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MediaBantenCyber.co.id- (MBC) Kota Tangerang Selatan, Sekolah Adiwiyata adalah sekolah yang berwawasan lingkungan, dalam pengertian bahwa bukan hanya masalah sampah serta kebersihan lingkungan dan juga pohon, namun juga di sana (sekolah-red) nanti akan terbentuk suatu gerakkan, yaitu gerakkan untuk membentuk karakter dari stakeholder, baik itu kepala sekolahnya, gurunya, siswanya dan juga pegawainya yang ada di dalam lingkungan sekolah tersebut. Intinya adalah sekolah Adiwiyata itu membuat gerakan dan pembiasan anak-anak sekolah untuk memiliki karakter berbudaya lingkungan di manapun dia berada, baik di sekolah, di rumah maupun di lingkungan dimana dia berada dan bermain.______________Baca Juga : Anton Wibawa: DLH Memelihara dan Memangkas Pohon Rutin Secara Berkala, Tanpa Menunggu Musim Hujan
Kepada MediaBantenCyber.co.id, yang berkunjung ke kantor Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) Kota Tangerang Selatan (Tangsel), pada Jum'at, 11 Maret 2022 pagi, dengan penuh keramahtamahannya, Drs. Gatot Sukartono, M.Or, Kasie Adiwiyata Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) Kota Tangsel itu menjelaskan bahwa, sekolah Adiwiyata itu WAJIB diselenggarakan di sekolah-sekolah Kota Tangsel khususnya, dan seluruh sekolah-sekolah di Indonesia pada umumnya. Karena sekolah Adiwiyata itu dibentuk berdasarkan keputusan tiga menteri, yaitu Menteri Lingkungan Hidup (LH), Menteri Pendidikan dan juga Menteri agama.
"Jadi semua sekolah-sekolah di Indonesia, baik itu yang berafiliasi kepada kementerian pendidikan, apakah itu sekolah swasta maupun negeri, dan juga sekolah-sekolah Madrasah yang berafiliasi kepada kementerian agama, itu WAJIB untuk menjadi sekolah Adiwiyata. Karena sekolah Adiwiyata itu merupakan proses untuk merubah iklim bumi kita saat ini. Karena melalui program sekolah Adiwiyata ini secara tidak langsung sekolah sudah membantu dalam proses memperbaiki iklim bumi yang saat ini kondisinya sudah sangat memprihatinkan bagi kelangsungan hidup umat manusia," tandas Gatot Sukartono.
Lanjutnya, di Kota Tangsel berbagai program-program sekolah Adiwiyata itu telah dan sedang terus dilakukan oleh Pemerintah daerah Kota Tangsel melalui Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH), dan salah satu kegiatan yang baru saja dilakukan oleh DLH Kota Tangsel adalah program sosialisasi sekolah Adiwiyata ke sekolah-sekolah di Kota Tangsel pada tanggal 16 dan 17 Pebruari 2022 untuk tingkat kota.
"Program sekolah Adiwiyata itu ada beberapa tingkatan-tingkatannya, yaitu tingkat kabupaten/kota, tingkat provinsi, tingkat nasional, tingkat mandiri, dan rencananya juga akan digelar untuk tingkat ASEAN serta tingkat Kroasia," jelasnya.
Ditambahkan Gatot, untuk penilaian sekolah Adiwiyata tingkat kota dan provinsi telah dilakukan pada tanggal 16 dan 17 Pebruari 2022 kemarin, yang dilaksanakan di Hotel Sahid, Cilenggang, Kecamatan Serpong, Kota Tangerang Selatan, yang dihadiri langsung oleh Kepala Dinas (Kadis) Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) Kota Tangsel, Wahyunoto Lukman, S.IP.MM, sedangkan untuk tingkat nasional dan mandiri penilaiannya akan dimulai pada bulan Juni-Juli 2022 mendatang. Sambungnya, program sekolah Adiwiyata ini merupakan program berkesinambungan.
