tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85288503352728707952024-03-18T13:08:31.083+05:30Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V)This blog is maintained by Kanchana and Thushara to update their friends on their activities with ECO-VKanchana and Thusharahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065453118429333828noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-61669526481494651562024-02-07T16:17:00.002+05:302024-02-07T16:17:34.917+05:30ECO-V is 23 years old <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dear All, </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">It's been 23 years for ECO-V. Back in 2001, some of you were invited to my home to discuss starting an organisation. Since then we have had so many activities towards protecting Nature. Mainly towards behavioral changes among us. But we never wanted to grow up as a large organisation. It was always running at low levels but with a greater positive impact among whoever around us and whatever we did. Please check our website <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.eco-v.org&source=gmail&ust=1707387444267000&usg=AOvVaw3jpEhCl-WaEkrpx8tEtSBv" href="http://www.eco-v.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.eco-v.org</a> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Since I moved to India 7 years ago with my family many things have changed. We do not have any more foreign donors for our projects. It's just because I personally did not want to receive big money and take the responsibility of doing projects when I am not in the country. But we never closed down our office even during the Pandemic. Still we are running our selected activities. Sometimes I miss our busy days with so many field projects taking place, research and education but again I am quite content with whatever is happening today. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">We have 5 Metta Gardens functioning with personal sponsorships, Zero waste School - St. Michaels College, Kollupitiya with the sponsorship of Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Eco products promotions and sale with the partnership of Sustainablee, and our own Metta Garden produce sale to local kiosk and nursery plants selling to a nearby plant nursery. Other than our own staff we are paying for three other women who make our products. We have been sponsoring a needy child at SOS for last 9 years and that scholarship goes out from our own earnings. So ECO-V has become a self sustainable organisation for last 7 years. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">We have been practicing conscious living and zero waste office for the last 23 years and we are very proud of that. Our carbon foot print is very low and truly in ecofriendly practices. We have two staff members including very energetic Pasini Alwis, a young agriculture graduate who looks after all the gardens and eco product sales. Last year we managed to send her for a training on climate change in Thailand and ECO-V sponsored 50% of this tour. Awantha is our young gardener who looks after the Metta Garden and nursery by assisting Pasini. I visit Sri Lanka every other month and then we do training and awareness sessions for the community. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">We keep our face book pages updated about our activities and restarted our newsletter electronically this year. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">So, I just wanted to update you all about us and please feel free to get involved with us in our activities or visit our gardens to learn about organic gardening and protecting biodiversity and buy our eco-friendly products. Those contributions will help us to build up our finances and do our Nature related charity work too. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">We are very much looking forward to running another Yathra but still feel the country's situation is not favorable for such a big campaign. Therefore, we decided to run a residential training programme on climate change this year. Please feel free to share your ideas with us please do let us know if you would like to get involved actively. Also please send us your suggestions or what you expect from us and what you can do to help us going forward. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">I thank you all for being with us at the moment and trusting me. Special thank goes to all garden owners who trusted us and gave the responsibility to improve their gardens with Metta Concept, which is helping people and our Nature. This is one of our passionate projects and we truly believe in it as it helps healing people and healing Nature. ECO-V journey will continue like this.....</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Almost forgot!! We received an award last year December from the Green Building Association in Sri Lanka. Its for the "Green Community Commitment of the year"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyl_h1uNY6Pmkolz4VOZ8G1q8fZkbsezWBXsQXThqnucbgFJzdImGT__P8Wj9zkvsop5YVlbMYWyZvD51vueREp_BdOzGIY5opN8ouZ4lAo7Ovd3X5dPCko6X22QLib1ewqPv5OI5I22crwsOjK7Q4sHS89l5Lo-dvuoJ6vZBYlLIKoo6hb24ijcvuNiZ/s1600/029b5510-3366-4691-be6f-52ee35f76526.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyl_h1uNY6Pmkolz4VOZ8G1q8fZkbsezWBXsQXThqnucbgFJzdImGT__P8Wj9zkvsop5YVlbMYWyZvD51vueREp_BdOzGIY5opN8ouZ4lAo7Ovd3X5dPCko6X22QLib1ewqPv5OI5I22crwsOjK7Q4sHS89l5Lo-dvuoJ6vZBYlLIKoo6hb24ijcvuNiZ/s320/029b5510-3366-4691-be6f-52ee35f76526.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVoPpKp0OyBSDVApS5mi7xNHlRNN1wGPqToMFONZCigpbmnV7Cff9WtCcT67jCcXTEJAAFdj3jihO02KgZi1vAKS6gH5KV4QAEd3J1aOteGBr5qhD9UGG0lJAnVxDTsvkuCpLKjAUpJT9xklgrlsTRJADcznG4pMtB0iutyzuxDxKjAalDTrjU8kPBtqqn/s1600/61d73d3d-4cf2-48f5-97f9-481e9d47d11e.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVoPpKp0OyBSDVApS5mi7xNHlRNN1wGPqToMFONZCigpbmnV7Cff9WtCcT67jCcXTEJAAFdj3jihO02KgZi1vAKS6gH5KV4QAEd3J1aOteGBr5qhD9UGG0lJAnVxDTsvkuCpLKjAUpJT9xklgrlsTRJADcznG4pMtB0iutyzuxDxKjAalDTrjU8kPBtqqn/s320/61d73d3d-4cf2-48f5-97f9-481e9d47d11e.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sujani, Kanchana and Pasini at award ceremony </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOG-68F7k7WB6SvyZf9Y-5EOO90Hed-2J4o7ju07ExtLxsmyjN10KkrNPH0QTSqskbfMcaUL8Pto5SvMxk9voZyX4OPMq5GiJhbm86oCIgAhqCnOhxnDkTFr4N1CGXNfJWpyzMbUAsIBWnDGwLNjbqrm_c_3SOsPtyBkNT-IYo4TH4DTAqoQ32kHbce9mu/s1600/91d82726-00ef-4ffa-b2c6-9f34ddb71ff0.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOG-68F7k7WB6SvyZf9Y-5EOO90Hed-2J4o7ju07ExtLxsmyjN10KkrNPH0QTSqskbfMcaUL8Pto5SvMxk9voZyX4OPMq5GiJhbm86oCIgAhqCnOhxnDkTFr4N1CGXNfJWpyzMbUAsIBWnDGwLNjbqrm_c_3SOsPtyBkNT-IYo4TH4DTAqoQ32kHbce9mu/s320/91d82726-00ef-4ffa-b2c6-9f34ddb71ff0.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Prof Sarath Kotagama</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVuiCLABNKS80TKvgH5oOJXuo7zKaIOXeaQokneYWtS8ql08ARu-ig6RTDxkkR3hXbIj6TM_vEESW1PDUxFUPlcDviXKG5J_kt2TTHCtEHLd4_RM-NcI7cUdpUHkS9Y-5TN1Z9KAf16rKLMYdK5ZElbM38surwPuG7iwUWIPRh6gX_YeKTOIbJsxL1kCZ/s640/IMG_3031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGVuiCLABNKS80TKvgH5oOJXuo7zKaIOXeaQokneYWtS8ql08ARu-ig6RTDxkkR3hXbIj6TM_vEESW1PDUxFUPlcDviXKG5J_kt2TTHCtEHLd4_RM-NcI7cUdpUHkS9Y-5TN1Z9KAf16rKLMYdK5ZElbM38surwPuG7iwUWIPRh6gX_YeKTOIbJsxL1kCZ/s320/IMG_3031.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-65300300948513101802024-01-31T00:11:00.001+05:302024-02-07T16:18:10.205+05:30Happy New Year - 2024!<p>Hello friends Happy New Year 2024!! </p><p>It's another New Year but we at ECO-V will be continuing the same activities from last years. </p><p>Well.... writing a blog has become a lazy activity for me now. I think its due to other social media like face book, Instagram and WhatsApp. They are more popular and I always write short articles and post it soon after one especial thing happens. But our blog is part of our newsletter, hence we thought of maintaining it continuously for our Newsletter readers. </p><p>I am sure you all know that I have been living in New Delhi for past 7 years and our ECO-V office is still functioning in Colombo. We have an energetic project coordinator back in Sri Lanka who looks after ECO-V activities. She is our dear Pasini Alwis and she is the one who reminded me to start a newsletter. Then I said may be we can keep our blog live so anyone can read it. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzl8ony30M2qZdv_QKNRcQqic8YjgQ7m4x0J0Xd2ummEB257g2Tfc7KpBeNT-_A4ieefqVAkh9qBkxVpC7YwgHohFCTL8MI_Ij5KQ0gGWs74e0WsGozGqOjAVP1iIGwiM9RgEiE8KnD8QcYGNkMo1uVeHldf8jBhGNnbZq9UTJv8BVb-eJ48njmIdHoBcF/s1280/0b3e44e4-7741-4eed-9dad-85389382af64%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzl8ony30M2qZdv_QKNRcQqic8YjgQ7m4x0J0Xd2ummEB257g2Tfc7KpBeNT-_A4ieefqVAkh9qBkxVpC7YwgHohFCTL8MI_Ij5KQ0gGWs74e0WsGozGqOjAVP1iIGwiM9RgEiE8KnD8QcYGNkMo1uVeHldf8jBhGNnbZq9UTJv8BVb-eJ48njmIdHoBcF/s320/0b3e44e4-7741-4eed-9dad-85389382af64%20(1).JPG" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pasini Alwis</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffk1pVjAV6kyncCdEIQks8AG0wuE2xc1alXB_JmOkt4Mv8DBsncOVEQ6KIckn4UtfSw-Ydw0gwpPAhooPHtjPlttZ6mYQQDw8pied0l0ubWQ6OdMz4lYtLAFWUPcLpl0vbOtrNEz4vJA-7RNcT3W4dS8SuCEpBucqnTbqSOi-KVpZeO1gnfZiBgHlynZ0/s640/IMG_8737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffk1pVjAV6kyncCdEIQks8AG0wuE2xc1alXB_JmOkt4Mv8DBsncOVEQ6KIckn4UtfSw-Ydw0gwpPAhooPHtjPlttZ6mYQQDw8pied0l0ubWQ6OdMz4lYtLAFWUPcLpl0vbOtrNEz4vJA-7RNcT3W4dS8SuCEpBucqnTbqSOi-KVpZeO1gnfZiBgHlynZ0/s320/IMG_8737.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pasini and Kanchana designing a Metta Garden</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>ECO-V was always active even during Covid-19 time as we had our Metta Garden and we have been helping urban biodiversity very much when people had shut down themselves inside the homes. </p><p>Pasini joined us in 2021, first as a volunteer after finishing her bachelors degree in Agriculture. She started looking after our Metta Garden in Boralesagamuwa and then we started making other Metta Gardens around Colombo. So it's Pasini mainly who looks after our five Metta Gardens and I will be writing more about them soon. Today as first blog post for year 2024, I thought that we can show you some photos about these Metta Gardens we have in Sri Lanka. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTjSGvcHyTJUDE7Wq585zy0xusImqzoPXbcBV3oK4iJjz-Qwgw_yJ7E2bY-ujbAo6QicAwbJQogjvsfOAfHozUlmJjcbtE4mGATmsly5YpCLbAumvWYHxnQZDwku9qsP61AHeCOa8X-P-4ooh-uyHIYKPNhWRNOE-OpTDcuvEYtfqtBtSv6thVV_L4cwL/s1280/1f8e9938-c198-4b38-bb6c-86f725578d1e.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTjSGvcHyTJUDE7Wq585zy0xusImqzoPXbcBV3oK4iJjz-Qwgw_yJ7E2bY-ujbAo6QicAwbJQogjvsfOAfHozUlmJjcbtE4mGATmsly5YpCLbAumvWYHxnQZDwku9qsP61AHeCOa8X-P-4ooh-uyHIYKPNhWRNOE-OpTDcuvEYtfqtBtSv6thVV_L4cwL/s320/1f8e9938-c198-4b38-bb6c-86f725578d1e.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6u-fb40ygEuDEGjUVdLKWmQqnM0eqHxc2_iK7r-R_EjXp8uaZ2gooJ9_FVa0HnN-kyuEfzLFsQ4IRYRygy3RaBb864fbFkLZofr4WYGFlHXzNH4jGdXQ3c_ZyBecMu-DV63scZKJiUzwtEhXsCXvDEYcdlLlmllbsjkJyJJxH8ynd5-AGV9l7q7fAdrI8/s1280/67b838ed-7528-44af-b271-e71846465c49%20(1)%20-%20Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6u-fb40ygEuDEGjUVdLKWmQqnM0eqHxc2_iK7r-R_EjXp8uaZ2gooJ9_FVa0HnN-kyuEfzLFsQ4IRYRygy3RaBb864fbFkLZofr4WYGFlHXzNH4jGdXQ3c_ZyBecMu-DV63scZKJiUzwtEhXsCXvDEYcdlLlmllbsjkJyJJxH8ynd5-AGV9l7q7fAdrI8/s320/67b838ed-7528-44af-b271-e71846465c49%20(1)%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FsHC5lg0lz8Kcw5A96ONOUpbUQ1YPHAqFCuAQH7SfXI5-i4TUrazEJHxXw8IcYaWnFuiI47k2YOgdXxykgLRvONz8YzHrhKVd_TANN13a5PztL0SQ8NSS85wAXwCJek-OMSYY7U0vJQl6ItR2uxlNaOpgPsxq5vlSTm3DtIJAltE2YtWf6Ls5AQZn5t4/s1280/71bb3908-7832-4770-b863-938fb5891c66.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FsHC5lg0lz8Kcw5A96ONOUpbUQ1YPHAqFCuAQH7SfXI5-i4TUrazEJHxXw8IcYaWnFuiI47k2YOgdXxykgLRvONz8YzHrhKVd_TANN13a5PztL0SQ8NSS85wAXwCJek-OMSYY7U0vJQl6ItR2uxlNaOpgPsxq5vlSTm3DtIJAltE2YtWf6Ls5AQZn5t4/s320/71bb3908-7832-4770-b863-938fb5891c66.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFYf03tnuUxeY7yj27AuWafF-mKoBBulJw-FK0dP7SggBbp7ezInVn42IeoQt8sQTW7wgd5Eu-qX07Zy21a7LaaVMGGdZauJ3MeF_sDIPOKH713XUSKRK7HtTF1n5Me2Pj-UeGYDVqeBO4jCf5AQOq7Moi0M0-xRdwq-9GeN1S_d4zJBnBjvVroxFC8u7/s1280/PHOTO-2021-02-17-09-04-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFYf03tnuUxeY7yj27AuWafF-mKoBBulJw-FK0dP7SggBbp7ezInVn42IeoQt8sQTW7wgd5Eu-qX07Zy21a7LaaVMGGdZauJ3MeF_sDIPOKH713XUSKRK7HtTF1n5Me2Pj-UeGYDVqeBO4jCf5AQOq7Moi0M0-xRdwq-9GeN1S_d4zJBnBjvVroxFC8u7/s320/PHOTO-2021-02-17-09-04-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>If you would like to read more about the Metta Garden Concept here are some links for online articles. Thank you for reading and see you soon!</p><p>https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/a-humanitarian-action-for-other-living-beings-creating-space-for-urban-biodiversity-through-buddhist-gardening/</p><p>https://www.iucn.org/news/commission-environmental-economic-and-social-policy/201807/creating-urban-garden-all-colombo-sri-lanka</p><p>https://jneb.net/activities-buddhistenergy-eco-templeproject-metta-garden-new-delhi/</p><p>https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/urban-rural-migration-japan/2023/12/01/metta-garden-a-buddhist-practice-of-loving-kindness-connecting-japan-and-asia/</p>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-59291413827652974562023-06-06T22:30:00.002+05:302023-06-06T22:30:55.524+05:30#Beatplasticpollution <p>Well a blogpost after two years of silence. It does not mean that I stopped working. After the pandemic I accelerated my work in Sri Lanka and started travelling for work. Anyway since it's Environmental month I wanted to share this story. A true story of my own. Hope you will like it!</p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Living with my own plastic waste in New Delhi, India for the last 6 years but life is never wasted! </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1209a460-7fff-9215-8d5b-90f26e727e6d"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We shifted to New Delhi as a family in July 2017. Many things were so different from our normal lifestyle in Sri Lanka. Living above ground and not touching soil every day is one big change I had to get adjusted to. How can I continue not to give our waste to the municipality? How can I make my own compost? What are the methods I can adopt as a person who had been practising a zero waste lifestyle for the last 16 years in Sri Lanka. I was thinking….can I continue my good practice or not??? So, soon after we found our new apartment, my main concern was to find out the mechanism for waste management. The girl who started working for us as our helper said “Don’t worry madam ji! Waste truck comes and we can give everything in a black bag” 100 rupees per month. Nothing more, very easy”...Oops…..no…no….no…that method is not for me. I wanted to give it a try…Then I started my mission to continue my best practices while living in a first floor apartment.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I was continuing the conscious consumerism along with the 10R method that I learned from Australia many years ago (Reject, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Replace,Recycle, Rethink, Remember, Repeat). Therefore, life was easy with options available. So, many materials were forbidden by ourselves as conscious consumers (Single use bags, straws, fizzy drink bottles, etc). “Kabadi Wala” (Recycling waste pickers) are available in Delhi so the recyclable materials are not an issue at all. Then I did some online research to find out a composting method in Delhi. Luckily there were some good people who have been making their own compost in Delhi on terraces. But, I had only a balcony. So I came up with the mud-pot composter. Made some holes in the pot and started collecting wet waste on the small balcony I had. Ok…that’s solved. Now starting the ecobricks! Oh…where can I get some plastic bottles? “Kala….how can I get some 1litre plastic bottles? Oh…madam ji, I will bring you, I have so many. Replied kala - our helper. Then I had a coconut shell spoon which I brought from Sri Lanka. So I have a long stick too. Right!!! all set to continue the zero waste lifestyle.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Next morning…when I went to see the mud composter ... .my effort was in pieces ... .a cat or somebody had dropped the pots and it's broken ... .oh…dear me! ..back to square. Ok more research for composting in balconies or terraces. Hooray!!!….I found the solution…”Sampoorna composter”. Ordered one and collected wet waste in a plastic box until I got my composter. I had to travel a very long distance to bring this composter but later on I saw how composting on terraces became very popular in Delhi and I even got another one delivered to home via Amazon. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35Ca2pQC0a1AUw3RLUGGlf3nHkaojrJxfjtJI_-Msdz6j5EkFTqx6-n8pv6CUVZnFdiwBi4YZXSZFznCbyeo7QK_mCFY_VP7wa0M5qv8srgzJnbGesal1q2DQjD08AALYtzimty17LD3Hi7us7gcOx5fqMKLpywr-tVZfdzux1DdjwPHSJiTZnZJR0g/s1632/IMG_5496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="1224" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35Ca2pQC0a1AUw3RLUGGlf3nHkaojrJxfjtJI_-Msdz6j5EkFTqx6-n8pv6CUVZnFdiwBi4YZXSZFznCbyeo7QK_mCFY_VP7wa0M5qv8srgzJnbGesal1q2DQjD08AALYtzimty17LD3Hi7us7gcOx5fqMKLpywr-tVZfdzux1DdjwPHSJiTZnZJR0g/s320/IMG_5496.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My composter on the first floor balcony </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Later on I found recycling options for many things like Plastics, Some Polythene materials like tetra packs and fresh milk packets (Whichever came with Recycling symbol) Glass, metal, cloths, shoes. So they all were collected and given to recyclers. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">However, making ecobricks and storing them under the bed for the last 6 years was not an issue at all. The ecobrick is made in the kitchen pantry whenever we get soft polythene. Then the next step is chucking it under the bed in the storage. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD26n1GeurbVPtw2tSLzwbklTDu2xeZtRqGkE5ZZCSjUzWLrVjM_6a4zlqlKqUHQKdAvwmR0ZMOZZdrJ0xtMiIIiqwlPO54vQspNpd8rzQrqnZWD9z9LYmf73-VUaJMJntRxFYFRxSElY4W-zXJZ3DkNwaw_q_vX7dLDrAdmAZFInFCHECC09OAYsx_w/s640/IMG_0032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD26n1GeurbVPtw2tSLzwbklTDu2xeZtRqGkE5ZZCSjUzWLrVjM_6a4zlqlKqUHQKdAvwmR0ZMOZZdrJ0xtMiIIiqwlPO54vQspNpd8rzQrqnZWD9z9LYmf73-VUaJMJntRxFYFRxSElY4W-zXJZ3DkNwaw_q_vX7dLDrAdmAZFInFCHECC09OAYsx_w/s320/IMG_0032.