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The Teams partner with community groups to create three-year development projects. The Teams train and place OSM/VISTAs to live and work for a year in host communities. OSM/VISTAs acquire funding to hire staff, recruit volunteers, develop water quality improvement projects such as AMD treatment systems, implement education programs in schools and communities, and create economic development projects such as farmer’s markets. The OSM/VISTA Teams serve in 7 Appalachian states, 2 Western states and have active requests to place OSM/VISTAs in at least 3 more states.

Unfortunately, while many communities desperately want the help of an OSM/VISTA, the cost serves as a serious stumbling block. AmeriCorps VISTA’s price for a VISTA Volunteer is currently $11,000 each year. If this cost could be reduced, OSM/VISTAs could be sent to more rural mining communities to cultivate local organizations. We also seek to better serve communities hosting an OSM/VISTA by providing training and resources.

KidCommute has developed technology that allows us to track the daily trips to school by kids. We continue to get more requests from schools to participate in the program. We currenlty have over 30 schools in the pipeline for the 2010/2011 school year. We continue to seek funds to support this program.

We seek to find sponsors who want to work with us to promote active transportation to school.

The important features of the ‘Readymade Housing’ could be:

1. Unique address – for example pin number or numerical label like IP address for the house.
2. House is linked to mobile phone, vehicle, computer, gas and electricity supply.
3. Ready Made – The customer can go and visit his house in a show room (place), decide the space requirement, number of bedrooms, kitchen, attachments required, specifications of the materials, etc. and place the order.
4. Delivery of House – The house will be delivered at the place as specified by the customer. For this purpose, all the materials will be transported to the place and the house assembled within the time specified or agreed between the supplier and the buyer.
5. Online orders – When the size of the houses and facilities are standardized over a period of time the customer would be in a position to place the order online.
6. The supplier will make arrangements for electricity connection, gas connection for the kitchen, security arrangements, water connection, etc. either directly or through agencies.

The success is not expected to be prevented by any social or economic factors, because, like revolution in mobile phone technology, the developments would have its own momentum. However, the governments should regulate the developments to ensure orderly progress.

By setting up a project for the treatment of heavy metal effluents coming out of tannery industry.
Why should one trust you?:
Every business is successful if the consumer is happy to use the product and trust on you. Trust can be achieved by showing the results and efficiency of our product in removal of heavy metals form industrial effluents. Second factor is showing the merits and profit of using our product. At last to have any start up there should be faith.
How is it different or better than any existing solution?
• Major shortcomings of conventional chrome effluent treatment include the high cost of safely disposing the sludge, expensive chemicals necessary for Cr(VI) reduction, incomplete reduction of Cr(VI) and the efficiency of Cr(VI) removal is only 42% giving the treatment cost of Rs.0.423/- per litre.
• While our product from banana peel, which is a biological product having no adverse effects to our environment, cheap, recyclability upto 10 cycles and percentage Cr(VI) removal is 62% giving the treatment cost of Rs.0.065/- per litre. This shows 6.5 folds profit from using the banana peel treatment method than present conventional Cr effluent treatment. It supports the biological mode of effluent treatment, an efficient and economy based solution to present contest.
Why would consumers choose this over others?
As it has already been mentioned in above question “How is it different or better than any existing solution”, this will pull the consumers (industrialist) to use our product rather other. This product can be used any time and can be transported to any part of globe as such easily. And no such other cheap and efficient technology is there till now for heavy metal effluents treatment.
Who are or will be your customers?:
Our customers are the industrialist having industries which produces toxic heavy metal effluents i.e tannery industry, chrome plating, metal finishing, textile, oil refinery, electroplating, nickel-cadmium batteries, fertilizers, pesticides, pigment and dyes producing industries.
How do you propose to respond to adverse scenario in these critical areas?
We can respond to the adverse scenario in these critical areas by:
• Collecting the waste banana peel from hostels mess of various educational institutes.
• Collecting from the banana chips producing industries.
• Contacting the Rag pickers to collect waste banana peel from various places.
• Introducing the plan to the municipal persons to collect banana peel separately from houses and various places, as a biodegradable waste.

