Happy World Environmental Education Day
Today, January 26th, World Environmental Education Day’s is to raise awareness about climate change and sustainability. We, the Smart Yards Co-op team work on curbing climate and outdoor sustainability everyday. When designing, installing and nurturing our gardens with Permaculture methods, we conserve water, energy, build soil, and habitat under and above ground. We also are committee to sharing our knowledge, experience, and building community with Smart Yards Education, our sister organization, year round.
Through our hands-on educational workshops, one community member and one garden at a time, we celebrate, honor, and celebrate our connection with nature. A day to develop a world population that is aware of the need for engagement and participation in environmental issues. Is the way in order to conserve and protect life. We need people who have the knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work individually and collectively towards solutions of current environmental challenges.
In hopes of improving the relationship between humans and nature itself, through environmental education we want people to realize that sustainable development is the way to meet our current needs without compromising future generations. Environmental education teaches us to understand what renewable energies are, the importance of optimizing the use of water as a natural, limited— essential resource to life on Earth. We at Smart Yards Co-op work hard every day to demonstrate that every drop counts and still we can have rich and beautiful outdoor living spaces.
This education gives us the opportunity to promote knowledge about some of the most serious environmental problems facing our planet and allows individuals to:
In the spirit of World Environmental Educating Day we are launching our Spring into Action with Smart Yards Education, our sister organization. This hands-on with Song and HUM Along, and Connection, will empower participants with the practice in Cultivating A Regenerative Livelihoods. Funded by Santa Clara Valley Water District and sponsor by our friends: Assemblymember Ash Kalra, Human Agenda, A Slice Of New York, Capitol Wholesale Nursery, Vital Cycles, La Mesa Verde of Sacred Heart Community Service and Smart Yards Co-op.
During these 4 weekends, 4 months, 4 workshops, 4 our Earth, we will dive into the exciting permaculture ethics and regenerative livelihood. Students will learn rainstorm management, greywater installation, lawn conversion, effective irrigation systems installation, sheet mulching for soil health, conservation, compost systems and more.
If this is something you are interested in, you can register HERE. For more information about this workshops or future workshops visit us at www.smartyardseducation.org or contact us via email: info@smartyardseducation.org
“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught” -Babe Dioum