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ecobricks stored under the bed </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The 5th of June is World Environment day. Many celebrate it with nature friendly activities. I searched about the theme for this year’s World Environment Day, and it made me smile when I saw the theme #Beatplasticpollution. Oooppss…it was the theme for my whole life. All of sudden I remembered our ecobricks nicely sitting under the bed. Henry, our helper who is very good at making them as his responsibility, helped me to take them out, count and weigh them. 80 ecobricks of 1 litre disposable water bottles of 23.1kg weight. Hmmmm…which means 13 bottles per year and 1 bottle per month…oh…nooo….to much….Usually I took about 2.5 months in Sri Lanka to make one ecobrick. Anyway, I know single use plastic is very common here and very difficult to avoid. So, I was making myself feel better about not throwing them away, and giving them to the municipality. No contribution for the Great Garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. Even the plastic/polythene waste we generate when we travel are trapped inside them. I will find a place to give these 80 bricks for making some structures or to be used in making roads with Tar. If all of us can manage our own single use plastic we can make #Beatplastcpollution our daily hashtag. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQ41F8cWjZR4Ih8MQXR56Hdg252C8Y8WjYMnyrlyBU_bcCs_qdztIdfCMhEvuhB82-LdrHinGPXHlDr5vqZ9NmNEVKVaDkv0sYU24hHHR33x64lRwmpOt0GubyQDLIceZaglUIIMzbSJHVBc_R05yhd6QeygAX0ml00cOj_SfZGseLtncVyCe498tTw/s640/IMG_7318.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQ41F8cWjZR4Ih8MQXR56Hdg252C8Y8WjYMnyrlyBU_bcCs_qdztIdfCMhEvuhB82-LdrHinGPXHlDr5vqZ9NmNEVKVaDkv0sYU24hHHR33x64lRwmpOt0GubyQDLIceZaglUIIMzbSJHVBc_R05yhd6QeygAX0ml00cOj_SfZGseLtncVyCe498tTw/s320/IMG_7318.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plastic tags come with new dresses </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrx0TXBsncrE0-w1ehsQOr8WgldR40914lEs7CL-7i2Z2Mru_3ZI68-V0ODuo03ttM-wq0MkOqH6F5NDX8qT8xyFZwWVGRQAYIwit2RzzZ04smkZkLPDBYMsYbMri4fmPCd7qHr2CAWVWAMLQkNAdQZPcxRbTvBFZF93CSRoEjuiBAaBqwVZwlu6A5w/s320/IMG_3094.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the items I stuff in the ecobrick </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimMQOs2APddqUQv32d7h1MY5qFf14niwR-5YBmUo8J7PuJ2WVe2vY3FDasFnclALq9Bt6SzZSqXpvkJjWX7HDXPs_d2jpOqdNhruM1o_MGNLruv3bNDTpyPfe8ZDQEE-g2wdq-A8vST3jpaBhlXEjXFQSA-6ppsHYEmorB0ZUSF1lNJocrkhna_0oRRg/s640/IMG_0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimMQOs2APddqUQv32d7h1MY5qFf14niwR-5YBmUo8J7PuJ2WVe2vY3FDasFnclALq9Bt6SzZSqXpvkJjWX7HDXPs_d2jpOqdNhruM1o_MGNLruv3bNDTpyPfe8ZDQEE-g2wdq-A8vST3jpaBhlXEjXFQSA-6ppsHYEmorB0ZUSF1lNJocrkhna_0oRRg/s320/IMG_0017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQf3KPWqJOBr32xgzbpAZMufOYtqIVg2Cvn22ZGkrVtp9n4sy1Yb6zmbFAvUze7xGSulGEWh-HU-xQudn41H-RnurkzEE0KjVHFTAZN1ETiU_GAqRmsSqwcjlTBwTn0LyoGn5j73u-wyX_T1Fne6YMRihLFn8veEnblN3YR9hTbZewwFwjU7_G3QnQA/s640/IMG_0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQf3KPWqJOBr32xgzbpAZMufOYtqIVg2Cvn22ZGkrVtp9n4sy1Yb6zmbFAvUze7xGSulGEWh-HU-xQudn41H-RnurkzEE0KjVHFTAZN1ETiU_GAqRmsSqwcjlTBwTn0LyoGn5j73u-wyX_T1Fne6YMRihLFn8veEnblN3YR9hTbZewwFwjU7_G3QnQA/s320/IMG_0013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">No need to wait for a World Environmental Day to make it happen. Everyday we breathe is a World Environmental Day! </span></p><br />Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-41761999219686848802021-07-06T05:53:00.000+05:302021-07-06T05:53:14.689+05:30When a short holiday became a working holiday…Feeling is “relaxified” (relaxed and satisfied)<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Month of April – Experienced the Covid-19, feeling was “facing as it is”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Month of
May – recovered and waiting to go to Sri Lanka, but no luck as Sri Lanka closed
entry gates for us even as Sri Lankans living in India. Feeling was Disappointed,
sad but what to do? as there is nothing we could do! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Month of
June – Others celebrating World Environmental day (While I was celebrating
throughout the year). Feeling was “oh…well…time to share the work” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All past
months were so crazy and not like any other year, the Environmental day
celebrations were overwhelming!! Invitations for conducting sessions via zoom,
Teams or Google. Most were accepted but few were refused as they were
overlapping with other sessions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, it was
a high time for a holiday. Still could not go for long holidays due to pending
work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anyway, we decided
to go just out of Delhi and spend two nights. Without thinking much, we decided
to go and stay at Karma Lakelands; (<a href="https://www.karmalakelands.com/">https://www.karmalakelands.com/</a>)
a place that we always wanted to experience. The place belongs to one of our
good friends who is very much eco conscious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we
arrived there, we were so happy about not choosing a hotel room to go and stay
as we really enjoyed the setup of our villa. I started enjoying the Nature,
riding bikes with my son Nipuna and watching birds and ants, walking, enjoying wildflowers
and night sky which we can’t do in the city) and of course reading a book while
Thushara was busy with meetings online until late night. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Next day
morning my friend Diki texted me and asked whether I can run a Nature walk to
their staff. This was an agreement between us at the time I told her we were
coming to stay in their resort. So I was not surprised by the invitation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since it is
like an oven during day time with 42 degrees Celsius these days, we agreed to
run it at 5.30pm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diki came to pick me
up from our villa. Bunch of youth with nice smiles were already there. You know
all were wearing masks as it’s mandatory nowadays. So how could one know that
they had nice smiles? Of course, I could not see the smile but I saw their smiling
eyes!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then some
parents and kids who are residents within the property arrived, I thought that’s
all! Surprisingly so many of their staff members kept on arriving. It was a big
group but I was so happy as it’s one of the most divers groups I have ever met
to run a Nature walk to connect with Nature. Unfortunately, two sensory organs
were blocked by the mask but all took a chance to lower the mask and smell and
taste when it was the time to connect via nose and tongue. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BaN_KEVGKuo/YOOgahqaJpI/AAAAAAAADY4/wE1HOndWXm4tx7d_4uEBs3twTa17n_1dwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/4be01cf3-da15-4e2e-b4e3-f5d3a7b9c44e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BaN_KEVGKuo/YOOgahqaJpI/AAAAAAAADY4/wE1HOndWXm4tx7d_4uEBs3twTa17n_1dwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/4be01cf3-da15-4e2e-b4e3-f5d3a7b9c44e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hforKS3lklY/YOOgY29WQ-I/AAAAAAAADYc/SL9othWpOV0ugAwyT_zUsonCAgGao09bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/199709790_10159647819542268_3527184102761491492_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Karma Lakelands
is full of biodiversity and we only could walk about 50-60m and already one
hour and thirty minutes was passed. Since it was getting dark by that time, we
decided to finish the walk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was very
interesting crowd who got actively involved with the walk, connecting with
Nature using five sensory organs by following my instructions. Next day morning
too I had a meeting with Ashwani Khurana founder of karma Lakelands and some
invitees to share some ideas for eco resort that they were developing these days.
I was happy to give some suggestions there too. It was just before we left
Karma Lakelands. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, this is
how my relaxing holiday became a working holiday but the feeling was very
satisfied – so the final outcome was “Relaxified” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-30688822669938252892021-06-30T18:56:00.001+05:302021-06-30T18:56:43.053+05:30Covid-19 is another living being on this world! - Our own story of experiencing it's presence among ourselves! <p> </p><p class="Standard"><b><i>Many of our friends, members and supporters got to know that we too got infected by Covid-19. An article written by me in Sinhala medium went bit viral in Sri Lank via social media and electronic newspapers, and many people got to know about our story through that. The best part of it is, many of our friends got concerned about us soon after they read the article as they were not aware of what we went through and asking us to be careful. By that time all over and we were back to normal. Many unknown people contacted me and said it was very useful to read it and be ready for any situation. </i></b></p><p class="Standard"><b><i>Therefore, I am sharing my experience with you all as it might be helpful for some of English speaking people. Here it is....Thank you for reading!!! </i></b></p><p class="Standard"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9IHS5vVUbRg/YNxvImctR4I/AAAAAAAADXc/goxx7Z0zo_oMpqmiQpO4Jni-waqMlbJWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2046/thequint_2021-06_a3647144-2dfc-46ea-abad-fc80e2bfc16a_thequint_2021_06_e28f1dfb_d8b0_43b8_8422_98b302a44efb_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2046" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9IHS5vVUbRg/YNxvImctR4I/AAAAAAAADXc/goxx7Z0zo_oMpqmiQpO4Jni-waqMlbJWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/thequint_2021-06_a3647144-2dfc-46ea-abad-fc80e2bfc16a_thequint_2021_06_e28f1dfb_d8b0_43b8_8422_98b302a44efb_a.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b>It was
Sunday, 18<sup>th</sup> of April 2021. Early that morning our second son,
Nipuna, came to see us, and announced that he was feeling feverish! I was
alarmed, as it was the weekend that the New Delhi government announced the
second lock-down due to Covid. Then again, I thought, well, it can’t be Covid;
Nipuna does not go out much- I’m the one who usually goes out and brings home
the groceries. Anyway, I advised him to take paracetamol and to try to sleep
again. In accordance with the advice we had received from the authorities, we
decided to act as though he definitely had Covid. We gave him paracetamol for
the fever, many liquids, such as ginger/lemon tea and warm water, and healthy
food. Getting a PCR virus test was very challenging as the prebooking system
was always full. Somehow, we managed to all get our PCR tests done on the 5<sup>th</sup>
day, the 23<sup>rd</sup> of April. Results: Nipuna was positive for Covid, the
rest of us were negative. But my throat felt slightly sore, and I knew that I
was going to come down with Covid as well. So, I too, followed the same
instructions given by the World Health Organization and the doctors. This was
the time that Delhi had the highest number of Covid positive cases (around
28,000 per day, with a death rate of about 400 per day). We knew that even
though we needed to go to hospital, getting in to one would be a huge
challenge. Hence, we decided to look after ourselves somehow. One helpful
factor was that we had had our first jab three weeks before. So, we were
feeling positive, and kept following all the instructions faithfully. After 5
days from my first symptom, Thushara became feverish. The next day Henry, our
Indian helper, had a fever, too. Then I knew I should get myself ready to run the
house, even though I still had a fever, as there was no-one else to cook and
feed the family. At least by then Nipuna was clearly recovering, and even able
to attend online classes at school.<p></p><p class="Standard"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How I
managed three active Covid patients (Thushara, Henry and myself) seems
unbelievable when I think about it now. I would get up in the morning, wash
myself, and get ready with new cloths. I would cook some rice and Dhal curry
for breakfast and lunch. Other than this, we had bread, eggs and fruit at home.
So, I fed them whatever they wanted to eat. I started two separate charts for
Thushara and Henry, measuring their temperature and oxygen level every four
hours using the pulse oximeter. Whenever they had high fever, I did this more
frequently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were told that if the
oxygen level went down to 93% we should contact a doctor. Luckily, their
concentrations both stayed above 96%.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While
managing patients at home, we did the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We
asked Henry to leave his quarters upstairs, and come and stay in our front
room, so that he was not alone, and we could monitor him closely.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
stopped browsing social media, and put the phone into silent mode. Even before
we got Covid, we were getting so much negative news about deaths, no hospital
beds, corpses lining the roads without enough wood to cremate them, etc. I
wanted to avoid getting scared or frustrated from watching or hearing this type
of news. I asked the others to do the same. I only spoke with my parents and
eldest son (who is in university) to show them that we were all doing great,
even while having Covid. It was only a half-truth, but I never wanted to scare
my parents or son who are so far away from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When
I worked in the kitchen, I felt extremely tired, but took a lot of rest in
between, and did breathing exercises. These were very difficult, as I felt a
slight pain in the lung area when taking a deep breath. Also, I had severe
coughing. But I kept on doing breathing exercises and meditations, which helped
me to stay calm and breathe comfortably.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
had no smell or taste- but I had to cook and eat. I kept on tasting and
inhaling many fragrances, even though I could not feel them. That way, I
thought, I should keep reminding my brain about these fragrances.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
drank loads of herbal drinks and warm water, and ate lots of fruit in between
main meals. I also took vitamin supplements.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Once
only, I got a panic attack when I started thinking about what would happen if
one of us had to seek a hospital, or need oxygen. I started sweating, with
palpitations and blackout. Somehow, I managed to realize that I was panicking
unnecessarily and should not continue thinking like that. I opened the door and
went into my small front garden and started breathing deeply, and thinking
about all the good work I had done so far: planting trees, rescuing animals,
growing organic vegetables, sharing with neighbors, teaching kids about Nature,
looking after stray cats and dogs, feeding birds, etc. Whatever came into my
mind, I started giving the loving kindness and blessing to them. This is Metta
Meditation in Buddhism. It was very useful for helping me to calm myself down,
and in this way I managed the panic attack.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We
watched movies- with positive messages only- on Netflix, and watched musical
shows. We rarely have time to watch movies in our normal life, but we
thoroughly enjoyed them during those days.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I
mainly passed my day with doing breathing exercises (Pranayama Yoga),
meditation, watching Nature, watering my plants, talking to plants (I was
already doing Horticulture therapy before Covid) and the stray cat who visits
my garden, listening to songs and watching movies, and looking after others.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There
were very few friends we answered the phone to, or read text messages from. A
few friends who had Covid before us were very helpful, sharing advice and
keeping our morale up (None of them had three patients at home, so they
understood my crisis.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Somehow, I was out of fever on day
5, and the other two, soon after that. I monitored them very closely until both
were out of the risk period (during which pneumonia was a possibility).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We all spent 17 days inside from the
last date of infection, which was the recommended quarantine period for us in
Delhi. Then we slowly started our normal routines. Now when we look back, it
was like a bad dream, and we’ve almost forgotten how we felt during that
period. But what I have to say is that we never got scared about the situation,
but we were very conscious and alert. At the same time, we never cursed or
hated the virus, as we knew it was another living being, and we were fully
aware that there was no medicine. We always stayed positive and lived
consciously in that moment. We did not worry about what would happen tomorrow,
or next week, or how bad it could be (except for the moment I thought about the
situation in such a way as to bring on the panic attack).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><i>The main
lesson we learnt during the Covid-19 infection is: using our mind effectively is
the main factor in helping us to face life positively and stay healthy!</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Standard">If someone wants to read the Sinhala language article here is the link </p><p class="Standard">https://sinhala.newswire.lk/2021/05/23/%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%9c%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%a9%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%94%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%99%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%92-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%bd%e0%b6%af-%e0%b6%9c%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%8a/ </p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-29486074584921249782021-04-20T20:59:00.001+05:302021-04-21T22:00:53.829+05:30Celebrating 20 years of ECO-V - A personal note from the Founder <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>ECO-V is 20 years</b>!! Can you all
believe it? We started ECO-V on the 7th of February 2001. It was a very small
meeting with my university friends; Sujani, Lal, Harsha and some of Thushara’s
friends and my family members. We launched it officially as a new organization
and then started working as a team. The first office was at the living room of our
one-bedroom apartment in Moratuwa. I was 1 month pregnant with our first son Buhusuru,
so ECO-V was our first child officially. We started working after winning the
Rufford small grant from Whitley Fund for Nature (https://whitleyaward.org/).
