This document provides ideas for organizing engaging events to raise awareness about sustainability issues like climate change and energy efficiency. It suggests a variety of event types like conferences, fundraising activities, and celebrations of achievements. Specific event ideas are also listed, such as using solar powered equipment, hosting film screenings or debates, organizing games and competitions, and staging symbolic demonstrations. The overall message is that events should be fun, interactive, and help unite the project team and campus community around sustainability goals.
This document provides tips for organizing a successful event. It recommends defining clear goals for the event that are targeted towards a specific audience. It also suggests recruiting volunteers to take on key roles like administration, logistics, and communications. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of planning the event well in advance, with consideration given to timing, location, required permits, and promotion strategies. The overall message is that proper preparation, goal setting, and delegation of responsibilities are essential for organizing an effective event.
This document provides a personal testimony from Sébastien about their experience using the "restraint, efficiency, renewable energy" guide from Solar Generation to make their university campus more sustainable. They found the approach clear and logical. First, they reduced energy consumption through education. Then, an energy audit identified efficiency improvements. While restraint and efficiency were easier, renewable projects require more investment but are still worthwhile. Sébastien recommends taking a holistic approach and utilizing Solar Generation's resources.
This document provides guidance on how to effectively speak to the media. It recommends appointing a spokesperson and media coordinator to handle press inquiries. The spokesperson should be prepared to clearly and concisely communicate the key messages and purpose of an event in a 30-second soundbite. Journalists should be contacted in advance and provided with any relevant photos, press releases, or interview opportunities. When speaking to the media, the spokesperson needs to remain confident, clear, and in control of the interview by staying on message and using simple, engaging language.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
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We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
This document provides tips for organizing a successful event. It recommends defining clear goals for the event that are targeted towards a specific audience. It also suggests recruiting volunteers to take on key roles like administration, logistics, and communications. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of planning the event well in advance, with consideration given to timing, location, required permits, and promotion strategies. The overall message is that proper preparation, goal setting, and delegation of responsibilities are essential for organizing an effective event.
This document provides a personal testimony from Sébastien about their experience using the "restraint, efficiency, renewable energy" guide from Solar Generation to make their university campus more sustainable. They found the approach clear and logical. First, they reduced energy consumption through education. Then, an energy audit identified efficiency improvements. While restraint and efficiency were easier, renewable projects require more investment but are still worthwhile. Sébastien recommends taking a holistic approach and utilizing Solar Generation's resources.
This document provides guidance on how to effectively speak to the media. It recommends appointing a spokesperson and media coordinator to handle press inquiries. The spokesperson should be prepared to clearly and concisely communicate the key messages and purpose of an event in a 30-second soundbite. Journalists should be contacted in advance and provided with any relevant photos, press releases, or interview opportunities. When speaking to the media, the spokesperson needs to remain confident, clear, and in control of the interview by staying on message and using simple, engaging language.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
This document lists potential activities that could be organized to promote entrepreneurship. Some of the proposed activities include hosting challenges for problem solving, speed networking events to connect entrepreneurs globally, competitions for students to showcase community resources and innovations, seminars on various entrepreneurship topics, and showcasing local entrepreneurs. The list provides a wide range of event ideas focused on inspiring, educating and supporting entrepreneurship among youth and in local communities.
Seminar 5 Design Thinking and Cafe Exercise - 15 and 18 March 2021Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have two exercises:
Design Thinking
Cafe Exercise
In both exercises, you will have ample opportunities to apply your creativity and design skills.
First, you will design a new hat or a new shoe using principles and practices of design thinking.
Second, you will design a cafe - your own cafe - that you would like to open (thinking of clients, target segment, menu, operations, decoration etc.)
This document proposes several strategies for promoting a local Superdry store to students, including awareness campaigns on campus through computer screensavers and plasma screen ads. Social media competitions and mass promotional tools are suggested to engage students online. Freshers events like the Freshers Fair and Freshers Ball are identified as opportunities to target new students. Specific tactics proposed include giving out freebies at the Freshers Fair and including unique barcodes in Freshers survival packs for a chance to win free Superdry products. Partnering with student clubs and campus influencers is also recommended to promote brand-related events and lock-ins to local students.
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This document describes a course on creativity that teaches 60 models of creativity over 10 months. The course aims to help students learn and apply different creativity models through lectures, exercises, and projects. It discusses various topics that will be covered related to creativity sciences, interfaces, knowledge and experiment dynamics, among others. The goal is for students to shape their designs to engage these different topics and foster creativity.
