From this past Friday, June 4, until next September, the exhibition “Eco To The Planet” will remain open at La Casa Amarilla of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, an exhibition organized by the Youth Department of the Island Corporation, and produced and curated by Amalia M. Fajardo.
The main objective of the exhibition is to publicize and raise awareness about the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up the UN's 2030 Agenda. To this end, the exhibition uses all kinds of materials and formats, from explanatory panels to documentaries and audiovisual material that are distributed in the five rooms occupied by the exhibition in La Casa Amarilla.

Precisely, the first room includes the 17 SDGs, in addition to a graphic explanation of the theory of the “Doughnut Economics”, proposed by Kate Raworth, which reconciles economic growth with the sustainability of the planet. The second room, called #Larealidadsinfiltros, shows, in various formats, the raw and unsustainable reality of the planet, with the current pace of life and consumption of human beings.
The third room shows some proposed solutions, such as the circular economy, alternatives to mass tourism, ecofeminism, tricks to rethink and reduce our consumption and even the successful visions of César Manrique. The fourth room continues with practical and real cases of social entrepreneurs in different fields who are achieving some environments, making them more sustainable. The exhibition concludes with a fifth room dedicated to individual reflection, in which visitors can personally get involved in the solutions.

In short, “Eco To The Planet” is, in the words of Amalia M: Fajardo herself, “a loudspeaker for planet Earth, which aims to help us change our consumption model”.
“The real engine of change is personal commitment”
The president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, present at the opening ceremony, stated during the event that “this exhibition is a call, both to institutions and to each of us individually, to do more for the protection of our mistreated planet”.
Corujo added that “it is clear that institutions have the obligation to act. Of course, citizens have to be even more demanding with those of us who have the obligation to implement policies that contribute to curbing greenhouse gas emissions or reducing the impact of waste. But the true engine of change, as in any great social transformation, is personal commitment, the personal conviction that this change is essential,” concluded the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
In turn, Paula Corujo, Councilor for Youth and La Casa Amarilla of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, stated that it is “a necessary exhibition. Because effectively, it is necessary for public administrations and political leaders to take action, but there is no solution for our planet if we do not become aware and act also from an individual point of view, each of us, every day,” said the Councilor for Youth of the Island Corporation.

Until September and with free admission
The exhibition “Eco To The Planet” will be exhibited at La Casa Amarilla, the former headquarters of the Cabildo de Lanzarote on León y Castillo street in Arrecife, until next September. Admission is free and the hours are Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Sundays and holidays closed.
The idea, production and curatorship is by Amalia M. Fajardo. The coordination by Miguel Ángel Martín Rosa, director of La Casa Amarilla and the Data Center of the Cabildo de Lanzarote. The designs are by Ana Lola Betancort, Nick Talavera, Isabel Fajardo, Leticia Negrín and Amalia M. Fajardo. The lighting by Shelma Zebensuí and the translations by Miguel Torrado.
