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Best practice competition 2008

This page presents the entries in the best practice competition 2008. Five of these were presented at the annual meeting in October 2008, and the Danish campaign “One tone less” has received this year's Best Practice Award.

For an overview of all best practice examples on the Green Spider website, see the GSN Best Practice Library.

For an overview of all best practice examples on the EECN website, see the EECN Best Practice Library.

Thick Jumper Day, Belgium
Since 2005 the Flemish government has been organising a "Thick Jumper day" each year in February. On that day, they call on schools, authorities, companies and households to make an effort in order to reduce energy consumption and thus decrease greenhouse gas emissions at home, at school and in the office. The profit is double: making people aware of climate issues and effectively reducing CO2 emissions.
More information: Description, website
Contact: Environment, Energy and Nature Department, Flemish Government, Belgium

One tonne less, Denmark
One Tonne Less is an awareness-raising campaign which aims at informing every single Dane that CO2 emissions are caused by our way of life, and that we are all responsible for reducing our own contribution and that this can be done without waving goodbye to our modern way of life. The campaign encompasses a range of different media and partners.
More information: Description, website, brochure in English
Contact: Danish Energy Agency, Ministry of Climate of Energy 

Naturdetektive
Over a decade, "Naturdetektive" has developed into a youth/public multimedia nature observation project and supports the awareness raising on the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Germany. It links web-based information, e-Learning tools and reporting facilities with practical field work.
More information: Description, website, brochure in German

Let's look around in our neighbourhood!, Hungary
This nationwide initiative aiming to raise public awareness about the importance of traditional local fruit, crop and vegetables. In the  competition entitled 'Let's look around in our neighbourhood!' students have been asked to note down what kind of traditional crop, fruit and vegetable varieties can still be found in the kitchen gardens of their own or their grandparents’ village/town. The students interviewed the owners and growers of the traditional and local varieties, they took photos of the plant specimens, and they collected and tasted the fruits. Prizes were presented to the winners at an award ceremony and a whole-day guided tour was organized for the 'gold-medal' teams at the Balaton-Upland National Park.
More information: Description

CITES - "Wildlife Inspector in Action"
The CITES Management Authority initiated a campaign with WWF Hungary and Oracle Hungary in order to raise awareness among children in schools. The children were invited for a country-wide tender called ’Wildlife Inspector in Action’ where their task was to search for endangered, CITES-listed species in their surroundings (pet shops, zoos etc.), and afterwards create their own web pages to display their results.

Adopt a River
“Adopt a River” is a national programme for ecological education with particular focus on rivers and their importance. It is based on local community activities - with particular focus on children and youth - and cooperation with local governments, public administration, NGOs and private companies. The programme is aimed at all types of educational institutions as well as institutions and organisations interested in water management and conservation. In 2006, several thousand people took part in the programme.
More information: Description
Contact: Klub Gaja, ecological and cultural NGO 

Dialogue for nature conservation
Sooner or later, nature conservation agencies in all countries run into problems when trying to fulfill their task to conserve nature and get public acceptance for their work. Therefore, government officers on all levels need to have good communications skills in order to have good relations and deal with eventual conflicts, but environmental communication is not a subject in those courses. Realising this, the Swedish EPA has created a skills development programme called Dialogue for nature conservation which includes advanced courses in communication and conflict management.

 

  last update:18/11/2010