At GreenSmiths, we envision a future where empowered young people build a sustainable planet for all life on earth.
02/10/2022
We were this morning planting our food forest! Brinjal, lemon, turmeric, coconut (takes TWENTY YEARS until the first coconut drops 😳), banana, water spinach, thai basil… so many species!! Feel very privileged again to be able to learn how to do this, so we can spread these approaches all over the place!
Next part… building a mud brick café!!
27/09/2022
We’re helping to raise profile of the work of our friends ~
Mission 30: Zero Waste Challenge
🕴🏻Dr. Evil is scheming to warm the planet up and we’re looking for TOP agents to embark on a mission to stop Dr. Evil’s plan! The only way we can foil that evil plan is by living a zero waste lifestyle for 30 days!
🌍Each day from 1st to 30th October 2022 agents will encounter new challenges along their way.
🎁As a reward for your hard work, TOP agents can be rewarded a total of up to RM9,000! (PS: One of them is a Shangri-la stay)
🌈We’ll need all the help we can get so sign yourself up now make sure to complete all the challenges!
🎟️Sign up NOW @ https://bit.ly/mission30zwm
26/09/2022
This Saturday was so honoured to participate in SMK Convent Pulau Tikus’ Green Carnival - our awesome volunteers make this happen and mostly we want to celebrate the INCREDIBLE work for Pengetua Khaw, Ms Lau and the students of this school 🎉 🎉
Even as the school is entering a new phase and closing its doors next year, the current students and staff AND alumni students and staff came back to celebrate everything this school has achieved and represents 🧡🫶🏼🥰 a truly beautiful community! we are so humbled to have been able to learn from their incredible tenacious, creative and tireless work. What a blessing you all are ❤️
Our new chairperson .shu received a gift, and you can check out our IG saved stories for images and video of the incredible day.
Thank you SMK CPT. We love you 😽 thank you to our awesome volunteers !
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves” - Kahlil Gibran
We’ve been a bit quiet these days, as we’re going through a lot of change ~ it’s exciting and scary and we reflecting on who we want to be in the future!
So we’re taking a moment to step back and reflect and come back stronger 🧡 Thank you to all our incredible supporters - too many to count but every student, intern, teacher and school staff, parent, partner organisation especially to our dearest friend the inspiring who we’ve been running expeditions to Ulu Muda rainforest with since 2015 🧡
We are still taking queries and hear to listen and learn too! You can contact our new chairperson, from student to leader ~ it’s our lovely Shah Shukri!
Please follow us to keep up to date or email [email protected] with your email address so we can inform you what happens next 🫣😍🙌🏼😺apologies to anyone we’ve missed ~
21/07/2022
Our interns and staff are still learning and volunteering with in Balik Pulau, organised by the amazing 🧡.
As the effects of climate change become more obvious and devastating, this land brings hope as a climate mitigating space with a food forest, seed bank, healing space, café and meeting area
The climate emergency is real. The knowledge of how to regenerate land which share with us is essential to survival. Come and join the volunteering! DM us or to get involved on Wednesdays & Saturdays.
See the webpage for details and how to donate: https://projectmars.com.my
18/06/2022
Happening Now! Our interns are sharing their experience of being in the wild. See you there!
17/06/2022
Venturing into the forest? Setting up camera trap footage? Bird watching? Not the usual Gen Z activities? Join us tomorrow at Hin Bus Depot to hear from our interns about their experience deep in this special forest.
31/05/2022
Got fruit and veg saplings, or space for foster a plant? You can contribute food plants of any size and age to our food forest in Project MARS!
Foster your plant and then donate either by dropping at farm in Minden Heights or directly at Project M.A.R.S. [Mitigation * Adaptation * Resilience * Space] in June!
Send a message to Zac (+60 10-566 6924) to pledge your plant and arrange your drop off / planting date!
30/05/2022
Co-founder joined Project M.A.R.S. [Mitigation * Adaptation * Resilience * Space] bamboo cutting session with ~ we’ve cut and prepared 50 bamboo, and need another 150 to build structures around our food forest 😃
Want to understand more about how to regenerate soil, grow a good forest and restore your relationship with the natural world? Website on Project M.A.R.S. Launching soon! Watch this space or DM to join the volunteer group
22/05/2022
GreenSmiths’ Youth Leaders program has begun! The program will be run over three weekends and features outdoor and environmental activities around Penang and Kedah. The aim is to engage youths with their natural environment, equip with skills and empower them to address environmental issues. Sponsored by
12/05/2022
Another fantastic volunteer session at [Mitigation * Adaptation * Resilience Space] with 🧡
We finally finished putting all the composting materials into place and can see and smell the telltale signs of nature at work making black gold: healthy, nutrient-rich soil for our food forest!
You’ll notice there’s a range of youth to senior in our MARS community - we truly believe we can’t have only the old growing their own food. Preparing space and materials, composting, gathering seeds, sowing, nurturing, harvesting - these are essential skills for all humans in the midst of a climate emergency. To achieve it we need all of our ideas, expertise, dreams, questions and problem solving together to achieve something that will sustain. Diversity, communication, openness, patience, action! - altogether really is our strength.
We also had a team meeting with architect Peipei where we discovered a design process that is truly thoughtful about sustainable, local, deeply meaningful and not just deciding on what ‘looks good’ but instead on what really is the best for our people and planet, and tells our genuine story. More details to follow soon…
Want to join our community? DM us to get more info! !