Monday, July 23, 2007

Photo Album

Here is a link to a photo album of ENO Climate Change Campaign:
http://picasaweb.google.com/enoprogramme/ENOCLIMATECHANGECAMPAIGN

Friday, June 15, 2007

Ozzy goes Polar with Frank!




The mascot for ENO Climate Change Campaign, Frank The Frog spreads his message in the latest cartoon of Ozzy Ozone!

In this cartoon Ozzy Ozone and his friend Zoe will be falling to the North Pole and carried there by Tilman the Polar bear. They will learn what happens to earth’s protective shield the ozone layer and what is the interlinkage with global warming. They will also meet some scientists in Tara boat. And Frank.

"Ozzy goes polar" was launched on World environment day. Find the cartoon book
as pdf in Spanish. French and English here. Read more info in the press release

You can reduce the effect of climate change with your daily actions and
choices. Make your pledge in Frank The Frog's pledge bank!

Turn down, switch off, recycle and walk
Four small changes, we act we don't just talk.
Make your pledges so Earth remains:
You control the climate change!

Monday, June 04, 2007

130 000 trees pledged in our campaign!



ENO Programme will reach the goal of 100 000 trees!

To celebrate The World Environment Day, we are happy to declare today that about 130 000 trees have been promised to plant in the ENO 2007 Tree Planting Campaign. About a half of pledged trees have already been planted. Most of trees will be planted in Kenya.

You are welcome to join this campaign on our website, make your pledge and report about your event in the ENO Tree Database. Find the site from the link:
http://eno.joensuu.fi/campaign2007

Friday, April 20, 2007

Frank's postcards by Lidija, Slovenia














Lidija Plestenjak, 13 yrs has illustrated seven changes where
Frank The Frog shows how to do them. Lidija comes from
OS Polhov Gradec, Slovenia.

Download these postcards, print, put them on the wall or
send to your friends!

Sevenchanges.zip

Monday, April 16, 2007

A new hit single to control the climate change


16 APRIL 2007
JOENSUU, FINLAND


A NEW HIT SINGLE TO CONTROL
THE CLIMATE CHANGE


Frank The Frog and The Pataluoto Swingers published
their debut single today. "You Control The Climate Change"
asks you to make small changes in your daily
behaviour for the better environment and future.
This song is free to be downloaded if one makes a pledge online in the Frank's Pledge Bank.

" I am concerned about the future of this planet, not only as a frog. I thought
human beings are wiser but it is time to wake them up from hibernation"
says Frank. "To spread the message we will also publish our music video. Quack!"

Frank is the mascot in the climate change campaign by the ENO Programme,
a global virtual school and network for sustainable development. The Pataluoto
Swingers are 4-5th graders from Pataluoto School, the city of Joensuu, Finland.


New single "You Control The Climate Change":
http://eno.joensuu.fi/frank

More information:

Mika Vanhanen
mika@enoprogramme.org

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

IPCC's Climate Change Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment
Programme (Unep). The role of the IPCC is to assess
the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate
change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation
and mitigation.

We cannot wait. Read some key findings in this BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6324029.stm

A video clipse from Lithuania

See a short video clipse on
Climate Change seminar from
Fabijoniskiu secondary school
in Lithuania

Monday, February 05, 2007

The March of Frogs in Segev Shalom, Israel

The Alnoor Elementary School
in
Segev Shalom, Israel has joined
the campaign of Climate Change
and participated with their 5th
and 6th grades in the March of Frogs,
on January 17th. It was a sunny
and warm day and all participants
were happy.

After learning about the climate
change globally and locally, the
students prepared posters with
pledges to save the environment
and diminish the global warming effect.

They also prepared paper crown with the picture of Frank the frog that
they wore during the march. Some of the students hold the frog banks,
made during their art classes. They walked on the streets with happy
faces and the hope that their message will reach the people in their town.

Teacher of environmental science, Yiad Hagazi was responsible for
translating the material into Arabic and organizing the March of the Frogs.
He was joined by homeroom teachers, art teachers and science teachers.
The supervisor of Agriculture and Environmental Studies in the District
was the honor guest on the event.

Reported by Carmella B. Baranga,
ENO Coordinator, Israel
















Friday, February 02, 2007

Campaign at Primary School, Ledina, Slovenia

Primary School Ledina in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia,
has joined the project Against climate changes, too. Considering
the fact that the school is situated in the very city centre, we wish
to have a cleaner environment, with less noise and pollution. On
the other hand, we are aware of the fact that the changes in the
environment are leading us towards catastrophes on a much larger scale.



Class 5a at Primary School Ledina

In class 5a we talked widely about the topic, examined the
material we had gathered at home and discussed the climate
changes on our planet.



We have come to a conclusion that everyone of us should start
by making small changes him/herself. In this way we wrote our
promises. At art classes we designed a frog named Frank, the
mascot of our campaign.







