UCSI Living Lab

12/11/2021

16/08/2021

UCSI Living Lab donated Moringa veggies to the mothers

26/07/2021

UCSI Living Lab Garden and Garden Spring under the rain!! Plants are happy and healthy.

23/07/2021

22 July 2021, Living Lab donated 4 packs of brazillian spinach and 2 packs of ceylon spinach with 300 grams for each pack to UCSI Foodbank!

We are expecting to give more!

16/07/2021

Congratulations UCSI Vocational Interns Jan-April 2021 for your graduations (26 June 2021)! Thank you to all partners and sponsors. You will be dearly missed.

16/07/2021

Joining Cheras community to share the surplus of food to those that came for vaccination at UCSI Le Quadri Hotel - managed by UCSI University. Thanks Tony, Nashwan and Francis for taking care of the edible garden at Living Lab and Garden Spring. Our appreciation to all UCSI Living Lab eco-edible gardening partners: The Blue Ribbon E4CAP & T4CAP teens, and Potato Productions, Singapore.

16/07/2021

We are happy to offer Climate Action Incubator Programme 2021!
This 3-month programme is designed for building youth capacity and capability in combating adverse climate change.
This climate resilience skill is fundamental for facing the greatest challenges of this century.
For your information, most of the online classes will be conducted from 4PM - 6PM (Malaysia Time) onwards, Monday - Friday and Saturday.
Some of the subjects are:
1. Bahasa Malaysia
2. English Language
3. Eco-edible Urban Gardening
4. Introduction to Sustainable Living
5. Teens4CAP in Permaculture (Theory and Practical)
6. Online Peace and Unity in Diversity Education
7. Garden to Table (Theory)
8. Multimedia Design
9. Motivational Talk and Mentorship
Participants are required to do their practicals at their own homes or residence. Participants get to audit a few courses offered by UCSI University and attend courses offered by partners locally and abroad.
Sponsorships are available for refugees and asylum seekers.
Please register by 21 July 2021.
Click here for more information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/CAPIncubator
If you have any questions, please contact this number: 01124207674 (Tony Lian)

01/06/2021

19/04/2021

New friends of UCSI Living Lab! Thanks to Metafusion Neyond Design (Singapore): https://metafusion.com.sg/connexion.html for meeting UCSI Living Lab Vocational Interns today! The team kindly shared on their life experience during university years and when deciding their careers. This was very helpful for the youths to think ahead for their own future.

We are very thrilled to have Meta Fusion team to agree to give feedback to the interns' ICT projects.

"Metafusion is a Creative Agency that thrives on design with a difference. We go beyond the confines of traditional design approaches, fusing strategic thinking with creative expression, to create impactful and meaningful solutions for our clients.
Be it a brand identity or a digital campaign, our artwork is art that works." Source: https://metafusion.com.sg/index.html

06/04/2021

Date: 22-31 March
Yay! We'd like to share our weekly vegetable harvesting with you.

During the last two weeks of March, we harvested a total of 7 kg of vegetables from the UCSI Living Lab garden and Garden Spring.

Here is a photo that was taken from our backyard known as The Hibiscus flower, which is Malaysia's national flower.

02/04/2021

We're excited to share our weekly vegetable harvest from the UCSI Living Lab garden with you. During the third week of March, we harvested a total of 2.5 kg of fresh vegetables mainly for the interns' consumption.

The leaves of Brazilian Spinach make great ingredients for cooking simple and typical meals at most Malaysian's kitchen such as fried rice and noodle soup.

Go and check out our Salad Puteri recipe using Brazilian Spinach in this link below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qZOY27FDo

02/04/2021

We harvested a total of 2.5 kg of vegetables from our UCSI Living Lab garden during the second week of March, and this is a photo of one of our leafy vegetables, Javanese Ginseng, also known as Ceylon Spinach.

The leaves of Java Ginseng can be eaten raw or fried. Its shoots and leaves can be used in soups, stir-fries, and stews, as well as in salads. They may also be added to smoothies.

Java Ginseng is easy to grow and multiply even in a natural way because very light ginseng seeds are easily carried away by the wind making it easier to grow by itself.

Source: https://specialtyproduce.com

25/03/2021

This month's weekly harvest has been updated, and we're excited to share it with you. The first week of March, we harvested 9 Kg of different nutritious and fresh vegetables.

It's a wonderful experience to cultivate and harvest tasty vegetables in your own backyard.

Here's a picture of the bitter guard, one of our hardy vegetables.

24/02/2021

Add new and healthy veggies to your meal!

At UCSI Living Lab we harvest every day a variety of healthy and highly nutritional vegetables such as Amaranth leaves, Moringa, Brazilian Spinach, Malabar Spinach, and many more. We also have hardy plants like Bitter Gourd, Sweet Potato, Chili, and Cucumber. In the fourth week of February, we harvested a total of 6 kg from our garden for UCSI intern's consumption.

We always try to create new recipes from our vegetables which we call it "Garden to Table".
Here is the link to one of the recipes of the Amaranth plant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq0TeH5o7Fs&t=6s

If you are not sure about your daily vegetable intake.Please read; https://www.verywellfit.com/recommended-vegetable-servings-per-day-by-age-2506868Last

15/01/2021

Join our programme on 23 January 2021 (Saturday)!

