Green Thinking Hat: Using Creativity to Promote the Environmental "Sky-Mending" Action on Campus
Green Thinking Hat: Green is an active color, representing creativity and ingenuity. In the thinking process, it stands for exploration, proposals, suggestions, new ideas, and the diversity of possibilities.
We designed greeting cards and promotional flyers. At the same time, we used Scratch—a programming language we learned in computer class—to design animations and a Jian-dui eating game. This process challenged our creativity, but the final results were highly effective and rewarding.
During a torrential downpour on July 8, 2025, Lukang was flooded. I was trapped at school and couldn't go home. At that moment, I truly felt like "the sky had a hole in it." We realized that we needed to take some environmental action to "mend the sky" in response to climate change.
We designed reward cards and stickers, and we visited each class one by one to explain our plan to the homeroom teachers. We also recorded an audio broadcast to be played during lunchtime. To our surprise, 46 out of the 57 classes in our school were willing to participate! Seeing the students' accomplished smiles as they collected points on their eco-cards made us even more dedicated to making the Omamori (amulets). Inside these amulets, we placed the Tianhou Temple's peace charms (little deity clothes) and Ba-gua as small raffle prizes.
For the award ceremony of this environmental campaign, we first separated the reward cards by class and drew lots proportionally. Then, we personally visited each class to hand out the prizes.
When the three of us first brainstormed the "Jian-dui Reward Card," we were worried that people wouldn't be interested. But today, walking into the classrooms to hand out the amulets and seeing the eager looks in the younger students' eyes, I knew we had succeeded! We weren't just doing a school project; we were changing our campus.
I felt deeply moved when I placed the peace charms into the amulets. These amulets represent the culture we learned about at the Tianhou Temple, and now they have become a symbol of rewarding environmental protection. This made me realize that protecting our hometown's culture and protecting the Earth's environment are actually the exact same thing.
Many teachers praised our efforts. Although the environmental "Sky-Mending" action was inspired by learning about Nuwa's perseverance and spirit, real environmental protection should be implemented in our everyday choices and sustained over time. Through this project, we transformed from passive learners into active promoters. This feeling of working together for the "common good" brought us more joy than winning any prize!
This "Great Sky-Mending Mission" helped us understand that while one person's power is limited, the collective power of the whole school is limitless. Watching our classmates work hard to carry out the "Ten Actions" just to get a stamp, we realized that "Nuwa Mends the Heavens" isn't just a distant myth—it is made up of the small choices we make every single day.
