LET’S GO GREEN!
Illustration by Raúl Colón
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted unanimously by all 193 member states of the United Nations on September 25, 2015, including the US, as the Agenda for all countries to prioritize and achieve cooperatively by 2030, to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
The 2030 Agenda is consistent with the principles and programs EFWA has fought for since our inception and our battle against the increasing poverty and lack of living wages in our community. EFWA endorses these goals and promotes them to make them known to our volunteers, supporters and friends of labor throughout the area.
Solar Panels
Since 2015, EFWA has been powered by rooftop mounted photovoltaic solar panels. EFWA generates nearly 100% of its electricity use through its photovoltaic system.
LED Bulbs
EFWA uses only LED bulbs throughout our 10,000 sq. ft. complex to reduce electricity consumption and save on energy costs.
Thank You IBEW Local 25!
Charging Station, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
EFWA’s office has an electric vehicle charging station that was installed by volunteers with IBEW Local 25. We are actively seeking donated hybrid and electric vehicles, which will allow our solar panels to power 75% or more of the driving we do.
Reduce, Reuse, Reinvest with EFWA
Nearly all furniture in EFWA’s office is donated, saving it from a landfill. EFWA uses both sides of paper, distributes gently used clothing and carefully husbands its resources to best serve its membership.
EFWA has tread lightly on the Earth since our start in 1972!
From the Preamble to Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
September 25, 2015
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.
The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.