Low Carbon Lifestyle: No Impact Week

Reported by: Cordia Walter B. Jimenez Fiona Airis P. Porras

Vision
Dee&Fi envisions an environmentally educated
society wherein low impact lifestyles are regularly practiced. Furthermore, we foresee improved and sustainable cities as the growing number of people are involved in low impact living.

Mission
campaigns that enlighten city dwellers of low impact living. Environmental education is a means to carry out the widespread environmental responsiveness to various people living in the urban environment.

Dee&Fi conducts environmental awareness

Goals
Dee&Fi aims the following:
Encourage an environment friendly lifestyle to urban dwellers Showcase various environment conscious practices such as water conservation, organic gardening, energy efficiency and the like Conduct environmental IEC campaigns in schools and communities

Plan
Environmental education as the FGD will be a venue for the participants to exchange knowledge and ideas in implementing a low impact lifestyle to improve the environment.

Aims to teach and encourage Miriam College students to practice a low impact lifestyle.
Our project, in collaboration with the Miriam College Communications Department and ESI will adopt the No Impact Week

Will only cover the first phase (planning phase) of the No Impact Week
The plan for this project is to gather various ideas that would make the No Impact Week pilot celebration in Miriam College feasible. We will make use of the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and invite 4-6 student participants who belong to the field of environmental planning. The output of this advocacy project will be a project proposal and suggested ideas of how No Impact Week can be carried out.

Implementation
The Focus Group Discussion was held February 24, 2014 (9:00 11:00am) at the Alchemy, Katipunan Avenue. There were six (6) participants:
three (3) of which are fourth year students taking BS EPU and EPC;

one (1) third year student taking BS EPC

two (2) were the lecturers or host of the Focus Group Discussion.

Dee&Fi first introduced their Vision, Mission and Goals to the participants and clarified that the advocacy project and FGD would focus on the No Impact Project.

Presentation Content
The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, non-profit organization founded in the spring of 2009 by Mr. Colin Beavan. It utilizes entertainment, education, and group action to engage people in the quest for ways of living that connect individual happiness and service to community and habitat. The No Impact Week has been implemented in over 40 campuses abroad. Here in the Philippines, Workplace No Impact Weeks was first adopted by the Asian Development Bank. There are also programs such as the University No Impact Weeks wherein Miriam College can be part to experience the No Impact Week and learn about its benefits.

Questions asked after presentation

Do you think it is possible to live with no impact? Why? Do you think that implementing No Impact Weeks will be helpful to the environment and the people? Why?

What can you suggest to do to make the No Impact Project flourish?

What other ideas do you have that can localize the No Impact Project? Are you willing to be Eco-leaders in this Project?

Project Proposal

Pictures during FGD

Pictures during FGD

Thank you for listening!