Peoples Eco-Life Project

The project concept

The goal of the project is to promote environmentally friendly life-style among citizens via promoting and implementing individual engineering and social technologies.

There are numerous technologies, from simple to very complicated could be attributed to “sustainable” or “environmentally friendly” in such features of people’s daily life as using energy for different needs, creating wastes, using water, producing discharges, cultivating the land and participate in self-governance through the community or stand for policy and legislation change, which would influence in the end their life-style as well. However, eco-technologies are not well-known to people and their application being perceived as complicated issues, which is a business of big corporations or other organizations. Therefore developing the individual understanding of women and men of the environmental, health and economic benefits of small-scale environmental technologies in the areas of energy, water and sanitation, waste, agriculture and community capacity building – is a priority area of work on the SCP.

Long-term objectives:

1. To establish and operate the information and intermediation center of eco-style technologies.
2. To raise the awareness of different target groups (teachers, students, schoolchildren, active citizens and local communities members) on eco-friendly life-style.
3. To develop national dialogue with governments, eco-friendly businesses and initiatives and the NGOs groups on SCP using best international experience (Marrakesh process, Environment for Europe process, UN CSD).
4. To implement demonstration projects on PEL housing technologies application in several local areas in MAMA-86 network places.

First stage

Short-term objectives:

1. Collecting and presenting the information on behavior patterns, prioritizing technologies and consulting services, policies and legislation for the data base concerning housing.
2. Define priorities, set-up and locations for demonstration projects on PEL technologies application in 3 local areas.

Main activities:

• Collecting, analyzing and making of information blocks for new data base of all practices of MAMA-86 collected during 1998-2008 on organic agriculture, clean food, energy efficiency, water supply, use and sanitation, waste, public participation and public lobbying, sustainable housing and chemicals, education; also renew and collecting organizations of NGOs and businesses in different cities and towns working on elements of life-style and eco-technologies promotion in the regions where MAMA-86 works.
• New information on BAT’s, related legal framework and contacts around it on 5 directions is being collected and put into the data base.
• Making short surveys on existing BAT on energy individual production and use, specific waste management, sustainable agriculture, water and sanitation, community capacity building and policy and legislation framework for it.

Contact information

Iryna Malysheva,
Project coordinator

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