In the second part of the talk, EcoNotes delved into their current work and the programs they promote.
Tomás Modini
@ModiniTomas
The current work of the organization
Regarding the work they are doing today, the founder of the NGO Nicolás commented: “What we are doing today is environmental regeneration and that is through the three pillars: environmental regeneration, solidarity, which is the intervention in our case in what are the popular neighborhoods, and everything that is awareness in understanding the climate crisis as such.”
“In what is the regenerate program, for example, we are doing everything that is conservation and regeneration of biodiversity in devastated ecosystems and in everything that occurs in a natural environment. In ‘throw your butt’ we do everything that is the management of cigarette butts, the management of the waste itself and promoting new practices for this problem,” he exemplified.
He then continued saying that “in ‘ecofeminism’ we are not yet fully active but what we have been doing is bringing information about what the issue is in our community” and that “in ‘environmental philosophy’ the idea is to freely be able to debate, form ideas together and in community; and to get closer to what the climate crisis is in a more conscious sense.”
“In the ‘eduambiente’ workshop, we generate educational content for schools nationwide. We are in a forum with quite a few organizations, so we do environmental education workshops for educational institutions. We are creating content to disseminate it to more than 6,000 schools throughout the country,” he added.
The members of the EcoNotes team
On the other hand, the General Coordinator detailed the number of collaborators that the space has: “Today in the Econotes team we are eight and we are the ones who are most behind coordinating the programs and the pillars. I am in the general coordination part, another of the guys coordinates the pillars, another in community spaces.”
“Then we have the community, where there are more than 200 people, and what we are promoting, which is what is most difficult for us, is to bring these 200 people closer to more specific things,” he added.
He then indicated that “we have four spaces for action, which are editors, ambassadors, artistic space and people who help with programs.”
“Perhaps in the areas of volunteering for action such as plantations, cigarette butt collections and educational workshops, we do not have problems with the call. What is difficult for us is that this large number of people from the community can take action within Econotes,” he confessed.
Awareness and the importance of youth
In the final part of the interview, Nicolás highlighted the link between young people and the subject: “The subject of youth and caring for the environment is something that we have been talking about frequently. We feel that it is somewhat divided, but I feel that many people and many young people are slowly getting closer to what environmentalism is.”
“What is very distinctive about Econotes is that it brings people closer to the subject, trying to convey that we are all equal to each other and to remove those taboos of seeing environmental issues as something negative,” he explained.
At the same time, he assured that “in terms of social and environmental issues, in society we believe that we are having an impact and we also attract a lot of younger masses” and that “in action it is more complicated.”
“In plantations or cigarette butt collections it is difficult for a person to want to come to a day and miss a Sunday to do it. But what we convey is that, outside of the activity and action, we offer this space in the community to get to know each other and to be able to have a dialogue with young people,” he concluded.
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