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Friday 16 September 2011

THESE ARE THE PROJECTS IN CARBON CREDIT RACE

Let everyone know what are the projkects involved in this race......
we are going to do all these projects one by one friends.........
for every project we do credit points will be awarded based on the difficulty of the project level.
for every easy projects our college gets 5 credit points
for every medium projects our college gets 10 credit points
for every hard projects our college gets 15 to 30 credit points

PROJECTS INVOLVED IN THIS CARBON CREDIT RACE :


EASY PROJECTS:

  •   GOOGLE SMS CHANNEL:

§  Build a Google SMS channel for your campus CCR team with 100 members (Students,faculty) registered in it. Ask students, faculty of your college to join it.

§  Proof: send your SMS channel link.

  •   SOCIAL NETWORK WITH 250 MEMBERS:

§  Build Social Media pages or groups of your Campus CCR team on Social Networks like Face book, twitter, google groups, yahoo groups etc with 250 members (Students,faculty) registered in it.

§  Proof: Send your Group account link

  • LOCAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

§  At least Two Local newspapers should report your CCR program. Scan the article with your college name highlighted.

§  Proof: scanned copy or PDF of your article in two papers.

  •  LOCAL CHANNEL TV REPORT:

§  Get a localTV channel to report your CCR program. Procure the video of the clip on the channel

§  Proof: send link of video uploaded on YouTube.

  •   START A CARBON CREDIT CLUB:

§  Start a Carbon Credit Club by forming a team of 2 or more members. Download Application from Resources Page

§  Proof: application form in PDF format and scan copy of the identity cards of the members

  • AWARENESS ON SPECIES:

§  Conduct an event or a program to

§  create awareness on the local species which are endangered or almost nearing extinction in your college or locality.

§  Proof: Send the information collected about the endangered species and also photos of the event.

  • SETUP A CCR TABLE ON CAMPUS:

§  Setup a table in your campus with information regarding the Carbon Credit Race and ask students to register and join the race.

§  Proof: Picture of the table with Race material and excel sheet with details of registered students in it

  •   START ENVIRONMENT FILM CLUB:

§  Take permission from your management to start a Film club related to Sustainable development and climate change in your campus and collect the contact details and feedback from the students who attend the film screening. Choose a film club president who will be the point of contact to manage films database.

§  Proof: Take a video of the spectators watching the film and the screen while the movie is being screened. Upload on YouTube and send the video link.

  •   SPEAK REGARDING RACE:

§  Speak to students of all classes on your campusregarding the race and recruit students.

§  Proof: Take a video of the speech, upload in Youtube and send the link

  • ORGANISE A DEBATE:

§  Organize a college debate/ discussion in your college regarding the basic issues like climate change, sustainability, peaking of resources.

§  Proof: Take a video. Edit the important parts of the video and post the summary of the discussion/ debate. Upload in youtube and post the link. Give the names, phone numbers and email IDs of participants participated in the discussion/debate 

  •   SAVE WATER POSTERS:

§  Put posters in your college washrooms/bathrooms encouraging people to save water.

§  Proof: Take Pics of the posters and send to us 

  •   PRIMARY WAYS OF TRANSPORTATION:

§  Assess the primary ways students commute to your campus and publish the results in notice boards

§  Proof: Send us the report with entire documentation

  •   IDENTIFY THE WATER SOURCES:

·         Identify the Water sources(where the water comes from to your college)

§  Proof:Send the pics of Sources with Documentation

  •   EXCESS CONSUMPTION:

§  Identify campus departments/ blocks with excess consumption or wastage of water

§  Proof:Send us the Report on Excess Consumption Department

  •   WORK ON EXCESS CONSUMPTION:

§  Identify campus departments/blocks with excess consumption of water and work to reduce the consumption of water taking steps, educating through posters etc

§  Proof: Send Detailed documentation on how you worked on Reducing the excess consumption

  •  SURVEY OON LOCAL FOOD HABITS:

§  Make a survey on the local food habits.

§  Proof: Send Survey report with documentation

  •   EDUCATING ABOUT FOOD AND HEALTH:

§  Educate your fellow students about where the food served to them comes from, hygiene and health issues related to it

§  Proof: Shoot video and take pictures will educating them and send us with the documentation

  •   EDUCATE ON NON-LOCAL FOODS:

§  Educate students about the effects of non-local foods (ex: soft drinks, chips, pizzas etc.).

§  Proof:Shoot video and take pictures will educating them and send us with the documentation

  •   IMPACTS OF MODERN LIFE STYLE:

§  Identify and understand the impacts of modern lifestyle on health and send it to media.

§  Proof:Send us the Documentation on impacts of new life style on health and send newspaper cutting

  •   50 SIGNUPS IN CCR:

§  50(students, staff) members will sign up in carbon credit race in your college profile.

§  Proof: send us URL of your College page on www.carboncreditrace.in website

  •   ORGANISE A DISCUSSION OR DEBATE:

§  Organize a Group Discussion/ debates on green jobs in your campus  

§  Proof: Send photos and a link to the video of a portion of the debate uploaded on youtube. Also send the contact details of the winners of the debate.

