While we are still hopeful that things will return to some level of normalcy after we survive this current COVDI19 global pandemic and the current community quarantines in a large part of the Philippines, our immediate situation requires a SHIFT in our operation as a national leadership institute on green governance, ecopreneurship development and education for sustainability. Thus, we are developing the following NEW APPROACH and projects to complement our existing programs and projects BUT NOT TO REPLACE them. In an earlier article, I have already explained the challenges and opportunities we face. I also recommend you read the related article on the green communes that Pads Pangan, the Green Party of the Philippines recently wrote. Both are good basis to understand this necessary SHIFT.
1) SHIFT TO INDIVIDUAL/ HOUSEHOLD ECO ACTIONS & EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY. We are asking all members and supporters to implement ecoactions at home during and beyond the community quarantine period. These will include ; but not limited to: a) zero waste actions at home (including home composting or home biodigesters, refurbishing with home repair, recycling, buying in bulk with no use of single use packaging the most basic essentials we cant produce on our own from home), etc , and b) home organic gardening (particularly vegetables, root crops, herbs & medicinal plants).
Our ESD Program will complement this by organizing ONLINE TRAINING & LEARNING SESSIONS as well as SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTIONS on related topics to held each other implement and showcase learning from these actions.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be reports (written, audio, video, multi-media) posted by individual members or the ESD program through our website and social media platform on these household/individual Eco Actions. This will include posts in our individual BLOGS within the website for all leaders, volunteer staff, programs-projects and local chapters. All these postings will be developed into proper communications materials for public promotions as well as into a monthly E-Newsletter or Journal. Also, EXPECTED RESULTS will be number of participants to the ONLINE TRAINING & LEARNING SESSION held with learning level determined through pre and post tests. We will use the label: TATAK AKSYON KALIKASAN and #tatakaksyonkalikasan for this.
2) ONLINE GREENSHOP. Optimizing on the e-commerce function that we can activate in our website or even starting with something more manual, we will mobilize members, supporters and partners to make available to our members and the public, green household consumer products we can TRADE & SELL in our online greenshop here.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be green products promoted in our online GreenShop, purchase by members and the public as well as income for the organization. Our Ecopreneurship Devt Program will take lead on this.
3) ONLINE MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT, DEVELOPMENT, ADVOCACIES & GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Until we are able to re convene our local chapters and even beyond the current home quarantine, we will continue to develop online membership promotions and processing as well as membership development (related to strategy #1). Local chapter online ZOOM meetings will be conducted to coordinate work and consult members on important organizational matters, including our advocacy
We will be activating our ONLINE ADVOCACY ACTION GROUPS through our several thematic FB Groups to mobilize members to conduct public advocacy per theme including; but not limited to online petitions, statements, etc as part of membership development. We will do this in the name of the GREEN PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES we are committed to form.
Also, we will be conducting our 4th GENERAL ASSEMBLY as a continuing online chat with presentations and reports to be made available as posted documents (file, videos) in a dedicated page http://aksyonkalikasan.org/4thgeneralassembly. The 4th General Assembly will be held in the entire week of April 20 to 26 (Monday to Saturday). The Chair and the Board will be on top of this online General Assembly while the Organizational Development Program will take lead on the membership recruitment, processing and online meetings. Coordinating the online advocacy will be the tasked of the Green Governance Program.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be increase membership applications processed towards online membership rites, online local chapter meetings, the conduct of the online General Assembly with a report generated, shared in our website and the number of ONLINE ADVOCACY GROUP activated with online advocacy conducted (including online petitions).
4) BARANGAY GREEN GOVERNANCE & GREEN COMMUNES AS COVID19 RESPONSE. Most importantly, we MUST do our share beyond staying home in quarantine to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic. We expect that our medical institutions will be overwhelmed very soon and it will be up to very localized medical services and recovery system that we will be force to resort to. Beyond this, we all know that COVID19 will be one of many more similar new diseases and viral spread to human communities, not the mention the multiple other disasters we anticipate to happen as a direct negative impacts of climate change. The public also now have learned what we have been telling all these years that the environment could revive itself with the drastic slowdown of human consumption, production and movement. It is therefor important that elements of this current community and home quarantine be optimized and sustained giving us an opportunity to move to a greened lifestyle by reorganizing the way we live as households and community -- ergo the real option of moving away from cities (de urbanize) and taking the options of GREEN COMMUNES. We must ACT NOW to respond and prepare for these two challenges and opportunities.
THUS, we will be undertaking an online crowdsourcing fundraiser to mobilize resources to allow some us in our respective Barangays to offer support in putting up Barangay Green Governance piloting projects focused on community gardening, zero waste projects and the putting up of BARANGAY FIELD CLINICS and RECOVERY CENTERS (squad tents with appropriate facilities, supplies and volunteers). The Executive Director, the President and a Task Force will be on top of this.
