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Poverty is a major contributory factor to food insecurity, and organic farming has a positive impact on poverty in a variety of ways. Farmers benefit from: (a) cash savings, as organic farming precludes the need to purchase synthetic pesticides and fertilizers; (b) extra incomes gained by selling the surplus produce resulting from the change to organic farming; (c) premium prices for certified organic produce obtained primarily in India for export but also for domestic markets; and (d) added value to organic products through processing activities.Engagement with the lucrative and rapidly expanding organic foods market in India, is a key indicator of the potential benefits of the organic sector.Improvement of soil fertility and better yield.

An example of how my venture will make an impact is by having a system that event planners and organizers would follow to minimize waste at their events. These could be student, staff, or parent events. This would include a set of event planning guidelines for event planners, a pre-designed waste management system, and a small school library of reusable event materials. The guidelines would include a flow chart style section, helping organizers pick the best products to buy, the dos and don'ts of event planning, a list of materials in the school event material library, and will go through all the steps of "green" event planning. The waste management system would have soft plastics and hard plastics bins, a food scraps/compostables bin, and a smaller garbage bin, manned by a volunteer instructing which items go into which bin, in order to maintain clean waste streams.

The small materials library would develop over time, but to start with, it would have around fifty sets of dinnerware, tablecloths, and other common materials needed at events, such as biodegradable garbage bags. If a school was hosting a particularly large event, it could ask to borrow materials from other schools. Event planners would be able draw upon all these resources when planning and executing their events. Having these resources at hand will greatly decrease waste produced at events, help maintain clean waste streams, and will also reduce costs.

We started with a group of 16 ex-recidivists to create a local waste disposal service (the area was previously not covered by city disposal service, community used to dispose their garbage to the nearby river). The venture serve local neighborhood (RT- community neighborhood smallest unit), with a population around 150 households and a weekly waste collecting fee of Rp 2000 (USD 0.2) per household. From the fee, and other income (such as night watch), neighborhood committee has a community fund of Rp 2-3million per month.
This community fund becomes the base for the neighborhood safety net. The venture group actively sniffs problems faced by each household. E.g. upon school enrollment season, they promote how families can borrow from community fund to pay registration fee. When a community member is critically ill, they organize a pick-up to local health center and assist the care financing.

We will grow and harvest vegetable crops on front and back lawns in Vancouver. We ask landowners to let us use their space, and in return they will receive a discount on our vegetables. The vegetables we grow will be used to fill community shared agriculture (CSA) shares. CSA is a program where shareholders pay for a share the beginning of the growing season and are provided a weekly box of vegetables until the end of the season (18-20 weeks). Shareholders and community members are actively engaged in understanding the risks that farmers take and the lengthy process of food production.

We do not want to exist as a for-profit business. Our goals as an organization are to reduce barriers to "just" food, encourage people to have a connection with the food they eat, and do this in a way that reduces our environmental footprint. We encourage shareholders to visit our gardens and participate in the process, in order to build a community of people in Vancouver who understand the importance food plays in our lives. We will coordinate a network of landowners and gardeners; there are far too many people waiting for community garden plots in Vancouver. We hope to negotiate with landowners to develop their space into "community plots," using profits to add nutrients to the land and offering workshops on small-plot gardening.

1. Youth members of slum are initiated to joint liability groups (JLGs) that are bank linked and oriented with the trade.
2. Capacity building and technology transfer for JLGs to set up micro recycling units for paper mache and paper molding based on low cost green engineering.
3. The urban paper waste segregated at source in public and corporate sectors get donated to JLGs working as producer’s organizations of microutility household products for daily usage made out of disposable paper waste.
4. Mainstream these producers organization through financial inclusion, state of the art marketing strategy and communication skill.
5. E-sensitization for urban stakeholders to promote the trade with cyber tools. Calling for corporate partnership through CSR & in-house sales of products.
6. Place based event management for exhibition cum sale, silent auction & web-auction for selling products.
7. Revenue return is used as working capital, microinsurance and profit share showing fare break-even.

Example 1: GCR organized an event called The Metro Vancouver Indian Arm Disposal Event. In September 2010, Green Coast Rubbish in partnership with Metro Vancouver offered the residents of Indian Arm a one-time, water access only, free debris disposal and recycling drop-off event.
This first of its kind event enabled Indian Arm residents to recycle and dispose of waste responsibly, conveniently and economically. This initiative recovered and recycled nearly 5 tonnes of metal and garbage, 90 litres of paint, 18 litres of used oil and 32 industrial and marine batteries.
This clean up event coincided with the national Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up and was held at the Cates Point Park dock facility in the District of North Vancouver. Cabin owners had the opportunity to bring in various types of debris by boat where it was appropriately sorted and disposed, and recycled.

