Empowering women Workshops to provide environmental education and skills training for sustainable livelihood development among women.

Green Environmental Monitors (GEMS) campaign

GEMS aims to help ‘The Climate Generation’ grow to be responsible environmental citizens. Building on the success of the pilot project in Kolkata, EDN will widen the program to other cities in India, and students in Asia as well.

Impact: Forming of a wide base of educated and responsible youth. Youth form 35 per cent of India’s population.

DNJŜŜƴƛƴƎ ǘƘŜ ōdzƛƭǘ ŜƴǾƛNJƻƴƳŜƴǘ Major cities in India are over built, with miniscule green spaces. To help cities go green, EDN will organize seminars and hands-on-training programs so that citizens learn how to grow plants in even not- thought-of-before spaces. EDN will also work with Municipal Corporation officials to ensure that existing public parks and gardens are maintainedΦ

Impact: Increase Earth’s green cover

Planting trees

EDN partnered with Rotary International for ‘Green Magic’ – a program that aims to plant 10 million trees in India EDN now seeks collaborations for additional programsΦ

Educating local self-government leaders

Workshops are held for womento become agents of change by learning how to protect and increase natural resources, and understand the need to implement campaigns to move from fossil fuels to cleaner energies. 95b ǿill help build networks ǎƻ women can share best practices.

Impact: By law 33-50 per cent of elected seats are reserved for women. The term of office is 5 years. Some twenty million village women are alreadypart of decision-making processess. Programs implemented are thus likely to positively impact sustainable development.

Environmental Curriculum Development

Environmental science has been discontinued as a separate subject taught in schoolsΦ To bridge the gap in what is really essential knowledge for students, EDN will hold workshops for teachers who teach Literature, History, Geography, Political Science, Art and Economics with the aim to showcase ways to relate their subject to knowledge about environmental issuesΦ Impact: India’s student population focuses on environmental issuesΦ

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Go Organic campaign

Bags for Earth Seamstresses convert old clothes on the spot into cloth bagsΦ Events planned for large malls, housing complexes, and educational institutionsΦ Impact: Helps reinforce recycling and provides an alternative to plastic bagsΦ

Investing for a cleaner environment anywhere is investing to safeguard a common heritage.

There are no borders that contain Earth’s air and water.

If she can try in her own little way Why can’t we?

Contact Information Karuna A. Singh

e-mail: singh@earthday.net 9831356476

Neela Majumdar

e-mail: majumdar@earthday.net 9830014934

Debapriya Dutt

e-mail:dutt@earthday.net 9830725838