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Some possibilities for the sorts of projects and activities you could do within our main focus areas include:
Education & awareness...
Organising talks (we can help suggest some good speakers who may agree to talk), film screenings, workshops etc. Be creative!
You could also collaborate with other relevant societies or charities to do this and reach a wider audience.
Engaging with your University, school or medical school to incorporate more teaching about these subjects into the curriculum, eg. through a few lectures or a new student-selected component (SSC) in a medical course, or asking for a module on it within geography or international development.
Organising talks (we can help suggest some good speakers who may agree to talk), film screenings, workshops etc. Be creative!
You could also collaborate with other relevant societies or charities to do this and reach a wider audience.
Engaging with your University, school or medical school to incorporate more teaching about these subjects into the curriculum, eg. through a few lectures or a new student-selected component (SSC) in a medical course, or asking for a module on it within geography or international development.
- Surveys/small group sessions to help get a better understanding of how students feel and what they know about climate change and its links to health. The results can be a useful tool in lobbying for more taught content too, or showing where the main gaps are.
- Getting involved in ongoing work on sustainability in medical education if you're a medical student.
- You could develop some shareable resources – videos, prezis, blogs, ‘infographics,’ fact sheets, activity plans etc – either as part of SSCs or independently. New educational resources on a variety of topics, targeted at different age groups and audiences would be extremely useful, and can be shared internationally too.
ADVOCACY
LOCAL ACTION
You’re also very welcome to suggest and try out your own ideas, which could be adopted later by other branches and nationally if they work well. Have a look here for some more information about the different areas we work in.
Other suggestions...
Contribute to a video:
We're putting out a call for video clips from around the world showing what young people are doing about them.
The aims are to give a personal face to what is happening, from the perspective of young people from many different parts of the world – but to make that a reality we need you! If there has been an increase in natural disasters or droughts in your country, more major heatwaves, or a change in infectious disease patterns (ideally this should be something for which there’s scientific evidence, especially if you quote any statistics) a video with a sentence or two about that would be great. You could say something about indirect effects on migration/the connection between health and the climate, but the more locally specific the better.
To take part you only need to send in one or two photos or a short video clip - your native language is fine, although if you can provide either a transcript or a translation so we can add subtitles that'd be great! Short interviews with climate or health experts from your country on these subjects are also welcome, just make sure to explain to them the purpose of the video beforehand, and send us their name and position, and email address if they agree. If you can write a short explanation here of how the file(s) you've sent in relate to climate change and health, your email address, and that would be brilliant.
Format:
· Landscape please so it’s easier to incorporate all footage.
· We realise you may not have access to high quality filming equipment but please make the best of the options available to you, eg ideally filming in well-lit, quiet conditions – but if you can send in something, that would be much better than nothing!
· If you’re filming in a noisy location or in a language other than English, it would be great if you could send a transcript of what is said
· Short is fine – we only have 4 minutes for the whole video and there’s a lot to include!
Either email the file(s) directly to [email protected] or upload on wetransfer.com and email us the link to it.
Please also send your name, email address, country and the sources for any data included, as well as some more detail if you can provide more. If you're affiliated to an organisation in your country, let us know so that they can be included in acknowledgments. By sending in your file, you are agreeing to it being used in the final film and are confirming your understanding we will not be able to pay you for footage you send in.
- Helping push our national and international campaigns and those of organisations with similar objectives - eg. with stunts, using social media and online platforms for blogging etc, press releases and using your student and local press.
- Encouraging students to send in photos and videos from trips/electives etc where they’ve seen the impacts climate change is having. Making a video could be a fun project to take on as a group, and could be linked in to electives or global health modules. Careful not to just duplicate things that have been done before though!
- Arrange to meet your local MP to discuss issues related to sustainability and health (cycling policies, tackling food waste, energy policy, home insulation etc.)
- Skype-ins - for example when the Healthy Planet representative to the UN Climate Summit is out in Qatar in late November/early December, you’ll be able to arrange to skype him - an unusual chance to get a feel for what international conferences like that are actually like on the ground. It could be done as a 2-part event, for example after a talk, debate or film, and/or in combination with a locally sourced and healthy meal.
LOCAL ACTION
- Practical projects (intercare, NHS forest/fones4forest projects, recycling, carbon audits, engaging with estates teams/joining or creating a sustainability action plan for a GP's surgery or medical school.
- Fundraising for projects that improve health and reduce emissions – for example, a charity called SolarAid provides solar-powered lights to people in the developing world which reduces reliance on kerosene lamps, which have been shown to have major negative respiratory health consequences due to the fumes they produce
- Working to improving sustainability in your University/Medical school (Bristol are even trying to set up a Transition Medical School, thinking about how sustainability can be incorporated across everything) As with talks etc, this can often be done in partnership with other environmental groups locally.
- Teaching in schools about climate change and global health, or sustainability in the context of healthy lifestyles (different approaches for children of different ages, this needs careful planning but we are hoping to be able to help you with this).
You’re also very welcome to suggest and try out your own ideas, which could be adopted later by other branches and nationally if they work well. Have a look here for some more information about the different areas we work in.
Other suggestions...
Contribute to a video:
We're putting out a call for video clips from around the world showing what young people are doing about them.
The aims are to give a personal face to what is happening, from the perspective of young people from many different parts of the world – but to make that a reality we need you! If there has been an increase in natural disasters or droughts in your country, more major heatwaves, or a change in infectious disease patterns (ideally this should be something for which there’s scientific evidence, especially if you quote any statistics) a video with a sentence or two about that would be great. You could say something about indirect effects on migration/the connection between health and the climate, but the more locally specific the better.
To take part you only need to send in one or two photos or a short video clip - your native language is fine, although if you can provide either a transcript or a translation so we can add subtitles that'd be great! Short interviews with climate or health experts from your country on these subjects are also welcome, just make sure to explain to them the purpose of the video beforehand, and send us their name and position, and email address if they agree. If you can write a short explanation here of how the file(s) you've sent in relate to climate change and health, your email address, and that would be brilliant.
Format:
· Landscape please so it’s easier to incorporate all footage.
· We realise you may not have access to high quality filming equipment but please make the best of the options available to you, eg ideally filming in well-lit, quiet conditions – but if you can send in something, that would be much better than nothing!
· If you’re filming in a noisy location or in a language other than English, it would be great if you could send a transcript of what is said
· Short is fine – we only have 4 minutes for the whole video and there’s a lot to include!
Either email the file(s) directly to [email protected] or upload on wetransfer.com and email us the link to it.
Please also send your name, email address, country and the sources for any data included, as well as some more detail if you can provide more. If you're affiliated to an organisation in your country, let us know so that they can be included in acknowledgments. By sending in your file, you are agreeing to it being used in the final film and are confirming your understanding we will not be able to pay you for footage you send in.
