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Greening Asha
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Disclaimers
This presentation was thrown together in the last 10 minutes !
There are no stats, no figures, no numbers to back the slides
Your presenter is a birkenstock-wearing, organic granola-eating, hippie treehugger
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Overview
• Why?• How?• Case Study: Geetanjali• Gotchas!• Q & A
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Why?
These are NOT our reasons for going green:• It’s hip and trendy (green is the new black)• Everybody’s doing it• Paris Hilton thinks global warming is not
“hawt”
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Why? (contd..)• Respect the rights of people. And the rights of the world we live in.
• Environmental justice and social justice usually go hand-in-hando High correlation between environmentally friendly practices and social
justice. Likewise between environmentally unfriendly practices and social injustice.
• Virtuous cycleo Eco-friendly & socially just practices communities that are empowered,
participative and more aware sustaining eco-friendly and socially just practices
o Eco-friendly products, healthier environment, healthier people, healthier local economies
• Imperative – we don’t have a choice• Asha is in a position to inspire/influence partner organizations
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How?• Eco-friendly materials for events
– Tableware, food and drinks – Less is more. Encourage your attendees/audience to use less
resources• Eco-friendly choices for stationery
– Newsletters, envelopes, lesser printouts• Carpool for your meetings. Even better, take the bus • Publicize your efforts!• Green Auditing
– Evaluate all your activities through the green lens• Don’t be cowed down by obstacles!
– Hey, we were eco-friendly for several thousands of years and we survived
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Case Study: Geetanjali
Background• Annual Tamil light music concert• 600+ audience• Dinner and snacks are served
The Problem• Terrible ecological footprint!– Every year, we would generate a HUGE quantity of
trash at the end of the event
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Case Study: Geetanjali (contd..)
Possible Solution• Biodegradable dinnerware?• Compost food waste?
Problems with this solution• Eco-friendly dinnerware will not withstand hot,
runny desi food for several hours• Cost?• Will the audience accept this?• Where do we even begin?
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Case Study: Geetanjali (contd..)
• “Eco-friendly dinnerware will not withstand hot, runny desi food for several hours”– We found tableware that actually worked
decently!
• “Cost?”– We spent just $300 more than we would have
with regular tableware
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• Will the audience accept this– You bet! They loved it! (and yeah, some folks
missed the rich flavor of styrofoam seeping into their food)
• Where do we even begin?– Wealth of resources. Asha Seattle welcomes your
questions!