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Nice day for a green wedding! |
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:39 |
Have you ever considered organizing a green wedding? If so you can find some hints and tips from a real, eco-friendly wedding Hungarian style right here!
If there is one event you will remember for the rest of your life it is your wedding. But what if you want your wedding day to reflect your environmentally friendly, low-carbon lifestyle? Well luckily you can make choices which will allow your wedding to be as green as it is elegant and modern. Tapping into the experiences of real Hungarian green wedding, we have put together some hints and tips on how anyone can hold an environmentally friendly big day. |
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Low Carbon Entrepreneurs Website Goes Live! |
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:53 |
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On Friday 13 August, five members of the 2009/2010 Challenge Europe team from Northern Ireland and Ireland held a successful networking event in Dublin to mark the launch of their new business website, www.lowcarbonentrepreneurs.com. The event was attended by corporate and environmental representatives from across the island of Ireland and included speakers from the business sector, British Council and even a link to Richard Lindberg, one of the Swedish advocates who have collaborated closely with the NI/Ireland business group on the website initiative. |
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Mobile climate office opens at Sziget festival |
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Friday, 13 August 2010 12:44 |
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 The 3rd year Hungarian Climate Advocates are already hard at work and are delighted to have taken their Mobile Climate Office to the Sziget Festival, the largest open air music festival in Budapest. The Office has found its perfect venue at the festival being situated in the H20 venue, where, not surprisingly, water is the subject in hand. This is a great location for the office as the issues of water and climate change are strongly interrelated.
After eagerly preparing the office for 2 months the 3rd year advocates, readily supported by the 1st and 2nd year cohort, were delighted to receive visitors from Hungary the Netherlands, Italy and France to the Mobile Climate Office. The main aims for the office at the festival, is to raise awareness about climate change and to highlight the connection between climate change and a future water crisis.
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Hungarian Advocates help launch 10:10 campaign |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:56 |
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A sunny Friday afternoon in downtown Budapest. Green NGOs start gathering. The stage is set, a huge pink poster reads 10:10 and the Mobile Climate office starts to welcome people. Something is about to happen!
The Climate Office, an initiative created by the former 2008/2009 Climate Advocates, has become the official coordination point for Hungary’s 10:10 campaign. What a massive achievement! Former climate advocates, along with this year’s cohort, are heavily involved in running and managing the Hungarian 10:10 campaign with Ákos Lukács, a former climate advocate, taking on the role of Campaign Director. Akos has played a key role in Hungary’s 10:10 involvement from the very beginning, but needless to say, present climate advocates are also happily volunteering for and signing up to the programme.
The 10:10 programme was officially launched in Hungary on the 16th July, 2010, during a grand opening event held on a terrace in Gödör, right in the heart of Budapest. The event was attended by a varied but enthusiastic audience who enjoyed speeches from; British Ambassador, Greg Dorey; the Slovenian Ambassador, Zoltán Illés and Deputy State Secretary, Péter Olajos. All the speakers used this opportunity to stress the importance of the 10:10 programme, and the necessity of individual action to help fight climate change and reduce carbon emissions.
The Mobile Climate Office was set up on the sunny terrace, where diligent volunteers, amongst them the new, ready-to-act climate advocates, talked to people about the goal of the 10:10 campaign. They explained numerous ways to reduce CO2 emissions by 10 percent in 2010 and encouraged people to commit to this target.
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Work and fun, Slovenia style |
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:03 |
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This year's Slovenian generation of climate advocates held their first meeting in the beginning of July in the idyllic setting of Rakov Škocjan. Through presentations, workshops and fun we established grounds for our future work on tackling climate change.
Since some of us have attended international meetings, first part of our gathering was devoted to presenting those newly adopted ideas worth spreading. Afterwards we mostly brainstormed to determine fields which demand most of our attention when it comes to CO2 emissions. We realised it was waste, transport, agriculture, industry and energy that we should target, and we (still somewhat loosely) formed working groups for each of the starting points.
Cooperation was made possible – and funnier! - through various social activities ensuing more than just dialogues and comical situations. It was through these social interactions that we got to know each other better, in a different light perhaps, and definitely re-realised we are at a right place at a right time.
Overall, it was a workshop paired with entertainment that resulted in gaining more understanding of our common aim to tackle climate change and generating deeper friendships among participants.
Iva Gruden, Slovenian Climate advocate |
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Featured Advocates
Zuzana Koprnová - Zuzana Koprnová is a student of European Studies and International Relations in Bratislava. She believes that people have the power to help to save the Planet. She is a devoted support er of Sustainable Development. She is mostly interested in European issues, international relations, and social sciences, inclusive of environmental issues. Zuzana loves adventure and travelling, everything is a challenge for her. She spent a few weeks doing a research project in Kazakhstan. Listening to the music and running is the best relax for her. She loves to work with young people, to know other countries, their cultures, and to meet new people. Challenge Europe is a great opportunity for her to improve some skills and move things forward. She does not hunger to be famous or remembered she just wants to live her life to the full without any regrets.
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Poll
Which of the following consequences of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption do you think has had the biggest affect on world climate?"
The grounding of planes reducing carbon emissions - 41.2%
The huge amount of greenhouse gases in released into the atmosphere - 25%
The aerosols released which reflect solar energy - 23.5%
The eruption had no substantial affect on world climate. - 10.3%
Total votes: 68 The voting for this poll has ended on: 01 Sep 2010 - 00:00
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