Example 2: Following the City of Vancouver’s Summer Live Festival, held July 8-10th in Stanley Park, Green Coast Rubbish was called in by the City of Vancouver to dispose of 1155 pounds of polycoat milk cartons, in addition to approximately 45 pounds of plastic that had been left behind by party goers the day before. We are please to have been able to divert and recycle 100% of the material we hauled.

I start to collect paper by myself! I adjusted barrel in my flat and start to put paper,then my parents start to do the same. I start to talk about it Facebook and Livejournal,my friends start to say that they also want to make the same!Write now i collect a paper among my friends only when i have an opportunity (I try to find a car and collect a papaer).

Gathering Scotch Broom is linked in with highway removal efforts. Raw material is passively processed in vats for a few weeks then community celebrations are hosted for processing. Live music, food, public participation in "dancing the broom" removes the outer bark layer, exposing the fiber which is then washed, sorted, dried and carded for spinning and weaving. Community members assist in each step, learning a new skill and appreciation for how cloth is made. A worker cooperative model could be established for payment in spun fiber to key participators of all steps for personal art production.

Shift partners with local businesses to replace their truck/van deliveries with our heavy-duty cargo trikes. The trikes are pedal-powered with an electric assist motor; with the help of a strong rider, they can carry up to 500lbs & 55 cubic ft of goods. Cycle-based technology is more appropriate than trucks for many small, last-mile goods deliveries, especially in the downtown core. We currently transport a diverse range of products, including office supplies, produce, drycleaning, and recycling. We focus on regular contracted deliveries.

Shift is structured as a worker co-operative: the workers have democratic control over the business and profits. We are all invested in the business and we all share important decisions and responsibility for our bottom lines and the services we offer. Striving to empower diverse people in the workforce, we use the co-op model to create sustainable and meaningful within the green economy. We aim to pay living wages, and we provide additional medical and skills building benefits to co-op members. We strive to create a supportive, equitable, autonomous, engaging, flexible, healthy, and balanced work environment.

Finally, Shift is extensively engaged in our community. We advocate for cycling infrastructure and social enterprise, promote active transportation, share our story at community events, and support local environmental and social campaigns and partners. We strive to live Shift's Values of Innovation, Integrity and Community, through our environmental impact, social impact, and community engagement.

Person A has grown too many tomatoes to consume before spoilage but it looking for lettuce.
Person B has grown too much lettuce to eat before spoilage but would like tomatoes.
Person A & B live three blocks away from each other but will never meet.
They use SeedPeer to list what they have excess of in their garden and what they are looking for in return.

The target of Edu-creative Program are primary school children, especially those with age 8-12 yrs. Up until now, our Edu-creative Program has developed into 3 models:
1. School visit, a 3-hours extra-curriculum program. School children are encouraged to investigate and explore their school surroundings in thematic approach (e.g. water, food in canteens, child-friendly and dangerous places around schools).
2. Kidsventure Club, a monthly program to explore various places in the city. We take children to parts of the city that they are not familiar with (e.g. a neighborhood park under the flyover), encourage them to interact with the people living there.
3. Holiday Program, a yearly program to explore the city more intensively, usually the duration in 5 to 7 days. We challenge the children to investigate, for example, where tap water come from. From this process they learn that there is a long process and also many people involved to produce tap water, so that they grow respect for the water and the people working to clean it.

In 2008 we established a social enterprise aimed hiring people with mental disorders as a way to inaugurate a new way on management and strategies with socio environmental thinking. 
The goal is to demonstrate that a company can be economically healthy, composed by 80% of patients with mental disorders, change their situation of the employability, but mainly the social paradigm about the phenomenon of psychological distress. 
Our work proves an effective fact that these people have productive competence, and what you need to do is to adapt the method of achieving results. This issue, through Papel de Gente’s work, has gained attention over the past few years in psychiatry and has become a topic of reflection in terms of environment social participation engagement that generates change – which impacted on Papel de Gente’s performance concerning to the inclusion of the concept of urban environmental health and its intimate relationship between the environment and the individual. 
Currently, the projects designed by Papel de Gente always consider those two aspects and that has ensured a broad vision to our business partners and impacting their actions on sustainability and quality of life for their employees.