Catch our latest discussion which provides you insights as to how to live an eco-friendly sustainable life; with Ahmad Shabbar, Somayeh Bardai and Noor ul Huda as part of our panel, to share their experiences and expertise on sustainable design, living, and environmental friendly practices.
Somayeh Bardai
Somayeh Bardai oversees the livelihoods department at the Raana Liaquat Craftsmen’s Colony which supports over 350 women home based artisans adept at various regional crafts. Since 2008 the department has been innovating and producing up-cycled textile and paper products to bring awareness of environmental challenges, through design intervention, to the community of Shah Faisal Colony.
Her journey in design Intervention began in 1999, Quetta, to document the fading embroideries of Balochistan. She attained her BFA from AUD and further studied Photography at SVA in New York after which she joined the M.Des at NIFT Delhi. Since returning to Karachi in 2012 She has taught photography at TIP and IVS, worked with Save the Children and the IKEA foundation to eradicate child labor and empower women in the Cotton fields of Interior Sindh and Punjab, restructured and managed the manufacturing unit and vocational training classes at Behbud Karachi and served as an assistant curator at the Mohatta Palace Museum.
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Ahmad Shabbar:
Ahmad Shabbar is a scientist and an engineer by profession. He has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Physics from Reed College, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical and Energy Engineering from the University of North Texas. He has worked at the Reed Research Reactor (a research nuclear reactor); and won the top prize at NASA’s Texas Space Grant Consortium. Even though waste management and environmental issues were not the central part of his career, he has a varied experience with them. While, working at the nuclear reactor he had to work with nuclear waste; and the NASA project was to design a system without any moving parts to remove CO2 from the airstream. He also has experience with medical and chemical waste.
After his return from the US in early 2016, he noticed the Karachi trash crisis. He also realized that there was no mainstream concept of recycling, reusing, and reducing. That is when he decided to create ‘Garbagecan (Pvt.) Ltd.’ Garbagecan is hence a social entrepreneurship, where Ahmad’s vision is to spread awareness via talks at schools, community centers etc. about proper waste management and sustainable practices, as well as to provide a service based on those principles.
Website: www.garbagecan.pk/our-team/
Noor ul huda Daudpota.
Noor ul huda Daudpota is a full time independent media producer in Pakistan, with 16 years experience working with tv channels and now working as a independent producer/director and a climate communicator, working on climate change awareness by bringing changes in her own personal life and communicating about climate crisis.
Some of those changes that she has made in her life are.
-aiming to live a Low to zero waste life to deal with waste management and plastic pollution ( I haven’t used any single use plastic since 2 years)
- Vegetarian for the planet
- Shop stop since 2019 to fight fast fashion
- Compost to give back to the soil.
Noor ul huda also hosts workshops at different schools to spread awareness about Global warming and sustainable living, aiming to make it part of school curriculum.
Email ID: Noorulhuda.daudpota@gmail
Instagram: / noorulhuda_daudpota
29 апр 2021