All happened just because I met Edward Whitley from WFN at the 10th anniversary
celebrations of the Conservation leadership programme (https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/) held at Natural History
Museum in London in April 2000! It was like yesterday when Edward came to our
table and had a chat with me during a small break while compering at the award
ceremony.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjPOc-T4_1c/YH7drGOeLJI/AAAAAAAADOk/-uUBxqps0f4ugkk_Yw0jcskNu2HoNF2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s216/z_p27-conva3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjPOc-T4_1c/YH7drGOeLJI/AAAAAAAADOk/-uUBxqps0f4ugkk_Yw0jcskNu2HoNF2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/z_p27-conva3.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the award ceremony of WFN </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vjTurvwPgYk/YH7egeepYyI/AAAAAAAADPE/m_vmSLHtPtQ4Sv08-6FOW_KCHYu8qKHlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s216/z_p27-conva2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vjTurvwPgYk/YH7egeepYyI/AAAAAAAADPE/m_vmSLHtPtQ4Sv08-6FOW_KCHYu8qKHlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/z_p27-conva2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first working team, Harsha,Sujani,Sudharshi,Samanmalee and Lal</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Being thankful!...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I should be very thankful to Catherine
Gotto the Manager of CLP at that time for inviting me as the Mistress of
Ceremonies to the event. If not, how could I meet Edward who suggested I should
start an organisation while having a meeting at his home the next day? Also, I
should be thankful to Cambridge 97 project team members - my dear friends
Jules, Claire, Cathy and Chris who came to Sri Lanka after winning a grant from
CLP in 1997. They were my mentors during the 3 months project around Sinharaja
rain forest and later they supported me to attend Durrell Conservation academy
in 1999 (<a href="https://training.durrell.org/">https://training.durrell.org/</a>). </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KWRl4fTxFz4/YH7gA3sjydI/AAAAAAAADPQ/TzuUEccML88R6DMR6ZtC0HmKYXr6zLBbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/claire%2Bn%2Bjules%2B.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1532" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KWRl4fTxFz4/YH7gA3sjydI/AAAAAAAADPQ/TzuUEccML88R6DMR6ZtC0HmKYXr6zLBbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/claire%2Bn%2Bjules%2B.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting Claire and Jules in the UK, after 15 years of Sinharaja 97' </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AnBSmnue3M4/YH7hFcPKqLI/AAAAAAAADPo/VPDpCrrd1JwPiSYCUQfuMQd6Kq6-HYJ1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/cathy%2B2.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AnBSmnue3M4/YH7hFcPKqLI/AAAAAAAADPo/VPDpCrrd1JwPiSYCUQfuMQd6Kq6-HYJ1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/cathy%2B2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting Cathy in London during the visit in 2012</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sDQbrblQLT4/YH7hSJg2mqI/AAAAAAAADPs/G6XOJQ5ztz4bMKAL0H4FnHTe264QL5vFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/jersey.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sDQbrblQLT4/YH7hSJg2mqI/AAAAAAAADPs/G6XOJQ5ztz4bMKAL0H4FnHTe264QL5vFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jersey.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me at Durrell in 2012 during a revisit. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Going further back I should be in debt to my dear teacher/mentor Prof. Sarath
Kotagama for selecting me to Sinharaja 97’ project as one of the Sri Lankan
counterparts. All these people behind me were always remembered along with the
ECO-V life story. Adding more to the story I should be remembering my dear
father, Punchi Banda Weerakoon, my uncle Dr. A.T Ariyaratne and late Mr. K.D.R.N
Wijesinghe the director of National Zoological garden who gave me advice,
guidance and helped to select the honest and clear path in establishing the
organization legally. How should I not be thankful to my loving husband
Thushara for encouraging me to start the organization after Edward suggested
but me having doubts about my capacity?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>Positive impact….</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When I travelled through the
memories while clicking on photographs in hundreds of folders in my external
drive, I really can’t believe how much work we had done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many projects, so many activities took place
within these 20 years. Numbers are not important to us but all stories we hear
from people who have been following us, how they have made positive behavioral
changes within themselves, individually and at family level, at working places
and in the communities are the most important to us. We never had a permanent
donor; we were depending on small grants, or some organizations who supported us
short term. We never had a proper office like other organizations, it was only
a dedicated area on a floor at our home (only twice we went out for a year but
it was not the best environment for us). The team members were a family to us.
My two kids grew up while watching our work. How we made plans for sustainable
events attending to all minor details about minimizing our carbon footprint during
such events, focusing on zero waste events or projects focusing its sustainability
and long-term positive impacts, where our waste would end up and quality of
work rather than numbers of attendees. In the early days Harsha and Lal helped
me to carry my kids when we travelled to the field to do our work even during civil
conflict in Sri Lanka. Kids were always around me when we had monthly “Thiresi”
meetings for members. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMtd0RkUkHc/YH7iXEtO7eI/AAAAAAAADP4/D9blCtpAdUo9DuaANUTySyoCPc_gMKv2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/me%2Bn%2Bkids%2Bwaga.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xMtd0RkUkHc/YH7iXEtO7eI/AAAAAAAADP4/D9blCtpAdUo9DuaANUTySyoCPc_gMKv2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/me%2Bn%2Bkids%2Bwaga.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids enjoying water during our Leaf Monkey project</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVDvplEBHM8/YH7imJiZE6I/AAAAAAAADP8/OnK-Bm_ls302pWAcHO2cG8fRQFEToZwnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/nipu%2Blal.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVDvplEBHM8/YH7imJiZE6I/AAAAAAAADP8/OnK-Bm_ls302pWAcHO2cG8fRQFEToZwnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/nipu%2Blal.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lal carrying Nipuna during Pelican conservation work while Bandara helping Buhusuru</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Today, I see the results of bringing up two boys in a very
eco-friendly manner, when I see their leadership qualities in school or university
clubs, their thinking on current issues, and their essays they write for
university entrance applications or even for TED talks. One common comment I
get from both of them is “Mother, thank you for making us feel guilty about
what we want to do for fun!!!” Yes...it is very sarcastic comment but, I know
that means they are thinking not only twice about their acts but many times
before they want to get involved. Which is for me simply “conscious consumerism
or eco-friendly thinking” what we have been preaching over 20 years. It is the
behavioural change that we wanted to bring among individuals. Many past and
current members of ECO-V must have got that thinking but for sure I know at
least I have mentored two children where I see positive impact on Mother Nature!
Of course, I can add my husband and myself into that list of people who changed
positively via ECO-V activities. Whoever comes forward and says “I changed my
one little behavior following ECO-V’s work will be an added bonus to our list
of success stories!! This may sound like bragging about ECO-V, but to be
honest, I know there are many like that as I have heard that comment so many
times within these 20 years. We had beautiful time together learning and experiencing Nature during "Thiresi Charika" and monthly "Thiresi Meetings". </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1jACx4Douqg/YH7j4MiU0HI/AAAAAAAADQs/4VeaTCy4NSMVlCoYXP3OL2FcleafgRUTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s4608/meditation%2B2.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1jACx4Douqg/YH7j4MiU0HI/AAAAAAAADQs/4VeaTCy4NSMVlCoYXP3OL2FcleafgRUTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/meditation%2B2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteers and my two boys experiencing a "Environmental Meditation" session during a "Thiresi Charika" <br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M7PJwhA85jM/YH7mtH6vqbI/AAAAAAAADRk/oBcqQCPG6fAoA-0D0ZR6AvVY3u1d3oWxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/anniversarWaga%2B017.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M7PJwhA85jM/YH7mtH6vqbI/AAAAAAAADRk/oBcqQCPG6fAoA-0D0ZR6AvVY3u1d3oWxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/anniversarWaga%2B017.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During a monthly members meeting at our home - "Thiresi" meeting </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--wbIxXWVMio/YH7nJkiYBfI/AAAAAAAADRs/rQWlxiGMalYfg8pY7Uq1lg3br5MYOuKWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/anniversarWaga%2B013.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--wbIxXWVMio/YH7nJkiYBfI/AAAAAAAADRs/rQWlxiGMalYfg8pY7Uq1lg3br5MYOuKWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/anniversarWaga%2B013.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bu and Nipu with me listening to our discussions of Nature during monthly "Thiresi" meetings </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Failures and challenges...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">During these past 20 years, only
one project ended up without a sustainability that was the Bellanwila-Attidiya
sanctuary conservation work. It was due to government laws related to
conservation status and then another project on Otters had to stop soon after
we implemented as we could not secure funding. We regretted those two but all
other projects ended up with very positive outcomes. Keeping and maintaining staff
was always a challenge as we could not secure their jobs beyond the project
period since we did not have permanent funding sources. So, nobody stayed with
us beyond 3-4 years. We take it positively as we were able to train youngsters
to do work faithfully and productively and also bring the behavioral change to
themselves within the short period of work with us. Even today all my past
staff members communicate, admire our days together and tell us how much change
brought into their lives and many are still volunteering to us. Some have started their own organizations or movements. Isn't it great?? <o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTPSbG38Fsk/YH7kRzpgrZI/AAAAAAAADQ0/dH1eAS3cGGUdvBVfZQ2o7jk1XRWLO4FdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Anurdhapura%2B2009%2B048.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTPSbG38Fsk/YH7kRzpgrZI/AAAAAAAADQ0/dH1eAS3cGGUdvBVfZQ2o7jk1XRWLO4FdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Anurdhapura%2B2009%2B048.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At our home based office, even team has to play with cats! </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nEa3NsWsE-Y/YH7kiuzJ9qI/AAAAAAAADQ8/MvNyIEW3wfw60q_FEpYDZXV3whuozSl4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/january%2B2009%2B259.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nEa3NsWsE-Y/YH7kiuzJ9qI/AAAAAAAADQ8/MvNyIEW3wfw60q_FEpYDZXV3whuozSl4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/january%2B2009%2B259.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Team meeting at home based office for Leaf monkey project team </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lXcyIA9fcog/YH7kymOfDiI/AAAAAAAADRE/geT1FrvGN1Qq9_6sHioIWvQbStPPtnJCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s4608/volunteers%2B2.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lXcyIA9fcog/YH7kymOfDiI/AAAAAAAADRE/geT1FrvGN1Qq9_6sHioIWvQbStPPtnJCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/volunteers%2B2.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planning team of Paapedi 2013 at our home based office <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-STXIfNvVDR0/YH7lMr3eC5I/AAAAAAAADRQ/nlZlwiAHMEsMjomO68UjGF5Xiv8OyxE1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s4608/volunteers%2B.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-STXIfNvVDR0/YH7lMr3eC5I/AAAAAAAADRQ/nlZlwiAHMEsMjomO68UjGF5Xiv8OyxE1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/volunteers%2B.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a professional office but of course a skillful team - Team Paapedi 2013</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I live outside of Sri Lanka now
with my family but still ECO-V activities are taking place. Office is based at
our home in Sri Lanka on an entire dedicated floor for office. There are no big
projects currently but with activities with high positive impacts with
services. Those services are not only for humans but also for other living
beings! We don’t have huge grants but we have well-wishes who are supporting us
in small ways (personally or as organizations) but just enough for us to bring
the positive change. We still function as a voluntary organization, just like
when we started and we will be, as our aim is to let people understand money is
not everything. Just like Mother Earth giving her services to her children, we
too try to give our services back to her and her children! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Lessons learnt…</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I am 20 years older than when I
started ECO-V. When I look back, I have no regrets, but a huge satisfaction for
being able to do so much voluntary work (Thanks to my husband, I never had a
need to earn to feed my children). I might have done a little bit well in the
finances side and found a big donor for ECO-V to do more work but….that was my
capacity and may be this is what I was destined to do. Therefore, I take it as
a positive karma! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Global impact…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">With the experience gained
through building up ECO-V, I managed to co-found Journeys for Climate Justice
in Australia (https://www.journeysforclimatejustice.org.au/), and Edible Routes
Foundation in India (https://www.facebook.com/edibleroutesfoundation/). I enjoy
work at International level through these organisations and many networks that
we work together to bring up positive change to the world of conservation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>My interpretation….</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Well for me, I was born to this
world to do this service mostly as a volunteer. May be making money is not my
destiny during this birth but the service to all living beings is what I have
to do which I am happy about. As a founder of an organization this may be a
failure. But I am not regretting as I have understood myself and anyway we have
done our best to protect Mother Nature and will be doing it with money or
without money. We used to make cloth tote bags and eco friendly greeting cards and sell them to raise funds and we still do such activities as raising funds vis such activities are very helpful for us to get developed our skills. <o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RIqRHnf6-fY/YH7osj8JNaI/AAAAAAAADR0/0SjrlqClcP83rLgdqdP3EBy8CtUURXLWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/me%2Bpainting.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RIqRHnf6-fY/YH7osj8JNaI/AAAAAAAADR0/0SjrlqClcP83rLgdqdP3EBy8CtUURXLWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/me%2Bpainting.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me painting the cloth tote bags to sell and raise funds. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ECO-V is like a beautiful river
still flowing 20 years! Sometimes splashing water, sometimes meandering, facing
boulders steadily, slowing down around deep puddles, running when
needed flow silently along the valleys. Creating beautiful water falls down the
hills and carrying and planting the seeds along its banks. Small streams keep giving
water on the way so it will not get dried. That's just enough to see ECO-V as a river. It is
there to drink water, take a bath, use for growing plants or just listen to the
sound and enjoy but never stoppable by a dam because we will flow over the dam
nourishing more lands helping more beings until it meets the great ocean. Don’t know when. Until then May you all see
it as a beautiful river and enjoy it!!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-489698868040383782021-03-01T15:15:00.000+05:302021-03-01T15:15:56.301+05:30Sustainable Resource Management by following 10R <p>Waste is one of the main topics in the world! As an organization campaigning for sustainable Resource management and zero waste lifestyle for last 20 years, I wrote this article few years ago and modified again very recently with more details. </p><p>Hope one can learn something out of this. I heard about 10R in waste Management when I was in Melbourne in 2010 and since then we at ECO-V adopted the method by modifying it in our own way. We always talk about "conscious consumerism and waste" together as waste is not a waste but it is a resource. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nkSB7iegTOw/YDy3Y0sJkXI/AAAAAAAADLM/QZcOescHVsMFERU3GDXTFdJLHMNeghObwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1040/10R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nkSB7iegTOw/YDy3Y0sJkXI/AAAAAAAADLM/QZcOescHVsMFERU3GDXTFdJLHMNeghObwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/10R.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Everybody knows about the 3R’s in Waste Management.
I believe that simply following the guidelines of the 3R’s is not sufficient
action to manage our global waste sustainably. I offer here a different
perspective on waste management. We must stop generating further waste in order
to get the issue down to a manageable scale. Human beings are the only living
animal on this plant who generates waste. This is a self-created problem.
Therefore, the solution must also be created by humans. I believe the only
viable solution is a “zero waste” lifestyle (or to at least achieve 99% waste
free). To enable us to lead a zero-waste lifestyle, we must follow the 10-R
method. In other words, “consuming consciously or Conscious Consumerism”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no such thing as “waste” unless we humans
generate or create wasteful products. Therefore, what we are managing is
“Resources”; once you manage resources wisely then there will be no waste
products left. Let us see how we can manage resources sustainably. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Follow the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10R</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
method to become a conscious consumer and zero waste generator!! It’s very
simple, once you get the hang of it! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reject</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– Always buy only what you NEED. Reject unhealthy, unsuitable, unethical goods.
