Merry Christmas with music

Hi! It is time for a Christmas break! Happy holidays!
Here's some Finnish Christmas music: two songs,
both composed by Jean Sibelius, the most famous
Finnish composer of classical music.

I played two songs for you with my piano...
The first is called "On hanget korkeat nietokset" and
the second called "En etsi valtaa, loistoa". This
song is about the importance of peace, not
power or glory. Merry Christmas!

Click here to listen the songs (mp3)

S.O.S. Snow! - Autumn in Italy

Here is an article made by ENO school
in Rome, IIS Salvemini Lagrange.
It is about the weather in autumn this
year compared with other years .
They lack of snow in the Alps. We do it
here in Finland as well (not in Lapland,
where The Santa Claus comes from... ).

Read their article here.

Interim results from Romania

See some interim results of ENO gallup in Romania,
how children and youth answered. See some results here.

The effect of climate change in Finland

6th graders (12 yrs) at Pataluoto School (FI07) made an article about the
effect of climate change in Finland. The article was translated into English
with the assistance of their English teacher.

See their article here as pdf

Registration extended to 31DEC

Just an update: so far we have registered schools for climate change campaign
in 61 countries! We have extended the deadline for registration until
31st of December 2007.

Have you/your school or youth group registered? It is very easy. Just go here
and follow the instructions.

Climate Change Gallup and Romanian youth

Please see some interim results from Romania ( 10-20 yrs),
about 200 answers.

Click here to see them.

An article from ENO school in Colorado, US

This is an article about global warming and climate change, made
by Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, Colorado.

Click here to read it.

The effect of climate change in Turkey

.... since the year 1923, every 10 years Turkey’s temperature has
increased 0.2⁰C. The report also says that in the past years the precipitation
rate has decreased 10% .With the augmentation of temperature and the
downturn of raining rate drought and desertification awaits Turkey. ..

Read the article about climate change and its effects in Turkey,
made by ENO students at Enka Schools.

Or you can listen to it here.

Interim results of ENO Gallup, Taiwan

See some results here, what 300 children and
youth thought about climate change here.

White Christmas in Joensuu, Finland?

Since my childhood we have had white Christmas here every year. Normally we have
our first snow in late October (like this year and we had it 25 cm but it melt).

In 1996 (8DEC) and 2000 (16DEC) permanent snow came very late. Normally in
my region the snow depth should be about 30 cm now. But no snow. Average
temperature in December is -7,5C. But this December our temperatures have
varied from 0 to 8C. This is really abnormal. Will this Christmas be my first
without snow?





















Mika, 62N30E, Finland

Language Pack in Portuguese

Ola!

Here are our activities in Portuguese, thanks for Dulce Casarin,
ENO teacher in Curitiba, Brazil!

Portuguese: Part I Part II

Climate Change Gallup: Interim results from Finland

See some interim results of gallup. Here are 204 answers from the age group
10-20 yrs, Finnish children and youth. Note that this is not a final report but
some picks only. Click here to see som Finnish interim results. You can
also compare these results with children and youth in Iran, see here

A Frog Evening at Saba School, Iran

"We had an evening of frog making at Saba school. Can you guess
which is Faranak?

We are going to take the frogs to schools. In photos , you can see
Samaneh Baghbani , Mrs Niazmand , me and three students : Fatemeh Morshedi ,
Niloofar Farahani and Bahar Khani. There others in Saba school
who are actively participating in ENO activities."

Mariam Mokhtari, Allameh Jaafari School, Tehran, Iran

A pledge of 6000 trees in Cuba!

ENO School in Cuba will plant 6000 trees next year! This will be
their contribution for the better environment and ENO Tree Planting
Campaign (100 000 trees). We received this news from Rafael Méndez,
ENO teacher at Centro Politécnico de Veterinaria Villena – Revolución
in Havana,Cuba.

We will launch this new campaign site by the end of this year.
It is great to hear about the level of commitment already.

Make your pledge!

As you may know we have made a separate pledge
bank for this campaign. You are welcome to make your
pledge to prevent C02 emissions and make a difference
at personal level.

We have received pledges from many countries. As we
challenged the European Commission to take part, here is
a pledge from M.P. Carl, Director-General for Environment:

My pledge: "Europe is determined to tackle climate change
and has the ability to lead the world's efforts by example. With a real sense
of common responsibility and political will we can make this change happen. Decisive
action is needed over the next 10 to 15 years: we must accelerate the change to a low
carbon economy, reverse the continuing increase in global greenhouse gas emissions and
increase our energy security and our energy efficiency. Climate change is therefore
among the top priorities for me personally and for my Commission, and I pledge to work
to ensure that this is reflected in the agenda of the European Union as a whole.
Together we can make a difference."

M.P. Carl, Director-General for Environment
On behalf of José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
and Stavros Dimas, Commissioner for Environment

HAVE YOU MADE YOUR PLEDGE? PLEASE DO IT HERE!

Gallup results from Iran

What do children and youth think about climate change
in Iran?

Though we are in the middle of campaign here are some
insteresting results from Iran. Theses are results mainly
from Allameh Jaafari (girl school), but there are also
answers from other schools.

These "interim results" are from the age group 10-20 yrs,
the number of answers is respectable 395.
Find the result page here (this is NOT a final report):
http://eno.joensuu.fi/pledges/iraneseyouthresults.htm

Language packs in Russian and Spanish

Please find here language packs in Russian and Spanish.
Thank you ENO teachers:

Lubov Shamova, Kharkov, Ukraine
Ana Prieto, Patagonica, Argentina

Russian: Part I
Spanish: Part I Part II

Our Chrimstas Present to Mother Earth: 100 000 trees!

ENO Programme has made a pledge to plant a total of 100 000
trees during next year. We look forward to this challenge. This will
be our Christmas present to Mother Earth.

The ENO tree planting campaign is a part of UNEP's Billion Tree
Campaign that was launched in November 2006. It is also linked
to activities of United Nations Forum On Forests.

A letter from the director of UNFF, Mr Pekka Patosaari