On Wednesday, January 17, we prepared a march of frogs.
We put up posters reminding people of the dangers for the
environment if the climate continues to change dramatically.



We also made leaflets on which we wrote suggestions what
each of us could contribute to the campaign. We distributed the
leaflets to people all over the school and warned the passers-by
who were given a chance to write their own promises as well.
Many pupils, parents and teachers responded and we managed
to gather over two hundred promises.






The media responded, too. Radio Slovenia reported on the
campaign on Wednesday morning and on Saturday on the
programme Sobotna raglja. The newspaper Slovenske novice
published an article about us on Friday, January 26.



What is going to be our next step? We have decided to keep
our promises . At the same time we wrote to Slovenia's highest
authorities and urged them to write their own promises and
send them to us. We have truly enjoyed the project and have
learnt a lot for future life.

Mentor: Karla Leban

An article in Romanian

This article comes from "Spiru Haret" Highschool" Tecuci, Romania,
named "Se accelereaza topirea ghetarilor" (''Melting of the glaciers
in a speedy way") by the student Vasiliu Alexandra 10th form.


Thursday, February 01, 2007

A report from Mircea cel Batran", Romania

Hello! We are from the National College "Mircea cel Batran", Constantza,
Romania. See some photos with our group and our coordinator, with the fliers
that we shared to the local people in the March of Frogs, with the March,
with the meeting with our principal and with the posters that we posted in our
highschool.

Here is also a powerpoint and one of the articles that appeared in our local newspaper "Telegraf". The subject was also published by the national newspapers: "Observatorul" and "Romania libera". There were also news on the radio.

Climate Change in Romania, powerpoint

An Article in the newspaper in English


























































































Photos from Iran
















































Tuesday, January 30, 2007

What schools and management can do?

Here is another quite interesting ppt
in which some students examined the
ways our school and its management contribute
to global warming.

Kind regards,
Kathrin (DE02)
BBS 3 der Region Hannover
Germany

"So that the frogs could breathe easier" .... Ptuj, Slovenia

So,that the frogs can breathe easier!

The students of Gimnazija Ptuj (class 2.a) have joined the ENO
and the project about climate changes. The project is called
»So that the frogs can breathe easier«. We were inspired by the
mascot (a frog named Frank), which we made by ourselves and
was symbolically carried across the road. Why did we do this?

The frog is an animal that is very sensitive to climate changes,
so many kinds the species are already onthe edge of extinction.
humans have a big influence on their life. The most interesting fact
is that frogs need the closeness of humans. Humans, however, are
changing frogs habitat by building houses and roads, changing layers
of humus, using pesticides in farming, destroying natural ponds etc.
Did you know, that gardeners are very happy if frogs inhabits their
gardens because that means they wont have any problems with pests?
By building an extensive road sistem network, humans are interferring
with frogs natural paths that lead to their spawning places.
This is the reason why there are so many frogs run over by cars during
theirr spawning season. Many environmental organisations are warming
us about this problem by carrying frogs across the roads, closer to the
spawning places.

Our preparations began quite some time ago. We startedto cutting frogs
from paper. Onto those paper-frogs we wrote our promises how we were
going to improve the environment. We made posters and invited other
students to take part in the activities. We presented our work with a
role-play between two worried meteorologists talking about climate changes.
We organised an exehibition in the school library.
But, if you look at the pictures, you will see for yourselves!

Branka Sijanec (geography teacher)






















Photos from Lycee Emil Dubois, Paris, France













































Saturday, January 27, 2007

Gimnazija Škofja Loka, Slovenia

How did the students at Škofja Loka Grammar
School, Slovenia, participate in the campaign known as:
The March of Frogs or how to reduce the emissions
of greenhouse gases, on January 17th this year?

The 1st year students (class E) already in December
last year discussed the causes and consequences of
climatic changes in the atmosphere at the science
subjects, such as Biology, Chemistry and Geography.
They brought up a lot of pledges how to change their
environmental behaviour and increase their awareness.

The 2nd year students (class A) made frogs out of
recycled paper, wrote pledges and on January 17th,
2007 prepared the school exhibition of the frogs and their pledges in a
school hall.

Besides this, the students prepared a lot of leaflets, saying: Turn off the
lights when the sun shines, which were attached to all classroom doors
in order to save some energy, when possible.

We informed the local media and there were some local newspaper reporters
who came to school on that day and they promised to report about the students’
activities which, we hope, might improve their environmental awareness.

Furthermore, the 3rd year students will watch an Al Gore film The
Inconvenient Truth next week as a part of their regular curriculum.


Ivica Krek, prof.
mentor of the activities

Alenka Kolenc Krajnik, prof.
editor

Jože Bogataj, prof.
ASP Unesco coordinator







From Medical School, Varazdin, Croatia

Clean environment is not our enemy!

Pollution is only a step away from cleanliness.
Is our weekness worth our children's lifes?

Best regards,

prof. Ranka Knolmajer,
Medical school Varazdin
Croatia