Environment

All posters in the campaign will have the header 'CHANGE IN YOUR POCKET!'
A number of topics will be identified for the poster content and local artists will be asked to produce a comic strip format that:
a) Sets the scene
b) Offers an alternative choice
c) Show the benefits of that choice

Examples of a poster topics:
Using the ‘drive through’ for your morning coffee.
a) Depicts average Joe heading to the drive through line up for coffee
b) Joe starts to think about how much extra his coffee costs by sitting the in line [Imagine $$ floating out the exhaust pipe]
c) Joe changes his mind and decides to park. He saves money on gas (increased wealth), burns a few calories walking in and out (better for his health) and puts fewer emissions into the environment.

Thats a lot of benefit for one small change!

Other ideas for topics include:
Recycling - Someone points out you could be recycling a lot of your garbage and decide to finally try it. Your burn a few calories sorting your stuff out (better health), you get money back when you return your empties (increased wealth), you put less in the landfill (better for the environment.

Idling - You decide to give up idling while wating with the kids for the school bus. It's a bit cold, but instead of running the car, you run around the driveway with the kids to keep warm. It better for your health, you saved money and it's better for the environment. It's also illegal as BC is idle free!

Many more ideas for poster content are in development and will be added to.

Developing a strawberry enterprise in Dominica is vital for improving the performance of the agricultural sector. This would provide ample opportunity for increased production in agriculture, particularly the production and agro processing of strawberries. Additionally, strawberry produced in Dominica can find a niche not only in Dominica but in the region as well. Thus this provides a unique opportunity for investment in that area. As the Nature Island of the Caribbean, Dominica is a suitable location for this initiative.
The vast experience and knowledge in environmental protection and sustainable use of resources will position the entrepreneur for success. With the success of the initial crops, more produts will be taken on such as special demand chocolate coated strawberries. will be taken on,
The entrepeuner will be able to utilize revenue from the proceeds of the first crops to expand the farm ,ensure quality and affordable goods ,continued monitoring and evaluation of the farm and the market always knowing what the market demands so that she is able to provide it.
This project, by using irrigation and improved agronomic practices and utilizing the technical advice from a trained agronomist, will yield increased volumes, spread throughout the year. The increasing demand for organic Fruits and organic vegetables by consumers will ensure the success of this project. Organic vegetable production in Dominica is virtually non-existent and this new venture will seek to capitalize on the existing niche.This project will spearhead initiatives at self-sufficiency.

For ex- Power consumption is a major concern for institutions. The energy audit by students found that the computers were on the whole day (in screensaver mode) contributing to a large section of the bill.Our students developed a PC power Management software which put computer to sleep or hibernate and upon resume, informed the user of the power savings, CO2 savings, and cut power consumption drastically. The users not only became aware of their usage patterns but put the PCs to sleep when not in use cutting the power consumption of the PC by 95%.

Another instance would be: We were sensitizing students to understand local bio diversity in their campus. Reap Benefit realized that using the ubiquitous mobile phone with GPS could help locate the position of a tree and its species but also made students aware about the interdependent wild life which exists.This exercise provided the management with a valuable database of the existing bio diversity and its environmental impact beyond the campus.

We strongly believe in making noticeable systemic changes. This allows for evaluation of students efforts. Such noticeable changes inspires others to make a difference and allows one to connect with the issue. The management and parents see the effects of the interventions, changing their mindsets. The intervention builds a platform for the students creating a lasting change in the culture of the institution which can be seen and quantified. This makes the system organic, able to evolve and adapt to the changes.

Most events that take place in parks, forests or remote locations need to use generators for electricity. These generators are noisy, smelly and use fossil fuels to run.

Our system is 100% renewable energy. We harvest solar power from the sun and generate power with bicycles. The system is silent and user friendly.
There is informative signage and information available for people with questions. Plus we have staff on hand to do system support and talk to people all day and night. Our bike power system has staff and volunteers to help people on and off the bikes, as well as answer questions.

Our system is capable of putting out 8KW of power. This is enough to power a medium size stage, an entire small festival or a large family home. We have long outdoor rated extension cables able to cover long distances so the trailer can be parked with optimum exposure to the sun and still provide power up to 250 feet away.

