Youth as Engine to Promote Sustainable Lifestyles in Colombia
Dr. Diana Páez, Coordinadora proyecto "En Modo Acción", Programa de Ingeniería Ambiental, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad el Bosque, RCE Bogota
9th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
13 & 14 October, 2020
15. The project has enabled youth to mobilize in a more sustainable way. It should
be emphasized that the city needs the infrastructure and sufficient enabling
conditions to get more people to change their way of moving.
Young people have changed the way they feed and understand the
environmental impacts of food and packaging. Work must continue on raising
awareness about low carbon food.
Young people have become more aware in their way of buying and acquiring
goods, more emphasis should be placed on the purchasing of used goods since
this is a poorly done practice.
16. More work must be done in the promotion of sustainable
tourism, in addition to the low-carbon celebrations so that they
become a habit for the young people of Bogotá.
Although practices such as saving water and energy are highly
developed, actions such as composting and home gardening must
be promoted, given that, as they involve more work, they are still
not actionable for young people.
17.
18. Number of Events: 10
New Sustainability Course for
Young leaders
En Modo Acción Games
New alliances
19. Twister
•Spin the roulette and
learn
Smarty
•How much do you
know about
environment? This
game will challenge
your knowledge
Puzzle
•Do you know you city
enough? Build this
puzzle and learn
where the principal
environment-related
places are
Ladder
•If you have a
sustainable lifestyle
you’ll be rewarded, if
you are
unsustainable you’ll
be punished
Virtual Water
•Do you know how
much water is used
to produce our food
and goods? This
game will teach you
20. Objective
• To inform and promote
actions on sustainable
lifestyles, emphasizing
on water footprint
reduction actions
21. 5 events from October
to December
Alliances with 7
organizations
More than 150
publications on social
networks about water
footprint and actions to
reduce it
An increase of
approximately 5,000
followers on Facebook
and 2,000 on Instagram.
3 contests with
sustainable prices
38 Young leaders
22.
23. 15 Virtual
events with
more tan 1100
participants and
counting
New
publications
about water
footprint,
biodiversity and
SL
34 Young
leaders
New alliances
with more than
30 sustainable
brands
5 contests with
sustainable
prices around
the SL domains
Set of
workshops
around
sustainable
lifestyles in
alliance with
brands