{"id":14526,"date":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/hamarinn-fyrst-ungmennahusa-til-ad-hljota-graenfanavottun\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:16:23","slug":"the-first-youth-centre-to-receive-green-flag-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/hamarinn-fyrst-ungmennahusa-til-ad-hljota-graenfanavottun\/","title":{"rendered":"First youth centre to receive Green Flag certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"\/en\/ibuar\/schools-and-children\/youth-house\/ungmennahusin\/the-hammer\/hamarinn-1\/\" class=\"internal\">Hamarri Youth Centre <\/a> Received the Green Flag certification recently.<br \/>\nLandverndar and thus became the first youth centre in the country to receive such a quality mark.<br \/>\nIn the autumn of 2019, the Hamarsins environmental committee applied to become a Green Flag Youth Centre.<br \/>\nat Landvernd. At the same time, the youth centre set itself ambitious goals and<br \/>\nhas organised a number of events and meetings, including those concerning environmental issues, etc.<br \/>\nThe stated aim of the Hammer to be a leading youth centre nationwide in this<br \/>\nin the same category as the others. The house association's general meeting was held yesterday, 21st December.<br \/>\nand at the meeting, a new and strong board was elected for the residents' association.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>New management of the housing association<br \/>\nThe members of Hamarsins are:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melkorka Assa Arnard\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<li>Bjarki Freyr \u00d3lafsson<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Leo Sigurthorisson<\/li>\n<li>\u00c1sbj\u00f6rn Ingi Ingvarson<\/li>\n<li>Tristan Fl\u00f3ki Arnarson<\/li>\n<li>Vera Mist Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<li>Bj\u00f6rk Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<li>Mar\u00edn Helgad\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<li>Thorvald Michael V\u00e1gsei\u00f0<\/li>\n<li>Valt\u00fdr Melsted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nThe young people themselves are the driving force behind the work.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/en\/ibuar\/schools-and-children\/youth-house\/ungmennahusin\/the-hammer\/hamarinn-1\/\" class=\"internal\">Hamarinn is a youth centre for young people aged 16-25.<\/a><br \/>\nin the old tax office at 14 Su\u00f0urgata and operates according to the values of equality,<br \/>\nfriendship and well-being, as well as respect for nature and the environment<br \/>\nan underlying element in all activities. Internal operations are based on them<br \/>\non the premise that the young people themselves are the driving force in the work and thus reflects<br \/>\nThe activities and projects of the house are in keeping with the spirit of the times and the interests of the young people themselves. Environment Committee<br \/>\nHammers thus created an environmental agreement which includes the important<br \/>\nA message to leave the Earth in a better state than you found it, or at least as good.<br \/>\nThus, nature is respected through utility and moderation, maintenance and recycling.<br \/>\nguiding principle. A new environmental committee will be elected at the beginning of the new year and it will, among other things,.<br \/>\nthe task of building upon the good foundation that has been laid and to make<br \/>\nEven better on environmental issues.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Goals that lie adjacent<br \/>\nFirst Green Flag Certification<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioning a landfill<\/li>\n<li>Go plastic-free<\/li>\n<li>Be mindful of energy consumption and use renewable energy.<br \/>\nsource of energy<\/li>\n<li>Publicise goals externally and get more people to<br \/>\nto take part<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Landvernd considers that Hamarinn is doing well and<br \/>\nhas done its part to fulfil the above-mentioned objectives despite difficult circumstances<br \/>\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hamar's Environment Committee, among other things, organised a clothes swap and educational evenings.<br \/>\non environmental issues and such events will be held annually.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamarinn ungmennah\u00fas hlaut n\u00fa \u00e1 d\u00f6gunum Gr\u00e6nf\u00e1navottun Landverndar og var\u00f0 \u00feannig fyrsta ungmennah\u00fas landsins til a\u00f0 hlj\u00f3ta sl\u00edkan g\u00e6\u00f0astimpil. Hausti\u00f0 2019 s\u00f3tti umhverfisnefnd Hamarsins um a\u00f0 gerast Gr\u00e6nf\u00e1na ungmennah\u00fas hj\u00e1 Landvernd. \u00c1 sama t\u00edma setti ungmennah\u00fasi\u00f0 s\u00e9r metna\u00f0arfull markmi\u00f0 og hefur sta\u00f0i\u00f0 fyrir fj\u00f6lda vi\u00f0bur\u00f0a og funda sem sn\u00faa m.a. a\u00f0 umhverfism\u00e1lum enda yfirl\u00fdst markmi\u00f0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}