Singapore is a
metropolis city-state without any natural resources, and it depends heavily on
external trade agreements to bring in natural resources to power the city.
Natural resources have been one of the sources of conflicts between countries
due to scarcity. According to Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Teo (2017),
Singapore must be proactive in finding energy resources to survive. To overcome
potential conflicts and such scarcity, Singapore has been constantly investing
in sustainable methods to reduce the usage of natural resources while
maintaining the ability to power the city.
Gardens by the
Bay (GBB) is one of Singapore’s heavily invested projects for promoting
environmental sustainability and energy-conservation. According to Moorhouse
(2015), the 12 Supertrees in GBB are self-sustainable as the structures are
powered by solar panels where they store the solar energy during the day so as
to reuse it during the night.
As technology
grows more important, Singapore has integrated technology into daily learning
to expedite the students’ full learning capabilities. Due to students’ reliance
on technology to improve their learning capability, this has resulted in an
increase in the demand for energy (See Appendix A). However, students are
unaware of just how much energy they use on a daily basis due to a lack of
education on energy conservation, which would contribute to Singapore’s overall
energy usage.
Students have a high
influence on the future, as they will either pass on the good habits of
conserving-energy or the bad habits of prioritizing comfort and convenience at
the expense of energy conservation to future generations and bring such habits
to the workplace. According to Agarwal and Sing (2017), research was performed
by National Environment Agency (NEA) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
on whether school students were able to create an impact on the reduction of
energy consumption. The project was carried out with 30 primary and secondary
students. After a span of three months, there was a 1.6% reduction in
electricity consumption in the students’ households. Empowering students on
energy-conservation will be Singapore’s key in setting a future trend in energy
conservation.
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