United Nations Citizen Ambassador 2011 - One Bottle, One Life

United Nations Citizen Ambassadors 2011

A 30-second pitch to make the world a better place. People helping people.

SCRIPT:

Excuse me Mr. Secretary-General. Every year more than 75% or about 2.7 million tons of plastic bottles end up in landfills. The message across the globe about recycling is not strong enough. So let's create a MODEL COMMUNITY in EVERY NATION, made out of used plastic bottles or "Eco Bricks", built by people themselves and are sustained by livelihood from recycled plastic bottles. The communities can be organized into cooperatives to enable them sustain their livelihood for years to come, changing lives one bottle at a time.

CREDITS & REFERENCES:

Hug It Forward "Bottle Schools" - www.hugitforward.com
MyShelter Foundation - extendyourself.org
Emily Arnold & Janet Larsen. "Bottled water: Pouring resources down the drain." Earth Policy Institute, Feb. 2, 2006
Container Recycling Institute
Euromonitor 2009 - Beverage Packaging
World Humanitarian Day - www.worldhumanitarianday.info

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• United
• Nations
• Citizen
• Ambassadors
• 2011
• UN
• OCHA
• People
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• Eco
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• Advocacy
• Think
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• World
• Humanitarian
• Day
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• Ban
• Ki-Moon
• human
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• transformation
• livelihood
• world
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• elevator
• If
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• pitch
• Life
• international
• effort
• worldwide
• environmental

[xxtina23xx]

congrats! :))

[jericz021]

@xxtina23xx Thanks!

[jenilynfabian]

Woi kuya! congrats!!! SOOO PROUD! ^___^

[jericz021]

@jenilynfabian thanks Jen! ;)

[ngeliatduit]

Good Video!! Cool!..

[andreeaweed]

very informative video

[wowowily]

@jericz021 ahh... cge po, good luck and congrats!!! go philippines!

[jericz021]

@wowowily I was a Cisco instructor for a year in Mapua back in 2009-2010. Engr. Glenn Avendano was one of my mentors as well as Engr. Ballado :)

[wowowily]

@jericz021 cno po mga naging prof nyo? hehehe.. good luck po, isang karangalan nanaman ito sa ating bayan. =)