A Fruit Plant in Every house,A Kitchen Garden in every home “Campaign launched on 9th May 2016 on the auspicious “Akshay Tritiya” , a small initiative taken by Yuva Sambalpur , Odisha under the guidance of an eminent entrepreneur , social activist , and a senior BJD Mr Siddharth Das for the first time in Odisha. It’ time to grow up and make a better world”. That’s the belief with which we started our adventure at Grow the Planet, and now many others have joined us, growing their own little patch of green – maybe even on their balcony – and sharing the experience. Well we like to think that, in this way, we all contribute to make a better world, in our own small way, starting from that little patch of green. For us humans this means more movement, more calories burned, more social life, while for the environment it means having more friends. Anyone that grows plants has to deal with natural cycles that, if respected and taken care of, give abundant harvests. The more you live in contact with nature, the more you love it. A healthy educational activity that helps the environment. A holistic approach towards a healthy life. Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun. About 1000 fruits plant and 5 Kgs of were distributed .A huge popular response to the program. People made a rush to collect plants and seeds for their home.Yuva Sambalpur will make this program twice every month..Prati Ghare Fala Gacha..Ghara Baari Re Pariba Chasa!!
Sustainable development first appeared on the international agenda in 1987 after the World Commission on Environment and Development published its report, Our Common Future. Convened by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1983 to formulate ‘a global agenda for change’, the commission was chaired by the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and comprised 22 members from 21 different countries worldwide.
We live in a highly dynamic, human-dominated earth system in which non-linear, abrupt and irreversible changes are not only possible but also probable. Governance for sustainability demands the meaningful and accountable participation and solutions from people, for people. The evolving nature of governance and the problems of global change have engaged a wide variety and large number of other factors. Moreover, information technologies, including social media, have the potential to support governance for sustainability by giving a voice to those groups and individuals that have been marginalized in the decision-making process, and stimulating and facilitating trans-boundary communication and deliberation.
An evironmentalist and running “ Soil and Soul” from Bangalore , Priti Rao , rightly mentioned in her blog , “Community has the power, power of togetherness, power of positive energy, power of changing the society, power of integrity, harmony in sharing love & peace. Living is community is a part of our forgotten culture, and it needs a push to revive. Today, we don’t even know who is in our neighbourhood, even when many of us live in so called gated community, we choose to ignore each other, jealousy, greed, selfishness has been ruling our mind, heart and soul.
Cuba the entire country, got reformed & restructured after its fall due to community. People started growing their food together, they started to share their happiness more than ever, they are healthier because they started either cycling or walking more than they ever did. The question is do we actually need to go through the fall to see the rise? “ Her blog – http://pritirao.blogspot.in/
What happens to the environment in the long term if a large number of people cannot afford to meet their basic household needs today? If you did not have access to safe water, and therefore needed wood to boil drinking water so that you and your children would not get sick, would you worry about causing deforestation? Or, if you had to drive a long distance to get to work each day, would you be willing to move or get a new job to avoid polluting the air with your car exhaust? If we don’t balance our social, economic, and environmental objectives in the short term, how can we expect to sustain our development in the long term?
In other words, when people make decisions about how to use the Earth’s resources such as forests , water, minerals, gems, wildlife, etc., they must take into account not only how much of these resources they are using, what processess they used to get these resources., and who has access to these resources. Are enough resources going to be left for your grandchildren to use and will the environment be left as you know it today?
Cheap and plentiful food is a welcome part of our more industrialised, interconnected world. But people also need healthy diets, a clean environment and jobs that pay a living wage. What can be done to make sure the way we produce and use food is sustainable? Academics, policy-makers and civil society organisations have complementary perspectives that, when combined, can provide practical answers to this question. Project coordinator Bettina Bock of Wageningen University in the Netherlands says: “We wanted to find and collaborate closely on new ideas in the field – and find a common language for all actors in the sustainable food chain.”
Forests make big targets – for better or worse. Planting trees, or cutting down forests, has major consequences. If we manage forests well they will give us goods and services that we cannot live without. If forests disappear we lose any prospect of sustainable development. Forests and trees are rooted in life and livelihoods. They can be grown, improved, and looked after – they are renewable. It would be hard to find a simpler and more universal way of changing the world for the better than by planting and managing trees. Against this background, where might forests best be placed in order to maximise their ecological, cultural, social, and economic development benefits? Possible policy actions put forward for consideration include promoting sustainable forest management, halting deforestation and conversion of forest to crop lands, restoring degraded forest ecosystems and increasing relevant protected areas, as well as supporting forest-related employment and ensuring indigenous peoples benefit from forest conservation and sustainable use.
Now ,Australia is looking for targets that incorporate the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. It is in this way that we will maximise well-being for all rather than continue the unsustainable path of trading off social and environmental needs for economic growth.
Everyone in the world depends on nature and ecosystem services to provide the conditions for a decent, healthy, and secure life. The involvement of local communities in environmental management was a prerequisite for sustainable development. We have not made environment into a development challenge. Because we have still not learned how to use it sustainably. Therefore, environmental protection becomes an invariable conflict with development. A conflict between nature and jobs. Instead, what we need is policies and practices to use the environment for the greater enterprise of jobs and prosperity. Build green futures from the use of forests, land, water and fisheries. We don’t know how because we refuse to learn the most basic lesson. We have to really trust people and communities. As yet, all we have done is use bureaucratic tricks to stall and obfuscate. We will have to make changes — effective and earnest — to devolve powers in the practice of managing the environment.
