DEWA Phuket is supporting our efforts to bring about positive changes to the environment at Nai Yang Beach and Sirinath
National Park
Sustainable Smiles is incorporated with the State of Montana and a 501c non-profit organization.
Sustainable Smiles is a non-profit organization that promotes environmental, social and economic sustainability and appreciation for nature in communities around the world. Founded in 2009 and registered as a 501(c)3 in Montana, USA, Sustainable Smiles works to facilitate the development of sustainable and environmentally active communities through participatory based approaches, knowledge transfer, research, and environmental education. Our focus is to empower student and stakeholders to manage and preserve the integrity of their environment for future generations. Today more than ever, environmental threats such as over-exploitation, pollution, development, deforestation, erosion, and global warming are leading to potentially irreversible harm to our environment and livelihoods. Sustainable Smiles continually works to instill in students and local community members an overall understanding and appreciation for nature while showing them how to minimize adverse actions and promote environmental safe practices. By providing local community members with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to work together to solve environmental issues, Sustainable Smiles strives to strengthen their capacity to implement effective management strategies. We believe that education and empowerment is the first step that leads to positive change, sustainability, and effective decision making.
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Sustainable Smiles has now partnered with SEEK (www.myseek.org) who is an active focused coalition dedicated to synergizing the promotion, support, and implementation of sustainable initiatives and actions in order for the Phuket community to flourish long term. We are assisting SEEK with developing sustainability indicators for Phuket through compass workshops pulling together all stakeholders in Phuket. We will be organizing an internship program for research students to help us design methodology and data collection on measuring SEEK’s indicators in June-Aug, 2012.
Community-based Eco-Tourism Development Project, Cambodia
Sustainable Smiles will be working with Wetland Alliance's local partner Cambodia Rural Development Team (CRDT) on product development for Eco-tourism and home stay programs in Kratie province during August & September.
We will be working on a remote Island on the Mekong River to help three communities improve their eco-tourism products and services while also suggesting opportunities for greater engagement of schools and students in the community through awareness creation and education programs. The Wetland Alliance will be providing funding for us to initiate this program and we are looking forward to our collaboration together with CRDT.
Start!Now program in Austria
Next month, in partnership with Vossen and Leiner, we will be launching our Start!Now program in Austria. We will be inviting groups of students from different schools in Austria to participate in a Sustainability Video Contest. Students will have to create their own video on "What is Sustainability". With our guidance students will compete for an all-expense paid environmental trip to Montana, US where they will get to learn about the land, people, and concept of sustainability in another part of the world. Through our partnership with Vossen we hope to involve others in promoting environmental education for youth, ‘Our Leaders of Tomorrow’.
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February 1st, 2011
After nearly 4 months of planning, our first groups of S.A.P. students in Phuket, Thailand have implemented their environmental project with funding from Seedlings of Change and Indigo Pearl Resort. Our students felt it was important to focus their project on educating younger students on how they can help take care of the environment. They organized an all day environmental education event at Muang Mai School to teach students age 10-12 about what they can do to protect the environment. By designing 5 different stations and other activities including songs, dances, and games, our S.A.P students taught their younger generation about global warming, reducing consumption, buying sustainable products, recycling and plastics, making lifestyle changes, and much more.
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