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- Copenhagen, Denmark: A former grammar school was refurbished with learning spaces, co-working areas, and dormitories created using locally sourced, recycled materials.
- Nairobi, Kenya: A villa was converted to a social media hub with a media lab and offices, using furniture from a nearby informal settlement.
- Nanyuki, Kenya: A former youth correctional facility was refurbished to facilitate cultural exchanges, using upcycled, social furniture.
- Yangon, Myanmar: A villa was designed for trainings
Libraries are evolving from places that simply house collections to become makerspaces and solve spaces where community members can solve real-world problems. The workshop speakers will share their experiences in developing makerspaces and moving them toward becoming solve spaces that address sustainability goals and other community challenges. Attendees will learn tips for getting started with a makerspace and moving it to the next level by engaging partners and taking on initiatives that make a positive impact. Through discussion and sharing examples, the panel aims to inspire libraries to utilize their spaces and resources to educate communities and build solutions.
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Designed for a high school in Ohio, this resource illuminates 10 principles for community, materials, and environment of a community makerspace.
It draws from interviews with the d.school, Brightworks, Columbia College, and MAKE.
Done in partnership with Experience Institute in 2015.
The document provides background on the author's career in design, including awards won for fine arts, studies focusing on design and challenging status quo, and experiences gaining exposure in Germany and India. Projects discussed include conceptual packaging for McDonald's using geometric shapes, research on a traditional Indian craft, lighting designs, a user interface design for a machine workshop, and redesigns of a door handle and pipette. The author seeks feedback on their portfolio and concepts showing how design can meet functionality and art.
This portfolio document introduces Maria Merchant and provides summaries of some of her past projects. It describes her background in fine arts and design and highlights projects such as designing a packaging concept for McDonald's Happy Meals using geometric shapes, researching a traditional wool weaving craft, conceptualizing a futuristic bathing concept for a design competition, and designing a low-cost DIY air cooler for rural areas. The document provides details on the processes, learnings, and teams involved for several of her classroom and internship projects. It concludes by inviting comments on her selected works.
The document provides background on the author's career in design, including awards won for fine arts, studies focusing on design and challenging status quo, and experiences gaining exposure through international programs. Projects discussed include conceptual designs for packaging and lighting, research on craft traditions, interface design for industrial equipment, and theme park experiences drawing on history and storytelling. The author seeks feedback on works presented and can be contacted by email.
The document summarizes the business plan for "The Treasury", which aims to provide alternative methods of fashion production and consumption through design. It will serve as both an outlet for unwanted clothing and a venue for local designers. Located in Brooklyn, it will rent space to designers, take a commission on their sales, and offer trend analysis services. The value proposition includes providing a new experience of consumption, re-imbuing value into unwanted items, and educating consumers. Challenges include measuring community support, managing resources across projects, and lacking brand recognition. The business will be promoted through quarterly theme-based events showcasing new designer pieces.
The document describes The Treasury, a sustainable fashion business located in Brooklyn, New York. The Treasury aims to provide alternative methods of production and consumption through design. It serves as both an outlet for unwanted clothing and a venue for local designers. The business model involves renting space to designers, taking commissions from sales, and offering trend analysis services. The Treasury hopes to educate consumers about sustainability and inspire change in the fashion industry through its quarterly events showcasing local designers and their refashioned products.
Design thinking is an approach to problem solving that focuses on understanding user needs and feedback. It involves understanding the problem from the user's perspective, generating multiple solutions, getting feedback, and implementing a solution that improves users' lives. The document discusses how design thinking was used by students at various schools to tackle problems in their communities, such as lack of school spirit or violence. It also provides an overview of how design thinking works and resources for learning more about this approach.
1. This document provides instructions for FoW Explorers on how to help entrepreneurs through a 5 step process: join the Explorers community, find an innovation to support, solve challenges for the innovation, facilitate an event to provide support, and share outcomes to improve innovations.
2. Explorers are asked to connect with innovators, identify challenges to address, and organize events like talks, workshops and mapping sessions to generate solutions.
3. The goal is to help innovators accelerate their initiatives through community support and cross-pollination of ideas. Outputs are shared online to spread knowledge and continue developing the Future of Waste platform.