Upon approaching the solar/bike power unit for the first time the average person has many immediate questions.
"How does it work?"
"How much power are you getting right now?"
"How much power can it put out?"
"How much power can the batteries hold?"
"How much power are the bikes putting out?"

It's our goal to not only answer these questions but to engage the patrons to the larger questions of: "What is possible with sustainable energy?" and "How can I support sustainable energy in my life?"

The response from people at events is overwhelming in support of sustainable energy and our system.

GPD provides end users access to easy-to-use streamlined information about relevant products, services and information – all evident at a glance to help consumers and procurement specialists find the most appropriate resource and/or certification closest to their geographical location. GPD owns the ECO-FLYER trademark for North America and "Where Good Things Click" and "GreenPages Directory" trademarks in Canada. Listing companies can manage their listing in real time, post their own ads, ECO-FLYER® and in the next phase, their coupons.
Step 1
End user goes to portal address: www.greenpagesdirectory.net (also accessible on other greenpages websites, such as www.bcgreenpages.com, www.albertagreenpages.com , www.ontariogreenpages.com, www.manitobagreenpages.com )
Step 2
End user can choose to BROWSE by category (i.e. Resources/Products/Services/Service Providers/Retailers/Business to Business/Community Blog etc.) Or they can enter SEARCH criteria, such as their location AND choose from the ADVANCED search criteria such as within a specified DISTANCE, if the product or service is in an ACTIVE ECO-FLYER®, by specific CERTIFICATION(S), BRAND, WHERE THE PRODUCT IS MADE etc. Search results can be organized in order of ratings, relevance, or closest geographic location. Clicking on the desired result will lead to the profile of that result.
Step 3
If the product or service is in an Active ECO-FLYER® it will be identified in an advanced search where that is one of the criteria OR it will be identified by the ECO-FLYER® logo during the search result.

This project provides an array of mediums that enable community members to interact with the local environment through artistic projects, such as lantern installations. We hold lantern workshops prior to the festival which are accessible in terms of cost, availability, and skill level. Local community members will be able to make their own lanterns and eventually witness them on display at the Moon Festival. This provides community members with a stunning visual created by the cohesion of the illuminating lanterns at the ravine. As a result, this develops ownership of the local woodlands. For the last several years, we've noticed a decline in the amount of litter disposed of in the ravine. Because of this decline, the space has become a more safe and welcoming area for our diverse population to frequent.

In cities like Bangalore and Pune, it is mandatory, for new structures to incorporate solar water heaters. Their demand is also increasing in Tier 2 and 3 cities where there are frequent power outages and electricity cost is high.

In process industries, there is need for steam in various applications. Also the ability to produce electricity with low pressure, high temp steam enables us to develop solar thermal power stations and run vapour absorption machines.

Our products will reduce carbon footprint in today’s world and also act as alternative source energy. Rural India can benefit a lot from such systems.
We plan to set up 2MW power plant in near future at rural areas.

A young female expresses her personal identity and creativity through fashion. But she is also influenced by marketing and the media and feels compelled to stay on top of the latest trends to fit in. She shops at low cost, chain retailers weekly and buys more than she needs. She finds herself replacing worn out or out-of-style garments often, and the clothing piles up.

After a trusted friend shares ‘My Garment’ on Facebook she is intrigued. An incentive entices her to use the tool and share it with friends. After learning about the pair of jeans she is wearing, such as how much water is used to grow the cotton, the pesticides that were used on the cotton crops, the low wages of the garment workers, and how far they travelled before she purchased them, she is aware of the bigger picture.

She now makes the connection between how her individual consumer choices impact ecological and social systems globally. She then learns that it can be easy and fun to make a difference and help support sustainable fashion. She decides to buy less, learns to look for versatile & quality garments, repairs & restyles existing pieces and supports local fashion designers. She now washes her clothing in cold water, hangs them to dry, and donates any used pieces to charity. She uses the Smartphone app to direct her to local secondhand and vintage stores, boutiques carrying sustainable fashion, community clothing swaps, tailors and sewing workshops. Through this fun lifestyle switch she has also inspired her family and friends to follow suit, and together they are making a difference!