Don’t buy more than what you need even if it’s cheap or on sale. This way you
are saving resources for others who need to buy and also bringing less waste
into your home. Moreover, it saves you money. Soon you will have created a list
of permanently rejected items from your life. Some of such items that I have
rejected in my life are: any kind of carbonated and sugary beverages, single
use plastic or polyethene, artificially made or processed food like instant
noodles and soup cubes, snacks, many varieties of biscuits, plastic straws, and
tobacco. Rejecting these sorts of items has also helped our family to maintain
healthy food habits, and has taught my two young sons how to eat healthier and
eliminate waste from their lives. I have also rejected the purchase of any chemical
detergents for cleaning and laundry. This way I know I am not polluting my home
environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Refuse</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– Say no to plastic bags always…be brave enough to Refuse on the spot. This R
is bit more flexible than Rejecting. Depending on the occasion you might need
to take some of the items you want. For example, if you are really thirsty and
you have forgotten your reusable water bottle you may need to buy a bottles water
from a shop. Then you may buy it but the bottle will be given for recycling. Therefore,
you must be conscious about your choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means you might buy or take items only when they are absolutely
needed. Some items I have refused personally are paper bags, cloth bags, any
wrappers including cardboard boxes, paper straws, milk packets, yoghurt,
ice-cream, makeup, perfumes and even take-away food, online purchases etc. So,
I will buy them only if I know how to manage the left-over waste that comes with
the item. Otherwise, I will not buy or accept them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reduce</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– think twice and reduce consumerism. When you practice the above-mentioned two
“R”s you are automatically reducing loads of waste and also saving many
resources. Still, you can reduce using paper, cloth, shoes, clothing, handbags,
jewelry, perfumes. Always try to avoid using wrappers when you give a gift
item. If absolutely necessary then use a compostable paper wrapper or a
reusable wrapping like a muslin bag. Be aware that many trees are cut down to
make paper; we are losing vast amounts of forest land because of paper
production and agriculture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use less
detergent, shampoo or soap and strive to completely eliminate all chemical
products. You have plenty of natural alternatives now. Also, and importantly,
be aware of the amount of food you consume daily. Wasted food feels like a
crime to me. We must pay respect to our farmers by avoiding food waste. Also,
we must be aware of how many resources, such as time, water, manure, and land,
went into growing our food. Food wastes in landfills create methane gasses and
are contributing to climate change. Each of us are obliged to consume a healthier,
smaller quantity of food and to purchase food that has been grown through
sustainable agricultural methods. Another resource we should treat with greater
respect is water. Be conscious about how much water you are using when you bathe.
Reducing water usage is an important step in the 10-R’s, especially as the
planet is experiencing droughts and water shortages globally. In this same
vein, we must reduce our global consumption of electricity and other sources of
energy, fuels, etc. through frugal personal energy consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reuse</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– Use a cloth bag and reuse hundreds of times. Even paper bags or plastic bags can
be reused multiple times. Use reusable cutlery, crockery, or wrappers. When
somebody gives you, a present wrapped in wrapping paper, remove it carefully
and save for reuse later. This applies to bubble wrap, brown paper,
commercially-made wrapping paper and other packaging. Before you buy an item,
think twice about whether you can reuse it or not. Always reuse and upcycle
whenever possible. When up-cycling, you should remember to upcycle something
with no waste generated or whatever waste generated is recyclable. In the
meantime, do not up-cycle an item where the end product is going to be
waste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, people like to
upcycle plastic bottles (PET bottles) into growing/planting containers. When
they cut them to make a planting container, loads of micro plastics are released
into the environment and these small pieces of plastic are not recycled. Furthermore,
the upcycled plastic growing container is then filled with soil and, over the
growing period, this plastic breaks down into smaller, now contaminated pieces which
are no longer recyclable and becomes a waste product that will not break down
for thousands of years. It would have been better to return that water bottle
for recycling when not contaminated, and even better to not purchase it in the
first place. You can use other types of garden containers (even plastic pots) which
are designed for growing plants and are durable so that you get years of use
out of them before they become waste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never
reuse plastic PET bottles for storage of food or liquid as they might be releasing
Bisphenol- A (BPA) chemical over the time. In plastics, only type 4 (LDPE) 5 (PP)
and 7(other) are meant to reuse for food and liquid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Repair</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– rather than simply discarding damaged bags, cloths, shoes, furniture, tools
and other utensils, seek to repair them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If something is broken, be creative and see if
there is another way to use it if it can’t be repaired. This way you will be
saving money and reducing the energy used for recycling. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Replace</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– replace parts rather than buying new. Before you purchase anything new, always
think about whether those items are reparable or replaceable. For example, if
you buy plastic furniture, you will end up having to recycle when broken. Wooden
and metal furniture has several other options when broken such as repair, replace
reuse, and recycling. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Recycle</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– always separate your waste and submit for recycling as almost everything, except
for a few types of polythene, plastics and hazardous wastes, is recyclable. However,
recycling is not always the best action; recycling requires a large amount of
resources like energy and water and emits pollutants into the environment. Some
areas accept recycling but don’t have the resources to actually recycle and so
these items end up in the landfill. Hence, we must consider reducing recycling
too. For example, you may feel that it is fine to use paper wrappers as they
are compostable or recyclable. But never think that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always be conscious about the original
resources that went into making these items, and the resources that will be
required to recycle them. If you use more recyclable items, and find yourself
with large amounts of recycling, that means you are wasting natural resources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rethink</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– You must think over and over again about how much you are consuming. Rethink your
choices and choose Nature-friendly innovations. Be mindful about all positive
action by practicing the above “R”s. Even though you may avoid many wastes
coming into your home, you may still have some items that you can’t prevent from
entering your life or home. So, the best solution to Rethink is having your own
ECOBRICK. It’s the best solution you have at the moment to go towards a
zero-waste lifestyle. I will give you one example. As I said, I have rejected
buying unwanted items, but occasionally I buy a dress. The dress has a price
tag, brand tag and sometimes many plastic labels. So, when I purchase my cotton
dress all these tags are coming along with it. I cannot reject them and drop them
at the shop. It would be a very extreme act too and I would lose the
opportunity of exchanging it later if there is an issue. Even if I were able to
leave the tags at the shop, they will be thrown into a waste bin at the shop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the end result is trash going into
a landfill (nobody recycles such tiny tags). Trash often ends up in the ocean where
it is responsible for killing many ocean creatures and ultimately ends up in
our bodies where it can cause hormonal imbalances and cancers. What I believe
is, if I purchase an item whatever labels, tags coming along with that product
is my responsibility. So, I have decided that the best option is to bring the
dress home with its tags, remove them carefully and collect all the tiny pieces
and insert them into an ECOBRICK. By taking this small action you keep in mind
all living beings, and rethink your own waste generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– to consume consciously, remember to take your own reusable bag, refillable water
bottle, and reusable cutlery set when you go away from home. Always remember to
keep extra bags or containers with you and in your vehicle, and remember to tell
others of your good actions as inspiration for how they too can become more
eco-friendly. By following the 10R’s and telling others about them, you will
create many positive ripples in society. Remember to walk and talk your beliefs.
If you forget today, be sure to remember right away and take action Now. We may
not have time tomorrow.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Repeat</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
– repeat all above actions every day in your life. Make it a habit like breathing
in and breathing out. Make the 10R’s a beautiful song that you sing every day!
Healthy consumerism, Healthy life and Healthy Planet with no waste!!!! The
Planet will thank you by healing and thriving. For truly, we cannot thrive if
the planet dies. This, then, should be our walking meditation from the time our
eyes open until we close them at night: If not me, then who? If not now, when?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Concept
adopted and modified by Kanchana Weerakoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Founder
President of Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.eco-v.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">www.eco-v.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:kanchanawr@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">kanchanawr@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-5454480789716775012021-01-13T20:28:00.002+05:302021-01-13T20:28:50.910+05:30When Nature wanted to keep us inside our homes…..need to find a way connect with Nature and continue the business as usual...<p class="MsoNormal">It’s been almost a year since I did my last training session
inside a room with an audience which had a physical presence. It was February
2020 and I was running really great training sessions in Myanmar and in Sri
Lanka. Since then, I could not run such programmes till today. I really miss
such and I know all my colleagues must be feeling the same way. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now it’s 2021 and I don't know what will happen next month
as such uncertainty is in front of us. People say once you have the vaccine you
will be free to move like before but who knows what kind of virus will meet us
next??? Anyway...other than the whole virus-related negative experiences such
as people getting sick and listening to the increasing number of death toll
there were so many positive things happening during the past 11 months. I am
sure you were aware of many such positive moments. <o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Among many positive moments and happenings in my life, one
good thing is that I started teaching online!!! I was a person who did not like
or enjoy much online work. I always had issues with technology and was
preaching to use it consciously. Don’t worry, I still say that. Somehow, I changed a little bit and started
enjoying the technology for some useful work. So I started connecting with
Nature while connecting with technology…..<o:p></o:p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a8c34ef-7fff-537a-a7c2-cbcb0e653780"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qVDTklmwq4/X_794npw4jI/AAAAAAAADDg/xeEyeiEvLJMmgCHgYy8lJGuaxOJ3I-aUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-45-58%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qVDTklmwq4/X_794npw4jI/AAAAAAAADDg/xeEyeiEvLJMmgCHgYy8lJGuaxOJ3I-aUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-45-58%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5g4YqgrpTbQ/X_794e0LefI/AAAAAAAADDc/3l4bFD63UR0X900EIvKImtY1I9psvXmHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-46-00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5g4YqgrpTbQ/X_794e0LefI/AAAAAAAADDc/3l4bFD63UR0X900EIvKImtY1I9psvXmHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-46-00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JBCEvhVNP40/X_794p-DoSI/AAAAAAAADDk/0aLum6WnC-wvGz6MJty3lptI8CvB9kUfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-45-59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JBCEvhVNP40/X_794p-DoSI/AAAAAAAADDk/0aLum6WnC-wvGz6MJty3lptI8CvB9kUfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-13-11-45-59.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well....I had to think how to do such because I was
conducting “connecting with Nature” sessions while taking a bunch of kids or
adults to a park or a wetland or to a forest and letting them touch, hug or
smell the trees, flowers or plants and watch animals very patiently. So how could
I do such via technology was a bit challenging. When I did some kids workshops
last year...I brought “Nature” into my home. Had to do this in many ways
without damaging Nature. So, I made videos in the park (soon after the initial
lockdown was eased out in June).<o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBbHz8eTgoA/X_7-Z27sXWI/AAAAAAAADD0/3QYpnoctADEm883QnjY-K-3SUqNTBcwuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/PHOTO-2020-06-20-12-48-42%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBbHz8eTgoA/X_7-Z27sXWI/AAAAAAAADD0/3QYpnoctADEm883QnjY-K-3SUqNTBcwuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-20-12-48-42%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buhusuru helping me on technical stuff </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ptxMbH-58LU/X_7-aFmR7lI/AAAAAAAADD4/6rKrt-VILeQ3jzrNkUTBKnAZA7m70HIJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-06-20-12-54-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ptxMbH-58LU/X_7-aFmR7lI/AAAAAAAADD4/6rKrt-VILeQ3jzrNkUTBKnAZA7m70HIJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-20-12-54-03.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGvEtlhqPuU/X_7-Zx1wxAI/AAAAAAAADD8/R-zlHNZoMoUHDJu8TjA1f3OHJzaR61frQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1152/PHOTO-2020-06-20-16-04-32%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGvEtlhqPuU/X_7-Zx1wxAI/AAAAAAAADD8/R-zlHNZoMoUHDJu8TjA1f3OHJzaR61frQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-20-16-04-32%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pxlj7YH8bbw/X_7-bCzg61I/AAAAAAAADEA/3SxfI8YubfQjMcE6Js7W9Jzz_sAUdysTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1152/PHOTO-2020-06-20-16-04-33%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pxlj7YH8bbw/X_7-bCzg61I/AAAAAAAADEA/3SxfI8YubfQjMcE6Js7W9Jzz_sAUdysTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-20-16-04-33%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Brought fallen leaves and flowers, plants in the pots into
my living room which became the training venue for “connecting with Nature”.
Did some art and craft sessions for kids. Collected soil, twigs, plastic
wrappers, polythene...all sort of so-called waste to run sessions on
sustainable waste management. Even dug my own garden where I grow Earthworms
and carefully collected some of them and brought them to my living room to talk
about composting. My sons helped me in operating my mobile camera when I wanted
to run some practical demonstration other than the slide shows. Wow….it was
such a mission...but we loved it and most importantly the participants loved
it. So, we used the technology and tried our best to stay connected with
Nature!!<o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsdsNHzR1sY/X_7_F11ceDI/AAAAAAAADE4/c2wBixxKiW8VEra0p0lGtfXtsYo20yTSACLcBGAsYHQ/s1152/PHOTO-2020-06-21-18-25-44%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsdsNHzR1sY/X_7_F11ceDI/AAAAAAAADE4/c2wBixxKiW8VEra0p0lGtfXtsYo20yTSACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-21-18-25-44%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10R in Resource Management to avoid waste </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5HWmscrRbaQ/X_7_FDZFJ6I/AAAAAAAADEw/rJqQqU-FuEIEHkOyHZgV1zBDDn4HxjeRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-08-15%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5HWmscrRbaQ/X_7_FDZFJ6I/AAAAAAAADEw/rJqQqU-FuEIEHkOyHZgV1zBDDn4HxjeRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-08-15%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K3knAGevrRc/X_7_FPEOSeI/AAAAAAAADE0/zqc18ZfgxMMerSGXFMf4TgFDyRW4Ht2qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-07-24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K3knAGevrRc/X_7_FPEOSeI/AAAAAAAADE0/zqc18ZfgxMMerSGXFMf4TgFDyRW4Ht2qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-07-24.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buhusuru using the mobile camera</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCOH2IA__Po/X_7_FPEJpdI/AAAAAAAADEs/zdbIIjyRIHw5cMQ274fQ2LIAhoU4OuqaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-07-24%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCOH2IA__Po/X_7_FPEJpdI/AAAAAAAADEs/zdbIIjyRIHw5cMQ274fQ2LIAhoU4OuqaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-06-21-13-07-24%2B%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now it’s January 2021, A New year!! Not a new beginning yet
as still I am trapped in New Delhi as Sri Lanka is not open for visitors to
travel yet. Until they open and let us travel freely, I will continue my
mission using the technology! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P.S As a tradition I would like to wish you all a very Happy
New Year!! I truly mean it this year! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also, I wanted to mention that I could not meet you all via
our blog and that did not mean that we at ECO-V or me personally as a
conservationist did not work for 2020. It's just we were very active on face
book and after making posts for face book I felt not to repeat on the blog.<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-75516608683819913912020-10-17T16:06:00.000+05:302020-10-17T16:06:11.603+05:30Covid-19, Lock Down and Rajesthan India. <p>After being inside for 7 months without traveling, we just
came back from a 4-day trip to Rajasthan. It was a great trip with a 17-hour
straight drive from New Delhi to Jaisalmer and spending some time around Thar
Desert and understanding the history there. Here are some interesting places we
traveled and what we saw. I decided to share those experiences and talk about
some issues in a conservationist’s perspective.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bd4d4d95-7fff-1e68-719e-b19e9f5f26ad"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bEtLNxIlFrk/X4rCnp6hOrI/AAAAAAAAC8Q/mkhnHzBso3IRYa80xCjlUQ0VQvpMj9LigCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/5f5b6fa4-b0d9-4c0e-a25a-653d535f2bf7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bEtLNxIlFrk/X4rCnp6hOrI/AAAAAAAAC8Q/mkhnHzBso3IRYa80xCjlUQ0VQvpMj9LigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/5f5b6fa4-b0d9-4c0e-a25a-653d535f2bf7.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejXHy9v_4NE/X4rCnuIPxFI/AAAAAAAAC8U/zOH7BvkHCpwWF42WTjRJxOGJ34Qj_ud3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejXHy9v_4NE/X4rCnuIPxFI/AAAAAAAAC8U/zOH7BvkHCpwWF42WTjRJxOGJ34Qj_ud3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2200.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This is the Jaisalmer lake in Rajasthan, India.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>We had a visit there as it’s in the middle of the city.
While others were talking about the beauty of the lake, I was looking at the
surrounding trees, birds and then water. I caught a piece of polythene at the
edge of the water body. It was moving a bit oddly. So, I had a closer, careful
look.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WNVjaBQPAJI/X4rDIlnvWkI/AAAAAAAAC80/pKWZbn0VN3YkH0Hd6EfogBO730vKYDHwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WNVjaBQPAJI/X4rDIlnvWkI/AAAAAAAAC80/pKWZbn0VN3YkH0Hd6EfogBO730vKYDHwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2199.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PikIAlK189Q/X4rDNtbvNUI/AAAAAAAAC84/56RvD0v2GwMK9yRA2vfMeka6k5Krjj7nACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2198.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PikIAlK189Q/X4rDNtbvNUI/AAAAAAAAC84/56RvD0v2GwMK9yRA2vfMeka6k5Krjj7nACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2198.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Oopppsss…. automatically I was counting. One...two...three,
four five six oooppss….one fell back to water and including that altogether
seven frogs...I was surprised, smiling and murmuring of course taking
pictures...while others were talking about the lake and its history. I was
thinking how these frogs are getting adapted to the pollution and taking
advantage of the polythene as a surface to climb up and breath...poor little
frogs…. I was thinking while I was coming back.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Next day we had another 45 minutes travel from the city
towards the Thar Desert. That was for organised Desert Safari. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When we were planning the Rajasthani trip last week, I was
pretty sure I was not going to go on a camel safari. It was my personal ethic
that I never want to enjoy sitting on a trained animal back as I know there is
some animal cruelty involved in that. But I did not force others not to go.