This document provides ideas for engaging Generation Z students on campus, including interactive activities, pop-up experiences, ambassador programs, and social media strategies. Some key recommendations are to make experiences entertaining, get people involved through interactive games and challenges, own exhibition spaces by giving them unique identities, mobilize student ambassadors to spread word-of-mouth, and create buzz-worthy content for social media with an emphasis on visuals and videos. Measurement of success includes social reach, application increases, and being recognized as the best stand at conferences.
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This document lists potential activities that could be organized to promote entrepreneurship. Some of the proposed activities include hosting challenges for problem solving, speed networking events to connect entrepreneurs globally, competitions for students to showcase community resources and innovations, seminars on various entrepreneurship topics, and showcasing local entrepreneurs. The list provides a wide range of event ideas focused on inspiring, educating and supporting entrepreneurship among youth and in local communities.
Seminar 5 Design Thinking and Cafe Exercise - 15 and 18 March 2021Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have two exercises:
Design Thinking
Cafe Exercise
In both exercises, you will have ample opportunities to apply your creativity and design skills.
First, you will design a new hat or a new shoe using principles and practices of design thinking.
Second, you will design a cafe - your own cafe - that you would like to open (thinking of clients, target segment, menu, operations, decoration etc.)
This document proposes several strategies for promoting a local Superdry store to students, including awareness campaigns on campus through computer screensavers and plasma screen ads. Social media competitions and mass promotional tools are suggested to engage students online. Freshers events like the Freshers Fair and Freshers Ball are identified as opportunities to target new students. Specific tactics proposed include giving out freebies at the Freshers Fair and including unique barcodes in Freshers survival packs for a chance to win free Superdry products. Partnering with student clubs and campus influencers is also recommended to promote brand-related events and lock-ins to local students.
Looking to get kids interested in engineering? Host a Discover Engineering Family Day at an area museum or school. This presentation will walk you through all of the steps involved.
This document proposes an exhibition called "Eco-Luxe Fashion Showcase 2011" to be held at Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort in Singapore. The exhibition, organized by Eco-Luxe London and partnering with the World Wide Fund for Nature, aims to showcase clothing from 3 eco-friendly fashion brands and raise awareness of environmental and social issues in the fashion industry like slave labor, animal cruelty, and pollution. It will feature displays from designers Izzy Lane, Minna, and another Izzy Lane and include posters, product displays, electronic presentations, and labels to educate attendees over a 60-day period. The goal is to promote sustainable luxury fashion and support green innovations while encouraging participation in Earth Hour.
This document describes a course on creativity that teaches 60 models of creativity over 10 months. The course aims to help students learn and apply different creativity models through lectures, exercises, and projects. It discusses various topics that will be covered related to creativity sciences, interfaces, knowledge and experiment dynamics, among others. The goal is for students to shape their designs to engage these different topics and foster creativity.
Innovative Learning Spaces for Radical Good single pagesTimothy Ahrensbach
This document provides instructions for creating innovative learning spaces using recycled materials. It describes spaces created at Global Platform locations in 6 countries:
- Copenhagen, Denmark: A former grammar school was refurbished with learning spaces, co-working areas, and dormitories created using locally sourced, recycled materials.
- Nairobi, Kenya: A villa was converted to a social media hub with a media lab and offices, using furniture from a nearby informal settlement.
- Nanyuki, Kenya: A former youth correctional facility was refurbished to facilitate cultural exchanges, using upcycled, social furniture.
- Yangon, Myanmar: A villa was designed for trainings
Libraries are evolving from places that simply house collections to become makerspaces and solve spaces where community members can solve real-world problems. The workshop speakers will share their experiences in developing makerspaces and moving them toward becoming solve spaces that address sustainability goals and other community challenges. Attendees will learn tips for getting started with a makerspace and moving it to the next level by engaging partners and taking on initiatives that make a positive impact. Through discussion and sharing examples, the panel aims to inspire libraries to utilize their spaces and resources to educate communities and build solutions.
10 Principles for Designing Your Makerspace—Detailed versionMelanie Kahl
Designed for a high school in Ohio, this resource illuminates 10 principles for community, materials, and environment of a community makerspace.
It draws from interviews with the d.school, Brightworks, Columbia College, and MAKE.
Done in partnership with Experience Institute in 2015.
The document provides background on the author's career in design, including awards won for fine arts, studies focusing on design and challenging status quo, and experiences gaining exposure in Germany and India. Projects discussed include conceptual packaging for McDonald's using geometric shapes, research on a traditional Indian craft, lighting designs, a user interface design for a machine workshop, and redesigns of a door handle and pipette. The author seeks feedback on their portfolio and concepts showing how design can meet functionality and art.
