We're off to a busy start to a busy season. We've got exciting plans to make some important progress on the environmental front.
Save the Dates
Feb 11- TL Members Thank You Cocktail Party and guest speaker Katherina Audley of Whales of Guerrero
Jan 19- TL Eco Kermes for the Tele-Secundaria
Hermanas Kermes
We contributed about $8300mxn from our sale of paintings produced at our environmental arts camp this summer, our healthy food table, and our plate and fork rental table. Thank you to Lucia for running the food table, Debi, Leela and Mary for prepping the food, and a bunch of other helpful people who volunteered and made it all possible.
We also encouraged attendees to bring their own reusable dishes. It was a great start to what we hope will become a habitual way of attending local events. See the Eco Kermes below for our next effort in this area.
Recycling Collective
A local group of restaurants and lodgings have agreed to create their own collective to transfer their recyclables to the central depot. Pato anticipates that eventually there will be more collectives of this type which will reduce the TL budgetary needs and allow us to focus on other projects.
We'll call this first collective the Playa Pacifico Group and so far they are made up of:
Cafe Pacifico
Las Villas
Present Moment Retreat
Las Rocas
Indigo
Tres Mujeres
New Recycling Depot
The central depot will be moved to the Primary school by January.
Tienda Pilot Program
Pato plans to approach a group of stores and restaurants on the main road to begin a pilot program to experiment with various green practices. i.e discontinue use of plastic bags, plastic straws, water in plastic bottles, use of biodegradeable take out containers, etc.
Healthy Waste Management Workshops
Pato will begin offering workshops based on the necessity for healthy waste management. We've identified 9 groups, each with specific needs in this area. He'll do a workshop for each group covering both general and specific practices. Here are the groups:
Property Managers and workers
Ejido
Primary School
Tele- Secondary School
School Bus Kids and families
Kinder
Progressa- Govt assistance women's group
Restaurants
Church
Ex-pats
Pato will deliver the workshop to the Ejido and the Primary school in December. The rest of the group workshops will be held in January.
Eco Kermes
We will hold a zero waste, healthy food Kermes Jan 12th to raise funds for the Tele-Secundaria. If you'd like to help out please let me know. This will be a precursor to practices we'd like to see implemented/included at the Feria. Entertainment, mural painting, used goods sale, kids games are some of the ideas we are hoping to include.
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