When we went to the place for Camel ride, a Rajasthani man pointed out two
camels who just finished a trip and lay down on sand and stretched their legs,
saying they were for us. Not having a much break for them it was the turn for
our group. All preceded. I was sitting on a local bed. The man in charge was
repeatedly inviting me to come while pulling the string coming through the
nostrils of the camel. I was watching away as I could not see the pain of that
animal.....then I heard a voice behind me saying “we are not coming, you all
go”...that was my husband Thushara Ranasinghe . I looked back and saw Nipu
(Nipuna Ranasinghe) also standing behind nodding his head saying no. I was not
too surprised but a bit anxious to find out what’s the reason behind them for
not going….Anyway all others went... we three were deserted in the desert….</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8OcGhTpGl8/X4rDdcmHTXI/AAAAAAAAC9E/XXyJMTU0cD49BrUxsCSxt5VMIvW2BZ6IQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8OcGhTpGl8/X4rDdcmHTXI/AAAAAAAAC9E/XXyJMTU0cD49BrUxsCSxt5VMIvW2BZ6IQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2235.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People enjoy while animals suffer <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VU4S_YaPsMw/X4rDdnhisII/AAAAAAAAC9M/ihuNEJhsUFA-08bnYDixASHDxx7dOit-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-07-42%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VU4S_YaPsMw/X4rDdnhisII/AAAAAAAAC9M/ihuNEJhsUFA-08bnYDixASHDxx7dOit-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-07-42%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soon after a ride they try to get a rest but....<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa2U6QSFmog/X4rDduESCWI/AAAAAAAAC9I/WaDmuax2YAMpXkgFb8jo2O1gG_19w_kGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-07-42.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa2U6QSFmog/X4rDduESCWI/AAAAAAAAC9I/WaDmuax2YAMpXkgFb8jo2O1gG_19w_kGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-07-42.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uJLv1GzsoHc/X4rDxg4JxbI/AAAAAAAAC9c/ptxAniVBJn0JBfqzTkqbBibHTMREK-XbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uJLv1GzsoHc/X4rDxg4JxbI/AAAAAAAAC9c/ptxAniVBJn0JBfqzTkqbBibHTMREK-XbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2229.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While watching on our own shadows in the desert <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I looked at Nipu. He was patting on a cute, innocent doggie
who came towards us by limping a few minutes ago. I approached them. “Putha,
why didn’t you go on Camelback? With a little pause Nipu replied…. “It's the
same reason as amma’s” and he continued petting that unknown dirty looking
doggie girl. My heart melted, I walked away with wet eyes...not just because I
was feeling sad, I am sure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THJFOnOrovw/X4rEeczA3_I/AAAAAAAAC9o/hKKod5EqgYY6ag25Xg42S4tfkPstokG-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2247.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THJFOnOrovw/X4rEeczA3_I/AAAAAAAAC9o/hKKod5EqgYY6ag25Xg42S4tfkPstokG-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2247.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OzhOEZu-fFo/X4rEnJZK7eI/AAAAAAAAC9w/nCv-cGVl58AAVLXEap2mBJaxLMftPtKYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2242.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OzhOEZu-fFo/X4rEnJZK7eI/AAAAAAAAC9w/nCv-cGVl58AAVLXEap2mBJaxLMftPtKYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2242.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">I looked at the horizon and it was almost sunset. I was
watching the beautiful colours of sunset and thinking...If all kids are having
this kind of METTA - Loving kindness and KARUNA - compassion for suffering,
this world would have been a better place for humans and animals…..I have a
hope..<o:p></o:p></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9U7hUf9eJ9Q/X4rFcg0Gm2I/AAAAAAAAC-E/uuApC1PAFJkp3fhrRzrrCyT0nvvvBOrSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-04-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9U7hUf9eJ9Q/X4rFcg0Gm2I/AAAAAAAAC-E/uuApC1PAFJkp3fhrRzrrCyT0nvvvBOrSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-10-10-22-04-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FC_3iYdbxj4/X4rFV4joMAI/AAAAAAAAC-A/DlXNrMrIFO8bLo9M3epFUhwA4Ow3OQtqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_2237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FC_3iYdbxj4/X4rFV4joMAI/AAAAAAAAC-A/DlXNrMrIFO8bLo9M3epFUhwA4Ow3OQtqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2237.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-44708884895411977342020-09-13T21:50:00.001+05:302020-09-13T21:50:31.085+05:30Updates about My activities just before Global lock down due to Pandemic. <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Well after 6 months of lock down due to Covid-19 and after a long break of writing, I thought I should write something now. Honestly there is no such lock-down now in New Delhi, where I live and we all are getting used to the “new normal”. No Cinemas, no metros. no commercial flights so no air travelling and no such free life yet. But life is pretty much functioning with masks on. Today I was going through some old photos so realized that I never reported about such work we did just before lock down. From 8th February to 13th February I was travelling in Myanmar for work purposes. I was invited to train staff of Amava Group (Clothing factory) in Myanmar. I traveled between Pathein and Yangun for training of more than 1500 employees on "Conscious Consumerism and sustainable living". Also we managed to prepare the Sustainability Management Plan for two factories of Amava Group in Myanmar. It was a very tight 5 days working from dawn to Dusk and travelling from one place to the other. Of course the unknown situation of spreading the virus made us a bit nervous but it was a good opportunity for me to make the participants understand about Eco-centric thinking and the value of respecting all forms of lives on this planet under “true sustainability”.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XoA2T9u1Haw/X141K7lxBJI/AAAAAAAAC2I/MLFmJovEwk8A_lFoiuojpS89RlcebHYmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-18%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XoA2T9u1Haw/X141K7lxBJI/AAAAAAAAC2I/MLFmJovEwk8A_lFoiuojpS89RlcebHYmACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-18%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yr8rZLDbtFg/X141K4py3pI/AAAAAAAAC2E/JgrN7F_JzkYXsA6qM2Kzd1uqlC_QK0EnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-18%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yr8rZLDbtFg/X141K4py3pI/AAAAAAAAC2E/JgrN7F_JzkYXsA6qM2Kzd1uqlC_QK0EnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-18%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WTGlclOz0j4/X141LQw_KbI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/FyC1WBRN9KIrCenyCBlvM0ZID83rArBAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WTGlclOz0j4/X141LQw_KbI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/FyC1WBRN9KIrCenyCBlvM0ZID83rArBAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-19.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BDGvYe2Ycgg/X141Lez7W1I/AAAAAAAAC2U/ORBV6qj37tUVYyCgCCTmYioRFYjpJ2GrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BDGvYe2Ycgg/X141Lez7W1I/AAAAAAAAC2U/ORBV6qj37tUVYyCgCCTmYioRFYjpJ2GrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wFCClPOvqjE/X141LuAUB9I/AAAAAAAAC2Y/3NmmEvsPPnoQEP5NR3hmUkhFFrt8FJdHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-15-07-07-57.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wFCClPOvqjE/X141LuAUB9I/AAAAAAAAC2Y/3NmmEvsPPnoQEP5NR3hmUkhFFrt8FJdHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-15-07-07-57.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trained Management staff in Myanmar<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QP13y4Q8-E4/X141Kyi_mkI/AAAAAAAAC2M/scnitZX0KNo5xzXokfupoLVgSZiVn_lpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QP13y4Q8-E4/X141Kyi_mkI/AAAAAAAAC2M/scnitZX0KNo5xzXokfupoLVgSZiVn_lpgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-12-18-47-16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Z7yUa39-E/X140QkjbNvI/AAAAAAAAC1o/P9VmIzIQzgAChRlF63h3m_HiZR0obVGQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0742.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Z7yUa39-E/X140QkjbNvI/AAAAAAAAC1o/P9VmIzIQzgAChRlF63h3m_HiZR0obVGQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0742.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iY0Qkm0-520/X140QXlEfVI/AAAAAAAAC1k/JUp4agMQbLMqP05Xivt6MhC-aO1atcNDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0722.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iY0Qkm0-520/X140QXlEfVI/AAAAAAAAC1k/JUp4agMQbLMqP05Xivt6MhC-aO1atcNDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0722.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jifYSmtIR_Q/X140QUgwHmI/AAAAAAAAC1g/p_wZQ-O6z3oioc34-wMaExKEsATGfHtzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0737.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jifYSmtIR_Q/X140QUgwHmI/AAAAAAAAC1g/p_wZQ-O6z3oioc34-wMaExKEsATGfHtzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0737.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p> The enthusiasm of trainees was so great and I saw the positive changes they made even on the same day and the following day. Such as refusing drinking instant coffee available in Sachet packets, refusing bottled water and instant food, bringing their lunch in reusable containers, immediate start of bringing a reusable water bottle from home. It’s amazing to see the willingness of change towards a healthy life and healthy management within the factories. when the general awareness for factory workers took place using huge screens and multimedia in the full packed house with translations happening, still the audience was patiently paying attention and I had no issue of keeping their attention towards the talk. All were enthusiastically listening for one hour and even I was flooded with questions after the sessions. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br />In between the training sessions I had a fruitful meeting with the Eco Temple team who happened to be in Yangon and it was so nice to meet colleagues and discuss our upcoming conference in October. Had the great opportunity to meet the high priest at Oxford Buddhist Temple in Yangon with fellow eco temple team mates. Also I was able to visit the world famous Shwadagon Pagoda. <span id="docs-internal-guid-aa4fdcbb-7fff-4cd7-d19c-d04ca91b8cba"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fVSFYVn9rPs/X147KxMNvCI/AAAAAAAAC3M/OcErp0v59vo7SLVlPiJADrq8IeDy3gkgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0706.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fVSFYVn9rPs/X147KxMNvCI/AAAAAAAAC3M/OcErp0v59vo7SLVlPiJADrq8IeDy3gkgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0706.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Q8781hEfvI/X1453-_s3_I/AAAAAAAAC20/F1CxnTmMAHoi7olvAsyq-isUyCvyeDodwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1632/IMG_0685.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="1224" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Q8781hEfvI/X1453-_s3_I/AAAAAAAAC20/F1CxnTmMAHoi7olvAsyq-isUyCvyeDodwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0685.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Most Venerable Dhammasami Thero</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kNVZGXQ1DiM/X1454NA5O-I/AAAAAAAAC24/4I5PSSlUiakqrt3s-LTcSXBuEHBGxWhMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1478/18bf2d65-88da-4396-a018-0e73711d3e3c.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kNVZGXQ1DiM/X1454NA5O-I/AAAAAAAAC24/4I5PSSlUiakqrt3s-LTcSXBuEHBGxWhMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/18bf2d65-88da-4396-a018-0e73711d3e3c.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eco Temple team with Most Venerable Dhammasami Thero</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p></span>After finishing a tiring but satisfying tour in Myanmar I traveled to Sri Lanka via Bangkok.It was tensed but fully packed flights and had to go through temperature screening and filling health forms at airports. Looking back today, what an experience I had in Myanmar just before all went very wrong by March!!! It was my first travel experience with a mask on and I was feeling very uncomfortable (today it has become a part of the body). <span id="docs-internal-guid-aa4fdcbb-7fff-4cd7-d19c-d04ca91b8cba"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><span><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PbrqyjhWFSs/X1483HEqM1I/AAAAAAAAC3Y/yZc91QocIJ81-dqE80BeeX5X_ZjfNHgaACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0753.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PbrqyjhWFSs/X1483HEqM1I/AAAAAAAAC3Y/yZc91QocIJ81-dqE80BeeX5X_ZjfNHgaACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0753.JPG" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa4fdcbb-7fff-4cd7-d19c-d04ca91b8cba"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>I arrived in Sri Lanka on the 13th February and here again the next step of training sessions started on 14th. It was the same group of companies where Mr. Prasanna Jayasinghe is the CEO. So I concocted the same training in two more factories. General awareness of “Conscious consumerism and Sustainable living” for factory staff and then “True Sustainable Management” for Management staff along with preparing the Green management plan. It was another 1500 more staff members who participated within two days of training.</blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PkO-xnjQtqg/X15DW9pi0-I/AAAAAAAAC44/HdSbRVB3bjkiIxYxb-qHFcM41UHHg7MxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-16-20-41-23%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PkO-xnjQtqg/X15DW9pi0-I/AAAAAAAAC44/HdSbRVB3bjkiIxYxb-qHFcM41UHHg7MxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-16-20-41-23%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x4sO22veHHw/X15DWl368rI/AAAAAAAAC40/wAC2qp0E_4Q-dFnXgNTrdYJ0Fz4nMvFoACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-16-20-37-50.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x4sO22veHHw/X15DWl368rI/AAAAAAAAC40/wAC2qp0E_4Q-dFnXgNTrdYJ0Fz4nMvFoACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-16-20-37-50.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Training for Management staff of the factory </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QKVN6kZmND8/X15DWEZZz1I/AAAAAAAAC4o/lGTfUk68PDwwzbFDK5rNbeAGzwz2Jh3OwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-15-18-18-39%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QKVN6kZmND8/X15DWEZZz1I/AAAAAAAAC4o/lGTfUk68PDwwzbFDK5rNbeAGzwz2Jh3OwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-15-18-18-39%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the largest crowds I have addressed in the recent past </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LrImlLNOYC0/X15DWF4XRuI/AAAAAAAAC4s/4gPV6n_2p2Idlakmjbq96U6jjIcj6IeQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/PHOTO-2020-02-15-17-56-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LrImlLNOYC0/X15DWF4XRuI/AAAAAAAAC4s/4gPV6n_2p2Idlakmjbq96U6jjIcj6IeQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PHOTO-2020-02-15-17-56-11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">After the fully packed weekend with talking and discussing I had no time to have a break and went to Galle to conduct another workshop on Zero Waste Lifestyle and Ecobricking on the following day. Then another workshop on Sustainable Waste Management and Ecobriking at Diyasaru Park, Thalawathugoda.<span id="docs-internal-guid-aa4fdcbb-7fff-4cd7-d19c-d04ca91b8cba"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bhB1PIgnqvc/X149_m7ETDI/AAAAAAAAC4E/n4RwGdbCbxQ0uXvRnwgOH59g85ZvknvgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0838.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bhB1PIgnqvc/X149_m7ETDI/AAAAAAAAC4E/n4RwGdbCbxQ0uXvRnwgOH59g85ZvknvgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0838.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tbriXOSkhE/X149_kbQ_dI/AAAAAAAAC4A/h-YHCR7fYdM5aJTV5E4xxBg2f-45kQ0GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0831.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tbriXOSkhE/X149_kbQ_dI/AAAAAAAAC4A/h-YHCR7fYdM5aJTV5E4xxBg2f-45kQ0GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0831.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMVc74XIpqg/X14992fAx4I/AAAAAAAAC3s/SNMQRxOj72gtTqvrfuc7rW-sBJZXdWFpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0820.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMVc74XIpqg/X14992fAx4I/AAAAAAAAC3s/SNMQRxOj72gtTqvrfuc7rW-sBJZXdWFpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0820.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPyDuIY59Ns/X149-7qLa7I/AAAAAAAAC34/9jMwcjtI188X9rZIJtz-FVke7YnzozbaACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN5086.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPyDuIY59Ns/X149-7qLa7I/AAAAAAAAC34/9jMwcjtI188X9rZIJtz-FVke7YnzozbaACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN5086.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bench made out of ecobricks at the end of the workshop</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>Thanks to the beginning of pandemic situation it was the high time to explain the shift of thinking "Ego to Eco" thinking and acting. It was easy to explain about the rights of each and every "being" of the world taking the Corona Virus as example and how we should co-op up with it (just after the training in February everything changed in the world but I feel what I said was still relevant.<br /><br /> <br />Today I see myself having too long break of 6 months without travelling and just being at home but still working remotely, conducting webinars for the same topics, having virtual meetings and working with kids via zoom and telling them how to connect with Nature even at this difficult time. Oh well…..what a life?? Who thought of being locked down like this, globally!!! </blockquote><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa4fdcbb-7fff-4cd7-d19c-d04ca91b8cba"><div><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-51157117227432393472020-01-10T13:17:00.000+05:302020-01-10T13:17:24.786+05:30Year 2020 a decade of uncertainties in the world but expectations for positive change !!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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words that we all are facing the negative impacts of Climate Change, all are
suffering either with floods, droughts or bush fires and from many more natural
disasters. This suffering is either truly and physically experiencing by them or
just seeing and feeling the pain of other who are actually facing the impacts. However,
my New Year wish was that I should speed up spreading the words, actions and solution
which I have been practicing for last 20 years as an active environmentalist,
Nature lover and a wife and a Mother with Green thinking (I am quite proud
about how I lead myself and my family for last 20 years with minimum weight on
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more and share, publish a book at the end of year and become a speaker for
public to speed up actions for positive change. Honestly speaking about , this
was not what I wanted to do. But people whoever knew me, come to my programmes
or sessions I ran on invitation and follow my programmes were always asking “why
don’t you write what you say and publish because then you can reach more people”.