Equally important, we will work with the GREEN PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES (GPP) to link up with appropriate families and individuals who have viable farming, fishing and aquaculture facilities and properties and those who have appropriate transportation system and promote the matching of these with members who are living in unsustainable homes in unsustainable sections of cities to provide them the option to de-urbanize and relocate. We will optimize on any potential partnership with the ENYA corporation, the GPP partner on their GREEN EARTH CARE COMMUNES initiative.
Comment here for your views, suggestions and offer of support. Or you may send me an SMS or call me at 0966 371876o or email us at [email protected]
Our ESD Program will complement this by organizing ONLINE TRAINING & LEARNING SESSIONS as well as SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTIONS on related topics to held each other implement and showcase learning from these actions.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be reports (written, audio, video, multi-media) posted by individual members or the ESD program through our website and social media platform on these household/individual Eco Actions. This will include posts in our individual BLOGS within the website for all leaders, volunteer staff, programs-projects and local chapters. All these postings will be developed into proper communications materials for public promotions as well as into a monthly E-Newsletter or Journal. Also, EXPECTED RESULTS will be number of participants to the ONLINE TRAINING & LEARNING SESSION held with learning level determined through pre and post tests. We will use the label: TATAK AKSYON KALIKASAN and #tatakaksyonkalikasan for this.
2) ONLINE GREENSHOP. Optimizing on the e-commerce function that we can activate in our website or even starting with something more manual, we will mobilize members, supporters and partners to make available to our members and the public, green household consumer products we can TRADE & SELL in our online greenshop here.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be green products promoted in our online GreenShop, purchase by members and the public as well as income for the organization. Our Ecopreneurship Devt Program will take lead on this.
3) ONLINE MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT, DEVELOPMENT, ADVOCACIES & GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Until we are able to re convene our local chapters and even beyond the current home quarantine, we will continue to develop online membership promotions and processing as well as membership development (related to strategy #1). Local chapter online ZOOM meetings will be conducted to coordinate work and consult members on important organizational matters, including our advocacy
We will be activating our ONLINE ADVOCACY ACTION GROUPS through our several thematic FB Groups to mobilize members to conduct public advocacy per theme including; but not limited to online petitions, statements, etc as part of membership development. We will do this in the name of the GREEN PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES we are committed to form.
Also, we will be conducting our 4th GENERAL ASSEMBLY as a continuing online chat with presentations and reports to be made available as posted documents (file, videos) in a dedicated page http://aksyonkalikasan.org/4thgeneralassembly. The 4th General Assembly will be held in the entire week of April 20 to 26 (Monday to Saturday). The Chair and the Board will be on top of this online General Assembly while the Organizational Development Program will take lead on the membership recruitment, processing and online meetings. Coordinating the online advocacy will be the tasked of the Green Governance Program.
EXPECTED RESULTS will be increase membership applications processed towards online membership rites, online local chapter meetings, the conduct of the online General Assembly with a report generated, shared in our website and the number of ONLINE ADVOCACY GROUP activated with online advocacy conducted (including online petitions).
4) BARANGAY GREEN GOVERNANCE & GREEN COMMUNES AS COVID19 RESPONSE. Most importantly, we MUST do our share beyond staying home in quarantine to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic. We expect that our medical institutions will be overwhelmed very soon and it will be up to very localized medical services and recovery system that we will be force to resort to. Beyond this, we all know that COVID19 will be one of many more similar new diseases and viral spread to human communities, not the mention the multiple other disasters we anticipate to happen as a direct negative impacts of climate change. The public also now have learned what we have been telling all these years that the environment could revive itself with the drastic slowdown of human consumption, production and movement. It is therefor important that elements of this current community and home quarantine be optimized and sustained giving us an opportunity to move to a greened lifestyle by reorganizing the way we live as households and community -- ergo the real option of moving away from cities (de urbanize) and taking the options of GREEN COMMUNES. We must ACT NOW to respond and prepare for these two challenges and opportunities.
THUS, we will be undertaking an online crowdsourcing fundraiser to mobilize resources to allow some us in our respective Barangays to offer support in putting up Barangay Green Governance piloting projects focused on community gardening, zero waste projects and the putting up of BARANGAY FIELD CLINICS and RECOVERY CENTERS (squad tents with appropriate facilities, supplies and volunteers). The Executive Director, the President and a Task Force will be on top of this.
Equally important, we will work with the GREEN PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES (GPP) to link up with appropriate families and individuals who have viable farming, fishing and aquaculture facilities and properties and those who have appropriate transportation system and promote the matching of these with members who are living in unsustainable homes in unsustainable sections of cities to provide them the option to de-urbanize and relocate. We will optimize on any potential partnership with the ENYA corporation, the GPP partner on their GREEN EARTH CARE COMMUNES initiative.
Comment here for your views, suggestions and offer of support. Or you may send me an SMS or call me at 0966 371876o or email us at [email protected]