What's Your Earth Day 2006 Event?
by Petz Scholtus, Barcelona on 03. 7.06
Last weekend we posted 'Rustle the Leaf's Earth Day Book', a step by step guide to this year's Earth Day and we featured Earth Day Network’s Ecological Footprint Online Quiz a while back, which measures your impact on the Earth’s resources by calculating how many planets you need to live your lifestyle.
Now it’s time to act on those results by planning your Earth Day Event. April 22nd is Earth Day and Earth Day Network’s challenge for this year as part of their Climate Change Solution Campaign are 10,000 worldwide Climate Change events. You can list your event on their web site or find inspiration if you don’t quite know yet what your event looks like. Ideas range from planting trees, creating community green maps or holding a parade to organising water-quality monitoring or t-shirt competitions. If you still feel a bit lost, download the EDN’s Organizer’s Guide (a very useful 46 page pdf) which takes you step by step from getting started to organising Earth Day projects, to working with volunteers, raising money and working with the media.
So tell us and tell them ‘what’s your Earth Day ’06 Event?’ 47 days to go… ::Earth Day Network ::Earth Day 2006 Climate Change Solutions Compaign ::images from EDN’s Organizer’s Guide
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Hi,
For Earth Day 2006 at my school, we made a short movie that's essentially just a slideshow to contrast nature's beauty with the downside of consumerism. It's basically a bunch of images snagged off Google Image Search, but since it was designed for a school assembly and not being distributed commercially, I don't think anyone will mind so much. Anyway, it was so easy to do that I posted a little "how to" if anyone wants to make their own. We just used Picasa and Windows Movie Maker and it took less than an hour. The instructions are on my school's website:
Earth Day Movie how-to
Now I'm going to post our school's event plan on the site in case other schools want to do some of the same activities.
Happy Earth Day!
Warren
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