–0.98 in) long with a brittle, oily coat and are unpalatable to herbivores.^[5][6]

Naturally distributed in tropical and temperate Asia, from India to Japan to Thailand to Malesia to north and north-eastern Australia to some Pacific islands;^[1][3] It has been propagated and distributed further around the world in humid and subtropical environments from sea level to 1200m, although in the Himalayan foothills it is not found above 600m.^[7] Withstanding temperatures slightly below 0 °C (32 °F) and up to about 50 °C (120 °F) and annual rainfall of 500–2,500 mm (20–100 in), the tree grows wild on sandy and rocky soils, including oolitic limestone, and will grow in most soil types, even with its roots in salt water.^[8]

The tree is well suited to intense heat and sunlight and its dense network of lateral roots and its thick, long taproot make it drought-tolerant. The dense shade it provides slows the evaporation of surface water and its root nodules promote nitrogen fixation, a symbiotic process by which gaseous nitrogen (N₂) from the air is converted into ammonium (NH₄⁺, a form of nitrogen available to the plant). M. pinnata is also a fresh water flooded forest species as it can survive total submergence in sweet water for few months continuously. M. pinnata tree is common in Tonlesap lake swamp forests in Cambodia

Millettia pinnata is an outbreeding diploid legume tree, with a diploid chromosome number of 22.^[6] Root nodules are of the determinate type (as those on soybean and common bean) formed by the causative bacterium Bradyrhizobium.

Uses:

Millettia pinnata is well-adapted to arid zones and has many traditional uses. It is often used for landscaping purposes as a windbreak or for shade due to the large canopy and showy fragrant flowers. The flowers are used by gardeners as compost for plants requiring rich nutrients. The bark can be used to make twine or rope and it also yields a black gum that has historically been used to treat wounds caused by poisonous fish. The wood is said to be beautifully grained but splits easily when sawn thus relegating it to firewood, posts, and tool handles.^[7]

While the oil and residue of the plant are toxic and will induce nausea and vomiting if ingested, the fruits and sprouts, along with the seeds, are used in many traditional remedies.^[8] Juices from the plant, as well as the oil, are antiseptic^{[medical citation needed]} and resistant to pests. In addition M. pinnata has the rare property of producing seeds of 25–40% lipid content of which nearly half is oleic acid.^[9] Oil made from the seeds, known as pongamia oil, is an important asset of this tree and has been used as lamp oil, in soap making, and as a lubricant for thousands of years. The oil has a high content of triglycerides, and its disagreeable taste and odor are due to bitter flavonoid constituents including karanjin, pongamol, tannin and karanjachromene.^[8] It can be grown in rainwater harvesting ponds up to 6 m (20 ft) in water depth without losing its greenery and remaining useful for biodiesel production.^[10]

The residue of oil extraction, called press cake, is used as a fertilizer and as animal feed for ruminants and poultry.^[11]

Long used as shade tree, M. pinnata is heavily self-seeding and can spread lateral roots up to 9 m (30 ft) over its lifetime. If not managed carefully it can quickly become a weed leading some, including Miami-Dade County, to label the tree as an invasive species.^[12] However this dense network of lateral roots makes this tree ideal for controlling soil erosion and binding sand dunes.^[7]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millettia_pinnata

Step by step method and recipe to make garbage enzymes

Sept 23, 2009

This article will provide you with a simple method and recipe to make garbage enzymes. Don’t worry if you are new to this as you will be guided through step by step on how to make garbage enzymes.



First and foremost, what is garbage enzymes and why are people making them? Garbage enzyme is a multipurpose liquid that can be used as a cleansing agent, purifier, fertiliser, blockage solution, etc. It is actually a smart way of using your kitchen wastes instead of throwing them out. When you make garbage enzymes using kitchen wastes like vegetables and fruits, it goes through a process of fermentation. This fermentation process will release ozone gas that will help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus, making homemade enzymes is also an excellent way to do our part in safeguarding the environment.



The method and recipe to make garbage enzymes provided in this post are courtesy of Inner Journey. The author of Inner Journey has taken proper workshops in understanding how different types of enzymes are made and is an active enzyme producer in her own rights.

Before you begin, you should know that the process of producing enzyme is not an overnight thing. To make garbage enzymes the correct way, you need to leave it to ferment for 3 months before it is ready to be used.

Basic Ingredients To Make Garbage Enzymes:

* 1 part sugar
* 3 parts vegetable and/or fruit dregs
* 10 parts water
* A plastic container (recommended: use a substantially large plastic mineral water bottle which is air tight)

Tip: If you want nice smelling garbage enzymes, try using citrus fruits like oranges and pineapples!

Method To Make Garbage Enzymes:

* In the plastic container, dilute the sugar in water.
* Then, add in the fruit/vegetable dregs
* Be sure to leave about one third of empty space in the plastic container for the fermentation process
* Close the container tightly
* During the first month, open the container’s cap twice a day to release the gas that has built up
* Once in a while where necessary, you may push the floating garbage downward
* Place the container in a cool and ventilated area

After the first month, the ingredients in the container should be stable and you won’t need to release the gas anymore. At this stage, you just need to leave it alone to ferment for another 2 months before using it. It’s that easy!

Have a go at making your own garbage enzymes. You can be as creative as you can get, using whatever kitchen wastes you may have. And have fun!

Source: http://www.usefultipsforlife.com/step-by-step-method-recipe-to-make-garbage-enzymes