  •   EDUCATE ON GREEN JOBS:

§  Educate students about various green job opportunities related to their branches by putting up posters or writing articles for your college magazine

§  Proof:Send us the copies of the posters and article published in the magazines

MEDIUM PROJECTS:

o   STATE LEVEL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

§  Get a Newspaper to cover your CCR program on their state news pages. Scan the article with your college name underlined.

§  Proof: scanned copy or PDF of your article in the paper.

§  STATE LEVEL TV CHANNEL REPORT:

§  Get a State level TV channel to report about the CCR projects on your campus. Procure the video of the TV clip.

§  Proof: send link of video uploaded on YouTube.

o   GOOGLE SMS CHANNEL WITH 500

§  Build a Google SMS channel for your campus CCR team with 500 members(students and faculty).

§  Create an account in http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse Ask students, faculty of your college to join it.

§  Proof: send your SMS channel link.

§  SOCIAL NETWORK WITH 500:

§  Build Social Media pages or groups of your Campus CCR team on Social Networks like Face book, twitter with 500 members of your college (students faculty) registered in it.

§  Proof: Send your Group account link

o   BLOG UR TEAM:

§  Create Blog for your College team and keep updating it.

§  Proof: Send link of your blog

o   SELECT FACULTY ADVISER:

§  Lobby with Principal and nominate a faculty of environmental sciences or clean energy sector as Faculty Advisor of CCC. Faculty Adviser should fill this Application which is available in Resources page.

§  Proof: Application form in PDF format and scan copy of the identity card of faculty adviser

o   CDM PROJECTS MANUAL:

§  Kyoto protocol project books in college library. Go to Resources Page for Download link

§  Proof: Send the Pic of the manual.

o   IMPROVE UR CC TEAM:

§  Improve your Carbon Credit Club team to twice the number of courses in your college. All members will thus be helpful in implementing sustainable solutions, projects, campaigns given in CCR website. The members should be diverse and shall be from atleast half of the total courses.

§  Public Report:

§  Details of the names of courses available in your college.            

§  Complete Proof:

§  1)Details of the names of courses available in your college.

§  2)Collect information of all students(name, email ID, phone number, course name) in a google excel sheet and share the document with carboncreditrace@gmail.com. Post the document URL.

§  3)Send scanned copies of identity cards of all the members (use Picasa albums etc) and share document with carboncreditrace@gmail.com. Post the album URL.

o   SURVEY ON PLANTS AND ANIMALS:

§  Conduct a survey and write a report on all the locally available animal or plant species which can be found only in your region or city.

§  Proof: Send the report and details of the supporting organisation. Also send us photos of the survey on the field.

o   SURVEY ON GREEN JOBS:

§  Conduct a survey on need for green jobs in industries related to each department

§  Proof: Send the Survey with detailed documentation

o   REPORT ON SURVEY:

§  Prepare a Report on the Conducted Survey and post it on college notice board.

§  Proof: Send us report and take a picture of Notice board with report

o   REPORT ON INTERVIEW:

§  Prepare a Brief Report on interviews conducted and submit it to college management, HODs etc

§  Proof: Send us report and take picture while submitting to Management and send it

o   WATER AUDIT:

§  Complete a total campus water consumption audit.

§  Proof: Send us the report and audit of your campus with documentation.

o   REDUCE WATER CONSUMPTION:

§  Reduce water consumption in one department/block and calculate the resources saved.

§  Proof: Send us the report and emission calculation with documentation

o   SURVEY ON RAW FOODS:

§  Conduct a survey about the source of raw foods being used on your campus, how hygienic they are and submit the report to the management

§  Proof: Send survey and take pic while submitting report to management and send us with documentation

o   IMPACTS OF NON LOCAL FOODS:

§  Write a report about the carbon footprint of non local foods and their impact on your health and campus.Paste this on college Notice Board

§  Proof:Send us the report and take pics while pasting on Notice Boards

o   ORGANIC GARDEN:

§  Start a garden on your campus for growing fruits/ vegetables and report it to the media

§  Proof: Send the video and pics with documentation

o   EDUCATE ON SUISTAINABLE LIFESTYLE:

§  Educate students about the healthy and sustainable lifestyle in campus.

§  Proof: Shoot Video while educating and send us with documentation

o   REPORT ON HEALTHY LIFESTYLE:

§  Prepare a Report on various ways or ideas for healthy and sustainable lifestyle in your campus and submit it to management

§  Proof: Send Report on Healthy and Sustainable lifestyle and take pictures while submitting the report to Management.

o   TRANSPORTATION TRENDS:

§  Identify the transportation trends followed by students in your campus, calculate the traffic demands and prepare a report.

§  Proof:Send report with Documetation

o   100 SIGNUPS IN CCR:

§  100(students, staff) members will sign up in carbon credit race in your college profile of www.carboncreditrace.in

§  Proof: send us URL of your College page on www.carboncreditrace.in website

HARD PROJECTS:

o   SMS CHANNEL WITH 1000

§  Build a Google SMS channel for your campus CCR team with 1000 members of your college (students faculty). Create an account in http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse Ask students, faculty of your college to join it.

