Youth ECOnnection
“Youth ECOnnection” aims to sensitize the young generation about how our consumer behaviour & everyday habits affect the environment.
This project and its implementation is a way to send the message to the local community that world-famous problem such as climate change is a problem that can be solved with the cooperation of all of us and that starts from our daily actions.
Each month there will be an engaging eco-friendly event for you to attend.
Throughout the past months, the group of “Youth ECOnection” volunteers have been implementing different activities on environmental awareness in our local community. The activities have begun with an introductory documentary on the issues our beloved country is facing, and we initiated different actions to solve them! Clean-up events, social media challenge, online mapping of sustainable businesses in Athens, “Treasure hunt” game to discover green areas of the city of Athens, second-hand and swap markets, and zero-waste online workshops! So many interesting activities have been done, but we do not plan to stop! What do you think we could do more to make our country a greener place to live in? Comment on the post and suggest to us future environmental activities that you would like to join and we will do our best to make them a reality! Together we can make an eco-friendly mindset great again!
Documentary
While living in the city, we are getting used to everything around us. We have our favourite coffee shop, we know where to find the best restaurant or the secret places to see the sunset. But apart from the beauty of it, we get used to the problems of the city as well.. Air pollution, plastic, and food waste, overconsumption of electricity, streets full of traffic. That is why we have created a documentary short film to show the problems we see in our City – a sad reality of Athens in the context of environmental awareness. The extent of the problems is shocking. But that’s why we are here: YouthECOnnection, to work together, step by step, towards a greener future!
This documentary movie aims at showing the sad reality of Athens in the context of environmental awareness.
This documentary is about:
– Air Pollution; – Electricity Consumption; – Plastic Waste;
– Recycling; – Food Waste.
Clean-Up
We encourage everyone to take a plastic bag and gloves, and while enjoying your day in the park, collect the trash around! We wanted to show a good example and initiated four community clean-up events: at Pedion Tou Areos, National Garden, and Metaxhourgio Surroundings in Athens, while our team member organized a beach cleaning event at Litochoro! We believe, that the best way to achieve results, is to show a good example!
Social Media Challenge
Social Media takes a huge part in our lives – it is not a secret! So, we decided to organize a Social Media Challenge to challenge our peers to adopt a more eco-friendly lifestyle! 🤓
We challenge the people to share with us simple tricks to reduce electricity consumption. 💪
Not because the prices of the electricity went crazy, but because we believe that sometimes we do not even consider how easy is to save energy! Unplug the charger before leaving the house, turn off AC and wrap yourself in the blanket during the winter – easy tips – great impact! 🤩🥳
Participating in the challenge was easy – we just ask you to share the tips (in the photo, meme, video, or another format), on how to reduce electricity consumption.
To motivate young people to do so, we prepared an amazing prize for them! Thanks to @wheeling2help and @nisiraches, the winner will have the opportunity to enjoy two nights in the amazing NISI glamping, while attending different upcycling workshops and outdoor activities! Congratulations to the winners!
Mapping of Eco-Friendly Businesses
We are sure that it is easier to adopt an eco-friendly behavior when you have all the necessary tools for it! 🌿🌱
That’s why we created a map where you can find the eco-friendly shops and organizations in Athens. 💚
It includes places you should visit for your groceries, restaurants, and bars for leisure with your friends, clothing shops to update your wardrobe, and much more. Take a look and contribute to a greener future!
Green Walk
Sunny days usually call us to go out and enjoy nature! There are so many beautiful parks in Athens to enjoy your walk, but is enjoyable to see all the trashes around? Not for us! 🤗🙏🤗
We encourage everyone to take a plastic bag and gloves, and while enjoying your day in the park, collect the trash around! We wanted to show a good example and initiated four community clean-up events: at Pedion Tou Areos, National Garden, and Metaxhourgio Surroundings in Athens, while our team member organized a beach cleaning event at Litochoro! We believe, that the best way to achieve results, is to show a good example!
Second-hand Market
Have you ever realized how much we are affected by advertisements? Buy online, buy in the supermarket, buy at the bookstore! It is not something bad if we need new things, but what do we do with the ones we do not use anymore? We hope your answer is not to throw it away!💕
To encourage the local community to give a second life to the items they do not need anymore, we organized a Swap market! We asked people to bring items out of use and we exchanged them for a ticket. This ticket was the “money” to buy another item, brought in by another person! For someone, it was trash, for others is a treasure!😎 The event was successful not just because of the live music we had, but because it brought a community feeling together with the understanding that the Second hand can be the First choice! Needless to say, you should stay tuned, because it was a first, but for sure not the last Swap market in Athens! All the items left back were donated to the Khora organization, which works with the refugees.
Zero Waste Recipe Workshop
We love food. Greeks love food. We are proud of it! However, Food waste harms the environment by contributing to global warming and climate change when food waste is added to landfills it produces the greenhouse gas methane. It is important that we throw as little food into the trashbin as possible. Maybe you ask yourself why we talk about it. But are you aware of the crazy data we came across about food waste in Greece?
Well, here we are again to spread the news!
Youth ECOnnection project made a series of 6 videos with tips and tricks that can help you make the best use of your food and create as little waste as possible while explaining why it is so important! Check out our 6 online workshops on Zero waste recipes!