Time: 10.00 am (MYT)
Venue: Zoom Meeting
ELE Points for UCSI Students: 20

Register now via this link http://tiny.cc/permjan21

Dear All,
What are the principles of a sustainable human eco-system and how can we thrive for such a system? Please listen to Eunice sharing on 3 pioneering permaculture farm and garden and how permaculture principles are integrated to achieve this.

14/01/2021

13/01/2021

Dear All,
What are the principles of a sustainable human eco-system and how can we thrive for such a system? Please listen to Eunice sharing on 3 pioneering permaculture farm and garden and how permaculture principles are integrated to achieve this.

11/01/2021

UCSI Living Lab Vocational Internship for Sustainable Living Jan-April 2021 Batch starts today. 11 January 2021

Welcome to UCSI Living Lab!

09/01/2021

Dear Supporters of Teens4CAP,

A little thank you note to you for supporting our end of 2020 fundraising. We are pleased to announce that we met our target to provide sponsorship for 7 teen refugees and asylum seekers to participate in our Vocational Internship program that is hosted by UCSI Living Lab. This program was run in partnership with a few local and international partners. It was initiated by The Blue Ribbon Global through its Teens4CAP program, which was launched for peace building with people and the planet. CAP stands for Climate Action for Peace.

07/01/2021

Celebrating World Soil Day with other partners from 4th to 19th December 2020. This celebration focused on engaging teens between 13 to 19 years old to care for the soil. This Webinar was attended by around 180 teens. They were mainly teens that reside in Malaysia, including the refugees and asylum seekers. Around 20 teens from zooming in from abroad: Australia, Indonesia and Uganda. Four speakers did their presentation: Ms. Norani Abu Bakar, Executive Director of UCSI SDG Group and the founder of The Blue Ribbon Global; Ms. Morag Gambel Founder of Permaculture Institute Australia, Maia Raymond Co-founder PermaYouth, and Tony Lian Co-founder of Teens4CAP.

07/01/2021

Fundraising Christmas Lunch at LeQuadri Hotel (Hatton Restaurant) on 21 December 2020 for Teens4CAP Vocational Internship Program. Almost 60 tickets were sold and a few contributed directly towards this good cause. Thank you to everyone, including Le Quadri Hotel for co-organizing this event. Hatton Restaurant was spacious enough to host between 70 to 90 people to follow COVID 19 SOP. The food was delicious. Two departments from UCSI University, i.e. the Institute of Music (IMUS) and Centre of Excellence for Research, Value Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Academic Qualifications (CERVIE) use this opportunity to dine together for their New Year Celebration and team-building effort. Among other that came were Professor Tajuddin and his family, Mr. Leong Sat Seng and his wife, Mr. Wonna the Chairman of Mon Refugee Organization, Mr. Kelvin Tan's staff, Ms. Noorul Huda AB from The Blue Ribbon, Ms. Mega Head Counselor of UCSI University Students Affairs and Alumni Office, and the top 2 students of Teens4CAP Eco-Edible Gardening Zoom classes. Thank you to Mr. Ian Griffin for sponsoring these tickets as their gift for doing well with the program.

Our gratitude also goes to Datin Lily Ng, Chairman of Sri UCSI School for diligently supporting us in this raising funds effort. Thanks again to those that have made a contribution both financially and through their time.

07/01/2021

Graduation Ceremony of Teens4 CAP Vocational Internship 2020!

07/01/2021

We are delighted to announce that seven teens have completed their Vocational Internship in 2020. This is a great learning for everyone including the team that works closely to make this happen. And for the teens, WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU! Congratulations.

07/01/2021

Thank you to all participants, partners, and presenters that came together to celebrate World Soil Day 2020. Almost 180 teens of the age 13 to 19 joined the Zoom session yesterday. Our gratitude to SDG team that makes this happened. And to Potato Productions (Singapore) for sponsoring the Zoom meeting room. Thanks to Morag Gamble, Maia Raymond, Tony Lian for your interesting presentation yesterday.

10/12/2020

Date: 10 December 2020

English name: Shrubby cniquefoil
Malaysia name: Teh kuril
Scientific name: Dasiphora fruticosa

Nature is a miracle we depend upon.

04/12/2020

Join our next workshop in conjunction with World Soil Day

’Care for the Planet, Starts from the Ground’ Workshop
🌱Open for teenagers’ age 13 to 19
🌱19 December 2020 (Saturday)
🌱9.00 am – 10.30 am
🌱 Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/wsdw1219

Join World Soil Day Picture/ Video with Slogan Challenge 2020
🌱Open for teenagers age 13 to 19 that reside in Malaysia
🌱Submit before 9 December 2020 (Wednesday)
🌱Guidelines: http://tiny.cc/wsdg220
🌱Rubric: http://tiny.cc/wsdr2020

Thank you.

03/12/2020

Date: 3 December 2020 ( plant at UCSI living Lab Garden)

English name: Mulberry
Malay name : Mulberi
Scientific name : Morus

02/12/2020

02/12/2020

02/12/2020

25/11/2020

Date: 25 November 2020 (Plant at UCSI Living Lab Garden)

English name: Jawa Ginseng
Scientific name: Talinum paniculatum
Malay name: Pokok akar som


'The Earth is what we all have in common' - Wendell Berry

08/10/2020

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