268 Results Are Tagged With "Environment and Sustainability"

The Mindanao RiOasis Project aims to unite young Filipino Muslim leaders from different tribes to recover the second largest river of the Philippines from a destruction of its riverbank that caused a great flood happened last 2011 destroying numerous of households, the Rio Grande de Mindanao. The river plays an important role with the commencement of their culture. The project will hopefully implant an environmental awareness to the local people with its clean drive and tree planting activity. Its highlight is the product exhibition to the Ginakit Festival from its livelihood workshop, a green livelihood for the Rio?s people. The livelihood workshop will hopefully lessen the probability of flood in the area. The Mindanao RiOasis Project will revive the culture of its people and recover the river where people can appreciate its beauty and significance.

The most basic living thing in nature is plant, which is the main aim of this project in educating kids about the term ?nature?. Theoretical understanding is never good enough in environmental education; hence, providing them hands-on experience is the best approach. Letting them to own a plant and taking care of it instills sense of responsibility and appreciation in them towards living things. Apart from that, this project also provides basic knowledge about science and nature in a fun and rewarding way. A potted plant will be given to each kid for duration of a year. At the beginning of the project, kids will be introduced to the basic needs of plants, the functions of the plant, and obviously, how to take care of the plant. Kids are more likely to stay interested in gardening if they can help grow indoor plants that look interesting and require less complicated work. Educators will be assigned to guide the kids throughout the gardening period. Kids will report their observations throughout the growing period of their plants, which could also assist the educators on how well-received the project is to kids in achieving our objectives.

The Study of the United States Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Global Environmental Issues (SUSI) is funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Institute is hosted by the East-West Center in collaboration with the University of Hawaii Environmental Center and over fifty other organizations. I had a chance to create innovative and positive solutions in environmental challenges. As a result, it completely changed my passions, refocused and reshaped my future objective to work in environmental pathway.

"Back to Father Factory" is a business system that will further promote sustainable development by maximizing the recycling of consumer products? packaging. Through the collaboration of small and large-scale industries with waste management companies and delivery systems, wastes would be collected, segregated, cleaned and given back to their mother factories so that the recyclable material in their packaging would be used again thereby reducing the need for raw materials.