About the project
Get Creative and Cool it! Calling all schools to join our global project for young people who want to do something positive about climate change and the environment. By working as a team we can help stop polar ice caps melting, prevent rainforests being destroyed, plants vanishing, animals becoming extinct and much more besides. This is your chance to show families, friends, governments and religious leaders just what you feel about the environment through the biggest display of ideas and imagination by young people ever seen on earth.
What can you do?
Get together to explore climate change and the environment through art, science, creative writing, film, music, drama and technology.
Build a global display
Document and upload the results into your very own Cool it Schools Showcase. From sketches to finished works you can edit your entries anytime. Don’t forget you need to ask your teachers to Join in
International year of Biodiversity
2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) by the United Nations.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services.
Humans are part of this biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. Currently, our activities are destroying biodiversity at alarming rates. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely on. But we can prevent them.
We need to reflect on our achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgent challenges ahead. Now is the time to act and Cool it Schools will have some great projects to help you to help nature in 2010.
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The people behind it
Jane Langley is a painter and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of The Royal College of Art, she has taught in higher education for 20 years, establishing the Pattern Lab in 2000, with fellow artists Jennifer Wright and Kathleen Mullaniff, to explore fine art, textiles and pattern. She had the idea for Cool it Schools after hearing Thomas L Friedman, author of 'Hot, Flat and Crowded' give a talk on Global Warming. Jane has a daughter and lives in London.
Nick Evans is a graphic designer and a programmer. After a BA at Brighton University Nick went on to the Royal College of Art do his Masters. He lives in London. You can find out more about him and his work at his website.