{"id":117315,"date":"2017-10-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=117315"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T06:58:51","slug":"iium-eco-club-creates-environmental-awareness-through-green-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=117315","title":{"rendered":"IIUM Eco Club Creates Environmental Awareness through \u0153Green\u009d Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Ammar Abdullah<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GOMBAK, 7 October 2017- In conjunction with the 10th\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest (KLEFF), the IIUM Eco Club is collaborating with EcoKnights, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to organise a \u0153green\u009d screening to raise awareness among youth about environment and nature.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The &#8220;green&#8221; screening involved a film, which is a compilation of environmental-themed videos, which was created by Malaysians to raise environmental awareness and to inspire people to think and act on environmental sustainability, while promoting\u00c2\u00a0IIUM Eco Club and Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest (KLEFF). \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As one of the<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KLEFF&#8217;s roadshow programmes, IIUM Eco Club held a film presentation at Mini Audi A, Kulliyyah of Engineering from 9.00 a.m until 12.00 p.m on Friday (6 October). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Programme Manager, Muhammad Faris Mohd Fauzi said that IIUM Eco Club chose to conduct a movie screening since it is more attractive to the students rather than organising a talk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is more attractive for people to watch and feel the real situation about nature and to realise how nature is so important to us human beings,\u009d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0153As students, we are still learning and it is easy for us to educate other students about nature.\u00c2\u00a0We have to start with ourselves first for our next generation.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muhammad Faris said he really\u00c2\u00a0hoped that the youth will appreciate and protect the environment, even with a simple and tiny effort.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0153As consumers, we can\u00c2\u00a0make an effort at least by reducing the usage of straws. Do not use straws. If we do not want to participate in this kind of event, at least avoid using straws, it will protect mother nature,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also hoped that IIUM Eco Club will be known in IIUM and able to stand on par with other clubs, as IIUM Eco Club is still new to the scene as it was established last year. For their upcoming event, he said, they will conduct a programme to plant trees around IIUM. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 10th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest organised by EcoKnights will\u00c2\u00a0exhibit various activities like 16 live performances, 16 talks and workshops, 43 green market exhibitors and 86 eco film screening. This event will be held on 23 until 29 October 2017 at Publika, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur. ***<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117316 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-10-05-at-13.48.49-497x700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ammar Abdullah GOMBAK, 7 October 2017- In conjunction with the 10th\u00c2\u00a0International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest (KLEFF), the IIUM Eco Club is collaborating with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117315"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117370,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117315\/revisions\/117370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}