OpEPA
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{{Infobox organization
| name = OpEPA
| formation = {{start date and age|1998}}
| full_name = Organization for Environmental Education and Protection Corp
| native_name = Organización para la Educación y Protección Ambiental
}}
OpEPA, formally the Organización para la Educación y Protección Ambiental in Colombia and the Organization for Environmental Education and Protection Corp in the United States, is a non-governmental environmental education organization with offices in Colombia and US. It is a registered 501c3 in the US.{{Cite web |title=OpEPA |url=https://globaled.gse.harvard.edu/opepa |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education |language=en}} Its cofounders are Camilo Camargo, Nicole Zangen, Catalina Saravia, and Luis Alberto Camargo (Ashoka Fellow - 2005,{{Cite web |title=Luis Alberto Camargo |url=https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow/luis-alberto-camargo |access-date=1 December 2024 |website=Ashoka |language=en-us}} Young Global Leader - 2008,{{Cite web |last=Espectador |first=El |date=2020-03-17 |title=De la cima del Everest al Foro Económico Mundial |url=https://www.elespectador.com/economia/de-la-cima-del-everest-al-foro-economico-mundial-article-6445/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202013550/https://www.elespectador.com/economia/de-la-cima-del-everest-al-foro-economico-mundial-article-6445/ |archive-date=2 December 2024 |access-date=2 December 2024 |website=EL ESPECTADOR |language=spanish}} Salzburg Fellow).{{Cite web |title=People- Salzburg Global |url=https://www.salzburgglobal.org/people?userID=43204&eventID=10124 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Salzburg Global Fellows}}
Organization
OpEPA is a Colombian collaborative social entrepreneurship civil society organization founded in 1998.[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140917161513-9247365-spring-boarding-the-social-entrepreneur-ecosystem/?trackingId=fiDnUudnQCKEIJ7LzhG8Tw%3D%3D], LinkedIn, September 17, 2014
It focuses on four main areas, accelerating the transition towards regeneration for individuals, institutions, and public policy.
- Education with a nature-based relational approach
- Sustainable and regenerative tourism
- Transition to regenerative cultures
- Planetary boundaries (climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, soils and nutrients, water)
OpEPA has worked with around 100,000 students, strengthened more than 5,000 educators in environmental and nature-based education, and supported environmental leadership and ecotourism processes at different scales throughout the country.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Internationally, OpEPA is a co-leader in the Regenerative Communities Network, Catalyst 2030, The Weaving Lab and represents the PUP Consortium in Colombia.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
OpEPA has been recognized for its work by Ashoka, HundrED, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
OpEPA has promoted the Children and Nature Movement focusing on breaking the cycle that produces Nature Deficit Disorder.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Mission
OpEPA's mission is to reconnect people with the Earth to accelerate the transition toward sustainable and regenerative cultures.
Through this reconnection, children, and youth become agents in reducing environmental degradation and promoting a generation of decision makers more oriented towards sustainable regeneration.
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External links
- {{Official website|https://opepa.org/}}
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Category:Organizations established in 1998
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Category:Environmental organisations based in Colombia
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