Youth Cohort on Green Solution

Youth Cohort on Green Solution aims to support the development of new, exciting, and innovative ideas for sustainable enterprise which will harness nature-based solutions and practices to promote positive environmental impacts and climate change resilience in the city of Euless, Texas. Youth Cohort on Green Solution is funded through an Alumni TIES small grant from the U.S. Department of State.

12-week 30-hour session
with
international experts.

The cohort helps to sharpen participants' knowledge and skills in the areas of climate change and sustainability to support the development of new, exciting, and innovative ideas for sustainable enterprise.

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1

Think

Do you know what Green Solution is?

All young people should have opportunities to connect with nature and to contribute the power of their leadership and creativity to help ensure a healthy, sustainable environment. 

2

Act

Do you have any ideas?

All young people should have opportunities to connect with nature and to contribute the power of their leadership and creativity to help ensure a healthy, sustainable environment. 

3

Collab

Do you want to collaborate on Cohort? 

You can also support us on events as speakers, facilitators and as a mentor along with showcasing your product or services related to green solutions to the participants.

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Strengthen the capacity of participants by building knowledge, understanding, and skills required for identifying and integrating greener, climate-resilient, low-emission economy practices into their ideas which can be replicated and developed at scale. 

We teach how to read the electricity meter, audit all the power-consuming appliances that contribute to the cost, share information on more efficient alternatives in the market, and then prepare an action plan to become energy efficient to reduce business costs and increase profitability and competitiveness. We do this with water, waste, raw material handling, transport/mobility, etc.

Design thinking is an iterative process to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions we can prototype and test. 

Every product has a target audience and is designed to solve its users’ problems in some way. To assess whether a product solves its users' problems, designers create an almost-working model or mock-up of the product, called a prototype, and test it with prospective users and stakeholders.

To ensure that the planet, people, purpose, profit are all considered while moving ahead.

Session Content

Content of Session 01 will be uploaded on April 14,2023.

Content of Session 02 will be uploaded on April 21,2023.

Content of Session 03 will be uploaded on May 05,2023.

Activities

Onboarding on Online Platform

Introduction Via Felt Map

Introduction session conducted via an interactive felt map where participants fill in their information themselves over a map layer

Footrprint Calculator

Calculate footprint to find out the Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

Arbor Day

Participation in Arbordaze Family Festival in Euless, Texas showcasing the project goal, objectives and current status in a big canavs.

Ideation

Discussion on 8 green solutions ideas among 10 participants.

Exposure visit to Hurts Creative Marketplace to understand the marketing aspect of the green products.

Pitch Day

Eight Green Solutions ideas selected from the pitch of  Youth cohort on green solutions, as a part of 40 hour hybrid session.  Green Fellows pass through different processes of product development. on the product development process that encompasses ideation, concept development, prototyping, testing and validation, iteration and improvement, and ultimately, the launch and scaling of green solutions ideas by end of this year.

KEY DATES 2022 / 2023

Program Timeline

April 15, 2023

Onboarding Session

Online

April 22, 2023

Onboarding Session

Online

April 29, 2023

Participant on Arbor Day Event

In Person

May 06, 2023

Ideation Session

Online

May 13, 2023

Ideation and Research

Online

May 20, 2023

Participants on HEB Reads

In Person

May 27, 2023

Pre-Presentation Planning

Online

May 31 - June 01, 2023

Design Thinking / 1300 - 1600

In Person

June 02 - June 03, 2023

Prototyping / 1300 - 1600

In Person

June 04, 2023

Idea Pitching: An Event to Celebrate 

In Person

June / July

Mentorship

In Person / Online

July

Green Box

Online Exhibition

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Green Fellows

Crocheted Plarn Items 

By
Anastasia Fike

Community Garden

By
Aashna Poudyal
Araya Ghimire

MulchMasters

By
Ayusha Baral
Nandina Pandit

Homemade Toothpaste

By
Shreeya Pokhrel

Zero Waste Tote Bags

By
Saniya Surani
Aastra Shrestha

Natural Green Tea

By
Sanvi Chaudhary

Night of Ecology

By
Kartik Koranne  

Upcoming
Sessions

  • Age 15-19 and from around HEB - City of Euless, Bedford and Hurst, Texas)
  • Individuals or teams from any educational background can apply.
  • We encourage females, ethnic minorities, and differently-abled participants to apply.
  • You will need to be able to access the internet in order to participate in the online workshop series.

Coaches

Randall Hayes

Fulbright Specialist Program, India, 2018

Ranjeeta Subedhi

PFP Good Governance

Samita Kapali

PFP Economic Empowerment

Saurav Dhakal

PFP Good Governance

Tyler McMahon

Fulbright Student Scholarship , Nepal, 2007-08

Sirjana Sharma

Paralegal

Deepika Gyawali

Co-Founder, Greengrowth

Prijun Koirala

Creative Designer, StoryCycle

Sushil Chaudhary

Life Coach

Teri Dodson

Business Owner,
Hurst Marketplace & Creative Center

John Quinn

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Professional

Mentors

John Paul

Fulbright Student Scholarship , Nepal, 2007-08

Tina Jain

PFP Good Governance

Sirjana Sharma

PFP Economic Empowerment

Tara Pandey

PFP Good Governance

Deepika Gyawali

Environmentalist

Partners