DB Green

That’s right folks- it’s tree planting season! Fabulous work out and fabulous project. Today (Mother’s Day)and 27th May (for starters) John, our tree planting guru will be at the conservation area on the way to the Lookout. If you can’t find him call him on 94575548 as he may be on the back side of the hill.

Directions: If you are going up the road to the golf course take the concrete road to the right that leads to the Lookout (the pagoda). About 1/4 of the way along there is a small track on your left, down to a stream, cross over the stream and keep following the path. Look for the bamboo stakes with coloured twine tie- easily visible from the concrete path- and you’re in the right area.

What to bring: Sturdy shoes (hiking boots great or old sneakers as gets quite muddy sometimes), plenty of water, insect repellent, sunscreen, snacks, friends (many hands really does make light work!)

Time: Usually 10am to 4 pm or earlier if  trees taken up for the day are planted

Dates: 13, 27th May so far….

Even making it up for an hour or 2 is a great help. I’ll let you know about donating for the trees soon…..

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Kate

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Well our Earth Day beach cleanup on April 22 was another big success. I have to admit my heart dropped when I arrived at the beach and saw the volume of rubbish that had washed up over the weeks……I really didn’t think we were going to make an impact – it was that bad!! (see the photo of before). But with a turnout of about 60 wonderful people including loads of kids, we DID make an impact and cleared the major rubbish off the beach……some work still required amongst the rocks….

We collected:
41 rubbish bags
28 plastic recycling – mostly plastic bottle….please think! Before you buy the next plastic bottle
I metal bag
Literally hundreds and hundreds of bottle tops

Thank you again to our wonderful volunteers, we could not have achieved what we did without your support. Thank you to Gary, Andy and Hemingways for the food, the cooking and the lugging of gas bottles! Andy would love to see how the go pro video turned out…….

Tracey will add some more AFTER photo’s in the next couple of days.

The next beach cleanup is at Nim Shu Wan beaches on Saturday May 19th 9am to 1pm, put it in your calendar!

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I’ll keep you posted!

Have a great weekend!

Kate

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Some of you may have met Andy Stokes, Gary’s brother, at Hemingways over the years or taking photos at our beach cleanup last Sunday. Well Andy has put together the following website www.saveorangutans.org which has some information and great videos to watch, plus details on how to donate some money to a friend of his that is documenting events in Sumatra but is running out of money.

And don’t forget Dave’s 40th birthday fundraiser at Hemingways on Saturday where 15% of takings will go towards the Dr Willie Smits fund.

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Up for grabs on the night are these fabulous prizes in the raffle

12 bottles of Barefoot Bubbly www.barefootwine.com

Sunday Brunch for 4 at Olea restaurant Novotel Tung Chung http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-6239-novotel-hong-kong-citygate/restaurant.shtml

2 dining vouchers from Linguini Fini www.linguinifini.com/

2 dining vouchers from Koh Tomyums

A mouthwatering giftbasket from ilBelPaese www.ilbelpaese.com.hk/

A signature Spa treatment from the fabulous Emmanual F www.emmanuelf.com/

Greenproofing voucher from Baby Bloom www.babybloom.com.hk

A pamper basket of organic Miessence body care & makeup www.organiccarehk.mionegroup.com

Luxury His’n’Hers robes from Sleep Naked www.sleepnaked.com

A private yoga session from Discover Yoga Therapy www.discoveryogatherapy.com

Your own personal chef delivering you meals with HK Personal Chef www.hongkongpersonalchef.com/

A TeRa back pack www.iweartera.com

A gift basket of organic goodies from Fusion

Beautiful Bedrunners and stone oil burners from the inspiring Burnt Oringe range www.burntoringe.com

A goodie bag from The White Lotus Centre www.whitelotuscentre.com

A haircut from the very talented Fiona fionahairspa@yahoo.com

And up for grabs in the silent auction are these fab goodies

A night in the Teepees for 14 people at Palm Beach, Cheung Sha www.palmbeach.com.hk

A pleasure junk for the day from Santa Fe Relocations for 27 people www.santaferelo.com

Sideways Driving Simulator Racing for an hour with 12 people www.sideways-driving-club.com

1 night’s accommodation and dinner for 2 at the Tung Chung Novotel www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-6239-novotel-hong-kong-citygate/index.shtml

2 stunning photographic prints on canvas from China82 www.picturefinders.com

A dental whitening package from Bayside Dental www.baysidedentalhk.com

A pampering Rouge Experience www.rougephotohk.com

Get Fit & Tone Up with 10 sessions of Bootcamp run by Elliot Stewart elliot.personaltraining@gmail.com

3 lots of delicious organic veggies home delivered weekly for a month by Homegrown Foods www.homegrownfoods.com.hk

Try out your pilot skills on a flight simulator www.flightexperience.com.hk

And our major prize of

1 weeks luxury accomodation kindly donated by Absolute Resorts www.absoluteworld.com

A massive, massive THANKYOU to the very generous sponsors!

