We at ECO-V gained the recognition as a group who has been involved in sustainable waste Management and a group who "walk the talk". The main reason was that media highlighted our zero waste practice soon after collapsing of garbage mountain at Meethotamulla area that has been maintained by the Colombo Municipal Council. This incident killed 30 more people on ...
.We had a great successful year in 2013. Paapedi 2013 the bicycle journey for Climate Justice was a very successful campaign we had for Climate Change mitigation and adaptation work. Also we got involved with Good Market (https://www.facebook.com/thegoodmarketcolombo) and started “Nature Kids” a very unique programme for kids to get connected with Mother Nature. Nature Talk before Nature WalkDuring Nature ...
World Environmental Day Exhibition 2017Although World Environmental Day (WED) is occurred on 5th of June in every year, we are practicing environmental conservation continuously as Eco Friendly Volunteers. Therefore every day is an environmental day for us. However, we are invited to create awareness on WED 2017 on “conscious consumerism & connecting with Mother Nature” by District Secretariat, Matale. We ...
I have described what "Youth Yathra" is in my previous blog. This is about first Youth Yathra named "Yarl Yathra 2016".It was unfortunate that I could not write a blog for the month of September. It was mainly due to the physical weakness in my right hand which was identified as Tennis Elbow (inflammation of the tendons of the elbow ...
Oil lamps with the shape of 60+I was able to witness a very succssful exhibition of ECO-V which finished on the 31st March and all Kelani Nadee Yathrees and some other ECO-V members gathered at Saravodya, Moratuwa to celebrate Earth Hour 2012. Rest of the team of Earth Hour Sri Lanka joined with the president at Presidents' house in Kandy ...
Dear All, It's been 23 years for ECO-V. Back in 2001, some of you were invited to my home to discuss starting an organisation. Since then we have had so many activities towards protecting Nature. Mainly towards behavioral changes among us. But we never wanted to grow up as a large organisation. It was always running at low levels ...
Hello friends Happy New Year 2024!! It's another New Year but we at ECO-V will be continuing the same activities from last years. Well.... writing a blog has become a lazy activity for me now. I think its due to other social media like face book, Instagram and WhatsApp. They are more popular and I always write short articles and ...
After 7 years, ECO-V office is filled with staff again. It is very satisfying to see hard working youngsters with full of energies, ideas, laughs and some times silence while thinking. We recruited two more staff members for three months to work towards a training programm. Nadun and Tharuka are the two young graduates we selected for planning the ...
I know its not fair to have such a long silence. Since we became active in face book (https://www.facebook.com/groups/119363511453200/) I rarely had time to write a blog. So today I am posting about our new yathra - Kolamba yathra 2015.The logo designed by Dulshan who is our IT volunteer since 2003IntroductionThe Kolamba Yathra for Climate Change is the 3rdYathra of ...
After being inside for 7 months without traveling, we just came back from a 4-day trip to Rajasthan. It was a great trip with a 17-hour straight drive from New Delhi to Jaisalmer and spending some time around Thar Desert and understanding the history there. Here are some interesting places we traveled and what we saw. I decided to share ...
Well after 6 months of lock down due to Covid-19 and after a long break of writing, I thought I should write something now. Honestly there is no such lock-down now in New Delhi, where I live and we all are getting used to the “new normal”. No Cinemas, no metros. no commercial flights so no air travelling and no ...
Month of April – Experienced the Covid-19, feeling was “facing as it is” Month of May – recovered and waiting to go to Sri Lanka, but no luck as Sri Lanka closed entry gates for us even as Sri Lankans living in India. Feeling was Disappointed, sad but what to do? as there is nothing we could do! Month ...
What is Youth Yathra 2016?Youth Yathra 2016 is a programmewhich focuses on “Creating Green Youth Leaders” who will be change makers in action against climate change. This is a programme initiated by Eco Friendly Volunteers(ECO-V)under a grant received from American Embassy Sri Lanka. A 10 month training session each in Jaffna, Kandy, Matara districts were conducted as the first stage ...
It’s been almost a year since I did my last training session inside a room with an audience which had a physical presence. It was February 2020 and I was running really great training sessions in Myanmar and in Sri Lanka. Since then, I could not run such programmes till today. I really miss such and I know all my ...
Many of our friends, members and supporters got to know that we too got infected by Covid-19. An article written by me in Sinhala medium went bit viral in Sri Lank via social media and electronic newspapers, and many people got to know about our story through that. The best part of it is, many of our friends got ...
Making eco friendly Greeting cards, book marks, and gift tags as fund raising items was one of main activities at the time we started ECO-V in 2001. I very much enjoyed this and tried training youngsters on this but no body was interested. It was my main activity after working hours, till 1 am -2am after putting Boo and Nipu ...
March 20th, 2013Day 7Following on from yesterday after an inspiring presentation delivered expertly by Jie Chen from Crissy Fields Centre, San Francisco, USA. About his work with the youth from different neighborhoods around SF, very similar to the Yathras of Paapedi being from all parts of Sri Lanka. One of the key points I noted was how the aim was ...
ECO-V is 20 years!! Can you all believe it? We started ECO-V on the 7th of February 2001. It was a very small meeting with my university friends; Sujani, Lal, Harsha and some of Thushara’s friends and my family members. We launched it officially as a new organization and then started working as a team. The first office was ...
Well a blogpost after two years of silence. It does not mean that I stopped working. After the pandemic I accelerated my work in Sri Lanka and started travelling for work. Anyway since it's Environmental month I wanted to share this story. A true story of my own. Hope you will like it!Living with my own plastic waste in New ...
Sumunduni Seneviratne the new ECO-V family member reports!!!! 05/11/2015 - The day I met with ECO-V team in KandyIt’s all about change; even we want it, its bit of hard work, so obliviously heart says why you should take trouble? Ii is better to stay as it is and why you are taking a risk? Then I say to ...
