Over the next month many projects will be launched in the village with
the purpose to educate, inform and motivate people towards an environmental
friendly way of living and ecological awareness.
The first and main “food for the earth “project will be the provision of
composting facilities in the neighborhood and thus to enhance the community
consciousness for the sustainable use of natural resources. The situation today is that
the people throw their organic waste in the normal garbage; this biowaste
constitutes 30 – 40% of the whole waste volume. This means that not only a lot
of greenhouse gas emission is produced – during transport as well as during disposal
- but also that the organic material, which can be transformed into valuable
compost, is wasted.
Therefore, our
community association has developed an integrated project for neighborhood
composting. A compost site with several composters will be set up and all people
will be given the opportunity to bring their household and garden waste to this
site, which will be located close by, in their own street or neighborhood. For
the quantities of bio waste they have brought, they will receive in return the finished
compost, ready to use in their garden.
One of the other projects - called "Forest Children´s Kingdom” - involves to
restore the children’s playground which is situated near the compost site in a natural and ecological way and to create
an area suited to be used for events and workshops. In these workshops tools
and opportunities will be provided to get aquainted with the aspects of re-cycling
and other environmental friendly approaches.
Some of the planned events and workshops: playing with clay and other
natural materials; creating art with recycled materials; planting flowers on
the compost site,… .
Read more about the forest
workshop and the recreational and cultural area in our blog “Living Together”.