So I thought hmmm….may be that would be another strategy. Anyway now I am living
in Delhi and having some spare time of course getting old day by day and prefer
to be at one place rather than running here and there (wow…..I will be 50 by
November) and not as active as at my thirties…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-language: SI-LK;">Writing would be a good thing to use my time
wisely. Well….let’s try…I am going to use this existing blog we have been maintaining
for last many years and anyway ECO-V is going to be 19 years by this February
and spreading our positive words via the blog would be more useful as an organization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and well wishes of me and ECO-V, I wish you all a very Happy New year and a
decade ahead! May your positive dreams become true and may you all get more
positive energy to have more and more positive changes for the world!! Let’s
paddle together through this life journey with ups and downs with active hope!!
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right now I feel like this little yellow flower (tiny yet bright and positive) with loads of negative happenings in the world (represented by brown leaves) Picture was taken in Melbourne in April 2019 </td></tr>
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Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-42497889582170349352019-10-23T22:35:00.000+05:302019-10-23T22:35:35.041+05:30Eco friendly Gift tags, Greeting cards are back after 11 years!!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bd0b0-3-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">The main target is raising funds for our Eco garden and Metta Garden. The gardens are the most sacred places for me personally and ECO-V. While pasting petals and leaves patiently, cutting the paper minimizing the waste, even reusing off cuts of Bees Wax paper, I was thinking very much about all living beings who are occupying our gardens in Boralesgamuwa in Sri Lanka, Also I was giving my loving kindness to all other living beings who do not have safe places to live specially with the the urbanization while making them today after 11 years. I was so happy to go through each petal, leaf I pressed and preserved over 15 years and kept inside a book along with hand made paper off cuts given to me by @Chakra hand made paper company in Sri Lanka. Thank you </span></span><span blockkey="bd0b0" class="_247o" contentstate="c { "entityMap": undefined, "blockMap": OrderedMap { "bd0b0": c { "key": "bd0b0", "type": "unstyled", "text": "Making eco friendly Greeting cards, book marks, and gift tags as fund raising items was one of main activities at the time we started ECO-V in 2001. I very much enjoyed this and tried training youngsters on this but no body was interested. It was my main activity after working hours, till 1 am -2am after putting Boo and Nipu into sleep by 7pm. Then the next morning these cards and bags were on the table displayed as in a exhibition when ECO-V team reported to work at our home based office. We used to sell these among our friends in UK, USA and Sri Lanka. Christmas and New Year season was our best hit as we raised good money by selling them. We made two libraries and helped to have a roof in one Pre-school in Padaviya area using the money we raised by selling greeting cards and eco friendly tote bags. Later on, I became very busy and did not have time to make any but all material were safely kept thinking one day I can use them. Now ECO-V do not have any external donors and we try to raise money through various income generating programmes and via consultancies. So time has come!!! Living in India and having more time, why not enjoy my hobby??? Yes it was so fun!!! 😍😍The main target is raising funds for our Eco garden and Metta Garden. The gardens are the most sacred places for me personally and ECO-V. While pasting petals and leaves patiently, cutting the paper minimizing the waste, even reusing off cuts of Bees Wax paper, I was thinking very much about all living beings who are occupying our gardens in Boralesgamuwa in Sri Lanka, Also I was giving my loving kindness to all other living beings who do not have safe places to live specially with the the urbanization while making them today after 11 years. I was so happy to go through each petal, leaf I pressed and preserved over 15 years and kept inside a book along with hand made paper off cuts given to me by @Chakra hand made paper company in Sri Lanka. Thank you Sustainablee in Sri Lanka who already agreed to buy them from me. If my dear friends in UK and USA or anybody who would love to help our butterflies, Bees, earth worms, ants and dragon flies along with their plants please buy some enabling us to continue our gardens and help other too. (I know Australian friends won't be able to buy them due to custom regulations for natural materials). Well....one last note....I have to admit that I am old now... 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data-offset-key="bd0b0-5-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"> in Sri Lanka who already agreed to buy them from me. If my dear friends in UK and USA or anybody who would love to help our butterflies, Bees, earth worms, ants and dragon flies along with their plants please promote them the way you used to do. I know Australian friends won't be able to buy them due to custom regulations for natural materials. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Well....one last note....I have to admit that I am old now... Today, I had to use my glasses to see all tiny details of those petals which I didn't use 11 years before </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/t20/1/16/1f61c.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😜</span></span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😂</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> well, that's life and my two boys who slept since 7pm those days enabling me to to make those cards are going to bed after midnight now but I am too tired to work till that late.....</span></div>
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Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-23550492960940753852019-07-31T15:19:00.004+05:302019-07-31T15:19:56.278+05:30ECO-V in Good Market<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good Market, Sri Lanka is a great
platform which supports new entrepreneurs who have sustainable and
environmentally friendly products and service, for the public. Since 2013, ECO-V
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addition to creating awareness, we are promoting natural alternatives for single
used plastic, polythene and also for unhealthy artificial products. Some of our
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ECO-V introduced Ecobricks to Sri Lankan consumers in 2013. The co-founder of Ecobricks <a href="https://www.blogger.com/(https://www.ecobricks.org/)">(https://www.ecobricks.org/)</a> Russell Maier personally visited ECO-V and introduced the ecobrick concept which was an ideal solution which we were searching for. Ecobricking is a great initiative that managing our polythenes which cannot be recycled. So we started promoting making Ecobricks on every Saturday using awareness boards with images and Ecobricks creations which can be demonstrated (ex: Ecobricks stool) as these polythene wrappers which cannot be recycled are huge environmental destruction. In addition to this, we are collecting your ecobricks so you can donate your homemade Ecobricks to us. Then we will use them in making some structures like benches, stools, or walls. We spread this knowledge through the 10 R concept which supports to manage your unconscious consumption. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We created awareness about the types of artificial packeted food which you gift when you visit your relatives in the New year season. Also pointed out carcinogenic additives in them, how to reduce polythenes which come to your home in the festival season, what are the alternatives and the way of celebrating festivals without harming innocent animal lives are some hints we gave to the public to make their festival more meaningful way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Through Good Market, we are providing volunteer opportunities for you. You can support to conduct awareness campaigns there. This school environmental pioneer team joined us to create awareness on “unhealthy impacts of fizzy drinks and alternative natural herbal drinks”. First of all, they visited the ECO-V office and learned well about all the factors of the proposed awareness campaign. </span></div>
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It’s June 2019. Already 6 months
are gone in 2019. I can’t believe that I have not written a blog for last 6
months. It’s terrible guilty feeling I get as I know there are friends who are
not connected via face book so not have got any updated about ECO-V or what’s
happening around my personal life. The blame should go towards face book. I
usually write every week on face book and post an update about my activities. I
know it’s not a good excuse not to write a blog. Or well now it’s happened so
can’t help. So I will try my best to write few blogs and update all our
friends, supporters and well-wishers who were with us right from beginning.
Well its 18th year of ECO-V.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last time I wrote about
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Then we launched ERF officially on the 17th of February. </div>
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So Edible Routes Foundation is the social wing of the company called, Edible Routes <a href="http://edibleroutes.com/" style="text-align: left;">http://edibleroutes.com/</a> who are into organic farming. I got to know Kapil Mandawewala, the founder of Edible Routes in January 2017 soon after I started living in Delhi. With that connection Kapil invited me to initiate a foundation connected to ER as it was a dream of many team members of his company. I agreed and accepted the invitation and we all got together to form the foundation. </div>
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So now we are 6 months old
organization, fully functioning in Delhi and some other parts of India. We are a
team of 7 and officially registered NGO. As the president of ERF, I am trying
to link ERF with International organisations and programmes. I had an official
tour in Melbourne, Australia in the month of April with the support of Journeys
for climate Justice (www.jcj.org.au). During that tour I officially introduced
ERF as Indian partner of JCJ. Now we have few projects running in India and we
will be getting ready for a Yathra (a journey) very soon with collaboration of
JCJ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, I am happy in Delhi as I have an organisation to work with specially to introduce them new programmes, help to develop the foundation and of course I have my freedom to do the work I love and I used to do in Sri Lanka. Just because of that even though I miss Sri Lanka, I am enjoying the work in New Delhi. No matter where you are you can serve Mother Earth! </div>
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After 11 months of settling me down in New Delhi, India I am
so happy to introduce ECO-V’s “Nature Kids” programme to kids and parents in
India too. When we started Nature kids in Sri Lanka in 2013, it was with only 4
kids including my own two boys. There after on every Thursdays we went to Good
Market (https://www.facebook.com/goodmarket.global/) to conduct this programme and we were waiting for kids to come
to us. Luckily, We did not have to wait too long. It grew up so fast as one of the
highlights of Good Market. With the support of Kate Stork Memorial Fund, UK in
2013, we were able to make it a regular weekly programme to train more youth
leaders who run the programme. Also we introduced Nature Friendly Teens, Youth
and even Nature Friendly Parents! Also introduced Nature Friendly Birth Day
parties by Nature kids. “Nature train” formed by chain of kids during Nature
walks around Diyatha Uyana Wetland in Colombo was more attractive with bubbly
happy kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It grew up with a huge
attendance of kids and we had to limit it to 20 kids per session as it was
challenging to manage all enthusiastic kids aged between 3 to 14 years who were
running towards us on every Thursdays after school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nature kids is a programme I decided to start after reading
the book “Last Child in the woods by Richard Louv” I was lucky enough to
connect with Richard in 2012 during my Eisenhower fellowship visit to USA. So I
did not want to see the last child in the woods in Sri Lanka who is suffering
from “Nature Deficit disorders” as described by Richard in his book. That’s the
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I was always inspired by kids who showed the
great love towards more sentimental features of Mother Nature. We discussed
about patterns of falling leaves, sound of falling leaves and drew the shaped
of clouds, mountains and even we heard the sound of bees and butterfly wing
flapping. We smell the fragrances of flowers while leaving them for butterflies
and bees and ants to enjoy. Kids learnt how to enjoy Mother nature through five
sensory organs. They learn the patterns of Mother Nature by watching at them
and understanding. They started to meditate with the sounds of birds and wind,
touched the elements of Nature with care and love. Never dropped litter or spit
on her, never wanted to heart her. Stopped eating processed food and started
growing plants and vegetables at home with their parents. Celebrated their
birthdays with zero waste. They wrote about their experience at different
forums and won awards too. Ultimately they connected with Mother Nature through
mind and body, becoming a true Nature kid!</div>
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So now, I am ready to repeat same actions or more with kids
in Delhi. The first programme we ran was a success. I have another reason to
start this programme. With the invitation and support from an Indian team I
managed to share my experience in forming a new NGO. It’s called Edible Routes
Foundation (https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=5bb2dbe1f48c19b3abe8ae127&id=2400675436) Since I am well settled in New Delhi, India this is a
great opportunity to continue my work which I missed since I left Sri Lanka. “Nature
kids” is my first gift to the kids of Mother India! I really look forward to
working with them towards a healthy and happy Mother Nature and vice versa. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The month of June was so busy, tired but was very productive. It was the month that many people in the world talk about Mother Nature. For us at ECO-V last June was important just because of environmental month but also we completed our 7th Yathra. </div>
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Today I feel very proud and
happy. The second generational leadership of ECO-V has emerged!!! When I
started ECO-V in 2001 I never had a dream of driving it this far. Its 17 years
now and I was the leader in all activities we did though I had very good
supportive team and situational leaders. I was so tired and wanting to stay
behind….Since I left Sri Lanka in January to join with my family in New Delhi,
thanks to Waruni, Chapa and Jayani, ECO-V office and some of its activities had
a second generational leadership. Then I gave the challenge to Chapa organizing
our 7<sup>th</sup> Yathra without my leadership. She took the challenge and
organized it, conducted it and completed it with a great success. This 7<sup>th</sup>
Yathra was dedicated to Newton our member from North as he had a dream of
conducting a Yathra in North since he had the record of participating all past
6 yathras.</div>
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So<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7<sup>th</sup> Yathra
named as vanni Yathra – a journey of reconciliation through Environmental
Sustainability is over now. My dream came true as my participation for the
Yathra was only 3 days and that’s only for training component at the beginning
and at the end. Rest was completely done by Chapa and Newton of course with the
support of Waruni and Jayani from ECO-V office and alumni of Yathras Dhanushka
and Gayani. A very big thank you goes to my young team which is our future for
a better Mother Nature!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Conducting a Yathra in North was
a challenge. Language barriers, less contribution from local communities,
distance from Colombo, less concern for Nature conservation (as they have their
own social issues) and lack of awareness on environmental issues. Newton was
struggling a lot to find Tamil speaking youth as participants for the Yathra as
many were not interested in committing themselves for 10 day ride. It may be
due to lack of understanding and not seeing the importance of getting such
training. On the other hand, Chapa had a challenge of selecting youth as we got
so many applications and had to select only 15 of them allowing Newton to have
another 15 from North. The yathra was designed to have a Tamil, Sinhala and of
course Muslim youth in equal numbers. Chapa and ECO-V had the main challenge in
getting funds (just because my involvement was minimal and Chapa was not having
enough experience in fund raising and Newton could not do it at all from
Northern province). Thanks to Journeys for Climate Justice and Diakonia
majority of funds came in. However, Chapa got her team and Newton got his team
and made 30 membered team. All of them met in Kilinochchi on the 2<sup>nd</sup>
of June 2018. I joined with them on 3<sup>rd</sup> June and started the
pre-journey. I felt very happy as by the time I joined, ECO-V team had done a
many activities to break ice and build up the team spirit and I had to the
theory part related to Climate Change and sustainability. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early morning meditation session conducted by me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">showing how to connect with trees</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting Selva (Newton and Selva were the first ever Tamil youth we had for Yathras)</td></tr>
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On 4<sup>th</sup> of June, all
joined with District Secretariat where Newton works, to meet the government
agent and planted trees. He also joined to ride with our Yathra team for a
short distance to celebrate the World Bicycle day (3rd of June) declared by UN
for the first time. I also had an opportunity to ride for a short distance
which made me very happy too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newton and me cycling together in Kilinochchi </td></tr>
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It was really funny as I had to
rush to the Kilinochchci base hospital early in the morning with Madhushan the
youngest youth participant as he got a minor allergic reaction. Instead of
riding a two wheel bicycle he had to sit on wheel chair and get admitted to
hospital. He was very upset but luckily he got discharged by afternoon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instead of a bicycle he was having a ride on a Wheel Chair</td></tr>
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After visiting Iranamadu Tank and
having met Col. Shantha Kahagalle who was a great support for getting food and
making logistic arrangements for next few days along the yathra route, I left
North and came back to Colombo. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From the next day onwards I was
not with them physically so they had to take their own decisions matching with
the situation. I got updates via phone in the evening and I guess Chapa wanted
to make sure that she was correct. </div>
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Vanni Yathra team celebrated World
Environmental Day (5<sup>th</sup> June) with Sri Lanka Army and school children
in Kilinochchi, and world Ocean Day on 8<sup>th</sup> of June at Mullativu with
District Secretariat by conducting many awareness programmes, tree planting
activities and spending more time to connect with Mother Nature. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the route of Vanni Yathra 2018</td></tr>
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On 6<sup>th</sup> of June the
yathra team were riding bicycles towards Puththukudiyippu form Visuvamadu where
they lodged in previous night. During the journey they were invited to conduct an
awareness session on food safety and impacts on polythene and plastics at
Puththukudiyirippu Central College that suddenly organized by Col. Anil Perera
(23SLNG) with the support of few school staff members. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">youth conducting the training session for students </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nadia distributing leaflets to school children</td></tr>
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On 7<sup>th</sup>
of June the team celebrated the World Ocean Day occurred on 8<sup>th</sup> of
June in every year since they were passing Mulativu coastal area on that day.
