A presentation held in St Petersburg in November 2012.

1. The Future Is
Made By Us
NGOs Communicating Climate
Change in Finnish Schools

2. Ilmari 2003-2012
• 2400 school visits carried out
all over Finland
• More than 50 000 pupils met

3. Background organizations

4. Change in core
message

5. 2003: Climate Change Exists

6. 2007: We need to act now

7. 2009: How do we solve it together

8. Climate change
attitudes of the youth
1. Everybody knows what needs to be done
2. Nobody does anything
→ Hopelessness, boredness

9. Message
1. Lots of solutions do exist
2. Lots of people are actively doing things

10. Venni
10

24. • How is energy produced?
• What renewables are used
in Finland?

25. In Delia's story solar
panels are very useful
for the family. How?

30. Maailmaa on ennenkin muutettu

31. What a young person CAN'T do?
• make consumption choices?
• be a member of an environmental NGO?
• start a research project?
• be active in local politics?
• write opinion letters?
• vote in elections?
• be a member of youth council?
• have an impact on the decisions of friends or
family members?

32. 2012: We Will Make
The Future
1. You don't have to be environmentalist to
be environment friendly

33. 2012: We Will Make
The Future
1. You don't have to be environmentalist to
be environment friendly
2. You don't need to have utilitaristic
motives to behave utilitaristically

34. 2012: We Will Make
The Future
1. You don't have to be environmentalist to
be environment friendly
2. You don't need to have utilitaristic
motives to behave utilitaristically
→ Future is everybody's business

35. Licences
Misty Abuja & mountains:: mifl68 Buying tomatoes: IFDC Photography Abuja by night: Jeff Attaway
Dry street, cars,wires: pjotter05 Shopping lady, market, Abuja: IFDC Photography View on traffic: afromusing
Solar panels: PRI´s The World Traffic light man: afromusing
Greenish Abuja: Jeff Attaway
Vegetable market: Jeff Attaway
Transmilenio: Jorge Lascar
Solar panels 2: otherpaths Stars on the sky: write_adam
Mosque: mortenjohs
Alec Loorz: brdavid
Otherwise all material is
public domain and can
be used anywhere
without any conditions ‹#›