Abstract

This project is an iniciative that aims at raising awareness and encouraging the use of water savings systems, urban agriculture and recycling in communities within urban areas of Bogota in order to combat the consequences of the high levels of pollution in the city. This project has three main goals: create activities to combat climate change, promote green business projects, and promote initiatives to protect biodiversity. The continuous expansion and industrial growth of cities leads to mass consumption, waste generation, and emissions. This creates problems that harm the environment, and human health. Further organic crops have a 30% greater market value than the conventional crop, providing an opportunity for residents to sell some of their crops as small scale green businesses. Some advantages of the project are that foods produced in organic conditions are harvested without the use of insecticides or other chemicals to speed up production, which can have a negative effect on the human health. Additionally the use of water recycling can have other advantage for the project, such as achieving water savings equivalent to 32,400 liters per year in an average household. If this is done on a large scale in places where the number of homes is high, such as Bogota which have around 1,600,000 houses, the impact on water saving and improvements to the environment would be significant.