October 9, 2013, Ivano-Frankivsk — Participants in a workshop for the heads of Raion Eco Centers said they would like to make use of the MAMA-86-Yaremche experience in conducting sustainable consumption lessons and deliver such lessons to the youth at their centers yearlong.

Lyubov Kosylo represented the NGO at the workshop hosted by the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ecologist & Naturalist Students Center. She presented the Green Consumer Week’2013 “Environment on Your Plate” campaign to the 17 participants and distributed information kits of materials received from the MAMA-86 central office

To support the Eco Center heads’ initiative, MAMA-86-Yaremche in planning to print a booklet “Sustainable Consumption or How You Can Make Your Personal Contribution to Environmental Protection.”

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Green Consumer Weeks in Ukraine – week-long concentrated awareness campaigns aimed at popularizing environmentally responsible consumption and focused on one of important themes of sustainable consumption – have been carried out since 2012 by the Ukrainian National Environmental NGO "MAMA-86" with support from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and in collaboration with various partner organizations.

The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation has been conducting similar campaigns in their country in October for many years running. These campaigns have helped significantly increase public awareness of advantages of environment-friendly way of living, develop a legal framework that encourages sustainable consumption and prohibits or limits supply of environmentally harmful goods and services, as well as form a circle of eco-responsible producers and sellers who, on their part, further the transition of the Swedish society toward more sustainable consumption behavior.