MEVO (Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization)

Vital Stats

Eric F

Mahwah, NJ

people helped2000
People Doing It 243

The Problem

We won’t lie, there are A LOT of problems in this world and we want to see them all gone. We have the solution, we know that the best way to create a world that is peaceful, happy, and filled with love is to create communities, cultures, and countries that live sustainably with the natural environment. We want to create a world that is sustainable with enough resources for everyone, where people don’t live in toxic polluted environments, and where everybody considers their impact on the earth and world community. MEVO carries out volunteer work to promote and create environmental sustainability throughout local communities. We plant trees, clean-up trash polluted areas, rehabilitate soil erosion, start natural agriculture farms, organize electronic recycling drives, educate students on recycling, and distribute recycling bins and compact fluorescent light bulbs to schools. We want to get people living throughout every area of the country, involved in changing their communities to have a smaller impact on the natural environment and work communally to fix the world’s worst environmental problems.

Plan of Action

We get a bunch of super awesome youth, students, and the occasional adult together for weekend environmental volunteer events. These events are planned by youth, lead by youth, managed by youth, carried out by youth, and are an example of the passion our generation has for changing the way our communities exist with the natural environment. We have organized over 56 events engaging over 243 people in environmental community service. We have handed out over 2,609 compact fluorescent light bulbs (one to each home) this amount of bulbs is the equivalent to removing the emissions from 135 cars off the road and preventing 1,099,828.77lbs (500 tons!) of CO2 emissions. We have planted well over 200 trees, rehabilitated at least 9 miles of badly soil eroded hiking trail, and helped build about 6 miles of long-term low-impact hiking trail. We have collected hundreds of bags of trash, recycling, and scrap metal. We have educated hundreds of students on the importance of recycling by hosting environmental education assemblies throughout many public schools. We have painted and built 196 recycling bins and distributed 100 of these to schools and business to create a more effective, efficient, and larger collection of recycling at these locations. And this is all in days work; we have only been operating for a little over three and a half years! Imagine what we can and will do in five or ten years into the future.