I can't hold back my excitement for the Kelani River Journey, which begins in just 2 days! You can follow ECO-V's Kelani Nadee Yathra blog at: http://kelaninadeeyathra.wordpress.com/Many years ago I came up with the concept for a journey to transition Sri Lanka to a clean, green and eco-friendly society, and finally it has been made a reality. Thank you so ...
Meeting at YatiyantotaECO-V members had a another visit on the 25th of June to Sri pada mountain ( Adam's Peak) to check the route of Kelani Nadee Yatra. This is also a Thiresi charika where ECO-V members get to gether to watch nature. With the preparation for Kelani Nadee Yathra, our members have become more ...
Mrs. Neetha Ariyaratne, head of Sarvodaya Suwasetha handing over items I am very happy to say that our fund raising effort with Westgarth Mothers had a great positive impact. We were able to help 20 distitute te
We celebrated the most important religious festival for Buddhists in Sri Lanka on 15th and 16th of May. Vesak which is for Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death is the most colorful festival that celebrated by Sri Lankan Buddhists. We
Thiresi Lama Hamuwa is the newly formed group for kids under age of 15 by ECO-V. This was a dream coming true for me as I have been planning to start an educational session for kids who were associated with ECO-V. I designed a separate environmental educational package for them with my new experience ...
Journeys for Climate Justice (JCJ) is a new way for everybody to offset their carbon foot prints. My stay in Melbourne for a year was very productive as I have a strong bond/link with them even I came back to Sri Lanka. Last year I met many interesting people, who love and care about Mother Earth.
During Last few months ECO-V got involved in conducting series of programmes related Solid Waste management including Morawaka and Pitabeddara areas in Southern province. One Mr. Ranjan Abeywicjrama from Morawaka who really wants to make sustainable community with proper waste management system invited us to conduct these programmes. He is the owner of an organic farm called Shrawani Estate - ...
“Climate Change” which the whole world has been molested, has become the most destructive environmental threat in the century. Today “Global temperature” has rapidly increased as a result of emitting greenhouse gases widely towards atmosphere due to human activities. There are 6 major greenhouse gases which are mentioned by “Kyoto Protocol” such as Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide ...
After 11 months of settling me down in New Delhi, India I am so happy to introduce ECO-V’s “Nature Kids” programme to kids and parents in India too. When we started Nature kids in Sri Lanka in 2013, it was with only 4 kids including my own two boys. There after on every Thursdays we went to Good Market (https://www.facebook.com/goodmarket.global/) ...
Our good friend Jim Crosthwaite arrived yesterday, and will be travelling with us for the remainder of the Journey. Jim is the president and co-founder of Journeys for Climate Justice, and we thank him kindly for his generosity, support and determination to help this Journey come to fruition.We begun our last day in the field with a fascinating tour of ...
Yesterday was our last day of this Journey for Climate Justice. We didn’t stop smiling and laughing for a second, but in the back of our minds there was also great sadness that this experience of our lifetime was about to come to an end.We made our way to the stunning International Training Centre of Vishua Niketan, where we were ...