Dalam kesempata tersebut, Kadis Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) Kota Tangsel, Wahyunoto Lukman meminta dan mengingatkan agar sekolah-sekolah mulai tingkat SD hingga SMA/SMK di Kota Tangerang Selatan, baik sekolah negeri maupun sekolah swasta yang belum melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata sesuai keputusan bersama tiga menteri (Kementerian LH, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kementerian Agama), agar segera melaksanakan sekolah Adiwiyata di sekolahnya masing-masing.
"Saya meminta agar sekolah-sekolah di Kota Tangsel yang belum melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata untuk segera melaksanakan program tersebut, karena pemerintah daerah Kota Tangsel melalui Dinas Lingkungan Hidup menargetkan tahun 2022 ini atau tahun 2023 Kota Tangsel harus mendapatkan piala Adipura, yaitu piala penghargaan tertinggi tingkat nasional untuk program sekolah Adiwiyata," tandas Wahyunoto Lukman, Kadis Dinas Lingkungan Hidup Kota Tangerang Selatan.
Dan menurut Gatot, di Kota Tangsel program sekolah Adiwiyata telah dilaksanakan secara masif sejak 5 atau 6 tahun terakhir, sedangkan Adiwiyata secara Mandiri telah dilakukan oleh beberapa sekolah di Kota Tangsel sejak Kota Tangsel ini berdiri, seperti sekolah SMAN 9 dan SD Dharma Karya, mereka memiliki kesadaran sendiri tentang sekolah Adiwiyata, dan mereka belajar sendiri dan mencari tahu tentang sekolah Adiwiyata hingga ke Jawa Timur dan Jawa Barat dengan biaya sendiri.
Dijelaskan oleh Gatot, sesungguhnya di Provinsi Banten ini, Kota Tangsel adalah Pelopor sekolah Adiwiyata, dan Kota Tangerang belajar kepada Kota Tangsel, namun karena penerapannya dari Dinas Pendidikan yang masih kurang tegas hanya sebatas HIMBAUAN saja, tidak seperti di Kota Tangerang yang akan memberikan sanksi kepada sekolah-sekolah yang tidak melaksanakan sekolah Adiwiyata, maka pada akhirnya Kota Tangsel tertinggal jumlah sekolah-sekolahnya yang telah melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata.
"Di Kota Tangsel sendiri sebenarnya sudah ada Perda dan Perwal yang MEWAJIBKAN semua sekolah-sekolah baik negeri maupun swasta untuk membentuk dan melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata. Sebenarnya berdasarkan Perda dan Perwal tersebut, kami khususnya Dinas Pendidikan dapat memberikan sanksi kepada sekolah-sekolah yang belum melaksanakan Perda dan Perwal tersebut, akan tetapi saat ini dinas pendidikan Kota Tangsel belum memilih untuk melakukan tindakan tegas kepada sekolah yang belum melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata seperti di Kota Tangerang," kata Gatot.
Menurutnya, Kota Tangsel masih memilih untuk melakukan sosialisasi sekolah Adiwiyata itu secara persuasif. Dan alhamdulillah saat ini di Kota Tangsel telah ada sebanyak 200 san sekolah yang melaksanakan program sekolah Adiwiyata, dan kami telah menargetkan minimal pada tahun 2025 mendatang sudah ada 50 persen sekolah-sekolah di Kota Tangsel yang telah melaksanakan Adiwiyata, karena saat ini kata Gatot baru sekitar 30 persen sekolah-sekolah di Kota Tangsel yang telah melaksanakan sekolah Adiwiyata.
"Yang Adiwiyata Mandiri di Kota Tangsel saat ini baru 6 sekolah, yaitu SMAN 9, SD Dharma Karya, SMPN 3, SMAN 2, SD Islam Amalina dan SMP Al Azhar Pamulang," tuturnya.
Lanjut Gatot, Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) Kota Tangsel selalu mengajak kepada sekolah-sekolah untuk melakukan "sodakoh bumi", berupa membuat Bio Pori sebanyak-banyaknya dilingkungan sekolahnya dan juga "Bersodakoh Sampah" yang masih bisa terpakai sebanyak-banyaknya, yang masih bernilai ekonomis untuk dijual atau didaur ulang di Bank Sampah yang telah dibentuk oleh DLH Kota Tangsel dan saat ini jumlahnya sudah mencapai ratusan diberbagai tempat di Kota.(BTL)
Barbara Harper posted: " There are scores of books, articles, blog posts, podcasts, and sermons about dealing with trials and suffering. And that's good, because we need them. But I don't know that I have ever seen any material about the dangers of success. What danger"
There are scores of books, articles, blog posts, podcasts, and sermons about dealing with trials and suffering. And that's good, because we need them.
