idling engines hong kong

**Chinese International School**
**June 2007**

**No Idling Engine Zone**
**Campaign**

**A small group of Year 10 students decided to research and develop a plan to reduce the number of cars which sit idling around our**
**school on Braemar Hill. The project manager, Chris Chan, and the team of 8 other students collected data on the scale**
**of the problem before proceeding. Once a baseline was established, 31% of the cars sit idling at any given time, a campaign**
**was devised, where drivers of idling engines would be asked to switch their engines off and if they complied, were given a**
**bottle of water and a tiny message on a tiny piece of paper of the benefits. Next week, the final week of the school year,**
**data will be collected to determine the effectiveness of this campaign in trying to establish the first Hong Kong voluntary**
**No Idling Zone. Below are pictures and data form the campaign.**
**Thanks to everyone for your suppor**t.
**Recent Articles in the SCMP about the Issue**
**SCMP 2007-05-27**

**Our CIS Eco-Warriors.**
Preparing in the classroom.
Safety vests used for easy identification.	Six Good Reasons For Turning Your Engine Off 1. Idling engines contribute to Global Warming through excessive burning of fossil fuels. 2. Idling engines contribute to poor local air quality, thus harming people’s respiratory systems and ruining Hong Kong’s image as Asia’s World City. 3. Idling engines generate extra heat and noise into our local community, thus necessitating the local schools and residences to close their windows and use air conditioners, thus consuming more electricity. 4. It’s a waste of your money. 5. It wastes a non-renewable resource needlessly, oil. 6. It’s a poor example for a knowledgeable community, such as CIS, to be setting for our fellow citizens.
Even the taxis joined in on the effort.	One of the few cars who didn't comply, at first!
Having some fun with action!	All types of cars were idling and were switched off.
A little message on a little piece of paper.	Loud and clear message?
Steph going it alone - what an eco-warrior!	Chris offering up a bottle of water.

Next years issue - private cars and our community - too many?