The No Impact Project’s Eco-Leader Training was launched to help transform citizens who are concerned about our environmental crises into inspired local community leaders and founders of environmental action groups. As Colin Beavan, Director of the No Impact Project, explains: “There are many people out there who are unsure how to collect their community members into activated groups who support and work towards environmental solutions. Our new program seeks to help them form their own grassroots groups and move forward from there.”
During the all-expenses paid weekend, 18 participants selected from a pool of over 200 took part in a series of dynamic workshops and talks with inspirational leaders and activists from the environmental movement, including Jeremy Osborn, co-founder of 350.org, and Anne Pope, founder of Sustainable Flatbush. They learned how to build and empower their community to take solution-based action on our pressing environmental problems. By bringing together participants from various backgrounds, the Eco-Leader Training supported even wider participation in the environmental movement.
Since the retreat, our Eco Leaders have led some extraordinary No Impact Weeks of their own around the country, a few of which include:
• A No Impact Week with the Atlantic chapter of the Sierra Club
• A No Impact Week with a local Community Supported Agriculture group involving 50 families in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• A No Impact Week with the faculty and staff of the New School in NYC.
• A No Impact Week in Houston, Texas with 100 community members and implementation of the No Impact Curriculum for public schools in Houston, reaching an estimated 2,000 school children.
We are currently planning our next Eco Leader Retreat.
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