Mission Statement
As a collective group of the Honors-X curriculum, we have collectively collaborated to come to the conscious that in light of the effects of climate change, one of our most dedicated goals should be to manage and treat water with the respect and care it deserves. In an effort to increase the awareness and incentivization of water management in our community, the team has pondered breakthrough solutions for restoring action/faith into the average human consciousness. As action is the primary goal in our effort, our team has brainstormed incentives to bring awareness through community engagement, tax breaks, and the initiation of building more water and waste management facilities with low carbon emission contributions to bring an increase in jobs with a decrease in pollution - bringing a positive feedback loop of awareness. The community will feel drawn and motivated to participate as economic and natural resources will be plenty for everyone to enjoy a cleaner San Jose. Our dynamic programs and initiatives focus on game-changing initiatives related to Restorative Ecosystems, Water Management, Food Systems, Rights of Nature, and Youth Leadership as a whole.
Position Statement
We are an integrated group dedicated to providing our experiences, knowledge, and collaborative expertise to a front-line defense of risk management issues surrounding water management matters San Jose residents face. Our unique and sustainable approaches are "bar none, " which is why our innovative ideas are highly sought after, implemented, and used as a golden standard of sustainability solutions.
The birthright to access clean and drinkable water at all times under any weather condition is not a common thought in developed societies because it is not a priority to worry about it. In these societies there is not much consciousness and consideration towards poor and underdeveloped places when opting for more sustainable alternatives.
As a response, California’s government is constructing new waste management and seawater desalination facilities. The California Water Plan is the State's strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources for current and future generations. Required by Water Code Section 10005(a), it presents the status and trends of California’s water-dependent natural resources; water supplies; and agricultural, urban, and environmental water demands for a range of plausible future scenarios. These facilities utilize advanced technologies to improve water sanitation processes, maximize water life and help minimize environmental impact. The construction of these facilities is California's commitment to enhancing water efficiency and resource management.
In Addition, SJSU's campus design also plays a pivotal role in promoting water efficiency and consciousness among its community ( just like how on campus “LEED” is taught to the students). Erosion-themed water fixtures, similar to the ones mentioned in the MLK library, serve as visual reminders of the scarcity of water in certain regions and the importance of responsible water usage. These features educate students and staff to reflect on their water consumption patterns and adopt more sustainable practices.
Organic Recycling role in Water Management
All living things depend on the elements of air, water, and food to survive, and the substances that make up these elements must be free of the harmful toxins that interfere with that quality of life.
When contaminants are present, life becomes a toxic, dangerous, diseased, scarce, and barren place to live.
Sustaining a good quality of life is not always cost-effective due to the challenges of businesses not having access to an abundance of unpolluted natural resources.
However, the sustainable solutions to combat these harms are known as the environmental and economic benefits of organic recycling.
The benefits of organic recycling
- Combats gas emissions and reduces the greenhouse effect.
- Reduces the costs of waste management.
- Produces healthy and viable soil.
- Healthy soil conserves, stores, and reduces water runoff.
- When water runoff is reduced, transportation of pollutants by water is also reduced.
Organic recycling generates energy (biogas) to reduce energy costs.
Promotes community gardens, nutritional food options, and food distribution programs to San Jose residents.
Happiness, Love, Life, Peace, Serenity, Reassurance, Information, and Attainabilty is what helps the world to go around. Money is a commodity that is not always recognized as a value. Time is valuable. A person's time and contribution are priceless.....
Investing in water management and sanitation impacts everybody regardless of who they are as water affects all life, business and social condemnation no matter how big and small.
Collectively, we ask ourselves... How do we increase public participation in water management?
The "why" to the promotion of forward-thinking empowers, validates, and nurtures personal growth, provides educational and monetary career opportunities, creates healthier habits, and provides consistency to San Jose's historical and multicultural environment. While it beautifies an existing landscape, combats the negative impacts caused by climate change, facilitates a balance to the ecosystem, enables cost-free options to participants, and is a cost-effective incentive to San Jose's economic growth.
Main Target: Policy Makers
Ensuring the availability of water sanitation for all by supporting and strengthening the participation of local communities in promoting water and sanitation management through protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems such as mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, and lakes.
Proposal: Establish the following Pilot Programs:
As with NYCs successful pilot program, adding curbside compost bins in the greater area of San Jose will increase visibility and usage. Individual organic compost bins, in conjunction with glass/plastic recycling and trash bins, will increase food scrap & trash sorting while the action fosters sustainable practices.
