Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Aurora Green Lights Environmental Fair
0 Comments Published by DJacoby January 26th, 2010 in Environment.In the Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Vernon LaVia created the idea of Aurora Green Lights to educate others on the environment, and then turned the leadership of his project away to Mavis Bates. Aurora Green Lights is putting on an environmental fair this summer on June 12, which has attracted the attention of The [...]
Residents Beautify Lake Garden
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor March 24th, 2009 in Environment.Sunik Kand, a senior employee at a Bangalore information technology company, created a project in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Programme to clean up an abandoned lake and garden and convert it into a park with a walking track. The local government has now taken on the project. The notable India Times newspaper [...]
Suresh Kumar took on a Project on Waste Management, named ‘Clean Bangalore’, as part of his participation in SELP. The intention of the project is to segregate the waste into WET & DRY. WET wastebeing used as manure & DRY waste being taken to sorting station & dispose it appropriately. His project is extending to [...]
Del Toro Takes on Patterson Garbage
0 Comments Published by DJacoby January 6th, 2009 in Business and Commerce, Environment, Humanitarian.When garbage began to pile up in the commercial district of Patterson, New Jersey, Francisco Del Toro took action, leading a cleanup campaign as his project in the Self Expression and Leadership Program he took with Landmark Education. The Latino News wrote a story about the campaign.
Passaic Business Owners Clean Their Block
by Juan Esteban Villegas
Business [...]
This December marks the first month of the new Madison Lights Out (MLO) energy conservation and awareness campaign, which asks residents of Madison Wisconsin to cut back on their energy consumption. The campaign, started by Jennifer Sather in her Landmark Education SELP program, was the subject of an article in the Madison Times. Here is [...]
BeRecreative Enters Third Year
0 Comments Published by DJacoby December 5th, 2008 in Children, Environment.Jessica Bavinton of the UK has passed on the news to Leadership and Self Development that the project she created in Landmark Education’s SELP program in 2006, titled “BeRecreative” has entered successfully entered its third year. The project is an annual, free event for young people and their families to learn fun and creative ways [...]
Bridport Works Towards Zero Waste
0 Comments Published by Julia Taylor October 23rd, 2008 in Environment. Ian Robins lives in the historic port town of Bridport in Southwestern England. When he took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, he thought of and was inspired by the Japanese town of Kamikatsu, where each citizen is responsible for disposing of their own rubbish.
Robins invited the town council and community leaders of Bridport, [...]
Community Green: An Access to Activities for the New Jersey Environmentalist
0 Comments Published by Tom October 20th, 2008 in Environment.Community Green, the website clearing house for New Jersey environmentalists and their projects around the state created by Ariane Delafosse in her Self-Expression and Leadership program last year, has continued to thrive and flourish, providing access and promotion to dozens of worthy projects and events.
Community green is an all-volunteer, 5013c non-profit that has a full [...]
Wayne Fetman decided to have his project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program be about cleaning up. He had heard that Friends of the Chicago River was having its annual spring cleaning, the Chicago River Day, on May 10, and he decided to make sure his local community participated.
In all, Fetman managed to get about [...]