The countdown for Earth Hour in Sri Lanka continues with great excitement. On 19th March morning (very early this morning, infact) we rubbed bleary eyes and held back yawns, as we headed out to see the launching of a hot air balloon promoting Earth Hour. Arriving before dawn, the oval was already a hive of activity. Many familiar faces ...
Wow…working with kids is lot of fun. I have been experiencing this for last 8 weeks at Good Market and the school for deaf in Colombo. Our latest programmes – “Nature kids” and "talking through Nature" was progressing well for last 8 weeks getting attention from people/kids and parents and teachers. We were encouraged by many people and parents and ...
I would like to well come Karina Donkers from Australia. She is the 7th volunteer we had for this year from overseas and the 3rd volunteer from Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ). Just like any other volunteer we invited her to write few blogs for us. Here she wrote..Sri Lanka is a beautiful and magical place yet has to face ...
Sunday morning on the 1st of April, the yathrees and some ECO-V members met in Colombo to participate in the youth Earth Walk 2012. The event was a collaborative effort of "Youth for Greener Sri Lanka (YGSL)" the newly formed network of youth The group joined hundreds of youth in a march through Colombo’s streets in an effort to spread ...
15. March 2013 Today is the 3rd day of our journey. Our program is intense. We get up at 5 o clock every morning and fall into bed around 12 at night. And it feels so good!!! There are many things about our group of “yathris” (travellers) that impress me. Our 25 youngsters are inspiring. They are ready for every ...
After Boston un-conference organized by New England Eisenhower fellows I flew back to San Francisco. It was a very unique experience for me. Throughout Eisenhower fellowship travel, I had the opportunity to stay at hotels like Hilton, Double tree and many other star class hotels but two nights living in a small room at Casa de Paz at Canticle Farm ...
Its my 3rd week in USA. I hardly have time to sit and write blogs. The easiest way is write something on face book as its quick and no need to write details. So I tried to keep in touch with our 1100+ ECO-V face book members. But I need to update all our well wishes those who are not ...
My family and Jim at Camp EurekaBoingology, Warbuton,Melbourne.In January 2011, we were able to see the way Melbourne celebrated the New Year. Fire works, greetings, laughs, smiles and happy faces of people wish
Giving a presentation at Department of Sustainability and Environment I had a very successful official visit to Melbourne from 24th November to 4th December 2011. The purpose of the visit was to present the success of the river journey (Kelani Nadee Yatra) to Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ) . It was very nice to meet all the advisory board members ...
As the countdown for Paapedi 2013 begins, World Class Cricketer Muthiah Muralitharan’s endorsement has been a tremendous encouragement for all at ECO-V.We are much grateful to Mr. Kushil Gunasekera Founder, Foundation of Goodness, who has made this endorsement a reality and for the support he extends towards Paapedi. With just 11 days to Paapedi, we are faced with new challenges ...
We woke at the beautiful riverside Salawa Scout Camp to meet our friends and supporters from the Colombo-district Scout Association. After singing the national anthem we jumped into our challenge for the morning: an Eco-Adventure course, comprising commando-style physical challenges, nature-based adventure courses and intellectually-stimulating environmental quizzes.After several fun-filled hours on the course, we took the chance to catch our ...
Our 6th PAAPEDI-day started early morning at 6am in a big garden with barefoot nature meditation and the sounds of all kinds of early birds. The deeper meaning of our outside meditation is to start feeling being part of nature, rather than feeling detached from it.meditation starts at 5.30am wen its still dark!During the daytime we focused on leadership education, ...
After a great retreat at Grand Canyon we all came back to Phoenix and some of the fellows flew to West coast to continue their travels. I and few fellows had to stay one more night in Phoenix as flights to East Coast had got cancelled due to hurricane Sandy. Finally I arrived to Washington DC on the 31stof October. ...
I was fully dressed and ready for snow when I left the motel to go to Denver airport. It was snow white everywhere along the road which was full of fall (spring) colours yesterday. Hmm..that’s nature…always full of surprises!!!Denver, Co when I left my hotelAfter 2 hours of a flight I landed at the Tempe airport, Phoenix, Arizona. Oh..dear me ...
Next destination was Colorado and that was the 5thstate I visited during Eisenhower fellowship. I flew to Denver and that was my 10th city in the 5th state. Gregory Inn was a nice place which has been booked for my accommodation and I felt very happy to be there as it’s a small house which belongs to Steve a very ...
After the naaee conference in Oakland I flew to Portland where Paul venture was happily waiting for me at arrival terminal. It was the first time in this tour some body I know was waiting for me. So I was not worried about calling for a taxi or a hotel shuttle and more relaxed as it was less work for ...
Hello! I’m Dhilmi Suriyaarachchi, a medical student from Sri-Lanka. Currently I am on my semester vacation, thoroughly enjoying my time working with ECO-V. Jai, Preethi,Sameera, Kanchana, Kavindu and Dhilmi at ECO-V officeI was excited to be a part of ECO-V’s first project for 2013, Paapedi : A bicycle journey for climate justice. I found this journey very close to my ...
My name is Raquel, I come from Spain but I´m traveling around Asia since 4 month ago.Besides discovering new places and cultural, my goal is collaborate on projects to improve the living conditions based on sustainability. I´ve been helping in construction of schools, organic farming, sustainability education for children.On 24th of January I´ve arrive to Sri Lanka and I started ...
It was the day that we had a retreat…a real retreat from Eisenhower fellowship. We all got into a bus and started traveling towards grand canyon with two staff members from Eisenhower fellowship; Leigh Cohen and Holly Logen.Holly me and Leigh When we stopped for lunch at Sedona and waiting in the line with other Sri Lankan fellows I saw ...
This year we were very busy with World Environmental day (WED). Dhanushka our Kelani Nadee Yathree (River journey) and Paapedi Yathree (bicycle Journey) organized a workshop for children in his area on the 4th of June. This was the first workshop he organized at his organic farm. A team of 40 including students, teachers and some student Buddhist monks visited ...
