Thursday, March 4, 2010

Azlander Article on EC and Google Group

Unifying our Action: Environmental Committee Website and Google Group

Azerbaijan’s environmental problems can seem too overwhelming for individual PCV action. Despite this feeling, individual PCVs continually work to educate Azerbaijanis on a range of environmental problems including pollution, global warming, use of pesticides, and energy use. The Environmental Committee (EC) hopes to catalogue these individual events and bring our solitary efforts together into unified action. Do you want to start a composting project in your area? Do you want to create an Earth Day lesson plan in Azerbaijani? Would you like to take part in a field trip to an Azerbaijani National Park? If yes, then avoid recreating the wheel. The Environmental Committee wants to make years’ worth of valuable data and resources available to you through two main venues:

Website

http://envcommaz.blogspot.com/

On the EC website you can find: conversation club discussion outlines, project reports, lesson plans, Azerbaijani environmental data, news article links, past Azlander articles, and more. Right now the EC is reworking the website into an easy to use information database. Everyone is encouraged to submit articles, pictures, or anything else to the website. Both Sara Nevius (saranevius@gmail.com) and Alexis Cohen (alexistentialism@gmail.com) are administrators to the site.

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