But I don't know that I have ever seen any material about the dangers of success.
What danger can there be in success? Especially success that we've prayed and trusted God for?
One potential danger of success is forgetting who gave us that success. God had warned Israel about forgetting Him once they got settled in their land.
Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.' You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God (Deuteronomy 8:11-20).
The New Testament echoes this truth: "What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" (1 Corinthians 4:7).
Another danger of success is pride. Perhaps forgetfulness leads to pride. Uzziah started out as a good king of Judah who "did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper" (2 Chronicles 26:4-5). The Bible goes on to tell of Uzziah's accomplishments, feats, and even inventions. Then we read this sobering statement: "He was marvelously helped, till he was strong. But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction" (2 Chronicles 26:15-16).
Saul, Israel's first king, fell into the same pattern. When he was chosen king, he hid among the baggage and people had to look for him (1 Samuel 10:17-24). He saw himself as "little in his own eyes" (1 Samuel 15:17). But then he became too concerned with how the people regarded him.
"One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor" (Proverbs 29:23).
Both of these kings went from pride to presumption. They stepped into duties God had given priests, not kings. God then rejected Saul as king (1 Samuel 13:8-15) and turned Uzziah into a leper (2 Chronicles 26:16-23).
Presumption led to further disobedience (1 Samuel 15). Saul's decline is one of the saddest stories in history. He became jealous, irrational, untruthful, and even murderous. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs 16:18).
It's an odd thing, isn't it, to know God's help, to know success was only available because God provided it, and then to be proud because of it--proud not of God, but of self, as if we did anything all by ourselves. Yet it happens all too easily.
Rosalind Goforth, one of my heroes for many reasons, writes in Climbing: Memories of a Missionary's Wife of marvelous answers to prayer. Often she was supposed to speak to a group of women, yet her schedule was so full with caring for her children, homemaking, and regular ministry work that she couldn't make time to study and prepare as she would like to. She writes of jotting down notes or studying her Bible while nursing a baby, or crying out to God in prayer before a speaking engagement and then being given a perfect outline of a message.
Sadly and humbly, I must confess that many, many times when I cried out to the Lord for power in speaking and evident power was given, I had not left the platform before the thought would come, "I have done well today." Then would come the cry for forgiveness (pp 112-113).
I can confess to similar experiences.
How can we counter that tendency to exalt self instead of God?
My dear mother-in-law once said she had such a tendency toward spiritual pride that she withdrew from any kind of ministry in front of people. I understand her heart. But if we all did that, how would any of us minister to anyone else? We can't do everything anonymously, though there are times to meet people's needs "behind the scenes." We're not supposed to hide our lights under bushels.
Here are a few actions that help me:
Remember. Remember the ways God has led us along, His "Ebenezers" to us. Remember His Word; be in it regularly to keep our minds saturated with God's perspective.. Remind ourselves that without Him we can do nothing (John 15:4-5), that His strength is made perfect in our weakness (1 Corinthians 12:8-10).
Humble ourselves. "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you" (James 4:10). "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6). Humbling is not the same thing as belittling. "There's no need to shrink yourself down or deflate your gifts. That's not humility any more than inflating your importance. Take an honest look at who you are and what you've been given" (Influence: Building a Platform That Elevates Jesus (Not Me) by Kate Motaung and Shannon Popkin). Martin Luther said, "God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us" (quoted in Influence, p. 65).
Acknowledge our dependence on God. I try to pray most mornings that God would fill me with the fruit of His Spirit as a way to remind myself I can't manufacture a right spirit on my own.
Focus on ministering as unto the Lord. "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ" (Colossians 3:23-24).
Focus on others. Philippians 2:3-4 says, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride [I love the KJV word vainglory here], but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." Jesus said that whoever would be great must serve others, and even He did not come to be ministered to, but to minister (Mark 10:42-45).
