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Do you know what volunteering is?
Set of people who freely and selflessly join a group to work for charitable or altruistic purposes. From ECOMedia we will deepen and explain the types of volunteering available and how to work online.
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Sustainability is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the capacity of future generations, guaranteeing a balance between economic growth, care for the environment and social well-being. For this reason, from Eco-Media we want to insert it among the youngest.
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Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat facing Europe and the rest of the world. To overcome these challenges, the European Green Deal will transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy.
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Do you want to be a digital activist? Do you want to learn about electronic volunteering? At ECO-MEDIA we are working and soon we will have our platform active with all the information for you to collaborate with the change.
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The online world has become a powerful resource for youth activism, enabling the sharing of knowledge, amplifying of messages and organizing large-scale actions.
👇 Learn more about digital citizenship and activism and the ways in which the internet can be used to realize children’s rights and change the world for the better.
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Digital Citizenship and Activism - UNICEF Ireland
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Learn more about digital citizenship and activism and how the internet can be used to realise children’s rights and change the world for the better.#digitaltools can be highly useful for democratic organizations of all sizes, and that includes activists working from their bedrooms to the government itself.
👇 Read the article below and discover three of the main applications of digital tools for activism.
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Digital Tools, Democracy, and Activism - ethical.net
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On the relationship between digital tools and democracy, from the basics to the balance needed to ensure that liberties don’t become sidelined.Green action: Think compost!
With all the tasty and healthy food we have been discussing comes a great deal of food byproducts and waste, whether from the process of making the food, or for the remains of unconsumed food. While most people try to get good estimates of the consumption needs at the time of preparation and at the time of serving, organic remains of food are inevitable. However, making a good use out of those remains is always possible.
In addition to feeding animals or conserving food for future human use, composting can be a great way to bring organic wastes back to the food chain. While many countries have in place decent waste management systems which potentially recycle most of the separated organic wastes back into the soil, we encourage the youth to maintain their own local composting processes. Think compost: while limiting food waste, collect back your organic cooking byproducts and food remains, store them in a composting-friendly way, put them back to the soil, and get healthier and richer plants. This would also encourage to try to think of maintaining your own piece of soil, on raised beds for example, and to think of planting some vegetables.
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Green action: Secondhand is the new fashion
The buying decision of the individual customer is key in driving the industry manufacturing the produced products. Hyperconsumerism is a global problem in this modern era, and every occasion to remind of the issue is worth it.
When it comes to clothes for example, while it can be quite refreshing to change outfit from time to time and update their wardrobe, one needs to be aware of the pressure the fashion industry makes on people to promote the unnecessary need to buy new clothes. Fashion reflects what people think is cool, but what is fashionable is often the consequence of how people have been pushed to believe is cool.
When it comes to clothes, or with most other material goods, we encourage you to consider 1. Need and 2. Secondhand options, before making the purchase decision. Before buying clothes, consider whether you do need clothes. Chances are that your current clothes are decent. If you need additional items to your wardrobe, chances are you can find good items in secondhand shops. We encourage you thus to think secondhand and to know that it is cool and more environmentally friendly to buy secondhand.
The problem with secondhand is that it does not benefit of the same promotional machinery new products benefit of. Purchasing secondhand is also often not as easy as purchasing new products which are usually better catalogued, more widely available in malls, and available for online purchase. Ideally, the same production companies would have a branch that buys back and resell used products. This is currently rather rare, although it should be encouraged by government policies. Nevertheless, we encourage young people thus to think of entrepreneurial secondhand initiatives to improve the reality of the secondhand market. And of course, buy secondhand and promote it. You are cool.
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Green action: Track it!
Reducing carbon footprint does not necessarily mean cutting completely on sources of greenhouse gas emission. Actions can be taken at ease, and motivation can build up over time. A good start that is proven to develop motivation and commitment is tracking habits and having a quantitative measure, such as carbon emissions, to follow-up the effect of our actions.
Mobile applications such as Ecorio can allow you to keep track of the amount of carbon emissions you cause during your daily commuting activities, and the potential annual footprint they leave. The application works using GPS technology accessible in most mobile phones, and, via linkage to data on public transport, makes suggestions on how to reduce the impact of your travels. Other applications such as
Adva use a reward system to remind and keep users motivated about reducing the ecological impact of their transportation activities.
More traditional ways of tracking carbon emissions could be to just take note of the means of transport one used and the distances traveled, convert that into kg of carbon emitted, and to keep a weekly or a monthly average of the carbon footprint. With better tracking, one can see how their actions reflect on lower carbon emissions and can help keep the motivation up.
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