9 green events you can initiate

It’s always good for a campaign to get kick-started by an organized event, especially that which involves the communities in the related activities. For a green cause, for instance, it will create more awareness and will be fun too. Here are 9 ideas for green event that perhaps you can organize on Earth Day or at any other day for that matter.

9 ideas for a green event

Conduct a recycling programme

Get your community and neighborhood together to collect waste paper, plastic items, poly-bags and other such items and recycle them. To give the event a little more spark, turn this event into a contest by organizing the members in teams.

Take a Pledge ceremoniousl

At one of your community meetings, and this will particularly interest the children, take a pledge or resolution to do whatever you can for saving the environment and conserving the resources.

Organize rallies

Get together with friends and family and your community members and march for a green cause. Events like this help raise awareness about environmental issues as they have a force of numbers, in terms of people joining the crowd.

Get the student community involved

Students are the future and the leaders of tomorrow. The next time you attend a Parents-teachers meeting for your kid, talk to the teachers and ask them to organize eco-friendly activities or projects for their students.

Be informed

Makes sure people are informed about facts like global warming, climate change, and other related issues. You can visit the library and search for a data and with the help from your community, can even create a library in your community.

Plan a green week

Getting into the green habit might not be easy. We can take it one at a time. Like you can plan a week of saving energy for instance, and saving water in the other week and likewise… If you do it as a part of the community, you might be more efficient and more disciplined when it comes to being committed to the cause.

Create community Garden

Greenery is important anywhere. Not only is it calming for your eyes and mind, it’s also necessary for maintaining the purity of the air that we breathe in. With the help of your community, you can create your own community garden. Either you can plant flowers and trees here, or you can have a kitchen garden kind of a thing as well, with fruits and vegetables plants. This is good for the environment and also helps bring the members of the community closer.

Promote cycling

Bikes and cycles are the cheapest and absolutely eco-friendly modes of transportation. Promote them as a viable commuting option among the members of your community or neighborhood. You can certainly use them for short distances. To make them a favorite with people, you can perhaps start off a cycling campaign through a cycling or biking race in your community.

Virtual campaigns

Again, this would interest the children. You can ask them to create an online forum on one of the social net-working sites like face book, that’s dedicated to green causes. You can start one by yourself as well. The forum can be a good place to exchange ideas about what the other communities in the city are doing to protect the environment and you can update it on what you are doing as well.