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Earth Day Network’s “Green GenerationTM” campaign is a two-year initiative that will launch in 2009 and culminate on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. Similar to "The Greatest Generation" that confronted the challenge of World War II, who inspired the major societal changes that followed, the Green Generation includes ordinary people who are engaged in individual and collective activities to improve their health, to improve their schools, to participate in building a solution to urgent national and global issues, such as climate change or the world’s water crises. Source: http://www.earthday.net/greengeneration
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Earth Day 2009
Green Generation
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 April 2009 )
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Training local youths of Phobjikha in developing souvenir products |
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 Building local capacity is important for garnering local interest and more importantly their
participation in sustainable tourism. With this in mind, since last year RSPN
has been providing training to the local communities, particularly the youth in
developing various kinds of tourism products. At the moment about 14 people,
mostly school dropouts are being trained in embroidery, stitching different kind of products like purse,
home slipper, bags, etc.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 June 2009 )
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Commemoration of Earth Day - 2009 |
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 To commemorate Earth Day 2009 with the theme “The Green
Generation”, the Nazhoen Pelri of the Youth Development Fund (YDF) and
the Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) is initiating a happy bin
project from 8th- 22nd April 2009. The project is
targeted for unemployed young adults and few disabled youth to use art as a
medium to reduce, reuse and recycle, and create waste bins which can be
explored as an entrepreneurship opportunity.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 June 2009 )
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Human Wildlife conflict program in the Eastern Bhutan |
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 In
March 2009, RSPN initiated a program on Human wildlife conflict for the first
time in the eastern Bhutan. While
efforts had been made in the past to address the issue, experience has shown
that the solutions were unsustainable, costly and remained more at national
level with emphasis on policy. Considering this, the project by RSPN intends to
explore solutions at the local level by piloting integrated solutions in few selected
villages in the region. RSPN hopes to advocate the successful solutions at a
wider level based on the performance of the project.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 June 2009 )
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