Our solution hopes to make every school in Canada more sustainable through school projects. One of these is school gardens. We want to promote the consumption of local food, and encourage students to take leadership roles to create the garden. SWAG Canada would help students achieve the resources they need to initiate such a project, and the students would implement it themselves with the help of a teacher advisor. Through this program, the ecological footprint of the school would decrease, and fresh food would be provided to students. This same model would apply to the recycling, retrofitting and Earth Week program we would help initiate in all schools.

Carbon Voyage provides its customers (transport users):
• the opportunity to reduce transport costs through sharing, utilising empty return journeys and choosing providers through an online auction process that incorporates user ratings
• help in reducing pollution and carbon impact of transportation through collaboration
• capacity sharing through the use of social networks where trust exists between users
• association to green/ ethical transport
• ability to consolidate financial and carbon reports from their journeys
Carbon Voyage provides its suppliers (transport companies):
• additional revenue generation from otherwise empty journeys or unused capacity
• spare capacity advertising tools
• ability to subcontract otherwise unprofitable jobs via Carbon Voyage platform
• increased fleet utilisation (which has greatest impact on companies with small fleets)
Carbon Voyage benefits society and hubs by:
• reducing congestion in urban areas
• reducing pollution (CO2 and gas-engine particulates)
• increasing operational efficiency at transport hubs, venues, and other areas

Get Outside BC has three phases, which all contribute to its success as an effective and sustainable project.

Phase I: Outdoor Leadership Youth Summit
Forty youth, aged 14 to 18, from across the province come together in July for a 5-day outdoor youth leadership summit in Squamish, B.C. The summit includes a night camping nearby, hiking, leadership training, discussions with ‘green job mentors’ and other outdoor activities.

Phase II: Youth-Led Outdoor Events
After the Summit, the youth go back to their communities to plan and host their own outdoor events, to inspire other youth in their communities to get outside. The youth are eligible to receive $200 in funding from the project to fund their events. Examples of events include beach and park clean ups, outdoor concerts, and multi-day hiking trips. Some events have had 10 youth attend, others had over 100!

Phase III: Regional Reunions
In October, regional reunions are held throughout the province where the youth reunite in their regional groups to talk about and learn from one another’s events and plan for the future. Each of the reunions are connected via videoconferencing so the youth have a chance to connect with everyone once again.

Each of the communities where the youth's events take place benefit from the community building and the opportunities to connect to nature that the events provide. This increased connection will undoubtedly lead to communities that are more interested in safeguarding their environment and therefore the health of their citizens into the future.

The Green Heat Initiative (GHI) works with local municipalities, institutions, First Nations and non-profit groups to help educate them on the use of biomass, and develop biomass projects. GHI is an unbiased source of information for groups that often are limited by both capacity and knowledge. Because biomass heating is relatively new to the Interior of BC, most proponents have limited knowledge and require a great deal of support. As a project proponent expresses interest GHI will
1) conduct community visits throughout the process,
2) educate proponents on all aspects of the project,
3) provide technical feasibility assessment that can be used either to proceed to capital procurement or next level of assessment,
4) conduct financial assessments,
5) identify biomass sources for the project,
6) assist in document development for financing, capital procurement, RETScreen, etc.

In addition to community visits, GHI uses workshops, seminars, and site tours to help develop the biomass heating sector. GHI is a hands on organization that works on the ground to develop projects

The Women Rural Radio tackles rural poverty and hunger by designing and broadcasting daily programs in the local Yoruba language across local radio stations. The radio enables women farmers to acquire contemporary agricultural and environmental management techniques, to receive daily market information, to advertise their farm products and to learn business skills. The women utilize daily broadcast information to decide what, when, how and for whom to produce in the long term boosting their agricultural yields and household income. The radio is interactive and invites feedback from listeners through the deployment of interactive radio (AIR) mobile devices. This is a simple communications system intended to link those off the cellular and electrical grid with the rural radio. AIR are small, rugged, solar-powered mobile devices that record user voice input, and then asynchronously forward voice feedback to the radio station via an ad-hoc delay-tolerant network. Due to the low power footprint, ease of use, and use of wireless connectivity between devices, AIR does not incur any cost to the user. The project increases knowledge sharing and the rate of development through community involvement.

