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| Launching Ceremony of “Sik Sik Yuen • To Make a Green Temple • To Build a Green Organization” |
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06.07.2013 |
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Sik Sik Yuen has been launching various eco-friendly measures in contribution to environmental protection. Recently, the Yuen even obtained the approval-in-principle from the Environment and Conservation Fund to grant us over HK$21 million for launching a 3-year green project, aiming to make the Yuen a green organization. Today is the launching ceremony of the project, and we are honoured to have invited Mr. Wong Kam Sing, JP, Secretary for the Environment, Professor Wong Woon Chung, MH, Vice Chairman of Environmental Campaign Committee and Ms. Ma Wen Yin, Assistant District Officer (Wong Tai Sin) to chair the ceremony.
The officiating guests, together with Mr. Wong Kam Choi, Chairman of Sik Sik Yuen, injected green colour into “Sik Sik Yuen”, symbolizing the addition of green concept into the Yuen. From now on, worshippers, visitors of the temple and service users of our medical, education and social service units could gain access to our green facilities and increase their green mindsets.
In the spirit of “harmony with our nature”, the Yuen has been implementing green policies since 1980s, such as prohibiting burning ingots, large incense sticks and oil. From 2011, the Yuen only allowed each worshiper to burn 9 incense sticks. To further our green cause, in 2011 the Yuen obtained the approval-in-principle from the Environment and Conservation Fund to grant us over HK$21 million for launching the 3-year green project, “Sik Sik Yuen • To Make a Green Temple • To Build a Green Organization”, where one of the focuses is on “To Make a Green Temple”. Sik Sik Yuen the Wong Tai Sin Temple is the most popular Taoist temple in Hong Kong, with a huge amount of incense to be brought in and burnt. To create a cleaner environment, the Yuen plans to set up the Incense Smoke Reduction System to reduce malodour and pollutants produced from incense burning. Incense Smoke Reduction System has two parts: Incense Smoke & Odour Collection & Filtering System and Incense Ash Regeneration System. In the first part, a ventilation system will be installed on the hood of the incense burner. Substances like large smoke particulates, suspended particulates, volatile organic compounds, odour and organic byproducts are filtered through a multiple filtering system. It expects to filter 70% of smoke and any methanol and thus purifies smoke into fresh air to make a better worshipping environment. In the second part, ash waste from incense burning will be recycled and chemically processed into malodour removal powders, which will then put back into the first part of the system as the filter material for air purification.
Good Wish Garden, the backyard garden of the Wong Tai Sin Temple, will become an ecological path by optimizing its layout, such as adding more fruit trees and a mini wet land, to increase the garden’s biodiversity. Illustrations will be set up to help visitors appreciate different insects, birds, trees and herbs in the garden, enrich their ecological knowledge and feel the beauty of nature. The Temple is set to become an ideal platform for ecological education and demonstration to increase people’s focus on a green living.
Besides, our subsidiary units will gradually replace and add more energy-efficient or renewable energy devices, generating electricity from solar and wind power; set up green roofs and green kitchens; add more processors to convert kitchen waste into natural fertilizers; as well as build up ecological paths and carry out organic farming, allowing service users to be close to the nature during daily lives. the Wong Tai Sin Temple and our subsidiary units will use carbon audit to measure greenhouse gases emission in a systemic and scientific method, so that the results of our green projects are monitored.
Established in 1921, Sik Sik Yuen is a religious charity that has a high regard for Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism and provide medical, education and social services for the elderly according to the guiding principle of “to Act Benevolently and to Teach Benevolence”. Sik Sik Yuen the Wong Tai Sin Temple welcomes over 10,000 people each day, including worshipers and visitors all year round.
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