Los pasos a seguir para el éxito de esta idea, son:
Diseño de un catálogo y muestras de artículos elaborados con materiales reutilizables, con alto contenido de diseño, utilidad, y replicables.
Equipamiento de un taller en las instalaciones de la escuela para la capacitación a los jóvenes, sobre cómo elaborar los artículos.
Exhibición y venta inicialmente sobre pedido o reposición del muestrario de los mismos en la tienda ubicado en el Centro Ecologico Akumal (CEA; en la zona turística de la playa de Akumal), como parte de su programa de educacion ambiental, y en la tienda virtual en su sitio WEB.
Reinversión de las utilidades obtenidas, en el primer año, en materiales e insumos para incrementar los volúmenes de producción y hacerlo en mayor escala.
Participar en las exposiciones y ferias locales y estatales, para difundir los productos (GreenExpo, Festival de Tortugas, EcoPlaya, entre otros).
El CEA es ampliamente conocido en la zona y cuenta con la infraestructura para apoyar esta iniciativa, al integrarla a su programa de educacion ambiental.

Actions:
Identifying new outlets to supply our products
Identifying individual clients
Identifying exhibition and sales to participate in
Identifying new processing techniques
Identifying new ways of cleaning waste more effectively
Designing new range of products
Intensive market research
Identifying export clients
Scaling up Production capacity
Expanding the weaving setup
Identifying different kinds of waste materials
Trend analysis
Upgrading and Updating website
To ensure the smooth running of the Weaving unit
To ensure the smooth running of the Tailoring unit
To ensure the smooth running of the Furniture
To ensure the smooth running of the Design exploration set up
Innovating new fabric from waste materials
Analysis and Observations of the sale of our products in the various outlets
Quality check on our woven fabric
Product quality check
Identify new ways of increasing the product life
Developing different techniques to reduce the companies carbon foot print
Participating in Conferences and exposure programmes
Ensuring hygiene at the waste processing centers
Servicing, repairing and maintaining the infrastructure (tools, machinery) in the design exploration set up
Identifying new tools, machionaries and technologies to develop the infrastructure of the design exploration set up
Ensuring the constant supply of raw materials
Creating new visual materials to market our products

Risks we foresee:

Waste materials changing with time:
The kind of waste materials generated keeps changing with time. We keep up-to-date with the new materials coming into the market. We also work with a large variety of waste materials: different types of plastic, tetrapak, e-waste, natural waste etc. Every 3 months, we do an analysis to observe the kinds of waste materials and the quantity currently being generated. We explore the potentials of various waste materials and develop different ways of using them.

Reduced sales of products due to recession:
We focus on developing day-to-day use products that are based on needs. We create products that have a high functional value, which are in demand irrespective of the recession. We also price the products competitively. We create products of great design with high functionality and quality.

Other risks we foresee.I have mentioned only the headlines as there is not enough word limit to expand on it:

Competitor challenges
Labour related problems
Supply of raw materials
Slow market development for such products from waste materials
Hygiene of the waste materials obtained
Electricity and water
Stagnation of products

Project Objectives

We have demonstrated the feasibility of our project by setting up a pilot project at Mulund (central suburbs of Mumbai). I-initiate has been part of various rallies and events for promoting cycling culture in the city. Our organization will also organize events for the same purpose. I-initiate has also conducted Advanced level research on bicycles in city which will help in advocating the need for dedicated bicycle lanes in the city. We'll also be expanding to other places i.e. setting bicycle rental spots at different places around Mumbai

This is a community bicycle rental service wherein the we rent bicycles to students to ride from station to college and vice-versa. The system works on two models - monthly and daily basis. For security purpose students Id cards and ration card xerox are taken. Also a refundable deposit of Rs.50/- is taken as security deposit.

