TUNZA is looking for youth contributions

2万 · 发表于 2008-1-9 15:04:01

8 January 2008

TUNZA is looking for youth contributions!

[Please feel free to distribute to your youth networks.]

TUNZA magazine, UNEP's magazine for youth, is looking for
contributions!

THEME
The theme of the next issue, to coincide with World Environment Day
2008, is CO2: Kick the Habit! The focus will be on what can/is being
done to reduce CO2 emissions.

1. FEATURE
Are you or someone you know implementing a great idea for reducing CO2
emissions? Tell us about it! How are you, your group, or young people
in your country helping to kick the habit, in 100 words or less?

Besides detailing the idea, please include how you're making it
happen, and how it is helping to reduce carbon emissions. Past
successful projects are fine too.

Ideas can be simple - such as tree-planting programs and drives to
replace incandescent light bulbs with CFLs - but we're looking for
ambitious projects and examples of "thinking outside the box" too.

The idea is to demonstrate YOUR practical solutions, which might be
able to be implemented by others across countries and cultures around
the world. Here's your chance to inspire someone!

2. Q&A
Every issue, we send a handful of questions on the topic to the
experts at UNEP. The idea is to have sort of a 'Frequently Asked
Questions' about the topic to reflect what young people might be
wondering about, and we ask UNEP to provide enlightening and
informative answers.

So please send your well-considered questions about reducing CO2
emissions - which could include topics like forests, carbon capture
and sequstration, renewable energy, and so on.

3. COOL/COOLER
This is a regular feature that showcases innovations that help the
environment. It's sort of a catch-all for interesting stuff that we're
not able to fit into the magazine elsewhere, as well as a chance to
offer ideas for ecological living. It's also a good place to showcase
time-sensitive items, like book releases, films or events. They don't
have to be on-theme.

Here are some examples of past items:

COOL: picnics.
COOLER: using compostable utensils. Knives, forks, spoons and
chopsticks made from potato starch and sugarcane pulp biodegrade
almost as fast as ordinary compost.
COOLEST: forgoing utensils and eating with your hands. Sandwiches,
anyone?

COOL: replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents
COOLER: switching off the lights and working by a window.
COOLEST: installing a solar light tube, a device that harnesses
sunlight via a plastic or glass dome on your rooftop and channels it
down through a set of mirrors into your house or office.

COOL: Recycled rubber tyre swings. Eco-nostalgia: be a kid again,
spinning under a tree.
COOLER: Recycled rubber tyre sandbags.
Sandbags used to control erosion often disintegrate. Recycled tyres
are now providing a sturdier substitute, and using them - instead of
dumping them - takes pressure off landfills. Eco-Blocks made from
tyres can be interlocked, stacked, and glued or staked into place, and
can be reused for up to 10 years.
COOLEST: Recycled rubber tyre houses.
Earthships, the brainchild of Michael Reynolds of New Mexico's Solar
Survival Architecture, are houses made of stacks of recycled tyres
rammed with dirt, packed with mud and plastered with adobe or stucco.
The company teaches people how to construct them, and offers
demonstrations to officials in disaster-relief areas like Mexicali,
Mexico, and La Paz, Bolivia.

* Please note: You don't necessarily have to construct a cool/cooler
itself. Just send me your idea with details of what makes it
interesting. If you don't have another item to link it with, I might
already have something, or I might be able to find something.

DEADLINE, etc.
Please send your queries and ideas to me at karen@zukazuka.com;
deadline for final copy is January 30.

Please include your full name, age, and country of origin with all
queries and submissions!

To see and download TUNZA back issues, please visit
http://www.unep.org/Publications/Tunza.asp.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you, and I hope this finds you happy and well.

Karen Eng
TUNZA