Create a Landscape Horticulture Program at SJSU to collaborate on ways to combat the unfunded and unsustainable procurement targets, such as back-end sorting, extensive reporting, accuracy of record-keeping, identifying and managing data that apply to all city departments, as well as the other various functions that California's organic waste bill SB 1383 mandates. SJSU can identify, organize, participate, and create valuable resources for capital improvement projects, landscape maintenance contracts, market impacts, jurisdictions, city contracts, public funding, and budgeting issues associated with SB 1383.
Utilize schools, state agencies, and federal facilities to educate SJ residents about SB 1383 initiative through workshops, community gardens, farmer markets, food distribution programs, and volunteer trash pick-up events.
Most if not all waste on land end up on water ecosystems. Bringing awareness to young generations from all backgrounds and self identities can promote environmental and sustainability actions towards the common goal of water management through a different method such as the climate pollutant reduction effort.
Benefits of Participation:
Visitors receive clean and safe landscaped environments. Animals, residents of a habitat, benefit from the clean and free of harmful waste environment. Local community can start their own business, reducing importation from other places.
As active participants, residents become investors, shareholders, stakeholders, and benefactors to San Jose’s diverse climate and lucrative resources. Equal partnership derives from altruistic contributions of time and creative ideas. As a result, discounted or gratis services and products of clean soil, seedlings, fresh vegetables, and fruit, access to workshops, classes, and projects at community gardens, recycling facilities, and architectural landscapes.
Provides an opportunity to learn new skills, cooperate, unite, build trust, and create innovative entrepreneurial starter businesses as independent professional contracting artists, horticulturists (plant and vegetation propagation), nutritionists, caterers, gardeners, landscapers, floriculturists, teachers, instructors, leaders, and managers within San Joses' county and city private and public business and residential sectors.
Summary: The benefits of organic recycling all operate towards San Jose's Sustainability Solution, 2030.
Credits:
Creado con imágenes de yotrakbutda - "Soil drought cracked landscape on sunset sky" • pichetw - "hand clicking mission button" • artrachen - "plant seeding growing step concept in garden and sunlight" • vectorfusionart - "Composite image of close up of female blue eye" • Jon Anders Wiken - "prevent climate change text quote engraved on wooden signpost outdoors in landscape looking polluted and apocalyptic." • troyanphoto - "Baby toddler sits on the white bed, smiles and drinks water from plastic bottle. Copy space" • bubutu - "Girl drinking water outdoors" • boonchok - "Asian boys are currently lacking clean water for consumption.." • Odua Images - "Pregnant mother and daughter drinking water together when sitting on the floor" • Riccardo Niels Mayer - "Candid photo of Aboriginal Woman Bringing fresh Water in a typical village" • Choat - "World environment day concept: Human hands holding big tree over green forest background " • Artur - "Text sign showing Stop Wasting Money. Conceptual photo Organizing Management Schedule lets do it Start Now Clips symbol idea script notice board text capital cardboard design." • Miha Creative - "Hand holding light bulb and tree with sunny.Energy sources for renewable. Ecology concept." • azur13 - "Beautiful honey bee closeup on flower gather nectar and pollen. Animal sitting for pollination. Important insect for environment ecology ecosystem. Awareness of nature climate change sustainability" • xreflex - "Hand of boy watering a young plant tree growing on fertile soil in the morning light, Slow Motion. Conservation of Natural Resources. Planting the trees, protect nature, sustainability, sustainable" • Enrico Obergefäll - "Erdball - Welt - Ecology - Lensball - Bioeconomy - High quality photo" • Valerii Honcharuk - "Teenagers cleaning plastic trash in nature, riverbank" • DC Studio - "Multiracial couple tasting bio organic produce at farmers market, selling locally grown fruits and vegetables at farmers market. Young family tasting natural eco produce, food sampling." • Pixel-Shot - "Adorable children waiting in queue for natural lemonade near stand in park" • yanadjan - "A man in the garden with vegetables in his hands. Selective focus." • Farknot Architect - "A woman collecting and putting plastic bottles into a recycle bin in the outdoors" • Nelos - "Children Hands Building Colorful English Word Support. Blue Sky As Background" • sosiukin - "Everyone matters word written on wood block. Ever yone matterstext on wooden table for your desing, Top view concept"