Primary demonstration of our product is done in Agricultural sector, since it consumes huge electric power and water.

Please refer the following presentations about our Product:
http://www.agenttech.org/Agenttech_Presentation_PowerWaterGroundwater_Sa...
http://www.agenttech.org/Agenttech_PowerWaterGroundwater_SavingProduct.pdf

Wi Agri product advantages
• Wireless, automatic, and efficient scientific drip irrigation during photosynthesis period will save 65-70% of water.
** Government
-Year on year (YoY) 25- 30% cap reduction in subsidy on irrigation pumps
-YoY agriculturist’s go for higher power water pumps, since ground water
-level goes down which intern increases the cap on agriculture electricity subsidy
-Cost per unit production is INR 3.08
** Environment
- Ground water level will be maintained at same level. WiAgri saves 65% water and erosion and uneven distribution of manure and yields good return on investment
-Sensor based WiAgri product saves lot of water on clay/sand soil.
-Reduce concentration of Fl, N, Cl in water.
- Few parameters are localized in nature
** Agriculturist/Farmer
- Reduces labour and higher power rating pump purchase cost.
-Automation reduces labour cost and other expenses
- Once ground level is maintained at same level, then agriculturist no need go for new bore-well after 3 years. This will reduce buying new high power water pump and others.

Almáa “spent” more than € 5,000 in the 3rd sector institutions with all the construction and decoration. The expenditure in those institutions or local commerce - average of € 5.000 a year – is done one a daily basis. Our goal is that our suppliers are only those kinds of entities.
Here are some institutions we work with.
Banco Alimentar (www.bancoalimentar.pt) or “Food Bank” – for the pallets used in the beds
O Companheiro (www.companheiro.org) which works with ex-convicts made the beds out of the pallets
Reklusa (reklusa.wordpress.com) which works with women prisoners
Remar (www.remar.pt) which works with ex-drug addicts sold most of the second hand furniture
Quinta Essência (www.quintaessencia.pt) that works with disabled people will provide the jam
Associação Salva a non-profit association of Chinese traditional medicine, provides the honey
APPACDM Lisboa (http://appacdm-lisboa.pt) that works w disabled people. They do all the graphic art; print all the flyers, brochures, postcards, business cards, etc.
Cooperativa Agrícola de Sintra (http://coopagricolasintra.cidadevirtual.pt) is a non-profit Agriculture cooperative that provides the fencing to build interiors and other constructions and gardening products.
A Luta - Coop. Abastecedora de Produtos Alimentares do Concelho de Cascais C.R.L. (www.aluta.pt ) which is a non-profit food cooperative where we buy most of supermarket products
Almáa also supports other organizations like Quercus http://www.quercus.pt GNF – Global Nature Fund http://www.globalnature.org or Transition Network www.transitionnetwork.org

The program is currently being offered as a FREE community service. New participants attend a four hour introductory orientation session that provides essential regional information and training. Ambassador sessions deliver fun and informative material covering a range of topics starting with local history, including First Nations and the arrival of European explorers to early pioneers. It provides a snapshot of how the region has evolved over time and some of the milestones we have surpassed including the creation of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, the protection of our old growth forests, and the establishment of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. In this way we are building local knowledge and passing on valuable historical information. More importantly, the program discusses what it means as people living in place and focuses on promoting cross-cultural understanding with our neighbours and reinforcing good host etiquette. We discuss stewardship and conservation issues, as well as behaviour and respect in our communities, hopefully improving peoples’ attitudes while fostering proper conduct in the environment and reducing human wildlife conflicts. Each year the Ambassador Program builds new advanced curriculum material that expands on the different subject matter delivered in the introductory session and provides ongoing learning opportunities. Once training is complete, participants receive a locals discount card offering benefits to get out and actively engage in their own community and further explore the region and business offerings!