Glimpses from the Upcycling Workshop we had with Acuity Knowledge Partners. To mark the significance of Global Recycling Day on the 22nd of March, 2023, we held a workshop with our partners from Acuity, where a total number of 25 people came together to learn how to make indoor planters for fresher air by upcycling waste material. They engaged with soil-less mediums, and learnt about how to make the best out of waste. The hands on workshop enabled each participant to build their own table top upcycled glass bottle planter, that they were able to keep as a takeaway from the workshop!
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I want to start with a quote, a critical one:
“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”IPCC Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (SPM.D.5.3).
This quote is from the last page of the second part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6), which came out on the 28th of February, at a very sad point in time for what is happening in Europe: an unjustified attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty from the Russian autocrat blinded by...