This portfolio document introduces Maria Merchant and provides summaries of some of her past projects. It describes her background in fine arts and design and highlights projects such as designing a packaging concept for McDonald's Happy Meals using geometric shapes, researching a traditional wool weaving craft, conceptualizing a futuristic bathing concept for a design competition, and designing a low-cost DIY air cooler for rural areas. The document provides details on the processes, learnings, and teams involved for several of her classroom and internship projects. It concludes by inviting comments on her selected works.
The document provides background on the author's career in design, including awards won for fine arts, studies focusing on design and challenging status quo, and experiences gaining exposure through international programs. Projects discussed include conceptual designs for packaging and lighting, research on craft traditions, interface design for industrial equipment, and theme park experiences drawing on history and storytelling. The author seeks feedback on works presented and can be contacted by email.
The document summarizes the business plan for "The Treasury", which aims to provide alternative methods of fashion production and consumption through design. It will serve as both an outlet for unwanted clothing and a venue for local designers. Located in Brooklyn, it will rent space to designers, take a commission on their sales, and offer trend analysis services. The value proposition includes providing a new experience of consumption, re-imbuing value into unwanted items, and educating consumers. Challenges include measuring community support, managing resources across projects, and lacking brand recognition. The business will be promoted through quarterly theme-based events showcasing new designer pieces.
The document describes The Treasury, a sustainable fashion business located in Brooklyn, New York. The Treasury aims to provide alternative methods of production and consumption through design. It serves as both an outlet for unwanted clothing and a venue for local designers. The business model involves renting space to designers, taking commissions from sales, and offering trend analysis services. The Treasury hopes to educate consumers about sustainability and inspire change in the fashion industry through its quarterly events showcasing local designers and their refashioned products.
Design thinking is an approach to problem solving that focuses on understanding user needs and feedback. It involves understanding the problem from the user's perspective, generating multiple solutions, getting feedback, and implementing a solution that improves users' lives. The document discusses how design thinking was used by students at various schools to tackle problems in their communities, such as lack of school spirit or violence. It also provides an overview of how design thinking works and resources for learning more about this approach.
1. This document provides instructions for FoW Explorers on how to help entrepreneurs through a 5 step process: join the Explorers community, find an innovation to support, solve challenges for the innovation, facilitate an event to provide support, and share outcomes to improve innovations.
2. Explorers are asked to connect with innovators, identify challenges to address, and organize events like talks, workshops and mapping sessions to generate solutions.
3. The goal is to help innovators accelerate their initiatives through community support and cross-pollination of ideas. Outputs are shared online to spread knowledge and continue developing the Future of Waste platform.
This document provides ideas for engaging Generation Z students on campus, including interactive activities, pop-up experiences, ambassador programs, and social media strategies. Some key recommendations are to make experiences entertaining, get people involved through interactive games and challenges, own exhibition spaces by giving them unique identities, mobilize student ambassadors to spread word-of-mouth, and create buzz-worthy content for social media with an emphasis on visuals and videos. Measurement of success includes social reach, application increases, and being recognized as the best stand at conferences.
Furia World is an advertising agency located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 2007 by Guillermo Tragant, who has over 20 years of experience working in creative roles at agencies in Argentina, Chicago, Central America, and Miami. The agency also has Luis Brusco as Managing Director, who has over 30 years of experience in advertising and marketing. Some of Furia World's clients include Nike, Levi's, Coca-Cola, and Bully Cashmere. The document provides examples of campaigns the agency created for these clients across various industries and markets.
2. IDEAS FOR
YOUR EVENTS
1. WHAT ACTIVITIES, AND
TO ACHIEVE WHAT?
Firstly, for your project to succeed it is important that the
campus players know you and support your cause.
The aim is to raise public awareness, and in
order to do this it is also necessary to have the
funds to finance events for your projects.
Sharing your success will help you to rein-
force your contacts with the various play-
ers, to involve them in your initiatives and
above all to make them aware of the fact
that you are making steady progress.
Learn how to celebrate your achieve-
ments! It is essential that your team be
tight-knit in order to work effectively.
Finally, it is always interesting to combine an
information point with your activities in order to
make them really visible.
