YouPEC - European Youth Perspective on Energy and Climate

Dear friends and fellow concerned individuals,Young Friends of the Earth Germany, together with other Germanenvironmental organizations, is organizing a major European youthconference on energy and climate, which will take place in Berlin, fromJune 22-27, 2007.We are inviting active young people between the agesof 18 and 27 from all 27 member countries of the EU, Norway, Switzerlandand Turkey to attend the conference.After an application procedure, five applicants from each country willbe selected and invited to the conference.All of the participants' expenses (including travel, food and lodging)will be covered by the organizers!Attached please find our conference announcement. Interested individualscan apply for the conference online (more info. and applicationonline at www.youpec.eu).It would be great if you could forward word of this conferencethroughout your FYEG Network and to other active young people that mightbe interested in attending YouPEC!We look forward to your participation!Best wishes,Rachel

Note: The application deadline is April 6th; please please don't waituntil the last minute to apply!

YouPEC - European Youth Perspective on Energy and Climate. From June 22-27, 2007, the Youth Alliance for Future Energy, a publicnetwork of individuals and youth organizations, will hold YouPEC, aEuropean conference on climate and energy, in Berlin.Conference participants will be young people between the ages of 18 and27 from all 27 member countries of the European Union. After anapplication procedure, five active young people from each country willbe selected and invited to attend the conference.The conference offers a unique opportunity for participants to forgeinternational contacts and deepen their knowledge, exchange ideas andexplore courses of action in the field of energy and climate protection.Therefore the various consequences of climate change (in terms ofbiodiversity, weather, living conditions etc.) and energy use andpolitics will be the central educational themes of the conference.The goals of YouPEC are the development of a strategy to combat climatechange from the point of view of young people, the drafting of adeclaration and a personal commitment to protect the climate, as well asthe planning of one or more European projects to reduce CO2 emissions.BUNDjugend is responsible for the administration and organization of theconference. All of the conference participants' expenses, includingtravel, room and board will be fully covered by the organizers.YouPEC is being sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for theEnvironment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.The conference language is English.

For further information contact: Julia Balz www.youpec.eu

Electro Man calls for electric transport in Auckland, New Zealand.

Kiwi Young Green, Gareth Hughes, was out yesterday visitng railway stations around Auckland city calling on commuters to support the Green Party's push for the urgent electrification of the rail network that would see cleaner, faster, cheaper and better-for-the-climate trains carrying commuters in New Zealands biggest city.

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"Desertification is potentially the most threatening ecosystem change impacting livelihoods of the poor" (UNCCD). It is about land degradationcaused by CLIMATE CHANGE and human-induced factors.By planting a tree you will make a difference by helping to create a giantheart in Niger, the poorest country in the world, and one of the mostaffected by desertification.You can use the interactive map to navigate the park and choose an exactspot to plant your tree or trees. With GPS coordinates your virtual tree corresponds to a real tree planted in the eco-park in Niger, so you and thewhole world can always find it.

Check it out at Treenation

1958 - Global Warming - It's NOT newly known

Mr. Scientist: Even now, Man may be unwittingly changing the world's climate through the waste products of his civilization. Due to our release through factories and automobiles every year of more than six billion tons of carbon dioxide, which helps air absorb heat from the sun, our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer!

Climate Changes Action -

Serbian Green Youth Serbian Green Youth had an action on 16th of February against Climate Changes. Action was held in Main Street in Belgrade - Knez Mihailova, and main aim of it was to introduce citizens of urgent necessity to start a fight against Climate Changes on every level of society. We also wanted to put a bigger pressure on Government authorities for urgent reaction on ratification and implementation of Kyoto protocol. SGY activists were offering written "warranties" which are valid next 100.000 years for planet Earth if they agree on and follow 10 main rules of environmental protection, stamped and signed by our Organization. For citizens which were not in favor to put a signature on Terms of Use we offered free service of future weather prognosis which were, of course, very pessimistic. Activist also made 10 EARTH COMMANDS brochure which are, by short line and with adequate graphics, explaining 10 basic rules how individual can help fight against Climate Changes. In order to support EGP Climate Changes campaign, a lot of material from Serbian Greens was spread together with basic effort of European Greens effort to stop these phenomena. Acceptance of action by citizens was on excellent level, and we managed to issues more than 300 warranties for our Planet, together with great amount of other info material.

Download the Federation of Young European Greens Tell Me What I Eat Campaign Reader

NSW radio campaign

The Greens are airing a series of radio ads in NSW. The ads look at the Greens' perspective on big issues of the past year.

Check them out here