Dear Goanetters,
Tomorrow (Friday) evening, I shall be speaking at the Xavier s
Historical Research Center in Porvorim about waste management in Goa.
From a subject that I casually got interested in back in 1999, I've
grown to work with this subject more and more, and something that once
was a part time hobby has got me so interested that in 2004, I quit my
job as an engineer to work with environmental issues full time. I've
been spending most of my time working hands on with waste, working with
data collection, experiments, implementation of best practices, and lots
of discussions with others in the waste management scene both in Goa and
elsewhere.
Waste management awareness in Goa is high. Papers carry related
articles almost on a daily basis, but sadly, most of this is negative
news and it's time that we look at the positives too, and the broad
picture in Waste Management.
Waste Management is an issue that plagues the whole world, not just Goa
& India. The interactive presentation & discussion titled "Waste Wise :
Converting Problems to Solutions with Waste Management in Goa" will show
you waste management problems that are affecting Goa, how bad it could
get, and how easily we could solve this on our own with just a little
effort. To understand various concepts, I will be using actual
photographs of waste management in Goa as well as sample garbage props
and handouts. Since all the solutions I talk about are low cost, low
tech and local, implementation of the same is quick and easy. With
systems already in place to reduce our waste to landfill sites by 85%,
we can even start working towards the zero waste concept, which i shall
talk about in the presentation. In some particular cases, the systems
in use here work much better than in Europe or the west, and perhaps its
time that they can look back at us for help soon!
See you tomorrow! The information you need to get there is mentioned below:
Friday, 16th November 2007 From 5.30pm to 7pm.
The Xavier Center of Historical Research Alto Porvorim, Goa
For more info, contact Fr. Delio at Tel: 2417772 ; 2414971 or email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or me at 9890936828 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