§  Proof: send your SMS channel link.

o   SOCIAL NETWORK WITH 1000:

§  Build Social Media pages or groups of your Campus CCR team on Social Networks like Face book, twitter with 1000 members of your college (students faculty) registered in it.

§  Ask students, faculty of your college to join it.

§  Proof: Send your Group account link

o   NATIONAL LEVEL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

§  Get a National newspaper to cover your CCR program.

§  Proof: scanned copy or PDF of your article in the paper.

o   NATIONAL LEVELTV CHANNEL REPORT:

§  Get a National level TV channel to cover your CCR program. Get the record of your clipping on TV channel.

§  Proof: send link of video uploaded on YouTube.

o   YOUTH NETWORK CHAPTER:

§  Start a chapter or a club of any youth network which works on Climate change or sustainability. This could help you in getting some support your Carbon Credit Club programs or projects. Please contact the coordinators of the organisations to check the feasibility of starting a chapter in your locality. We recommend you to consider the following organisations.

§  Climate Leaders India Network (CLeaIN). Enquire with them at ravi@cleain.in

§  Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN). Enquire with them at chaitanyakumar@iycn.in

§  Proof:Forward the induction E-mail from the National/ Regional coordinator of the organisation. Also send a list of the students who are approved to run the chapter or club.

o   MEDICAL HERB GARDEN:

§  Collect medicinal herbs like tulsi, neem, amla etc from a nursery and plant them in your college. You need to plant two saplings each of 10 different varieties of herbs.

§  Proof: Send scanned copy of the bill from the nursery and photos of the herbs being planted.

o   SEMINAR ON GREEN JOBS/OPPURTUNITIES:

§  Organize a Seminar on Green jobs/Oppurtunites with some company officials and collect views of the students and post them on notice boards.

§  Proof:Proof: Shoot Video of Seminar, upload it and send the link with documentation

o   WATER HARVESTING PLAN:

§  Implement/construct a water harvesting plan/pit for your campus.

§  Proof:Send us the Plan of Water Harvesting Pit.

o   COLLABARATE AND WORK:

§  Collaborate with one organization (Preferably NGO) and work on water management issues and solutions.

§  Proof:send the details of organization with whom you collaborated and worked

o   SWITCH TO MORE LOCAL FOODS:

§  Prepare a report on reducing carbon footprint by switching to more local foods 0n your campus.

§  Proof: send us report and pics while submitting the report to management and while pasting on Notice Board

o   GROW FOOD ON CAMPUS:

§  Grow Food on campus by using organic manure

§  Proof:shoot video and send it to us.

o   URGE CANTEEN MANAGER:

§  Grow Food on campus by using organic manure

§  Proof:shoot video and send it to us.

o   PROMOTE PUBLIC TRANSPORT:

§  Campaign on campus for more usage of public transport through posters, banners, pamphlets and other ways.

§  Proof:Shoot Video and Take pics while distributing pamphlets, Pasting Posters,banners etc and Send us with Documentation

o   BENEFITS OF TRANSPORT COLUTIONS:

§  Create a report on long term benefits of taking up alternative transport solutions like Public transport, pooling etc.

§  Proof: Send us the Report

o   CALCULATE EMISSION REDUCTION:

§  Calculate the emission reductions if certain measures are taken (improving public transport, car pooling etc.)

§  Proof: Send us the Report

o   VEHICLES ENTERING INTO CAMPUS:

§  Check all the vehicles entering your campus and prepare a pollution or emissions report of all vehicles.

§  Proof:Send us the report

o   REPLACE CFL’S IN COMMUNITY:

§  Adopt a nearby village/community and replace all incandescent bulbs with CFL bulbs. Submit the report to local media and other organizations. Every village adopted will fetch 20 points each.

§  Proof: Send the details of the Village along with contact information. Also send the media articles about this project and letters from partnering organisations.

o   CLIMATE CHANGA AWARENESS TALK:

§  Organise a talk or an event in the village you adopted on “climate change” or “sustainable development” or “green economy” or all of the above.

§  Proof: Send us the video link of the event with a brief write up about it.

o   MOVIE SCREENING IN COMMUNITY:

§  Screen a film or documentary for the people of the adopted village. The documentary/ film should be related to environmental issues or sustainable development or climate change.

§  Proof: Send us the pics taken while screening with brief report

o   ¼ COLLEGE SIGNUPS IN CCR:

§  1/4th of your college strength (students faculty) will sign up in carbon credit race in your college profile of www.carboncreditrace.in

§  Proof: send us URL of your College page on www.carboncreditrace.in website and mention your college strength (students faculty).

o   BAN SOFT DRINKS:

§  Team will get more 30 points if they ban Soft drinks in their campus.

§  Proof: Send us the letter mentioning the ban of soft drinks on campus with Signature of a management representative on it.