Environmental groups team with community to go green
A community group has teamed up with a government-led youth environmental scheme for a string of events this month.
Bermuda Is Love is launching the #1Planet1Right campaign with Bermuda Environmental Action, begun last April by the Minister of Home Affairs to promote youth engagement.
Bermuda Is Love believes that “the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental keystone for a dignified human existence”.
It said: “Supporting the right to a healthy environment is crucially a recognition of the natural, inherent value of nature, meaning that nature must be recognised and valued not just for how it may benefit humans, but as having inherent value and shared rights to survive and thrive of its own.”
The campaign began last Saturday with a clean-up along the Somerset Bridge Railway Trail.
Next Saturday comes with more work on the community garden at the old TN Tatem Middle School from 10am to noon.
On November 16, the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute will host an environmental showcase for the campaign, from 10am to 2pm.
November 19 will feature “upcycling” — reusing discarded items — on show at the Michelle Fray Design Studio on Burnaby Street in Hamilton, from 1pm to 3pm.
The BUEI will host a film screening of Green Rights: The Human Right to a Healthy World on November 21 from 6pm to 8pm.
On November 25, there will be a beach clean-up at Tobacco Bay in St George’s, from 10am to noon.
On November 27, BUEI’s Tradewinds Auditorium will cost a community discussion from 6pm to 8pm.
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