They got an opportunity to conduct a session on “Ocean pollution and World
Ocean Day” for staff members of Mulativu District Secretariat. In addition they
presented a street drama and created awareness at main bus stand in Mulativu
town. In the evening the yathra team got a great opportunity to learn on birds
nearby Nanthikadal lagoon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During street drama</td></tr>
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The team waked up too early in 8<sup>th</sup>
morning since their accommodation of previous night; the lake view park nearby
Madawalasingha lake which owned by 592 brigade of Sri Lanka Army, was a very
charming and environmental friendly venue. The team did few nature activities
on the bank of Lake such as “Surya Namaskaraya”, few Yoga postures, Wirlies
Musical therapy and talking with trees.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">youth playing an drelaxing through the Wirlies the music instrument </td></tr>
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After that they started their journey towards Nedunkeni along
Kulamurippu forest reserve and Naagachcholeii forest reserve. During the
journey they rested few hours near by a lake and did few group activities which
helped to enhance their personality. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">connecting with Nature like a caterpillar.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Butterflies mud puddling </td></tr>
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On 9<sup>th</sup> of June the
yathra team were riding bicycles towards Pulliyankulam form Nedunkeni. They
learnt and discussed on 10 R Process which explained how to minimize domestic waste
generating. In addition the team did few activities to develop their
communication skills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wow...I was so happy to get to know all about these activities they have done without me. Thank you Chapa for adding above words. </div>
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I was eagerly waiting for the 10<sup>th</sup>
of June as it was my time to join with the team again in Vavuniya. I met them
on the way and joined with the lunch and an awareness programme at Central Bus
stand Vavuniya. That was their last riding day and we all went together to
Sevarest center run by Sevalanka foundation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">youth creating awareness on food labels for chemicals. </td></tr>
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Last day was full of post journey
training and day was started by another environmental meditation conducted by
me. All what we did was making sure all these trained 30 youth are going to
continue their sustainable life style they experienced and pass the knowledge
to next generation and be a Green Leader forever. So everybody knew it was end
of a memorable journey and a life time experience. Finally, during the closing
ceremony while giving certificates, we announced that they are getting a
present. The bike!!! They were so thrilled to know that they were getting their
bike as a present which was a friend for last 10 days. <o:p></o:p></div>
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According to the feedback we have
received, all Yathrees were very happy about the experience they got while
spending nights with minimal facilities, riding longer hours in hot sun and
rough wind, with less time to rest and mainly no time with their hand phones
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Dhanushka who is one of great resources ECO-V has from
Udawalawa,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>played a very important role
as a mature leader by riding at the end of the line, repairing bikes and giving
the moral support to youth who were tired and riding slowly. He was nicknamed
as Bicycle Doctor and youth have commented that they learnt lot from Dhanushka
too. Gayani added her experience in making changes in government sector (many
positive stories since she completed Kelani nadee Yathra - 2011 our first
Journey) where she is working at and her knowledge on Paleo biodiversity and
archaeology. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My brother Ajith join again for the 7th time as the videographer and is is such a gift we have as he always comes as a volunteer and help us making the video film on Yathras. </div>
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I was just watching them with a
smile and slightly guiding them whenever needed but mainly it was them who did
it!!!!! So the vanni yathra 2018 is over with many positive change makers
produced and let’s wait for ripple effects. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> I personally want to thank my friends, well wishers and followers and members of Journeys for Climate Justice who donated money for us to raise the required amount for buying bikes and helmets. So all bikes are gifted to youth and you will be getting more information via this blog about the ripple effects in near future about the change that they will make as Green leaders. Thank you all!!!! </o:p></div>
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Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-50034898065549460322018-06-09T19:29:00.000+05:302018-06-09T19:29:12.611+05:30Vanni Yathra 2018 update from field.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our 7<sup>th</sup> Yathra which
is named as Vanni Yathra is on its way. Today is it’s 8<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>day and 2 more days to go. I could not update you all as internet connection is very slow in the remote areas of journey route so I did not get pictures on time. </div>
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The name for this
yathra is just because it’s taking place in Vanni District at the Northern
province of Sri Lanka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanni_(Sri_Lanka). The
journey will cover officially 3 administrative districts named Kilinochchi,
Mullativ and Vavuniya. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of
people are Tamil speaking and there are some Sinhala speaking communities in
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Vanni area is home town for Isaiyalan Newton a yathree since 2011 (a youth who participated in a yathra is called a
yathree). He is the one who requested for a yathra to be organized in his area.
Then we at ECO-V decided to give him the responsibility of taking it forward. However,
it was always challenging him to do it alone due to many reasons including lack
of support from his own community. His own community was the victims of 30
years of war we had in North and not many people are willing to take the leadership
for any positive activity even nearly 10 years have passed after finishing war.
Lack of financial support or community support or even political support for
any environmental activities was challenging and frustrating. Therefore, we at ECO-V decided to give him support with another alumnus of our Ruhunu Yathra in
2016. Chapa Erandi was very keen on taking the lead with Newton and took the
responsibility of organizing whole Yathra from ECO-V side. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newton and Chapa planting a tree during yathra while a child from local community watch it.</td></tr>
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This is the first
time that two young leaders are taking the lead as all other 6 Yathras were
mainly my responsibility and I took the lead. Therefore, I feel very happy now as we have produced
second generation leadership in environmental campaigning and Green leadership
through yathras. I was with them within first two days and really wanted to be with them more, but was determined to give them their freedom to conduct it and learn and experience through it without my leadership. I conducted few training session and had a short ride and came back to Colombo. </div>
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Like all other past Yathras
Journeys for Climate Justice from Melbourne – JCJ (<a href="http://www.journeysforclimatejustice.org.au/">http://www.journeysforclimatejustice.org.au/</a>)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is with us and supported to buy 30 bikes and
helmets while raising funds encouraging donors to offset their travel carbon. The
Diakonia Sri Lanka (https://www.diakonia.se/en/Where-we-work/Asia/Sri-Lanka/) is
our main funder for all other activities of yathra this time. We managed to get support
from some other cooperate and NGO partners and also through individual donors too. </div>
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However, Sri Lanka Army and Police were very supportive too. Without Sri Lanka
Army getting food in North of Sri Lanka would have been a nightmare as not like
any other Yathra the civil society support was very weak in North Province. Today is the 8<sup>th</sup> day of yathra and everything was very
successful so far and team is spending night at a army camp today. <o:p></o:p></div>
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30 youth who are riding at the
moment are in high spirit. Our videographer who is my own brother Ajith
Weerakoon joined with us for the 7<sup>th</sup> time and filming every bit of
it. Without him having documentary films on Yathra would not be a possible as
it’s very expensive to get somebody hired but Ajith is doing this voluntarily. </div>
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Also we have Praneeth our volunteer to still photography who is the husband of
ECO-V’s Waruni. Chapa’s Husband, Ishan is also a great supporter in IT side who designed
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and technically helping us in all IT related work. Our past yathree Dhanuka from Ruhunu Yathra is also working on Face book posts as he could not
join with Yathra this time. Dhanushka who is with us this time as past Yathree
is the bicycle doctor as he has good experience from Paapedi 2013. Gayani too
is joining with Yathra as a trainer and I am so blessed to have these Green
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gayani, Waruni, Dhanushka and Chapa at ECO-V office just before they went to North</td></tr>
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As we always
wished youth are showing so many ripple effects. When we started JCJ in 2010 it
was our objective. Instead of planting trees with offset money we wanted to "plant
Green leaders" who will show more ripple effects in combating Climate Change! Today
we see the results, all green leaders we planted (trained) through journeys are showing
so many ripple effects in many fields in the country and they are already
involved in planting (training) more new green leaders by themselves. So what else
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8 days of Vanni yathra are gone and 2
more days are there…I am waiting to join them again soon and will hear their
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This is Isaiyalan Newton -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we got to know in August 2011. Since then he
became "Our Newton". He was involved with LTTE Tamil tigers so many
year during the war we had in Sri Lanka. He was appointed to join with us in
our first ever journey – Kelani Nadee yathra (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcefmB9OkI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcefmB9OkI</a>)
when he was under rehabilitation process. Since then he got involved with all
the Journeys we conducted to create “Green leaders” <o:p></o:p></div>
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He slowly got established as true
Green leader. he changed his lifestyle, became vegetarian, stopped drinking
fizzy drinks, fight against environmental pollution and unhealthy life style.
Participated in many training programmes, campaigned and became an
environmental activist and a champion in Northern Province. He learnt Sinhalese
very fast and became the Sinhala- Tamil translator for our programmes. Whenever
we said we have a prgramme he always traveled from Kilinochchi and early
morning 6am he at our office door step. Today he is going to drive his own
Journey - "Vanni Yathra" with the support of Chapa Erandi another young
yathree (participant of previous journey) who emerged through Ruhunu Yathra
2016. After that she became permanent staff member of ECO-V after volunteering with us for few months. Today she is the coordinator to Climate change and sustainability projects of ECO-V. </div>
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She will take the lead of 15 youth from South of Sri Lanka and will join
with Newton who has his own team of 15 youth from North on 3<sup>rd</sup> of
June to ride their common bicycle journey together towards sustainability and reconciliation
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This is what they are going to
do...They will ride bicycles starting on World Bicycle day (3rd June 2018) for 10 days covering 3 main districts in Northern Province with 30 youth. During the journey they will learn about Climate Change, Biodiversity, Sustainability, connections with Nature, Food Security and food safety and of course they will enjoy Nature by watching birds, connecting with trees while planting more trees etc. They will also create awareness on above topics to general public, security forces and school children. Once they finish the journey, they will go home with their bikes and start empowering their local communities and will become messengers for sustainable living. </div>
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So as president of ECO-V and president of Journeys for Climate Justice, I am trying to lead these youth by helping them to raise funds and guiding them in coordination the journey. They are trying to raise some
more funds to cover expenses for buying bikes. Thanks to many who supported us
so far we have collected enough funds to purchase 15 bikes. So we have to buy
15 more bikes and its only 1200 Australian Dollars. Our Australian organization;
Journeys for climate justice came on board again and set up online system to raise
funds for this journey. So I really wish that our blog readers will give their
blessings and contribute even small portions of money to raise some funds for
this yathra. The link for donations is at <a href="http://www.jcj.org.au/">www.jcj.org.au</a>
and you can use Paypal and pay to JCJ bank account. Aus Dollar 80 will be
enough to buy a bike and a helmet. You can contribute even with a small amount
which means that even one dollar will help us to achieve our target. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So Vanni Yathra is about to start
with youth leadership immerged through ECO-V. This time I will be just the
retired driver of the journey as I really wanted these two to lead the journey
without my active participation. So I am watching them but will be with them
physically and spiritually to be the strength to them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I know our friends, supporters
and well wishes will be with them too. Thank you for trusting ECO-V and
admiring our work! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-26448764200238192332018-05-01T22:40:00.000+05:302018-05-01T22:40:48.689+05:30New Country, New life but with similar activities…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Four months of the year 2018 are already
gone….I feel bad for not writing a fresh blog for whole 2018. when I look back
it’s being an amazing beginning ….with so many changes and new adjustments. It
is a turning point in my life as well as at ECO-V. We as a family shifted to
New Delhi, India. So officially now we live in the capital of India. The reason
is purely personal as Thushara got promoted to regional office of World health organization,
so we decided to join with him as a family. I took it as an opportunity for ECO-V
to grow up as an independent organization without me being the driving force .
Still I can be the supervisor but ECO-V is not depending on me anymore, which
is one of my dreams. <o:p></o:p></div>
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January was the month that I came
here and got settled down and took some time to absorb and understand what I
want to do in rest of my life and observe the paths I have here. Also it was
the month ECO-V was walking through the conservation path without my presence
at office. Thanks to technology I got connected with my team via WhatsApp
almost every day. So it was constant communication with Waruni, Chapa, Jayani
and Wasana. However, I kept travelling on every month to Sri Lanka. </div>
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What I missed most was My Chabby (the cat), Kalu (the dog)
and our Eco and Metta Gardens. I know they all are under good care. Thanks to
online searching I found a farm here – The Edible Routes and made my first
official contact with them on 20<sup>th</sup> of January. So by 26<sup>th</sup>
of January I started my own terrace Garden which was truly a happy start for me
here in New Delhi. Wow…it was really new as everything I had to purchase such
as soil, compost, coco peat, and containers. It showed me how precious these
resources are. In Sri Lanka, almost all these resources are freely available. I was so happy to see the progress of my container garden on my terrace. </div>
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I never mixed my waste since I arrived here so it was a very hard battle
for me to teach my maid how to separate waste and why not mix it and how precious
water and electricity is etc…I started my Eco bricks and constantly talked about
it with Edible Routes staff. So it was lot of hard work for me to continue my
green practices with my Indian maid and friends. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But luckily I found some like minded
parents at The British School New Delhi where Nipuna was schooling at. They loved
the idea and we had several meetings with school management board and by 22<sup>nd</sup>
of April, on the Earth day, we launched our Eco Brick Movement at the school. Also
I contributed ideas for new Green policy of the school. How wonderful it was???
I was so thrilled as four months have gone and I never felt that I was not
working and I kept walking on my green path and continued the eco practices we
were having in Sri Lanka, as a family and professional. So now I feel really
happy as somehow I made that difference and also I learnt many new things. I
started making my own organic detergents using citrus peels, found soap nuts
and other alternatives for cleaning and washing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also made some connections with organic markets here and those are growing up spaces exactly like our own Good Market in Colombo. </div>
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any of my waste to the waste truck here since we moved into new apartment and
continue my zero waste life style while teaching others how to do it. I have my own Eco bricks, composter and place for collection of recyclable waste. So I am managing my own waste very responsibly. </div>
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learning about trees and butterflies of India. I already conducted some training workshops, presentations on 10R and Eco bricks at schools and public. Planted trees too. </div>
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Met Mrs. Maneka Ghandhi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneka_Gandhi) one of my inspiring characters in conservation field. </div>
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So life is flowing along same
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Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04012094944309636176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-47724508321053629422018-01-29T11:59:00.003+05:302018-01-29T11:59:58.794+05:30Healthy, zero waste and happy birthday party connecting with Mother Nature! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When it’s a child’s birthday all
parents and the child want to have a beautiful birthday party. With lots of
kid’s favorite food, games, friends and gifts etc… They think about the best
venue, make the booking, send the invitation, order food and then the big day
comes. What you have to do is go and enjoy the party. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of the time many young kids
do not have a choice and do not have an idea of their birthday party. Only
parents and especially mothers get ready. So it’s easy to follow steps
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But when a Mother is too
conscious about the impact of her child’s birthday party, and the child is a
“Nature Kid”, there is a lot you have to do. In fact, not as easy as planning
“just a party. I have a beautiful story to share. This is not the first time
this Mother organized a “Nature Friendly Birthday Party”. In fact, it’s her
second. She did organize a Nature Friendly birthday party with zero waste for
her daughter’s 10<sup>th</sup> Birthday and this time it was her son’s 10<sup>th</sup>
Birthday. I am proud to say the Mother is my first cousin Nimna Ariyaratne and
her daughter Tiara Ganegama and son Niven Ganegama were getting training under
our “Nature Kids” programme. So it was my pleasure to be with them and conduct
a session as a treat for their birthday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This Birthday took place on the 22<sup>nd</sup> July 2017. I am posting this today as the previous blog was a result of this birthday party, and wanted to share how the ripple effect works and good things happen. Niven the Birthday boys invited 10 of his friends to his home to join with the
birthday party. We all went together to center close to their home called
“Dilmah Sustainable agriculture center” at katubedda (<a href="https://www.dilmahconservation.org/arboretum/">https://www.dilmahconservation.org/arboretum/</a>)
All the friends and their mothers came and some of the Mothers stayed to get
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So I conducted a Nature walk
around this urban forest patch and let the kids experience Mother Nature by touching,
smelling, tasting, listening and feeling. It was a short walk with loads of fun
that the kids touched a millipede for the first time in their lives. It was good practice for them to understand how to respect other living beings and handle them with extra care and love with lot of patients. </div>
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First time
they have tasted a wild plant which their parents never knew its edible and
full of vitamin C. They were referring to that little wild plant “a bad weed” but
for us it’s a beautiful nectarine plant for butterflies and bees and full of
medicinal value to all living beings. Mothers were surprised and were sad to
learn about this plant as they were removing it from their lawns so far. Well after the short walk we all ended up at
the butterfly garden in the same premises and all were inspired to see how many
butterflies can be attracted if we only plant some common plants and leave some
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After these outdoor activities it was the real party time…we
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The party was visible…..The table
was arranged for food. The table cloth is not a fancy glittery plastic or
polyester but it was a jute cloth with earth colour, table décor was so
attractive, they have used some left over tree barks and stems and some
commonly found leaves and flowers. It was such a creative table decor done by
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the plates…kids were surprised as they were not ceramic or plastic or even not
paper plates. They all were natural paper made out of natural Arecanut palm
leaf (Areca catechu). So kids were already surprised and were asking questions
about the plates. Next food..wow…all homemade, healthy natural food with no
artificial colours, flavors or preservatives. Drinks were the same. <o:p></o:p></div>
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even no paper napkins but used only cloth. Before we served food we advised them
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Then the game time started. They
all got to gether around a small fire place and story time began and also with
them we made some traditional play items using young coconuts and leaves to
have their leaf crowns to act as kings. So it was truly a happy birthday party
which is healthy for kids and healthy for Mother Earth. We need more Nature parents and Nature kids
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were invited to conduct an environmental programme for
some kids as a part of a lesson at their elocution class. Therefore our team
leader Ms. Kanchana suggested to have it at this beautiful place at Dilmah Conservation
(<a href="https://www.dilmahconservation.org/arboretum/">https://www.dilmahconservation.org/arboretum/</a>),
where kids will get the opportunity to stay very close to natural environment and
gain a memorable experience. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We all at ECO-V too joined with the programme to
get the training under Ms. Kanchana on 12</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of December 2017. There
were 12 kids, their English teacher and some mothers were there when we all
went to the Dilmah center at 9am. After getting initial introduction by the
staff member of Dilmah center the Nature tour started.</span></div>
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agriculture museum which had very old and invaluable equipment used at the time
that Sri Lanka was practicing more traditional and environmental friendly
poison free agriculture system. It was a
great experience for kids to learn more about them and such sustainable system
we had. ECO-V always talk about </span>Eco<span style="font-family: inherit;"> friendly, waste free lifestyle where this
little museum with traditional items helped us to explain the topic more
effectively. There was a water carrier made out of melon fruit, slippers made </span>out-of<span style="font-family: inherit;"> palm sheaths and deer skin, and traditional oil lamps with healthy oils
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forest that Dilmah center had created. ECO-V’s Nature Safari is unique as it
shows the participants the way of connecting with Nature through five sensory
organs. Ms. Kanchana interprets Nature and its elements and makes the
connection of it with eyes, ears, nose tongue and skin in a way that the
participant can absorb and experience that element in unforgettable way. </span></span></div>
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simply a walk and interprets whatever we come across during that walk with
close connection to mind and body. This way kids showed a real interest and
asked many questions on whatever they saw. Kids got the opportunity to handle a
millipede and a tadpole with care and love, taste some wild berries, smell
leaves and bark and touch and hug trees and feel Nature while getting into
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore it was memorable Nature Safari that they
could not have thought of and it was a rare experience for kids most of them
are living in the urban setup. After having a healthy snack in-between the
second part was conducted at the butterfly garden at Dimah center. It was really
entertaining even to us. The garden was full of various kinds of blooming
flowers & colourful butterflies. Mrs.Kanchana introduced breeding & feeding
plants in the garden as well as kinds of butterflies and their behavior. We
took so many photographs of butterfly garden and shared them through facebook
for share our priceless experience with other friends who missed this opportunity. Kids learnt about butterflies as pollinators, the importance of having a host
plants at home. Mrs. kanchana strongly presented the idea of sharing whatever
the space we have at home with these tiny insects who are important creatures
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That inspired kids to create their own butterfly garden at
their home. I appreciate Mrs. Kanchana’s effort in motivating all of us towards
environmental spirituality through these kinds of environmental programmes.
