Let's do it Conference Dec 08
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0Let's do it! Conference will take place on 23rd and 24th of January in Tallinn. More than 20 people from Slovenia, Portugal, Romania, Lithuania and hopefully also from Latvia, are coming to Estonia to exchange experience and work out solutions together in greater detail for their national clean-up's in 2010.
There are a lot of things to think through and do in next few months, so all of your help is needed to make it really beneficial and motivating event!
Everybody who wants to help in organizing the conference please come to our next meeting on 16th of Dec or let me know by phone or e-mail (tiina@letsdoitworld.org)
Climate Bottom meeting starts in Copenhagen Dec 07
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0Right now the Copenhagen Climate Bottom Meeting has started. Many thinkers and global leaders have suppressed, that this is a unique and critical chance to achieve co-operation on international level. Some say it's our last chance to stop the process of global warming and climate change that is already rapidly unfolding.
Heikki Hattila from Let's do it! team has worked hard to build a sauna to promote the clean-up idea for the journalists and visitors in Copenhagen.
Toomas, Rainer and Nele are also there as well as many musicians from Estonia. Rainer has a chance to introduce the Let's do it! action by giving a speech. Hopefully we will have more detailed news from them soon.
Status Quo in Romenia, Slovenia and Portgual Dec 06
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 1Things in Romania, Slovenia and Portugal have been heating up more and more! You can follow the progress in Romania from their website: http://www.letsdoitromania.ro/ In Portugal there are already more than 25 000 volunteers registered for the clean-up day on 20th of March ! You can see the process from their website: http://www.limparportugal.org/ Slovenia has also opened up the website and is moving ahead fast http://www.ocistimo.si/ The last news came from Italy - a group of activists have opened a website where citizens can report illegally dumped or littered waste: www.emergenzarifiuti.org
There were also some news about the progress in Estonian Media:
Delfi: Portugal hakab Eesti eeskujul prügi koristama
Eestlaste kampaania on levinud mujale Euroopasse
Teeme ära alustas ka Rumeenias
Banglore (Bengaluru) did their clean up this weekend! Aug 17
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0The city of Bengaluru organized cleanup this weekend on 15th of August.
Clean up Portugal in one day - Limpar Portugal Jul 29
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 112Portugese people are organizing similar cleanup their group is called "Limpar Portugal"
Bangaluru cleanup in 17 days! Jul 29
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0The call to arms is "Let's clean Bangaluru in one day"
TED speech: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Jun 03
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures Earth on TED (T technology Entertainment Design) conference at US west coast.
http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html
Press conference of the film in Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgz5BELaYW0
"6 Billion Others"
Paul Hawken talks in Portland May 20
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0
This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food – but all that is changing.
There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse."
Video: Country clean-up project "Let's do it! 2008" Apr 24
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0BBC: Spring Cleaning in Estonia 3. May 2008 Apr 24
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0David Chazan reports.
AFP: Massive clean-up drive in Latvia, Lithuania Apr 24
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0RIGA (AFP) – Latvians and Lithuanians turned out in tens of thousands Saturday to clean up their Baltic nations as part of theinternational Earth Day environmental campaign, organisers said. Preliminary estimates suggested that more than 100,000 volunteers participated in Latvia's "Great Clean Up" project. Organisers in the country of 2.3 million were unable to immediately say how much trash was collected, but expected almost double last year's total of 260,000 bags of garbage collected by 50,000 people. "The hope is that we'll make Latvia the cleanest country in the world in 10 years," event organizer Vita Jaunzeme told AFP, explaining the goal of making Latvia a trash-free zone by 2018 for the 100th anniversary of its independence. Latvian President Valdis Zatlers and Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis also rolled up their sleeves Saturday to gather garbage. In neighbouring Lithuania,"Let's Do It" clean-up organisers estimated Saturday that 50,000 of the country's 3.4 million citizens pitched in to collect up to 10,000 tons of garbage.
Latvia: More than 110 000 volunteers participated in the Great Cleanup Day activities Apr 24
Henri Laupmaa · Comments: 0009-04-18 The provisional estimates by organisers of the Great Cleanup Day show that today's grand cleanup action brought together more than 110 000 volunteers who collected 340 000 thousands 60 litre bags with waste. Exact estimates of collected waste volume and information about the number of participants is expected to be provided by the event's organisers by the end of April, when the data will be obtained from the waste deposit authorities and regional coordinators of cleanup activities. The organisers of the Great Cleanup Day would like to express their gratitude to all participants for their activity and express contentment with unity of people in Latvia working for a common purpose of ensuring clean environment! The activities of the Great Cleanup Day were made possible by 834 coordinators throughout Latvia, including 392 local governments, 269 schools, 161 companies and organisations, and 12 higher educational institutions, not to mention individuals who cleaned up their own properties.