Local Guides Clean The World - A Local Guides project

[ErmesT]

Thank you @LaxmiG1 , @RupendraNeupane

Take your time. Feel free to comment Here on in the specific topics. A topic for “best practices” will be made soon

Ermes

[ErmesT]

Thank you @LucioV

can’t wait to see the photos of your Meet-up linked on the maps.

I think you will be happy to show also the “best practices” of Rome, for preventing Plastic Pollutions, in the spirit of the 3R (Reduce - Recycle - Reuse)

Ermes

[Sagir]

this is great and giant step @ErmesT

consider me in this great contribution to give back to our dear world… Green environment means better life…

As environment science student this will be great for me…

thanks for taking this up Ermest

[NunungAfuah]

Yes, @KarenVChin I am on board and always support Indonesia Local Guides as well. Mas @BudionoS let me know if you have already set up your meet up

[NunungAfuah]

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@ErmesT wrote:

Thanks @RiverDefender , @AgoesSantosa , @SriSedono_id

Your community is doing a great activity, I know @NunungAfuah is very proud of it.

Hope to have more and more events linked in “Mymaps of plastic pollution”

Thanks for being a great community

Ermes

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I am always proud to be part the awesome Indonesia Local Guides. You are right @ErmesT for mentioning @RiverDefender , he is an activist in Bogor. He did his river cleaning movement in every Sunday. It seems the project will be great for him, and the rest Indonesia Local Guides as well.

[RiverDefender]

Terima kasih Mbak @NunungAfuah

Saya baru mengenalnya di WA Grup. Tapi saya yakin. Sumbangannya dengan pemikiran terhadap perubahan planet bumi yang lebih luar biasa. Jaringan Global Pemandu Lokal yang saling mendukung ini penting. Oh, ya… Saya ralat. Kegiatan rutin komunitas lokal di Bogor tiap Sabtu pagi. Di sini kami bersama @sudiyah262 @johanesjenito juga teman-teman di Bogor Ciliwung Community.

Terima kasih juga mas @SriSedono_id @AgoesSantosa @FXBudiW @EdiSuprihanto juga teman-teman di Indonesia yang saling mendukung program hebat Pemandu Lokal.

Sekali lagi. Terima kasih @ermest

Mari wujudkan dunia bersih.

Salam

FJoe

[ErmesT]

Thanks for your reply @Piehti , even if it makes me a bit confused.

Updating Google Maps is what we do every day, 50 millions of Local Guides, working together, for creating and improving the digital aspect af the real world, the world where we are living, with real shopping places, real natural features, and real rivers, parks, oceans.

So I don’t personally see any contraddictions in it. At the opposite, I see a way for the Local Guides to gain respect, in many places where to be a Local Guide is not very easy. I believe this activity, in improving the emphaty for Local Guides, will help also our “virtual aspect”.

Ermes

[MelizzaNeon]

Thank you @ErmesT , for starting this initiative on the Connect forum. I had written a blog post about using the Litterati app and Google My Maps to “track your trash” for data collection as part of geo-inquiry in the classroom: Spring Clean-Up with Litterati and Google Maps. I am also working on a lesson plan to go with this - it will be Ontario curriculum expectations, probably for Junior level (Gr. 6). I thought that holding a Spring Cleanup activity in May could be an event that students could potentially write about when they take their provincial reading, writing and math test (EQAO - this is a test that students in Ontario write in Grades 3, 6, 9 and 10). The language test usually contains questions about writing reports based on volunteering opportunities, or writing about an event in a school newspaper - and it would be great for the kids to have something fresh in their minds to reflect on - hopefully we can make this happen.

[AlejandraMaria]

Hi Proactive Local Guides,

I really love this super-project because many of us see the utility of this initiative and how we can join strength and make changes in Society.

Many many thanks @ErmesT for starting it :))) and the rest of Proactive Local guides for giving ideas and share their knowledge :))

Good Evening from the South of Spain,

Alejandra.

