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Green Project: Sustainable Development Insights

The document discusses the concept of green projects, emphasizing their role in promoting sustainability and ecological balance through efficient resource use and minimizing environmental impact. It also highlights the participatory action research (PAR) method as a means for communities to engage in transformative practices addressing local environmental issues such as waste management and water pollution in Mexico. The increasing waste production and pollution challenges faced by Mexico are underscored, along with the need for effective government programs and community involvement to address these issues.

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Green Project: Sustainable Development Insights

The document discusses the concept of green projects, emphasizing their role in promoting sustainability and ecological balance through efficient resource use and minimizing environmental impact. It also highlights the participatory action research (PAR) method as a means for communities to engage in transformative practices addressing local environmental issues such as waste management and water pollution in Mexico. The increasing waste production and pollution challenges faced by Mexico are underscored, along with the need for effective government programs and community involvement to address these issues.

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Integrative project

green
ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE

Team composed of:


Naomi Judit Arroyo Rodriguez
Juan Diego García Mercado
Angelica Nahomi García Valle
Emanuel Escudero
Yesica de la Cruz Serrano

September 23, 2020


Green Project
In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the impact of construction on
the environment.
A green project can have more than half a dozen meanings, according to the
circumstances. One of them is the vegetation of nature. Although not all the
Things in nature are green, it has been considered that the term green serves
as an appropriate symbol of the concept and practices that strive for
promote. While green is an appropriate symbol, it does not fully encompass the
Meaning of sustainability, which is maintaining the ecological balance.
The difference between a green project and a sustainable project is the degree to which the project
help maintain this balance. Many features of the green project, such as
the reduced use of energy and pollution have a positive long-term effect
deadline. However, some features of the green project have no impact
in terms of maintaining ecological balance, including indoor environmental quality
A green/sustainable project is one that achieves high performance throughout
its life cycle, covering the following areas:
• Minimize the consumption of natural resources through more efficient use.
efficient use of non-renewable resources, land, water and materials of
construction, including the use of renewable energy to achieve a
net zero energy consumption
• Minimize the emissions that negatively impact our environment
interior and the atmosphere of our planet, especially those
related to indoor air quality (IAQ), greenhouse gases
greenhouse, global warming, particles or acid rain
• Minimize the discharge of solid waste and liquid effluents, including the
demolition, sewers, stormwater, and the associated infrastructure
necessary to allow the flow of waste
• Minimize the negative impacts on the site's ecosystem.
• Maximum indoor environment quality, including air quality, comfort
thermal, lighting, acoustics, and visual and acoustic aspects for
provide a space of comfort both physiological and psychological.
This does not mean that ecological projects are limited to carrying out actions.
such as garbage collection, forest or green area care, recycling,
the saving of light and energy or the responsible consumption of products.
The method of participatory action research (IAP)

Research method and collective learning of reality, based on a


critical analysis with the participation of the involved groups, which is oriented towards
stimulate transformative practice and social change.
The participatory action research (PAR) method combines two processes, the
of knowing and that of acting, involving in both the population whose reality is
approaches. Like other participatory approaches, the IAP provides to the
communities and development agencies a method to analyze and understand
better the reality of the population (their problems, needs, capabilities,
resources), and allows them to plan actions and measures to transform it and
improve it. It is a process that combines theory and practice, and that enables the
learning, the critical awareness of the population about its reality, its
empowerment, the strengthening and expansion of their social networks, their mobilization
collective and its transformative action.

In each IAP project, its three components are combined in proportions.


a) The research consists of a reflective, systematic procedure,
controlled and critical that aims to study some aspect of reality with
a practical purpose. b) Action is not only the ultimate goal of the
research, but it itself represents a source of knowledge, while
that the very conduct of the study is in itself a form of intervention. c) The
participation means that not only are involved in the process
professional researchers, but the target community of the project, which does not
are considered not just as simple research objects but as active subjects
that contribute to understanding and transforming their own reality.

Environmental issues surrounding the green project


Trash
Waste is another environmental problem that Mexico faces; ten years ago, a
inhabitant produced 0.7 kilograms per day. Today, each of the more than 130 million
Mexicans produce 1.6 kilograms, almost three times what a citizen generates.
European, waste that is not managed properly, 87% of landfills
of waste are open-air and 13% are sanitary landfills. One could say that a
minimum amount of these dump sites manages the waste properly, since
it is common to find piles of garbage that does not degrade because it is
stored in plastic bags -material that takes 400 years to degrade-.
This accumulated trash generates toxic gases, harmful wildlife, and foul odors that
they contaminate the entire environment.

En México se separa diariamente 11% de la basura recolectada; 46 de cada 100


households separate the garbage. A problem that grows due to citizen apathy and the
government ineffectiveness in establishing programs and laws that make
responsible to everyone about this situation. It's not just about an increase in the
amount of waste, but also of an important change in quality, before it
it was a volume mostly made up of organic waste, nowadays
the waste generated is bulkier and non-biodegradable, with a greater
content of toxic substances.

Water pollution
The right to have potable and healthy water means having the necessary water - for
any type of activity-, free of microorganisms, chemicals and/or
dangerous substances that pose a threat to health. The water must present a
acceptable color, odor, and taste, however, the water quality begins to be a
serious problem in Mexico, for example; at the urban, industrial, and touristic level, but
above all, in irregular and disorderly growths, they tend to direct the
waste in riverbeds, lakes, beaches, and other aquatic ecosystems, which has
caused the destruction of wetlands, mangroves, and coral reefs. The absence
the precarious existence of regulations regarding water treatment
residuals has brought about the consequence that ecosystems and hundreds of species
wild species may be harmed.
Así mismo, diversas empresas carentes de ética ambiental abusan de los recursos
In August 2014, a mining company spilled into the Sonora River.
approximately 40 thousand liters of sulfuric acid, a highly toxic element for
any form of life, in that same year in the Hondo River, in Veracruz and in the river
San Juan, in Nuevo León, there were oil spills, which were attributed to
illegal spills from pipelines. Accidents either due to omission or caused are
they occur with great regularity in our territory, causing serious damage,
many of them irreparable, especially in the living beings that inhabit the water.

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