Calculating youR Ecological Footprint
Making a step forward
Simple changes that we can easily apply in our everyday life.
Reduce plastic!
- Replace plastic bottles and cups with reusable ones - Check out the Refill initiative https://www.refill.org.uk/ - Use your own non-plastic straw or cutlery - Buy more local food avoiding plastic packaging ( + support your local economy) - Store your food into reusable vases and boxes - Recycle Picture taken from: 1 Million Women initiative |
Follow a more healthy lifestyle!
- Embrace a green-based diet & organic products - Plant your vegetables garden - Avoid eating too much meat - Become Vegan-friendly https://www.happycow.net/ - Avoid regular flights - Use bicycles & public transportation - Walk more, drive less |
STORIES OF ACTIVE PARTICIPATION & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
Workshop Tours in Vietnam!
Vy Thanh launched a Workshop Tour on non-formal education and sustainable development going to several universities in Vietnam raising awareness about the environment and healthy lifestyle. They created together with the students a Sustainable Tree. Students also wrote three actions that were committed to follow in order to contribute in the sustainable development. Finally, they are promoting together a campaign called #bring_your_cup to change the habit using plastic cups in their life!
Vy Thanh launched a Workshop Tour on non-formal education and sustainable development going to several universities in Vietnam raising awareness about the environment and healthy lifestyle. They created together with the students a Sustainable Tree. Students also wrote three actions that were committed to follow in order to contribute in the sustainable development. Finally, they are promoting together a campaign called #bring_your_cup to change the habit using plastic cups in their life!
Free Markets in Armenia!
Arpine Galfayan together with her colleagues organise Free Markets in Armenia!
Free Market means that you (on anyone) have something that you don’t need; meanwhile, you need something else which other people have. According to Arpine, you basically choose a public space (or an office, garden, whatever) and invite people to bring what they can and to take what they need. No money involved at all! It takes some time before people get used to not just taking anything just because it's free, or not feeling embarrassed to take used stuff of other people. After 4-5 markets it works really well in Yerevan. Sometimes we also invite bands to play music, organize recycling or repair workshops, ask people to bring and share food, etc; so it turns into a great community event. People bring everything - from clothes to plants to bicycle parts to books...
Arpine Galfayan together with her colleagues organise Free Markets in Armenia!
Free Market means that you (on anyone) have something that you don’t need; meanwhile, you need something else which other people have. According to Arpine, you basically choose a public space (or an office, garden, whatever) and invite people to bring what they can and to take what they need. No money involved at all! It takes some time before people get used to not just taking anything just because it's free, or not feeling embarrassed to take used stuff of other people. After 4-5 markets it works really well in Yerevan. Sometimes we also invite bands to play music, organize recycling or repair workshops, ask people to bring and share food, etc; so it turns into a great community event. People bring everything - from clothes to plants to bicycle parts to books...
Street Library in Ghana!
Sedarvp Ghana has launched the Street Library project in January 2018. It is a community based library open to every student in the Tamale metropolis. Street Libraries are open cultural spaces that invite children to discover the pleasure of reading and art activities and learn to recognize the strength of their own communities.
Sedarvp Ghana has launched the Street Library project in January 2018. It is a community based library open to every student in the Tamale metropolis. Street Libraries are open cultural spaces that invite children to discover the pleasure of reading and art activities and learn to recognize the strength of their own communities.
The Wall of kindness in Greece!
It was found on this wall in the city of Kalamata, Greece. It is a corner on the street where you may leave clean cooked or uncooked food, fruits, vegetables, lean clothes, bread, and everything else a fellow citizen may have in immediate need. A cool and simple initiative that could be applied everywhere!
It was found on this wall in the city of Kalamata, Greece. It is a corner on the street where you may leave clean cooked or uncooked food, fruits, vegetables, lean clothes, bread, and everything else a fellow citizen may have in immediate need. A cool and simple initiative that could be applied everywhere!
Environmental justice atlas
"The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues. The website of EJATLAS and its inventories and maps of environmental conflicts are supported by the ENVJUST project (European Research Council Advanced Grant 2016-2021), directed by Joan Martinez-Alier and the ACKnowl-EJ (Academic-Activist Co-Production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice, 2015-2018) directed by Leah Temper and Ashish Kothari and funded by the Transformations to Sustainability Programme, which is coordinated by the International Social Science Council and funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and implemented in partnership with the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number TKN150317115354). The Transformations to Sustainability Programme represents a contribution to Future Earth. Both projects are coordinated from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The Atlas was initiated in EJOLT, Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade, an FP7 Science in Society project funded by the European Commission that ran from 2011 to 2015. " - https://ejatlas.org/