[system]

Good words @AlejandraMaria , it seems that this project is really going to be fantastic . All big preparation for this are made and I think that we can all start our engines FOR BIG RIDE !!!

[LucioV]

Related… high quote cleaning!

https://www.montagna.tv/cms/120723/leverest-ha-5000-kg-di-rifiuti-in-meno-ma-e-solo-linizio/

[ErmesT]

Thanks for sharing this interesting article @LucioV

We will create soon a topic for “best practices” where to share initiatives like this one, and what we can learn from experiences already started all around the world

[ErmesT]

Sorry for my late reply, @MelizzaNeon . I love your initiative, and I think you can teach us a lot.

Why not to partecipate in the Education Topics?

@NunungAfuah , @AlejandraMaria , @DavidTito and many others will be happy to create with you useful contents to use in schools

@ValeriaA will share with us the university point of view, and I believe that @MahabubMunna will be happy to lead this initiative in Bangladesh Universities, giving us an interesting point of view

What do you think about it?

Ermes

[DavidTito]

@ErmesT I can only think one thing that we incorporate the mentioned Local Guides into the program but whose data will be incorporated into Mymaps whos will external or

viscera or both?

Time is no pressor

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@ErmesT wrote:

Sorry for my late reply, @MelizzaNeon . I love your initiative, and I think you can teach us a lot.

Why not to partecipate in the Education Topics?

@NunungAfuah , @AlejandraMaria , @DavidTito and many others will be happy to create with you useful contents to use in schools

@ValeriaA will share with us the university point of view, and I believe that @MahabubMunna will be happy to lead this initiative in Bangladesh Universities, giving us an interesting point of view

What do you think about it?

Ermes

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[DavidTito]

@LucioV I just had a Look oh my gosh, But great detection on your behalf and if you don’t mind I will add your source in to Mymaps

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@LucioV wrote:

Related… high quote cleaning!

https://www.montagna.tv/cms/120723/leverest-ha-5000-kg-di-rifiuti-in-meno-ma-e-solo-linizio/

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[ErmesT]

Hi @DavidTito

my idea is to create a “best practices” topic this weekend, with a specific Mymaps to be inserted in there, to link post, videos, and more, related to “best practices” in fighting plasting pollution, so to have it a “geographic location” of it.

In Best Practices we will show what every country is already doing about the 3R (Reduce - Re-cycle, Re-use), to use as an example for others

Ermes

[Fahid]

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@ErmesT wrote:

Introduction

Plastic products have changed our life, in a positive way.
Easy to produce, at low cost, plastics is used in most of the products that we are using in our life: from shopping bags to cars and computers, from markers to kitchen tools.
Colorful and light, plastic products are filling our life of happiness.

Easy to produce, plastic products are used in important fields, like automotive, computers, agriculture, medicine, and many others.
Disposable syringes and surgical products, made in plastic, are saving our life everyday.

Plastic products have changed our life, in a negative way.
Easy to produce, at low cost, they are frequently thrown away after use
Plates, glasses, bottles and plastic bags are constantly abandoned, thrown away. Because of the low cost, it is not worthwhile to recover them.

Abandoned in the environment, the lightweight plastic products are transported by wind and rain, to get into the rivers, and finish their journey in the oceans.

The action of the wind, rain and waves, shatters the plastic into small pieces, which float on the water.

Birds and fish swallow the colored pieces of plastic, which can not be digested and accumulate in their stomach. The fish enter the plastic bags, and they can not get out.

Ocean Gyres helps in accumulating the plastic garbage, in what is known as the ”Great Pacific garbage patch”

Plastic pollution has become one of the great dangers for our planet

Fighting plastic pollution can become a major objective for Local Guides

Want to know how? Keep reading

Local Guides clean the world - outline of a project

Five targets for Local Guides (plus one) - A “one year long” project

Step 0 - A logo for a new project

This is a special Project for Local Guides World, we will do a lot of different activities, all under the same flag: #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld

For me, it is important to give a way for easy identifying the activities related to Environement and Pollution, mostly Plastic Pollution, that we will run this year.

