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Jambo!

who found anything about footprint friends around the hylands park (jamboree location) site? be it a sticker or a football? i personaly had a great time and want to thank all of you who contributed a little or a lot of your time to make it such a fun...

Posted to Footprint Friends update by FootprintFriend on 08-08-2007

Filed under: jamboree, painting feet, football

Fast food footprint

As you know we have been running a poll about recycling bins at fast food restaurants. So we thought it would be interesting to see just how much rubbish is created by eating one meal at three different fast food restaurants and more importantly how much...

Posted to Footprint Friends update by richard on 10-13-2007

Filed under: rubbish, KFC, restaurant, fast, waste, packaging, food, recycling, king, burger, mcdonalds

Defying Convention

In less than a hundred years, this age - this generation - will have assumed epic significance.The definition of life itself, and this is no exaggeration, is to be forged in our choices now. This is it. We enter the final window for action before the...

Posted to Patrick - South East Champ 08 by GreenFrog on 03-09-2008

Filed under: climate change champions

The Physchological Benefits of Apples

One day I will get into the habit of writing regular, normal blogs, but now I'll just stick to my sporadic off the wall type ones! Apples. We all know the benefits of eating fruit, and of a healthy lifestyle, and I'm sure that we've all heard...

Posted to Adam - East of England Champ 08 by Mad as a Hatter on 09-25-2008

From Downing Street to Holland: Being a Climate Change Champion

If I’ve ever experienced a life-changing weekend, I think this one might be a pretty tough contender: casually popping into Downing Street, sprinting through the greenest streets of Amsterdam, and venturing out into the mist-ridden North Sea. I’ve met...

Posted to Patrick - South East Champ 08 by GreenFrog on 03-09-2008

Filed under: climate change champions, downing street, south east

All Jamboree 2007 photos are now on the site!

All the Jamboree 2007 photos are now up! Phew! Sorry it took so long but we had a few hiccups with the search facility. In order to allow you to search for your image we had to upload all the files individually. That's over 1060 photos one by one...

Posted to Founder Footsteps by richard on 09-28-2007

Filed under: jamboree, photos

Attitudes

OK, well I may have only waited about 15 min to publish my second blog but what the hey! Whenever I go to Climate Change Events, there's always one message which I'm particularly keen to spread. This is that its not just government policies that...

Posted to Adam - East of England Champ 08 by Mad as a Hatter on 03-09-2008

The Defra Climate Change Champions have been chosen

Following the highly successful first set of Champions, nine young people have recently been selected to become Defra’s new Climate Change Champions for 2008 . Please welcome the new Champions on the forums, we are very much looking forward to the Champions...

Posted to Defra Climate Change Champions by FootprintFriend on 02-27-2008

Filed under: defra, climate change champions

Pamper the Planet at West Quay - Southampton

Wow three days are nearly over It has been fantastic - everyone has been supportive and the response form Southampton has been very positive. It was brilliant to meet the people who visited West Quay and have so many interesting and diverse conversations...

Posted to Footprint Friends update by richard on 01-26-2008

Filed under: honey, Quay, toynbee, West, pot, Southampton

Fast Food... Slow to React

It was early morning Monday 6th August – the last day for Footprint Friends at the World Scout Jamboree. [:'(] Tired, grubby and buzzing at the prospect of another day at the Jambo, the Footprint Friends team decided to start the day with some fast...

Posted to Footprint Friends update by Swampy on 08-17-2007

Filed under: recycle, Fast Food, rubbish

3 - The 11th Hour

This is a bit of an interlude to my initial timeline of events, but it's really exciting and quite special so... I was invited to a pre-screening of a new climate change film called The 11 th Hour on Monday evening. It is a special release because...

Posted to Akhil - London Champ 08 by Climate Action! on 03-19-2008

Filed under: climate change champions, www.yourclimateaction.co.uk, review, the 11th hour

War Effort

The Second World War took place in an extraordinarily intense five years. Almost unbelievably, the whole breadth of society became focussed on one desperate ambition, united by shared thoughts, passions and a simple love of freedom. For many everyday...

Posted to Patrick - South East Champ 08 by GreenFrog on 09-11-2008

Filed under: climate change champions, south east, global warming, UK, force for change, www.forceforchange.weebly.com, action, Earth, war effort

Calling All Surrey Schools!

Please excuse me... A brief interlude for Surrey people.... We all know that we need to get the word out there. We've got to get in schools, and tell people just what's going on. And then we've got to tell them what to do about it. (And then...

Posted to Patrick - South East Champ 08 by GreenFrog on 09-11-2008

Christmas Advent Calendar

Have you seen the Christmas Advent Calendar? We have been busy making games and graphics for you all to enjoy this Christmas. Each day we will release something fun for you to use. Today we have released a game where you need to help Grub from the Zoobloids...

Posted to Footprint Friends update by FootprintFriend on 12-11-2008

Filed under: games, christmas, grub

!GRAB! the world's attention

If I was to hold a vote, I'm sure about 99.9% of my school would never have watched BBC Parliament. Or had been to watch a Shakespeare play. But why not? BBC Parliament deals with some pretty major issues such as the running of the entire country...

Posted to Adam - East of England Champ 08 by Mad as a Hatter on 04-01-2008

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