World Environment Day
Copenhagen, Denmark: June 5th is World Environment Day! Please accept an invitation for all Baba’s Centres to host a public event or BK activity to celebrate this day and add spiritual vibrations to the healing of the land, the waters, the air and the environment that gives our bodies sustenance.
The United Nations World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year to focus attention on our relationship with the environment. This year the theme of the day is to focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution.
Here are some suggestions and resources that can help you organize an activity or an event for this day. Enjoy bringing out the creativity in your centre to mark this day and bring a spiritual energy to the relationship with our environment.
1. INSPIRATION. Listen to Sr Jayanti’s message for WED, Sr Jayanti’s Message.Invite others to a special meditation for the day and play the WED video from Bradford InnerSpaceWED video with beautiful scenery and commentary.
2. DISCUSSION. Encourage discussion at your Centre Eg.about water use, choice of toli packaging, bhog take-away containers from the centre. How much plastic is being used? How can we reduce plastic containers for cleaning products? And above all – Why is this important from a spiritual perspective?
3. RAISE AWARENESS. Circulate / share with your contacts and discuss the attached poster, Transforming waste into best: reducing the use of plastic in your centre
4. NEIGHBOURHOOD CLEAN UP. Get together and organize a clean up of plastic waste in yourneighborhood. Then ask those joining to avoid plastics for a week, and share your experience with the rest of the family on the 5thJune.
5. ONE DAY CHALLENGE. Challenge students at your centre to try and go one day without using plastics. Discuss their experiences both positive and negative. What did they learn from the experience? What might they do differently in the future? What did they learn spiritually from the experience?
6. LOCALIZE. Approach a local leader or someone knowledgeable on the subject of plastics and the environment. Invite them to speak at a gathering and give their own inspirational messageabout behavior change. Get a senior from the centre to reinforce a similar message from a spiritual perspective.
Let us all acknowledge this important day and transform the waste (of plastics and humankind’s damaging behavior in relation to the environment) into best.
Let us know what you did environment@brahmakumaris.org