Educating and inspiring kids, about environmental protection is very essential
for our future existence. I knew that these kids had a transformation due to
this programme when we had a chat with them and their mothers at the end of the
programme. It’s really nice to see not only kids have learnt but also the
mothers have learnt immensely out of ECO-V’s Nature Safari.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-60687248923213510932017-12-28T12:00:00.002+05:302017-12-28T12:02:52.871+05:30Back to Southern Province, Sri Lanka…<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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a result of awareness program we held on Divisional Secretariat of Pitabeddara on
22<sup>nd</sup> of August, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">they planned to conduct several programs for the community
and they specially aimed at school children. They all agreed that it’s easy to
bring positive attitudinal changes among children rather than among adults. So
again we were invited to Southern Province to continue our mission – creating
awareness on sustainable waste Management.</span></div>
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6<sup>th</sup> November we started our awareness program series. First program
on Idadukitha Primary School – Morawaka, More than 150 students from grade 1 to
5 were participated at our “Sustainable Waste Management and Conscious
Consumerism” program. Yes, they were very little but actively and calmly gave
their attention to us. We were careful enough to use entertaining strategies to
keep them involved with the programme. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the evening of the same day, 2</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> program for staff members of
Divisional Secretariat office - Kotapola, Deniyaya was conducted. Except staff
members of Divisional office few grama niladari officers and development
officers participated too. Since they are the grass root level government
officers, they were the best messengers to the rural community.</span></div>
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3<sup>rd</sup>programme was conducted on the 7<sup>th</sup> November 2017 at Morawaka
Primary School. It was a very emotional moment as our staff member Chapa Erandi
has studied at this school in 1999 – 2003 as a primary student and today she is
back at school as one of the messengers for a healthy planet working at
National Level. More than 300 students from grade 3 and 5 joined with us. As a
result of early announcement they brought some processed and packeted food
labels to learn E-numbers practically. Not only E-numbers they learnt how to
sort out our waste into correct waste bins with colour codes, how to reduce
polythene at our home front. To make them more interested in Nature we added
some information on creating their own butterfly gardens and taught them to
start loving other littles animals around them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the same day we completed the 4</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th </sup><span style="font-family: inherit;">programme for youths. Several
representatives from local youth societies gathered to Divisional Secretariat
office, Pitabeddara, Deniyaya. It was a pleasure to share our knowledge with
them because youth were the most active group in the field. These energetic
groups act as educators than apprentices. So they can engage in conservation
oriented activities to protect environment through sustainable way.</span></div>
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5<sup>th</sup> program was held on 8<sup>th</sup> November 2017 at Derangala
Primary School, Pitabeddara. Again they were primary students. I saw most of
them want to find out whether they have a safe drinking water bottle or not,
when we talked about unhealthy plastic water bottles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They all were very concerned
about it which is a very positive sign. The other interesting topic for them
was learning about making the Eco-brick. All showed a great interest towards it
and tried making an eco-brick.</span></div>
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next station was Kaduruwana Primary School - Pitabeddara held on 9</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a wonderful school. When we entered to school premises
we felt they work hard to reduce waste and built green environment. The main reason
behind this was their principle, he was well trained person for waste
management and does it practically in his school with his staff and children.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Except those little ones, principle was also avid about our session and effectively
involved in the discussion.</span></div>
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all were out of office for four days and working in the field very hard. We hardly
had time to relax throughout this field work so it was the time to enjoy
Nature. Therefore, we all decided to visit Hathmale Ella (a beautiful water
fall) at Deniyaya even though it was a rainy day. Shape of water fall resembles
seven necklaces (“mala hatha” in Sinhala language) and it was the reason for
this water fall. It eventually falls as River “Gin”.</span></div>
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town is surrounded by Sinharaja Rain Forest and its climate is similar to
NuwaraEliya, very cloudy and misty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was very dark, misty and with cool breeze
surrounding of the Kalubowitiyana Kanda, one of colossal but alone mountain. </span></span></div>
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felt like we stand closer to giant.We had couple of hours connected with Nature
even though it was just a glimpse of beautiful Deniyaya area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At
the end of our program series we felt happy because we created our
presentations in comprehensive and conceivable way especially for primary
students. I’m sure they learnt a lot from it. It was a gratification to me that
I had a chance to get involved in it and it was very valuable when we
contribute our time and knowledge to talk to those little ones. They are our
future generation. Some schools did not have proper facilities like big halls, multimedia
or enough seating but their courage and curiosity suppressed those barriers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally,
I want to give my gratitude to the Divisional Secretariat, Pitabeddara, specially
to the productivity Officer Ms. Subodhini who organized these events. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a great community service done <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>by them to protect environment and create healthy generation for future.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ECO-V has floated various programs for schools children in Sinhala and English mediums since 2001. Now we have started to create awareness among school children in Tamil medium. This successful series of awareness sessions were organized by Caritas EHED, Batticaloa ( </span></span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>https://www.facebook.com/caritasbatti/ )</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is well known member of the Diakonia family (Our funding partner) </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>https://www.diakonia.se/en/ </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> . Also we would like to give our special compliment to Kowshayini Pathmanadan who gave her contribution as a volunteer. She did same session thrice in Tamil medium for 3 teams from 6 schools at Batticaloa area.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ECO - V is a voluntary organization rendering enormous services to the nature and community. It was a greatest blessing to me to join with ECO - V. I got this precious opportunity to join with ECO - V through Ms. Lakmini Koralegedara when ECO-V conducted a stall under “Green City“ section of VIDYA 2017 - Science Exhibition & Trade Fair, University of Kelaniya. I am a graduate in Environmental conservation and management, Department of Zoology and Environmental Management, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya (2017).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So I started volunteering with them. I felt so special when I entered into the ECO - V office at Borelesgamuwa as everything was nature friendly. I was requested to translate some leaflets from English to Tamil for the Batticaloa awareness program. That was a great time with the staff members knowing how they joined ECO - V, their nature friendly activities and their research interests etc. Most importantly I could meet Mrs. Kanchana, president of ECO - V, on the same day for the first time and I felt so blessed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was trained by Ms. Chapa Erandi Amarasinghe on the topic of “conscious consumerism “in a very descriptive and effective manner. We started our journey to Batticaloa on 23rd of October in the early morning, I was very excited as I was visiting to Batticaloa for the first time. The journey was very interesting as we were traveling from the west point, Colombo to the East end of Sri Lanka; Batticaloa passing several districts in-between. When passing Kurunagala, Polanaruwa and Minneriya, both sides of the road were represented by lush green forest habitat which always make a journey very pleasant and beautiful. We reached Batticaloa around 3 pm and in the evening we could visit few places including Batticaloa fort, Kallady beach and the famous Amirthakali Mamanga Pillayar temple. Batticaloa is a very beautiful place with very kind people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the next day the awareness program was organized by Caritas EHED, commenced at 9 am with the welcome speech. There were around 300 students participated from several schools of Batticaloa for the poster exhibition, quiz competition and awareness programme on conscious consumerism, mainly focused on food. School students were very attentive throughout the programme. In my point view, the best job in the world is creating awareness among the students who are the future leaders of the country. I really enjoyed and felt so responsible when sharing very essential facts of healthy food consumption. Kids were also trained in sustainable waste Management and making Eco Bricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; white-space: pre-wrap;">We could enjoy a cloudy evening which was about to rain on the way back to Colombo. Soothing breeze, lush vegetation on both the sides of the road, group of flying small birds made that time a real heaven. This will be a memorable journey and initial step of my passion. And I thank ECO - V for giving me this wonderful opportunity.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528850335272870795.post-87037625557788724952017-10-18T11:18:00.002+05:302017-10-18T11:18:39.324+05:30Climate Change and Sri Lanka - Tourism, Recreation, Urban city planning and Human Settlement<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Climate Change” which the whole
world has been molested, has become the most destructive environmental threat
in the century. Today “Global temperature” has rapidly increased as a result of
emitting greenhouse gases widely towards atmosphere due to human activities.
There are 6 major greenhouse gases which are mentioned by “Kyoto Protocol” such
as Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), Methane (CH<sub>4</sub>),</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nitrous
oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O), Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC<sub>S</sub>), Perfluorocarbons (PFC<sub>S</sub>),
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF<sub>6</sub>). These greenhouse gases which gathered in atmosphere
allow to penetrate to radiations emitted by sun. When the sun rays fall on
surface of earth, a portion out of them reflects towards space as infra-red
radiations immediately. Those infra-red
radiations are absorbed by greenhouse gases which gathered in atmosphere. As a
result of this process, general temperature of atmosphere near to surface of
earth is enhanced. Without this natural greenhouse effect, life on earth could
not be survived.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After the industrial revolution
global warming rapidly increased since man trended to use fossil fuel
mostly. With this incident, population
and economic development also ceaselessly began to grow. So today amount of
greenhouse gases which are emitting due to human activities is higher than
natural greenhouse effect which existed before industrial revolution since
persistent development and industrial affairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Comparing with other developed
countries, contribution to greenhouse effect of Sri Lanka is less although the
climate change impacts affected to all developed and developing countries. But
the challenge is that the adaptability with climate change impacts of developed
countries is high than developing countries. The situation of Sri Lanka is also
same. During recent rainy season, it was reported that many people have died
and many are reported missing due to floods and landslides. At the same time,
people in another few districts had to face to the severe drought since climate
disequilibrium. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As a developing country, we have
to get adapted to climate change impacts. In the same time we should try to
mitigate our actions contributing
towards climate crises. With the population growth rate and urbanization in Sri
Lanka, amount of CO<sub>2</sub> which emits to atmosphere has become higher
than past few years. According to this vulnerable circumstance, we have to
constitute sustainable green cities with less negative environmental
impacts. </span>City planning is not just a
process but a broader action which makes better life style. Physical, Social, Economical and Environmental
aspects should be focused with this process. Today our environmental components
are altering as a result of climate change consequences. When we create,
recreate or adjust the physical structure, Environmental components must be
considered in a sustainable manner, owing to the fact that we are not able to
obtain a perfect surrounding which not reach any vulnerable circumstances.
Therefore, we have to adapt to the existing environment and also we must
practice sustainable strategies to mitigate climate change consequences when
the physical structure is created, recreated or adjusted. Furthermore planners
should consider relevant rules, regulations, past records, strategies and other
criterion when they create a city structure for an area which has an uncertainty
with earthquakes, landslides, floods, droughts or any other environmental
crises. For an instance, when a house is built at a land sliding prone area, it
should be done on pillars or accordingly the slope without damaging relevant
land. Occasionally certain development projects may be restricted according to
the environmental conditions. The community should be facilitated without
harming bio diversity in the natural environment.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When the population is rapidly
grown and consumption is enhanced, amount of Carbon dioxide and Methane which
emit from waste dumping yards, are also proportionally increased. Therefore,
actions towards conscious consumerism, tree plantation and urban gardening such
as rooftop and vertical gardening should be motivated. Hence the rainwater
harvesting system or waste water purification can be maintained to watering
them in urban areas. Sustainable waste management procedures such as waste
segregation, recycling, composting, sanitary land fillings and bio gas should be implemented since reducing Methane
and Carbon dioxide emits are vital to mitigate climate issues. In addition we
should utilize regenerating resources such as solar energy, wind and natural
air instead of using fossil fuel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tourism industry is one of the
most successful and fastest growing economic aspect in Sri Lanka today. Now
both foreign and National travelers have trended towards recreations to
redemption from their urban busy lifestyle. But climate change consequences are
affecting to stretch and quality of tourism season and tourism operations.
Unfortunately it has become a barrier since outdoor recreation is depend on the
natural resource base and the weather. As an example, some ski resorts might
have to close in some countries as climate issues. In Sri Lanka, higher sea
level and stronger storms lead to erosion along the coast and make the beach a
place with less space. There are numerous foreign tourists who are bathing sun
shine at captivating coastal areas in Sri Lanka. But it will be an inconvenient
habit in the near future as the temperature of sun rays is growing. As well,
when the sea-surface temperature is increased, Scuba diving which is one of the
most popular ocean activity that encourages the growth of tourism, will be
threatened. In other hand, tourism and recreation lead to greenhouse gas
emission by aviation, passenger transport, accommodation activities, higher
consumption domestic products etc.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>Finally if we can introduce
sustainable environmental friendly development projects such as green
buildings, sustainable waste management systems, remunerative public transport
system, cycling and walking paths and etc., we can contribute to mitigate
climate change impacts as a country. In addition, as individuals we must reduce
our own carbon foot print to convey our journey towards climate justice as conscientious
individuals. </div>
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Last few months ECO-V got involved in conducting series of programmes related
Solid Waste management including Morawaka and Pitabeddara areas in Southern
province. One Mr. Ranjan Abeywicjrama from
Morawaka who really wants to make sustainable community with proper waste
management system invited us to conduct these programmes. He is the owner of an
organic farm called Shrawani Estate - </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Shrawani-Estate-183328318673432/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/Shrawani-Estate-183328318673432/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> who had been directly involved with the waste issue at Morawaka town for many
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Morawaka and
Pitabeddara are two small towns that situated in Matara District of the
Southern Province. Those are located along the A17 road near to Deniyaya which
has become one of the major tourist destinations of Sri Lanka. These small
towns surrounded by hills and its natural beauty and pleasing climate
conditions have been threatened by careless garbage dumping. The Nilwala River
which runs through these areas has also been polluted as this waste issue and
misbehaviors of residents. Both town got severely flooded by the past recent
floods they had the they were 20 feet under water. Basically purpose of this
program series was making tidy town area and developing positive attitudes of
residents towards a proper waste management system. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">The 1st program
was held on 03rd of August, 2017 at Nilwala River Breeze Hotel, Morawaka and
organized by Mr.Ranjan with the support of Pitabeddara Pradeshiya Sabha.
Members of Trade union – Morawaka, Few Police officers of Pitabeddara Police,
PHI officers, teachers from schools and preschools, staff members of Provincial
Council, members of three wheeler union, few grama niladharis (Village state
representatives) and residents of Morawaka area were participated at the
session. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a very
successful session since we were able to talk to the grass root level of that
area and also we discussed on proper waste management methods with officers
from various administrations who supports the community. It was reported, many
people have died and many are reported missing since “Morawaka kanda” collapsed
due to landslide during recent rainy season. This kind of environmental and
climate crises happens because of negative human factors. So we were able to
indicate that the gap between environment and human is the major issue for
these kind of environmental disasters.
We mentioned that human are a small part of this environment and we have
no right to destroy the environment. Discarded polythene bags, plastic bottles,
cans and other non – biodegradable waste create blocks in water drains and
canals. It directly supports to increase floods at town areas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was taken
well by the participants and they were very satisfied and many of them involved
with the discussion with their own plans to continue this program to make
sustainable and green atmosphere around Morawaka and Pitabeddara areas. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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session team ECO-V had a great opportunity to visit Sharwani Estate (organic
garden) owned by Mr. Ranjan and had a beautiful lunch. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a result of the
program which held on 3rd of August, ECO-V received another invitation by
Divisional Secretariat of Pitabeddara to conduct the same Waste Management
session on 22nd of August. They specially requested us to create awareness on
Conscious Consumerism too which is another key area of ECO-V. Over 160 staff members of Divisional
Secretariat were participated in that session. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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session organizers mentioned that they had planned to give a cloth bag and a
stainless steel lunch box for all participants</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evening Mr. Ranjan had organized a another Q & A session at Pitabeddara
Pradeshiya Sabha premises, for small group of residence who are giving their
own waste to the Pradeshiya sabha garbage collectors. Few staff members who had
not participated the previous program at Morawaka also joined with this
session. This was a kind of follow up session for Morawaka participants. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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session, organizers discussed on future waste management plans at Morawaka town
area. They have already planned to arrange dustbins with relevant waste
segregation color-codes at Morawaka town. In addition, they have planned to
create awareness among community by conducting similar kind of programs and
after that they will get legal actions against contraventions.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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