The Go Green Initiative (GGI) is a global environmental education program founded in 2002 by Jill Buck in Pleasanton, California, aimed at promoting conservation and reducing waste across 50 U.S. states and 73 countries. Its objectives include educating communities on eco-friendly practices and fostering a culture of environmental stewardship, which has engaged over 1.5 million students and teachers. The initiative's achievements include significant water conservation and energy savings, emphasizing the importance of support for such grassroots efforts to safeguard future generations.
The document outlines the importance of environmental education and the Go Green Initiative, which promotes sustainable practices in schools and communities. It highlights the benefits of going green for students, schools, and the environment, emphasizing its role in conserving resources and reducing waste. Additionally, it provides strategies for implementing green practices and sources of funding to support these efforts.
The document discusses how going green and adopting environmentally friendly practices can help the environment and build character. It promotes reducing pollution, reusing items, and recycling. Specific actions mentioned include planting trees, which produce oxygen; cleaning the environment to reduce diseases; donating unused items; and conserving resources like energy and water. Recycling paper can save trees, and going green through recycling affects character by indirectly considering others. The document concludes by stating it is the new generation's duty to clean cities to make Pakistan clean.
The Go Green Initiative (GGI) aims to promote environmental leadership in schools through principles like composting, recycling, and education, impacting health for children now and in the future. Since its inception, GGI has expanded significantly, increasing participation to over 1,750 schools and affecting nearly 2 million students and teachers across multiple states and countries by 2008. Measurable environmental benefits have been realized, including substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, water, oil, and energy consumption.
This document discusses ways to go green and live more sustainably. It defines going green as living in a way that is environmentally friendly and helps preserve natural resources for future generations. Some key ways to go green discussed are reducing pollution and waste, conserving energy and water, using renewable resources, and protecting ecological balance. Global warming is presented as a major reason to adopt more sustainable practices, as human activities are causing the climate to change in damaging ways such as rising sea levels from melting glaciers. Specific tips provided for going green include recycling, reducing consumption, using efficient appliances, harvesting rainwater, and planting trees. The importance of green marketing for environmentally-friendly products is also highlighted.
The document discusses the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling (the 3 Rs). It explains that recycling saves natural resources, reduces pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, saves energy, and creates jobs. Reduction means using less of something or making it smaller. Reusing products extends their life and reduces the need for new products. Practicing the 3 Rs helps reduce garbage and protects the environment. The document encourages readers to reduce waste, reuse items, recycle, buy recycled products, get involved in environmental efforts, and spread awareness of the 3 Rs.
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Recycling is important to address global warming by reducing waste and energy usage. Recyclable materials include glass, paper, aluminum, asphalt, iron, textiles and plastics. Recycling has a long history and was encouraged during World Wars for resources. It helps conserve resources and energy compared to raw material production. Let's participate in recycling to care for our earth.
The document discusses going green and organic banking. It describes organic banking as using eco-friendly technology to process payments at a lower cost than traditional methods. This includes e-payroll, e-payment cards, e-wallets, and electronic accounts receivable networks that allow businesses to send and receive payments electronically domestically and abroad with significant savings.
The document discusses recycling processes and benefits. It explains that recycling involves collecting, sorting, cleaning and processing materials like glass, plastic and metal to manufacture new products. Recycling reduces waste in landfills and the environmental impacts of extracting raw materials while also lowering carbon dioxide emissions. The document provides tips for recycling at home and reusing items, as well as highlighting the importance of purchasing recycled goods to complete the recycling loop.
The document discusses recycling of packaging materials. It provides information on different packaging materials like paper, plastic, glass, metals and their decomposition times. It also discusses the various techniques used for recycling these materials including reuse, physical/mechanical, and chemical recycling. Safety issues for using recycled materials for food packaging are also summarized. The document emphasizes the benefits of recycling in terms of resource and energy conservation.
The document discusses the 3Rs of waste management - reduce, reuse, and recycle. It provides examples of how to reduce waste through conscious purchasing and using items for multiple purposes. Reusing items like jars, bags, and packaging can extend their lifespan. Recycling converts materials into new products and has environmental benefits like reducing landfill waste and pollution.
Recycling involves separating materials like glass, plastic, and paper to create new products, with up to 60% of waste potentially being recyclable. Each UK family uses 500 glass containers yearly, while 275,000 tonnes of plastic, which can take up to 500 years to decompose, are used annually. The document emphasizes the environmental benefits of recycling and encourages individuals to consider recycling options for everyday items.
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The document highlights the importance and benefits of recycling, detailing its positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy. Key advantages include energy savings, resource conservation, job creation, and community building, with statistics illustrating the effectiveness of recycling compared to landfill disposal. Recycling is emphasized as a personal choice and a lifestyle that contributes to a healthier planet and stronger communities.
The document discusses going green and organic banking. It describes organic banking as using eco-friendly technology to process payments at a lower cost than traditional methods. This includes e-payroll, e-payment cards, e-wallets, and electronic accounts receivable networks that allow businesses to send and receive payments electronically domestically and abroad with significant savings.