Be grateful. Thanking God for His provision and enabling helps remind us that everything came from Him.
Look to Jesus: We become more like Him by beholding Him.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:5-11).
Kevin DeYoung and Trevin Wax discuss a modern-day dilemma along these lines: book publishers expect authors to promote their own books, to build a "platform." Yet how can one do that without being prideful? I appreciate their thoughts here, especially this from Trevin:
But I'm still conflicted about blogging about my book. Maybe that's where I need to be. Maybe this is the Spirit's method of rooting out sinful motivations and spurring me on to holiness.
Maybe God is saying, "I don't ever want you to be totally comfortable with self-promotion, even if some promotion will result in more people buying a book that is beneficial to the church." Maybe God wants me to remember that my motives are never completely pure, and even my best intentions are tainted with sin.
That tension between promoting the message God gave us and yet wanting to be careful not to exalt or promote self can help keep us balanced.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 sums it up well: "In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other." Both success and failure have their purposes. May we keep our eyes on Him in either case.
wowvermilion posted: " As you grow older, it often becomes more difficult to manage your weight. However, the reasons may be different than you think. A recent study challenges the conventional wisdom about metabolism across the lifespan. Rather than slowing down in midd"
As you grow older, it often becomes more difficult to manage your weight.
However, the reasons may be different than you think. A recent study challenges the conventional wisdom about metabolism across the lifespan.
Rather than slowing down in middle age, human metabolism seems to remain stable from 20 to 60. That's according to a groundbreaking study at Duke University.
That means you could be wasting time and money on expensive supplements and magic foods that claim to help you burn more calories. Try these suggestions, instead, for taking weight off and keeping it off after 40.
How to Easily Lose Weight After 40
Increasing Muscle Mass
While your metabolism may remain strong for decades, your muscle mass starts decreasing sooner.
The average adult loses about 3 to 5% every ten years after they turn 30. While some change is inevitable, slowing the process down can help you stay lean.
Try these tips:
Use resistance. The key to building strength is contracting your muscles against external resistance. Experiment with machines, free weights, and body weight exercises to see what works for you.
Train heavy. For faster results, make your workouts more intense. Use a weight that allows you to just barely complete your last repetition.
Consume adequate protein. Current guidelines recommend getting 10 to 35% of your calories from protein, and many experts prefer the upper range. Some studies suggest that eating a protein-rich meal or snack within 2 hours after working out is especially helpful.
Schedule rest days. Your muscles grow while you're recovering in between workouts. You can take it easy or do easier activities like hiking.
Other Tips for Losing Weight After 40
Aging affects your body weight in other ways too.
Increases in insulin resistance lead to excess sugar being stored as fat. Hormonal changes play a role too, especially for women after menopause.
On top of that, your lifestyle may become more sedentary.
Using these strategies can help:
Choose whole foods. Satisfy your hunger with natural foods rich in nutrients and fiber and low in added sugar and salt. Smart choices include vegetables, fruits, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats.
Drink water. It's easy to confuse thirst with hunger. Staying hydrated will enhance your digestion and help you feel full.
Limit alcohol. Many cocktails contain a lot of empty calories and any alcohol can lower your resistance to junk food. If you drink, practice moderation.
Sleep well. Getting 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night is important for your overall wellbeing. Stick to a regular bedtime that allows you to wake up naturally feeling refreshed.
Weigh yourself. The average adult gains 1 to 2 pounds each year. Using a scale or tape measure at least once a week gives you a chance to make easy corrections before the doughnuts add up.
Move around. How many hours a day do you spend sitting? In addition to regular exercise, take a break to stretch and walk around each half hour anytime you're at your desk or watching TV.
Seek support. Changing your habits is easier when you have your family and friends on your side. Invite your loved ones to join you in preparing nutritious meals at home and sticking to a workout program.
See your doctor. If you need more help, talk with your doctor about your personal situation. For example, a thyroid screening can catch issues that cause weight gain, fatigue, and depression in many adults over 35.
Staying slim after 40 takes a little effort, but the benefits are huge. You lower your risk for many serious health conditions and increase your chances for living a long and active life.
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