W.I.F.E.S – Winning Initiatives For Environmental Sustainability:
Summary:
Under W.I.F.E.S several projects will be created. The main focus will be development of local communities and environmental sustainability promotion . relevant partnerships will be built.
Green Waters foundation believes everyone can make a difference. It is our aim to reach out to diverse groups and individuals who are not yet participating in development, so as to empower the development engine by more Green Energy (The people).
With more people involved in environmental sustainability initiatives, we will move a step forward towards achievement of UN Millennium development goal 1 – eradication of extreme poverty and goal 7 – Ensuring environmental sustainability.
The first project under W.I.F.E.S is creative recycling:
The short term goals for this project are:
- To raise awareness of environmental impact cause by our daily behaviour.
- Teach creative recycling skills
- To create product lines which use recycle materials
- To create outlets for the product lines
This project will be done in stages:
Summary:
Under W.I.F.E.S several projects will be created. The main focus will be development of local communities and environmental sustainability promotion . relevant partnerships will be built.
Green Waters foundation believes everyone can make a difference. It is our aim to reach out to diverse groups and individuals who are not yet participating in development, so as to empower the development engine by more Green Energy (The people).
With more people involved in environmental sustainability initiatives, we will move a step forward towards achievement of UN Millennium development goal 1 – eradication of extreme poverty and goal 7 – Ensuring environmental sustainability.
The first project under W.I.F.E.S is creative recycling:
The short term goals for this project are:
- To raise awareness of environmental impact cause by our daily behaviour.
- Teach creative recycling skills
- To create product lines which use recycle materials
- To create outlets for the product lines
This project will be done in stages:
1. Creative recycling of waste:
We organise workshops that teach different ways of creatively recycling waste materials from households and various industries
2. Recycling Centres:
Waste collection centres that will also provide opportunities for internships, entrepreneurship and employment in sectors such as i.e cleaning & sorting of waste, recycling art workshops, awareness workshops, production.
3.Environmental sustainability awareness workshops:
Workshops offering various knowledge in environmental management.
We are currently on the first stage.
1.CREATIVE RECYCLING OF WASTE :
We started with creative recycling so as to transfer knowledge (capacity building) about different ways of recycling, that can have a positive impact on our household income and also on environment.
Our motivation is to reduce the ecological footprint (EF)
Ecological footprint:
Ecological footprint (EF) is an idea which was developed with a purpose to make people realise how their use of earth resources, limits the sustainability of the resources. Therefore, in the long run failure to reduce our EF will lead to the decline of the resources and the earth inhabitants won’t be able to survive or maintain existing lifestyles.
The earth is portrayed as a dome of which limited earth inhabitants and resources are trapped in. It is up to the inhabitants to learn the best ways of utilizing the resources in order to make them last longer and also to maintain the best quality and the possible renewal of the resources.
Our consumer habits impact environmental resources:
Examples:
1. The textile industry uses cotton as one of the main raw materials.
Cotton production requires use of large plots of land, and also use of pesticides. Most production is done in developing countries of which there is no regulation for use of pesticides such as DDT.
DDT is a highly poisonous pesticide and it’s use to kill insects that attack crops ensures a healthy crop.
However, DDT takes a long time o break down once it is sprayed on the grounds, during spraying the wind might blow the spraying to non targeted areas, and rainfalls carries DDT into rivers and other water sources used for human consumption and cause health damage i.e Poisoning, damage on the immunity system and Cancer.
2. The paper industry uses different kinds of trees for raw materials.
Trees are natural habitats for wild animals. Apart from providing living environment they are a main source for modern medicines.
They provide us with food and properties to make products such as sweets, chockolates, juices, hot drinks.
Other products made from trees are perfumes, food flavours,rubber, soaps, cosmetics, musical instruments, furniture, boxes, books and clothes.
Trees are used to capture greenhouse gasses emissions. This slows down global warming, which has caused extreme weather changes that have endangered human lives all over the world.
By extending the shelf life of products such as those made from the two examples we have discussed, we are reducing our ecological footprint.
Tired of old fashioned jeans? Recycle them into an inspiring product and make money from them!
Tired of receiving newspaper advertisements? Be creative, make splending products with low to zero investment costs.
Background:
Habits are established from a young age, therefore family and communities are important in influencing children’s behaviour and developing future values.
The values that we learn early in life, also influence our environment and the way we act towards each other, and during the time of a crisis.
The current economic situation, has had a negative impact on household incomes. Job security is not as it used to be, many people are facing unemployment.
Governments are facing heavy burdens in health insurance and social welfare because more people can’t afford to pay taxes, and more businesses are going bankrupt. ...........
To read more about W.I.F.E.S visit our organisation website http://www.green-waters.org/
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