The document discusses recycling processes and benefits. It explains that recycling involves collecting, sorting, cleaning and processing materials like glass, plastic and metal to manufacture new products. Recycling reduces waste in landfills and the environmental impacts of extracting raw materials while also lowering carbon dioxide emissions. The document provides tips for recycling at home and reusing items, as well as highlighting the importance of purchasing recycled goods to complete the recycling loop.
The document discusses recycling of packaging materials. It provides information on different packaging materials like paper, plastic, glass, metals and their decomposition times. It also discusses the various techniques used for recycling these materials including reuse, physical/mechanical, and chemical recycling. Safety issues for using recycled materials for food packaging are also summarized. The document emphasizes the benefits of recycling in terms of resource and energy conservation.
The document discusses the 3Rs of waste management - reduce, reuse, and recycle. It provides examples of how to reduce waste through conscious purchasing and using items for multiple purposes. Reusing items like jars, bags, and packaging can extend their lifespan. Recycling converts materials into new products and has environmental benefits like reducing landfill waste and pollution.
Recycling involves separating materials like glass, plastic, and paper to create new products, with up to 60% of waste potentially being recyclable. Each UK family uses 500 glass containers yearly, while 275,000 tonnes of plastic, which can take up to 500 years to decompose, are used annually. The document emphasizes the environmental benefits of recycling and encourages individuals to consider recycling options for everyday items.
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The document highlights the importance and benefits of recycling, detailing its positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy. Key advantages include energy savings, resource conservation, job creation, and community building, with statistics illustrating the effectiveness of recycling compared to landfill disposal. Recycling is emphasized as a personal choice and a lifestyle that contributes to a healthier planet and stronger communities.
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The document discusses alternatives to price and market-based systems for addressing the climate crisis. It proposes basing systems on time and calendar cycles instead of growth and markets. Key points include reducing production and consumption to conserve time and biodiversity. Establishing an international wildlife corridor network and defining political boundaries based on watersheds instead of nations. Reforming currency so it decays over time instead of requiring endless growth. Taking a multi-scale approach from individuals to societies to lower emissions and shorten work hours.
The document discusses potential alternatives to carbon emissions trading and market mechanisms for addressing climate change, such as reducing working hours and changing lifestyles. It describes the current state of climate issues and agreements, then proposes a vision of sustainable peace and limiting global warming. It explores issues with carbon trading and examines taking responsibility at different levels, from individuals to groups, through strategies like reducing production, consumption and associated energy use by shortening work hours and changing calendars and lifestyles.
The uncontrolled gold mining industry in Mongolia since 1992 has led to widespread environmental destruction and health issues for local communities. Over 130 mining sites across 18 provinces have contaminated land and water sources with cyanide and mercury. As many as 35% of rivers and streams have dried up due to mining activities. Local residents near mine sites have experienced high rates of illness, death, and birth defects. Meanwhile, a small number of political and business elites have profited greatly from the country's gold wealth while most Mongolians remain in poverty. The document calls on readers to support letters urging the Mongolian government to better regulate mining and protect human rights.
7. 現況描述: GDP 的缺失 「社會繁榮的衡量指標,除了經濟成長以外,還要納入永續程度與生活福祉」 ~Sustainable Development Commission 2009 諾貝爾經濟學講得主史蒂格里茲 Stiglitz 「 放棄對GDP的崇拜 」 20091018 趙家緯:當諾貝爾經濟學獎得主都已放棄以 GDP 作為唯一的衡量指標,其餘為 GDP 是從的學說,也是種巫毒經濟學吧! http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010627.html
8. 現況描述:污染交易機制 起源於 1967~1970 美國學者 Ellison Burton 和 William Sanjour 為了解決空氣污染物 SO2 而設想的最低成本解決方案,以市場機制提供經濟誘因改變廠商行為。 「連污染排放交易的創始人都認為總量管制與交易制度對氣候變遷沒有效果」 ~Story of Cap and Trade 「只知道一切事物的價格,不知道任何價值。」 What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Lord Darlington, Act III ~ ~wikiquote 當我們把世間一切都納入市場,世界也就毀了。 地球與生態世界並不依循市場機制在運作。
9. 現況描述:制度變遷,不要氣候變遷 「 System change, not climate change! 」 ~ Klima forum 09 ; 三個關鍵的文明制度 時間 / 曆法:減少工作與消費。 空間 / 國界:國際生態保育網。 經濟 / 貨幣:無利息、會貶值的貨幣。 ~給其他生命 / 生物更多時間、空間與權力。
23. 英文版 Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Crisis with Time & Lifestyle, not Price and Market
24. Framework The present situation: Kyoto protocol, Emission trade mechanism, time dimension, identity of green politics, the failure of GDP The Vision: sustainable Peace, keep biodiversity, warming under 1.5℃ The Gap: the Story of Stuff, the Story of Cap and trade, what the COP15 The Action Plans: take the ecological footprint responsibility and react from person, to family, corporate, unions, community, state continent, culture society. Appendix: Spatial and temporal conservation revolution—international wildlife corridor web More context of the idea