Going green starts with the community

1. Three priority areas.

1.1. Implementing a low-carbon.

1.2. Clean and resilient development; managing natural resources efficiently to safeguard natural capital.

1.3. Strengthening the enabling environment for effective governance.

2. Important role in developing green and resilient cities.

2.1. Community-Based Organisations (CBOs)

2.2. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)

3. Low-technology cost-effective green practices that are community-driven.

3.1. LOW carbon practices

3.2. Cycling and continuous cycling paths, rainwater harvesting and use of solar panel.

4. Using public transport (thus reducing car use) supports de-carbonisation and greening strategies.

4.1. Carbon reduction

5. Community mapping can be scaled up for community resilience.

5.1. Involving the community is one of the best approaches for prevention or mitigation of disaster.

5.2. Should be promoted in vulnerable areas in urban and rural settings.

6. Green initiatives take many forms.

6.1. They are generally a high-tech, high-cost affair.

6.2. There are also cost-effective green practices through conventional community-based efforts.

7. Recycling and upcycling.

7.1. Creative, innovative and green.

7.2. Generates income for low-income groups.

8. Mapping enables a community to recognise its own resources.

9. Encourage the reduction of consumption from a consumer society to a green society.

10. Three unfamiliar words

10.1. encompassing: content

10.2. resilience: quality

10.3. envisages: imagine