Assignment 8- BIG

4 oct 2010 9.00 am ,we all hbp student was attended the event of ALL-USM BIG APEX LEAP DISCUSSION ,all of us attends the confference and En Wan B give us a great briefing in that event. Some of the idea was also shared together between lecture and all the audience.
This is some roughly message bring out from BIG .

USM BIG (Bamboo Interest Group) is one of the collective efforts to realize USM’s Vision of Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Tomorrow.

BIG brings together those who are keen on, want to and/or working in/on bamboo to work out the ways and means to carry out, execute the Accelerated Program for Excellence (APEX) which requires all its citizens to make the Leap to 2012 now and gradually deliver the product through 2013.



BIG wishes to remind itself and all the USM citizen to fulfill the seven APEX points
1 . The Future (masa hadapan)


2. Uniqueness (kelainan)


3. Sustainibility (kelestarian)


4. Humanity (kemanusiaan)


5. Universality (kesejagatan)


6. Change (perubahan)


7. Sacrifice (pengorbanan)

Actually the BAMBOO fit the first 6 points but the seventh point is up to us.



Future


Bamboo as a strongest structure and a better choice to build that eco-friendly future on. This is the new way to work with rather than against Mother Earth.





Uniqueness


Bamboo has its special characteristic such as incredible strength, regenerative properties, and its natural aesthetic beauty . It has thousands of uses also.



Sustainability

Bamboo might be the most sustainable resourses in this world. It does not require replanting after harvesting.



Humane

INBAR and TRIBAC started to generate sustainable income in rural areas, where no such avenues were available. Not only solve acquire a better life for themselves but also helped other women along the pathway out of poverty.



Universal

Bamboo has been used as the standard building material for the majority of the world for thousands of years. It survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and provided the first re-greening after the blast in 1945.



Change

if bamboo were planted on a mass basis it could completely reverse the effects of global warming in just six years, and provide a renewable source of food, building material, and erosion prevention.



Sacrificed

making a leap to 2012, what can we do?

The first thing is, we should understand 2012. Hence we should emphasis and action on 3p- principle (natural law), people(all human) and place(our one earth). If 5% of USM community understand the above 3p paradigm and work on it, then delivering the seed of a higher education, can be made real tomorrow. This is the reason why all citizen must understand the whole programme so they can act in their specialization to fit with the requirement of university and the world today and tomorrow. Conclusion, Bamboo is a sustainbility material and even hard from steel, it represents the effort of the USM as APEX university to achieve the motivation-TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION FOR A SUSTAINANBLE TOMORROW