When looking to organise an interesting event that can
reach out to the maximum number of people, many teams find themselves
bereft of ideas and fall back on the usual standard pairing of “conference &
stand”. It would better to try to imagine an event with some originality, adapted
to your aims and requirements.
3. 2. ACTIVITIES TO RAISE
PUBLIC AWARENESS
Mostly, you will wish to organise events in order to raise awareness amongst
your fellow students about global warming and more specifically, about
energy issues, for example, clamping down on wasting energy. Variety is
essential in order to have a powerful impact over time. In brief, abandon the
“conference & stand mode”. For an event to be a success concentrate on
communicating (see. ‘Guidelines: How to organise an event’).
3. A FUNDRAISING EVENT
Events should also be organised to finance the activities of your organisation.
There are dozens of activities that can be adapted to each specific situation.
For example, the sale of ecological products (targeting the Christmas market)
or competitions (artistic, sports…)
4. EVERYBODY
GATHERED TOGETHER
TO CELEBRATE
Of course, being a green campus also means celebrating victories such as
the signing of a charter, the implementation of energy saving measures or
even the installation of solar panels. These events are also occasions for offi-
cial ceremonies with your college administration. They should be organised
with great care. Try to make them significant events. Examples would be
improvised theatre or a fair trade dinner.
4. 5. HOW TO UNITE A TEAM?
Amongst team members, it is absolutely essential that there is a united team
spirit, and there are certain ways of achieving this. For example, after each
event/activity take the time to have a little debriefing meeting over a drink, or
go to environmental or sustainable development shows, festivals, exhibitions,
demonstrations, films etc., together.
Of course you can organise an awareness event that will also enable you to
raise funds. Don’t forget to take plenty of photos when you organise an event.
LIST OF EQUIPMENT MADE AVAILABLE TO CAMPUSES BY SOLAR
GENERATION (depends on country, so check for availability):
solar powered bar
solar powered sound system
climate change exhibition panels
energy revolution exhibition panels
banners
small wind turbines.
You have access to highly effective means of communication.
Solar Generation covers the costs, although expenses can be high
(solar bar, solar sound system). They are consequently reserved for
large-scale events.
Reference: The GUERILLA KIT by Morjane Baba
(published by’ la découverte’)
5. So here is a list of ideas – non-exhaustive - of interesting and fun
activities, that can be developed, revised, transformed, evolved, or
experimented with…
1. Bring a block of ice and let it melt on the campus and mark it with a
flag that says “Global warming is in the here and now”.
2. Borrow some solar panels in order to charge
mobiles and laptops.
3. Organise a “solar lunch” day with a solar powered oven, a crêpe
stand and a solar powered bar.
4. Assemble some sun squads (groups strolling about
disguised as suns).
5. Make banners with designs and messages that
can be hung from the university windows.
6. Organise a “human banner” (a banner whereby the
letters or symbols are formed by people).
7. Form a large parade with people in disguise carrying symbols.
8. Set up a photo-messaging system.
9. Organise little solar vehicle races.
10. Bring in a solar cinema.
11. Set up a workshop to make solar torches.
12. As for the associations, ask your partner groups to come up with
games that can be played so that people can join in.
13. Organise a debate over coffee followed by a quiz
to see who has been following the issue.
14. Show films.
15. Organise a competition and a photo exhibition.
16. Ask the university refectory if you can use paper napkins, cups and
table settings to get your message across.
17. For your competitive games, quizzes and tombolas give away
original prizes (low-consumption light bulbs, solar lighters, multiple
sockets, model windmills, a visit to a renewables installation site…)
18. Arrange a darts competition. A darts game (with darts shaped in
the form of windmills or suns) with the target being a coal-fired
power station or the building you wish to demonstrate about.
6. 19. Arrange a competition to establish the most energy
efficient hall of residence in order to encourage everybody
to take action.
20. Install a barometer, designed and made by the Art students,
to measure the conditions in the faculty. Leave it there
throughout the campaign, adjusting the arrow in accordance
with the progress of your project.
21. Increase eco activism in the lecture theatres.
22. Organise a Green Olympic Games amongst the
various associations or societies that are taking action
on your campus.
23. Provide two sets of bicycles, one with low-consumption
lamps and one with glow lamps so that people become
aware of the energy required to illuminate the various
facilities.
24. Organise an on-the-spot demonstration, with everybody
wearing swimming costumes and carrying banners to high-
light our vulnerability to global warming.
