Rooyesh Cultural Society had a successful two days seminar about: Our Responsibility for a Clean Environment”
This was a cooperation between Rooyesh Cultural Society along with Daneshmand, and Parvaz T.V and with support from David Suzuki Foundation and “Cool North Shore” Climate Chance Café.
In summary:
Jan 30 and 31 of 2009, we had two days seminar talking about the ways in which we could learn more about a green environment. The initiative was due to our cultural belief in nature and our love for nature. As a grass root community group we realize that we have to raise awareness in our community, may this be helpful to the benefit of our greater world community.
On Jan 30, 09: Mr Emady, editor from Daneshmand Magazine spoke about the history of earth and the ways in which we human race have polluted and keep polluting our environment. Our hour’s seminar became interactive after break and we had many questions about how we can help. We emphasized that we have to care on the individual, community, and group based. We can start learning how to save more energy and consume less. We can network and talk with our friends and try to educate others. We can get involved by understanding how our grandchildren could benefit from a green environment. We also watched interview with people in our community that Parvaz T.V. had done. The interview showed us the many things other people were doing what it comes to our green environment.
On Jan 31, 09: We had representative from “Cool North Shore” Climate Change Cafe. David Thomson spoke for us about their group and how they started to develop ideas by networking. As a North Shore resident David came together with a group of people who were all interested to know how to help their planet and their community here in North Shore. As result they formed the “Cool North Shore” group to raise awareness about planet changes and on a local basis our responsibilities to help our environment survive. Listening to David we learned that there are many individuals and groups out there who are caring about their environment. After listening to David we were more convinced that we have to do more to help our green life much greener. We talked about attending this group meeting in Feb 18, 09.
Our next guest speaker was from David Suzuki Foundation: Akua Schatz who is responsible for mobilizing Canadians to green their lives through a variety of campaigns and outreach projects, notably David Suzuki’s Nature Challenge. Prior to joining DSF, Akua managed the public engagement programs for an international development organization working in 14 countries. In 2008 she was trained by Al Gore to deliver presentations on climate change and since then she has been enthusiastically speaking to community groups throughout the Lower Mainland. Akua speaks English, French and Spanish and is passionate about sharing and learning how to live more sustainable
Listening to Akua Schatz was thought provoking on a simple way. She inspired us to start from what we love to do. We realized that each one of us has many interests and we can impact others by being mindful about our environment.
In our last half an hour we managed to list the number of daily changes we can do in order to save more energy and help our environment. Finally we said that we have to keep talking about the concerns and challenges in order to find our strength in doing the best work for a healthy and green environment. We also decided to let others know and talk more, the more we talk, the greener we can be. Join us!
Poran Poregbal
January 31, 2009
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