Pangaea Green Wave Project
The concept of Pangaea Green Wave Project is very simple. During one day, Young Explorers from all over the world inspire their families, friends and even strangers to join a short action with long-term effects.
The first Green Wave took place on Earth Cleanup Day on September 25, 2010 during which nine teams of YEPs took part from Germany, Poland, Argentina, USA, South Africa, and Malaysia for a daily cleanup activity. The second Green Wave took place on June 5, 2011 when Pangaea representatives planted trees worldwide, each between 15 – 16 o’clock in their respective time zone. In this manner, we had a complete 24-hour tree planting event spreading around the globe over 24 hours. The third Green Wave's theme was 'Goodbye to Garbage' on September 21, 2011 and 11 teams organised different cleanup or trash awareness events around the world.
We realised that environmental needs in countries around the world differ a lot… We hence decided to give our Pangaea Green Wave Projects a theme, which can be interpreted by Young Explorers from different places all over the world and adapted to local conditions and needs.
Therefore, join us during the upcoming Green Waves in 2011/2012:
- December 2011 Solstice Green Wave Project - Food on December 21, 2011
- March 2012 Equinox Green Wave Project - Social on March 21, 2012
- June 2012 Solstice Green Wave Project - Water on June 21, 2012
- September 2012 Equinox Green Wave Project - Goodbye to Garbage on September 21, 2012
The next Green Wave is coming soon! Think about actions and small projects for the 21st of December! Share your ideas with other YEPs and gather your friends and family to help you and support you!
Here are some ideas for the themes:
Green Wave 'Food' Theme
- Distribute reusable Pangaea bags in supermarkets, attach flyers informing about endangered fish species, list of in-season fruits and vegetables, a brochure that shows you where to buy local and organic food for traditional Christmas dinner, a flyer about Shark Finning etc.
- Sell or give fair-trade food
- Make a brochure on how to cook a Christmas dinner with low CO2 emission
- Raise awareness for responsible consuming
- “What’s your Christmas present to Mother Earth?” action – encourage your family and friends to wrap their Christmas gifts in old newspapers! Show that it can look pretty and attractive.
- Organize a public viewing of movies about food, for example: “We feed the world” or “Food inc.”
- Dumpster diving – cook a meal for homeless people out of ‘garbage’
- Raise awareness for over-packaging by food distributors
- Implement VIP cashier lines in supermarkets for customers who behave in an environmentally friendly way
Green Wave 'Social' Theme
- “Free cup of coffee for 2 minutes of your time” – collaboration with Nespresso company, give coffee on streets and spread the Pangaea message
- Various charity actions
- Hold discussions with Young Explorers from your country, make the others involved
- Remind people about the Earth Hour 2012 (Saturday, March 31st)
Green Wave 'Water' Theme
- Take water samples and bring them to schools – turn a boring lesson about environmental issues and interesting
- Raise awareness for “water” issues of your community (for example: mining industry polluting rivers, phosphates in washing powders affecting the state of seas)
- Show how much water do you waste every
- Promote drinking tap water – make people taste and compare bottled water and tap water, see what would they choose!
- Create awareness for glass bottles purchase instead of plastic bottles
- Organize a public viewing of movie about water issues, for example: “Flow” or “End of the line”
- Raise awareness for shrinking of drinkable water in the world
- Organize Clean Ups of shores, rivers, beaches etc.
- Talk about water issues (over-fishing, water and hygiene etc.), involve experts and respected people to give speeches!
- Ask Pangaea partners: Geberit and Katadyn for help
Green Wave 'Goodbye to Garbage' Theme
- Make a ball out of trash and roll it through the city
- Organize a Clean Up, let it be the beginning of recurring event!
- Collect plastic cups from PET bottles
- Improve recycling for charity
- Trash art, trash fashion show – find local artists that work with recyclable materials!
- Various workshops raising awareness for trash problems: how to buy food without making trash? How badly do we pollute the Earth?
- Make bins out of recyclable materials, paint existing grey bins so they look nice
- Organize a second-hand clothes or books exchange event at your school or university
- Recycle unusual goods made of fabric: clothes, wallets etc.
- Promote composting in your home environment and school
When you take part in Green Wave Projects please do document your project and action with pictures and write a report about it. Then send your blog and high resolution images to this eMail address. As soon as all participants have sent the reports of their own actions they will be published on the website.
We all agreed that the Green Wave project is a really cool idea to raise awareness for environmental issues and we hope that as many people as possible will take part and organize their own actions and little projects.
So remember, the next Green Wave is coming up soon on December 21, 2011! Let's make this last Green Wave for 2011 the most successful so far!
Have a great time and think about creative projects!
The Green Wave Team
Read about our previous Pangaea Green Wave Projects:
Pangaea Green Wave Project - December Solstice 2011 - Food
Pangaea Green Wave Project - September Equinox 2011 - Goodbye to Garbage
Pangaea Green Wave Project - June Solstice 2011 - Tree Planting
Pangaea Green Wave Project - September Equinox 2010 - Earth Clean-Up Day 2010