Oct 13 2009
Did we save the world in one minute?
This blog is for Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change: www.blogactionday.org
You may have read my earlier post on how you can save the world in one minute? Students basically made their own one minute videos communicating how they can save the world in one minute. The student’s message was that it is extremely important to protect rainforests as they are the single biggest factor that could help tackle climate change and thus saving the world. The students were also trying to highlight the excellent work that the charity Cool Earth does:
Cool Earth is a global charity launched in June 2007 that funds community led protection of endangered rainforest. With the support of over 50,000 individual sponsors and companies in 14 different countries, Cool Earth works with rainforest people to ensure rainforest is worth more standing than it is cut.
How it works: 1. Cool Earth operates in six counties in South America to identify rainforest that is at greatest risk of destruction in the coming 18 months. 2. Once the risks are identified, Cool Earth works with regional governments and partner NGOs to forge relations with communities whose livelihoods, health and sustainability will be damaged by the deforestation. 3. With their agreement, Cool Earth works to secure the at-risk rainforest by funding the community to purchase or protect it. 4. All Cool Earth asks is that the forest canopy, its biodiversity and carbon storage are kept intact.
Sponsors can secure half an acre of forest (storing 130 tonnes of CO2) for as little £60 and keep an eye on it with Google Maps. As well as regular updates about their role in protecting the forest, its biodiversity and the communities that depend on it. You can do this by visiting the website www.coolearth.org or sign up your school to become a cool school.
Our school Saltash.net Community School in Cornwall is the first one to sign up. www.saltash.net I want to show you some of the best videos that have been produced. Please have a look at them below and post comments to our students to let them know what you think.
This first video is completed by some Year 11 students and involves a little bit of dressing up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVYE6CYLrY
This next video is a little bit different and approaches it in a different way by some Year 11 students:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWyk9BjT_pg
The next video is by some Year 8 students and shows a new approach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQVMGM2wWI
The next video is by one of our partner schools in Spain and yes it is in Spanish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtauqDEPgI
So did we save the world in just one minute? Well I think in our own little way we did!
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