With this idea in my mind, I started a contest for inventing a new logo - Local Guide Contest: a logo for a new project. The logo has been voted, and now we already have it.

A logo that you can use for every activity related to this project, in Meet-ups, GeoWalk, documents, T-shirt. You can download the logo here

Step 1 - Education

(read here for more)
A lot of people is unaware of the problem. Local Guides can be a good education/information channel, organizing Meetups with students, explaining the danger of plastic pollution and showing them how easy is to collect and recycle plastics. Local Guides are students and teachers, children and parents (with some Grandparents too)

• we can prepare educational material, to be used in the school
• We can organize activities in the school, for teaching children about the 3R concept (Reduce - Recycle - Reuse)
• We can run “Educational Meetup”
• In High school, we can invite students to Develop a search about plastic pollution

They can be invited to step 2 and 3
It can be interesting to have Local Guides working together for preparing educational / informative documents

Step 2 - Documentation
Photowalk meetups, or even individual photowalk, are welcome. The aim is to collect documentation of polluted areas, like roads, rivers, public parks, beaches, mountains (I am thinking about all the the material abandoned by climbers) that can be the a target for the step 3. Photo albums will be linked to a worldwide “Mymaps of plastic pollution”
Photos to be shared in social channels, with the hashtag #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld

Step 3 - Actions

• Clean the planet - Volunteer meetups, for cleaning selected areas, identified in step 2.
  Also non Local Guides are invited to be part of the event. Local Guide program to be shared. Photos and videos needed
• Cleaning around the school with the Local Guides, with a picnic / party at the end of the day, in a cleaned place
• Adopt a Place - Volunteer meetups, for keeping a specific area monitored and clean
• Social cleanup - Cleanup the yard of an old person or someone who you know who can’t look after themselves

All the Recaps will be linked to the worldwide “Mymaps of plastic pollution”

Step 4 - Publication

Build up of a Mymaps of plastic pollution, showing the identified areas, as per step 2, and highlighting the cleanup actions.
For every place we will provide:

• A selected photo, loaded in Mymaps
• A link to a photo album of the place / event
• A link to the recap post in Connect

Mymaps to be shared in social channels, with the hashtag #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld

Step 5 - Best practice
Positive example of cities / countries that are fighting plastic pollution.

Sharing positive example of Recycle or Reuse of products and materials can push people in doing the same. In this way we can have contributions also from Countries that have already started to solve the issue:

• Meetups, for visiting Recycling factory, with interview
• Videos, “how do we handle Recycle in our daylife”

Five step - One year of activities

Follow the links for the posts related to every step

• Logo (download )
• Education
• Documentation (Link to Mymaps)
• Actions (Meet-Up post coming soon)
• Publications (Link to Mymaps)
• Best Practices (Post coming soon)

Share this post in all social, Using the Hashtags #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld and #LocalGuides

Thanks for reading - Have a Fun with Local Guides

Ermes

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Thanks for all the details @ErmesT !!! Wonderful initiative, and all are proud of taking part of the same!! Please let us know planned date of each phase too!!!

[ErmesT]

This is a laboratory, @Fahid

Education is started, slowly but is moving, best practices will start this weekend, and of course the meet-up are open, every community can run a cleaning meetup when needed

Ermes

[DavidTito]

@ErmesT ok that sounds like a great idea and I will do the same with my existing on and I will be around if anyone’s looking for inserting HTML Mymaps from Google Drive over to

#LocalGuidesConnect to post there media

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@ErmesT wrote:

Hi @DavidTito

my idea is to create a “best practices” topic this weekend, with a specific Mymaps to be inserted in there, to link post, videos, and more, related to “best practices” in fighting plasting pollution, so to have it a “geographic location” of it.

In Best Practices we will show what every country is already doing about the 3R (Reduce - Re-cycle, Re-use), to use as an example for others

Ermes

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My maps

[NarcisseTEHIA]

cool initiative @ErmesT and I wish Local Guides in CIV (Ivory Coast) could join this project to make world better. We shall do our possible to lead well this project in our country