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To celebrate the 42nd annual Earth Day DB Green has organized a beach cleanup at Sam Pak Wan Beach North Plaza this Sunday April 22, 9am-1pm.

Earth Day resulted in the launching of the environmental movement many of us associate with today, a movement that brings us together because we care about our environments, our communities and each other. So come and share this wonderful day with us at the North Plaza beach and participate in our event to contribute to the “A Billion Acts of Green”
DB Green will provide all the gloves and bags and extra water but please bring your own water bottles and wear shoes sturdy for walking.

Hemingway’s will once again provide a sausage sizzle for participants on the beach afterwards.
Everyone welcome – see you all there!

PS. Don’t forget about Tracey’s fund raising event on Saturday night (21st) at Hemingway’s – check out her blog at http://journeytotheplasticocean.wordpress.com/category/the-fundraiser/

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Hi folks,

The 3 monthly flea market is on again and your participation is always welcome! You can either bring your unwanted treasures down to donate or you could help man the stalls. Either way there are bargains to grab and all money goes straight to DB Green where we have no admin costs and every cent goes directly to our events (recycling day, beach cleanups) or tree planting costs. The charity stalls, including us, are along the stretch from the bank to the post office. So look out for us there.

Tomorrow we also have  a ‘Friends of DB Green’ stall at NUMBER 62. There, you or your kiddies, can take items that you’d like to sell and wish to keep the proceeds. Sometimes it is easier to let go of things you are not using, if you can get a little something back for them. This is open to all DB green members to use so you have to share with whoever else might show up.

The flea market is a great iniatiative by City Management and it encourages you to buy second hand rather than using up our dwindling resources to buy items that are new. It also means perfectly good items have a second lease at life so if you’re not using it maybe it is just the thing someone else will use. One mans trash is another mans treasure!

As an aside I forgot to mention the takings for the last flea market in January which was $2139. Thanks for all the donations of goods and the helpers at the stall!

Look forward to seeing you tomorrow 12 till 5pm. Volunteers and items to sell needed please….

Cheers,

Kate Wade

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Wow! What a day. It started off with a cool morning and turned into a very warm day – I have my first sunburn of the year!
We had a great turnout which is so exciting and really makes a huge difference to what we can achieve. We had about 100 people on the beaches and together we made them all pretty clean. All the big debris was removed from the sand and a lot from the treeline (although there is still A LOT in there) and some of the small stuff along the tide lines too.

When we got to the rock beach on the way to the monastery I thought there is no way we can remove all of this rubbish it is just too much. But we all did it and it looked incredible. 150+ bags of rubbish now not on the beaches and I am sure all the people who hike to/from Mui Wo tomorrow will marvel at how gorgeous our coastline looks!

Hundreds of plastic water bottles were removed for recycling and uncountable pieces of plastic, bags, ropes and styrofoam was bagged and shipped off to landfill. There were chairs, bedside tables, shoes, light globes and a golden foil heart shaped balloon amongst all the debris.

We had a great turnout from families and school kids and there was a fun atmosphere on the beaches – lots of people happy to get out and get their hands a little bit dirty!
Thank you very much to our sponsors Hemingways for providing after cleanup food (and also DB Green for the pizza to treat the hungry volunteers too!)

Our next beach cleanup will be Earth Day – April 22nd on Sam Pak Wan. More details to follow soon.

Thank you – we couldn’t achieve anything without all the volunteers!
from Tracey, Angie, Kate & Dana

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In recognition of Earth Hour 60+ we are holding a beach cleanup so we can all do ‘a bit extra’ than just turning off our lights for 60 minutes on Saturday night.
The meeting point is Nim Shue Wan Beach but we will mainly focus on the next 2 beaches (Cheung Sha Lan and the rocky beach on the way to the monastery).

DB Green will provide all the gloves and bags and extra water but please bring your own water bottles and wear shoes sturdy for walking.
Hemingways will once again provide a sausage sizzle for participants on the beach afterwards.

Everyone welcome – see you all there!

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