Community Development & Education

About CDE

EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE LIVING

EcoKnights continuously works on advocating the concept of sustainable community development and education which spans across all types of neighbourhood, town, city or region.

Sustainable community development seeks a better quality of life by using its resources to meet current needs while ensuring adequate resources are available for future generations. The effort is continually adjusting to meet the social and economic needs of its residents while preserving the environment’s ability to support it.

Essentially, a sustainable community resembles a living system in which human, natural and economic elements are interdependent and draw strength from one other. Through this pillar, sustainable development and educational programs are delivered to targeted communities through targeted tools and techniques from hands-on workshops, interactive talks and townhalls, community dialogues and more.

The CDE pillar of EcoKnights is primarily on the Circular Community Learning Engagement also known as CIRCLE.

Circular Community Learning Engagement (CIRCLE)

EcoKnights provide sustainable solutions and interventions on proper management of resources and wastes in Malaysia, particularly the Klang Valley area. The goal is to educate, inspire and empower individuals, especially local communities to adopt sustainable practices under CIRCLE. The approaches include conducting environmentally-driven initiatives via training sessions, community talks and dialogues, hands-on workshops and more.

CIRCLE, branches out into 5 of Ecoknights main programme and activity.

School of Sustainability (SOS)
Upcycling Plastic Projects (UPP)
Textile Recycling
The Good Oil
Old Soles New Life (OSNL)

The 7 R's

In Ecoknights, we strive to follow the 7 R's in order to not only preserve the world for the generations to come, but we also strive to empower sustainable actions for a better planet. In Ecoknights, we as a non governmental organization strive to do our part in not only conducting the 7 R's through our day to day activities and programmes but to also educate and teach the public about sustainability and how they themselves can act upon it themselves.

School of Sustainability (SoS)

School of Sustainability refers to the environmental education-based program for communities as well as the general public. The modules under School of Sustainability aim to increase awareness and encourage more participation and action among individuals to practice small green habits in their daily lives. Some of the modules that we deliver under School of Sustainability include soap-making [from used cooking oil], composting, upcycling and more.

Upcycling Plastic Projects (UPP)

The act of upcycling plastic is the creative reusing of plastic waste in order to transform plastic waste material into new materials of better quality. Ecoknights does these upcycling plastic projects that not only reduce the overall wastage of plastics, but at the same time also allows Ecoknights to also educate and spread the word of sustainability. This helps achive their goal in educating , inspiring and empowering local communities and inviduals to adopt a more sustainable way of life.

Textile Recycling

Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber or fabric and reproducing these collected materials into newer and more useful products. In Ecoknights , textile collection is often done alongside other collectible items to be recycled such as shoes. But as for shoes, Ecoknights also has their own upcycling program for it, - Old Soles New Life (OSNL). For further information regarding the Old Soles New Life programme , feel free to click on this link.

The Good Oil (TGO)

The act of recycling used cooking oil is an act that will not only leave a positive impact on the environment but also lowers our carbon footprint, thus aid in creating a more sustainable future. Because of that, The Good Oil programme is established to not only properly dispose of used cooking oil but at the same time, also upcycle them and transform them into newer materials of better quality such as hand soap. Because of that, TGO was formed as a way for Ecoknights to better spread the awareness of recycling and upcyling used cooking oil.

Old Soles New Life

Old Soles New Life is a programme started on the 20th of July 2022 with the goal of providing a platform for citizens to responsibly manage their shoe wastes, but after partnering up with Dow Malaysia and Life Line Clothing Malaysia (LLCM), the Old Soles New Life programme evolved into a programme that not only allows citizen to properly dispose of their shoe wastes, but at the same time also helping these shoes to be repurposed in order to granules that will be used to build environmentally friendly playgrounds or sports surfaces in the community. This programme not only helps Malaysia in combatting the shoe waste problem , but at the same time also help in making the country a more sustainable living place