The risks to project are:
> Auto-rickshaw unions opposing the venture(mitigation strategy: Building multi stakeholder approaches involving state, civil and police agencies)
> Seasonal demand of the service (Mitigation Strategy: providing raincoats will be incentive for the subscribers. Also the spots will be closed during heavy rainfall)
> Anti-cycling lobby who feel riding bicycles is not safe, tiring and exhaustive (Mitigation strategy: communicating the real life experiences by existing bicycle riders in the city through carefully designed marketing strategies and branding)

POWR and Big Heart Little Feet have formed the Lake Cochituate Watershed Council, Inc. We have been accepted by the State and this week, applied for a 501C3 designation. This group will expand the work of protecting not just Lake Cochituate but the entire watershed. We are working with the well-established SUASCO Council and the Charles River Conservancy. This will strengthen our mission of restoration and protection. Our Natick Conservation Commission is supporting this newly, formed organization. We are making strides to work cooperatively with all groups that have an interest in the lake. Pat and I have joined the Cochituate State Park Advisory Committee, a local advisory group to the State Park system.. This membership provides the opportunity to vote on entire lake concerns. This participation offers a chance to work with a group whose goal is to enhance recreation, not conservation. They allow boats to fragment the milfoil. We need to install fragment barriers in strategic areas of the South Pond.

We believe that a positive campaign that speaks to children would have a more lasting and beneficial impact than the punitive measures we must now resort to.
I propose a project with schoolchildren that would involve the following:

1. Elementary schools will receive classroom visits from an instructor with grade-appropriate educational materials in art and science supplemented by Green Up Vermont to educate and raise awareness about the environment.

2. Artwork made by children will be shown locally then used for images to be printed on stickers, shopping bags and roadside signs in areas known to be “litter magnets”. I would propose that children design signs for an area near their home, as well.

3. Literary art (poetry, essays, etc.) and digital stories created by children will be published in local media, read on the radio and shared via a central website.

4. Sign installations can be accompanied by local cleanup projects including children and families.

5. We are also having a celebration to introduce the public to our project on Greenup day, which is an annual clean up event in Vermont.

Last year we laid the groundwork for expanding our Youth Leadership Pathway and developed a new opportunity for our emerging youth leaders called BNB Ambassadors for Environmental Sustainability. The goal of this new step along the Pathway is to significantly broaden our impact by developing an organizing component to our programming that reaches more young people and advocating for better biking conditions—particularly in low-income areas. In addition, the effort has deepened the leadership capacities of the emerging leaders themselves; their skills have increased by leaps and bounds, and they are even more deeply invested in effecting lasting change.

Youth present the greatest opportunity for impact, as they have not yet developed a dependence on cars, and they have the greatest power to shape cultural trends. We are poised to take this work to scale and significantly expand our reach—the only thing standing in our way is sufficient resources.

We've already won a few other grants. We've gotten a verbal commitment from ASU and are working on insurance and bonding certificates to get the written commitment. We've applied to more grants and have investors and financing lined up. Only limited funding will prevent the success.

Bags for the People's public outreach programming provides the basic steps for individuals and communities to take charge of the plastic bag waste issue through all inclusive workshops and events. Participants are not only provided with information about their environment, but are taught valuable skills that enable them to tackle the problem in a fun and creative fashion.

Bags for the People provides all equipment and materials to make the workshops and events a success, providing access to those that may not have the tools necessary to tackle such environmental issues on their own. Bags for the People representatives guide participants through the reusable bag making process, teaching them that it is not only fun, but relatively simple to do something positive for the environment.

1.Problem identification and needs analysis by involving all the key stakeholders(communities, NGOs/CBOs operating in the area, potential funders, etc)
2.Getting authorisation and permission from relevant government authorities/regulatory bodies
3.Development and introduction of strict quality control measures and standards
4.Training of both women and men technicians and skilled labour
5.Designing proper Monitoring and Evaluation/inspection programmes that are gender sensitive
6.Establishment of extension services and other related support services

I have been collaborating with a Sudanese run NGO called Darfur Peace and Development Org. to get this innovation into Darfur. I have also worked directly with two Sudanese men who are training women in Khartoum in solar cooking.
Prevention comes in many forms. Lack of funding limits the efforts to just Khartoum. The cost of materials, duty and response of the Sudanese government is also a potential threat. The difficulty of me getting into Sudan regularly is another potential problem. Most big NGO groups are skeptical and are not very innovative in this area.

We are trying to reach out to get this idea known by having a website. Our main focus is to get this product into stores thought out the U.S. so it can be aviliable to anyone wishing to help.