How to Go Green Right Now© by Anoka Abeyrathne©

How to Go Green Right Now©

by Anoka Abeyrathne©

1. Skip bottled water! - Yep take your own bottle of water. It can save the piling up of over one million tons of plastic!

2. Buy quality electronic and household items - this way you use them for longer and don't dispose easily unlike cheap stuff that break real easy.

3. Recycle - seen the awesome trash bins in British Council? try it out at home, compost your bio-degradables, make gift wrap out of waste paper (contact

me for tips! ) and send only plastic in your trash.

4. Sell and earn - sell your old clothes to thrift stores and earn! also sell newspapers, glass bottles and metal to places who wiegh and Pay you! :D

5. Consume more native food - this helps to bring up the economy and put down exports which bring in loads of non-degradables to Sri Lanka.

6. Walk - quit taking that elevator, you are already getting flabby! try out some stretches and get your own personalized workout (yep, contact me again for

gym related stuff)

7. Light up - use LED bulbs or CFLs. The best ones is LEDs which consume way less than CFLs and safer that CFLs since CFLs contain Mercury!

8. Air dry - your clothes and your hair. Like kettles, hair dryers consume a lot of energy since they heat up in an instant.

9. Participate - in policy dialogues, forums, online. Voice out, use media effectively. Quit being apathetic and letting others decide (and ruin)

your future!

10. Go Organic - food, clothing, cleaning products, body products, everything can be bought or made. These lack killer chemicals that

cause cancer and other insane diseases. Kill two birds with one stone much? :)

to be continued later :)

Keep on participating in the GLYP movement. Do you part to make a change!

Green Policy - The Way Forward by Anoka Abeyratne

Green Policy is more commonly known as environmental policy. It is the type of governmental decisions to minimize the impact its citizens have on the environment, through direct or indirect methods. Thus

The goal is to understand the actual benefits of these statements and where they add value. In doing this we can leverage the most successful components and best practices used in the creation of new green policy statements.

In the long term, green policy is beneficial to us, as Earth has a way of dealing with ones who harm it.

Some key points of its strategy to achieve this are:

• Minimize waste by evaluating industrial operations and ensuring they are as efficient as possible.

• Minimize toxic emissions.

• Optimization of energy use by industries and households.

• Actively promote recycling.

• Promotion of a product range to minimize the environmental impact of both production and distribution.

• Meet or exceed all the environmental legislation that relates to the Company.

• Use an accredited program to offset the greenhouse gas emissions generated by industrial and home based activities.

However much more needs to be policy wise.

The Green Lanka Youth Platform addressed a key issue: “Awareness” through a workshop conducted in February. This gave a number of energetic youth, the opportunity to discuss an debate with like-minded youth regarding environmental policy and in Sri Lanka and the Globe while critically evaluating its overall impact on the environment and humans.

You might love to know about what was discussed and more importantly you may want to be part of this exciting and unique venture where youngsters get to Voice Out  Then mail us at glyplatform@gmail.com or contact us on the Facebook group Green Lanka Youth Platform to ensure that you are part of the workshop on the 19^th of March 2011! So come on board, get connected and Get Active! 

Recent News - by Sinduja Jayaratne

The Environmental Ministry of Sri Lanka has taken steps to formulate a National Climate Change Policy with the support of UN-Habitat. A Ministry spokesmen said to Sunday Observer that the main objective of the Climate Change Secretariat is to Facilitate climate change research and distribution of research results to trigger policy reforms and actions.Meanwhile, the nations of the SAARC have adopted a three year Action Plan on climate change. This plan was adopted at the SAARc Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change, which was held in Dhaka from July 1-2,2008.