25. In order to raise money organise lotteries, tombolas, charity
bazaars, auctions, garage sales or treasure hunts.
26. Organise a blind test on different issues.
27. Put together a questionnaire whereby people can win and
accumulate “solar points”; after a certain number of points
prizes can be won.
28. Rig up two arches at the exit of the school - one labelled “I
will consume more” and the other “I will consume less” - and
ask students to sign up to either one. Count the participants
and use this figure in order to petition.
29. Close all the blinds in order to convey the message
“We must use the sun”.
30. Circulate a rumour about polar bears on bicycles.
31. Organise a theme-based graffiti competition or create
a symbolic and permanent work of art.
32. For an official inauguration in addition to the obligatory
handshake, don’t forget to cut the ribbon, take the photos
and provide the cocktails.
33. Organise taxi bicycles in order to chat with the
students along the way.
7. 34. Create a symbolic image, such as boats on the campus,
to illustrate rising sea levels.
35. Hand out “fortune cookies” with messages in them.
36. Collect signatures on a windmill-shaped petition and then
plant a field of windmill petitions.
37. Release a large number of biodegradable balloons.
38. Publish a journal dated 2050 that would illustrate a pseudo
piece of news typical of that time (with games and
drawings too).
39. Organise a “virtual walk” for your project by collecting videos
or photos and displaying them.
40. Organise a “die-in” of polar bears or penguins.
41. Set up a giant hourglass on the campus to represent “time
is running out”.
42. Make a “minute of noise”, with everybody shouting
out the message at once.
43. Illustrate the impact of global warming locally (flooding, melt-
ing glaciers, drought…) with, for example, everybody dressed
up in boots, oilskins and in boats to illustrate the floods.
8. 44. Ask people to commit to an energy-saving measure,
make note of all the commitments they agree to and
illustrate the total energy saved in this way.
45. Rename the various buildings and roads on the
campus and officially inaugurate them.
46. Organise a communal event and finish off the
evening with a concert on each campus.
47. Organise a big event involving all the campus players
(staff, and other students).
48. Involve the president or director of a school,
or another strategic person in your plans.
49. Consider images and ideas that can be achieved at night.
50. Organise a Climate Parade with a float and bicycles
to carry a lot of people.
51. Create models of the campus and the buildings being
targeted, illustrating the desired improvements and renew-
able energy installations.
52. Erect a giant board on which everyone can write
messages or draw pictures.
12. TESTIMONIES
DENISE MATIAS, SOLAR GENERATION PHILIPPINES
« Solar Generation showed me what I
can do, as a Filipino and as citizen of
the world. The ADB AGM last year (2006) at
Hyderabad is testament to this. All SG gathered
there are youth from all over the world, all com-
moners in our own country yet by being together
and by working together, we were a force to
reckon with! In this case, power in numbers does
not hold true but rather power in being one voice
created the much-needed buzz which made
ADB worried (and hopefully think twice of their energy projects as a develop-
ment bank). I realized how important SG work is, in approaching strategic
decision-makers and in showing that the youth are concerned about and very
much involved in the shaping of their own future. »
AKSHAY, 21 YEARS OLD, SOLAR GENERATION INDIA
« The Solar project was launched in India during my first year at univer-
sity and I was there from day one, which was the project launch day!
Greenpeace International Ottho Heldringstraat 5 1066 AZ Amsterdam Netherlands
One of the eventful activities in which I participated was the documentary I
made with six other Solar members. We filmed it for the Solar Generation Hot
Spot Tour, which was collecting pictures of the locations most affected by cli-
mate change in order to bring them to the COP/MOP conference that was
held in Montreal in 2005. Our project was about the socio-economic impact of
climate change on fishing and farming communities in the Indian state of
Orissa. The image of fields flooded by the rising sea level will remain with me
for a long time. This documentary is the first project that I did with Solar and it
helped us make the reality of climate change much more tangible. »
Printed on 100% post consumer recycled chlorine-free paper
FRANK ERNST, 24 YEARS OLD, SOLAR GENERATION SWITZERLAND
« During the five years I’ve been active in the Solar Generation project,
I’ve successively convinced politicians to implement climate-friendly
policies, installed hundreds of solar panels with young people from all over the
world, talked to people from every kind of background from behind a Solar
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stand, learned about the technical side of sustainable energy, organized
awareness events for other students, was part of a delegation that partici-
pated in the conference on sustainable energy, and I wrote about all those
experiences in a blog.. »