New Year eve in Melbourne - Happy New Year 2011

It’s another year! This year is very special to us as it is the 10th anniversary of ECO-V. Last year was different one for all of us at ECO-V. I have been in Melbourne since last March and the activities we were personally involved were different from the activities we did in Sri Lanka. Last few months were very busy as I had to concentrate on developing a new project. Today I am very happy to announce that now ECO-V is a partner of a new Australian based organization called Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ). We will share more details later…

I took the kids to the New Year eve fire works at Yarra Park and Water front city in Melbourne which was interesting to them. I was thinking how harmful those fire work for the environment?? But again it was only for 10 minutes with very much less noises. The cost involved may have been high but the damage to the environment is low when we compare to the sound and air pollution taking place in our countries during such shows and in daily road traffic.

But the amount of carbon emission per head is much more here in Australia than in our country.  I believe that we can do much better than what we are doing to conserve our Mother Earth. Mother Earth greeted the world for New Year with a much cold winter and heavy floods all around the world. We should have a New Year resolution this year that we will be more conscious about our activities hurting her in order to save the planet.

I will update all our environmental related activities in Melbourne in the upcoming blogs.

I hope we all will have a happy new year where all living beings can live happily on the Mother Earth!