Celebrate World Environment day everyday!

                          Celebrate World Environment day everyday!

 

                                            Tanya Satish

 

 

 

World Environment Day June 5th was celebrated with much gusto by the Young Environmentalists Programme Trust,Meluha the Fern ecotel Green Team and Climate Reality Project in association with the YES bank and the Hiranandani group, Mumbai.

 

Seed collection drives and tree plantations were conducted at Hiranandani Gardens Powai Mumbai by citizens who came to support planet Earth.

 

The Climate Reality Project is a non-profit organization involved in education and advocacy related to climate change. The project was established in July 2011 after the joining of two environmental groups, The Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, which were both founded in 2006 by Al Gore. In Mumbai Elsie Gabriel Mentor of Climate Reality leadership teaches Climate change education in communities, schools and colleges. Gabriel says, “We teach free of cost and want more schools and teachers to join our programmes. We want the subject of EVS ie environment science to be re-instated as main stream subject in schools curriculum, why has it been discarded. With so much disasters and civic problems we need the subject.”

 

Some good examples of  teaching lessons which are interactive is shared here to give one an idea of how one can enhance the E.Q which is Environment Quotient-

1.How not to use Plastic bags. Ensure that the community awareness is created without preaching but through free handouts of clothbags for instance. Worksheets and certificates also boost the participants. Allow each group to bring recyclable cloth materials and make or stitch the cloth bags and distribute the same in markets and malls as well as local stalls.This is action oriented and goal oriented too.

 

2. Tree plantations are common but carry out all tree plantations through tree identification trails and science, explaining about the seeds and technicalities of planting and taking care of them.This makes for a fun trip outdoors and also promotes team building spirit.

 

3. Talk about pollution which harm the planet.Take participants to identify and document pollution being caused in their surroundings.Each one can complain and see that pollution in local areas are stopped due to your action and coordination with the pollution authorities.

 

So, basically celebrate World Environment day everyday, and make more people passionate about saving the earth from global warming and climate change.