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Sunny campaign is a European campaign on renewable resources run by member organizationsof Youth and Environment Europefederation and its friends. The main aim of Sunny campaign is toencourage citizens to take active part in transition to zero-wasteSolareconomy - sustainable use of renewable energies and materials asa way of climatechange solutions and sustainability implementation.

We want tocreate an European web of institutions and individuals (NGOs,commercial companies, expert groups, students and municipalities)working on the topic of renewables and inform people about existingenvironmentaly friendly and healthy alternatives in areas of energy,transport, eco-housing...

We search forpartners that want to participate in planned actions:

running webpages www.sunnycampaign.net as an information platform
« Best examples » postcard book and exhibition
(February - August 2008)
local events for promoting the campaign and its partners (summer 2009)

Sustainability is a key principle. Sustainableway of life is the one that respects limits of the Earth and itsecosystems and improves quality of peoples life. It encouragescreation of stable but dynamic communities based on communication,participation, co-operation and education.

In economy sphere, itfocuses on local self-sufficiency in food, materials and energies andregional networking involving small-scale technologies and systems.

By using local renewableand waste resources to meet more of our everyday needs we:

Decrease dependency on imports and our ecological footprint
Decrease amount of transport and increase recycling rate
Get better control over the quality of products
Save time we were used to spend for transport to job or for shoping
Encourage civil society and its responsibility for environment

Renewable resources are naturalresources that are replenished by natural processes at a ratecomparable or faster than its rate of consumption by humans or otherusers.

We can distinguish renewableresources of energy and renewable resources of materials.

Renewableenergy is sunshine transformed to heat andelectricity, to movement of wind and water as well as into bodies ofplants (biomass). Geothermal and tide energy is counted too.Some renewable resources such as geothermal, fresh water and biomassmust be carefully managed to avoid exceeding the environment'scapacity to replenish them.

Renewable materials are(as food is) obtained from biomass. They might be vegetable oil basedcosmetics, colours and laquers, starch based plastics and glues orfiber (cellulose) based textil, paper, building materials... Medicalsmade from plants can be also considered as renewable materials.

Guidebook for Greener Festivals is online

The final outcome of our project Engaging the public through sustainable festivals is here.

More then 90 pages of information, 8 pages of colour pictures, all available online - pdf download here.

Big thanks to all contributors, to partners of the project and to funders - International Visegrad Fund and Partnership Foundation that made it possible.

More information about the projec t.

About Sunny Campaign

Sunny Campaign is an European campaign on renewable resources run by member organizations of Youth and Environment Europe federation and its friends. The main aim of Sunny Campaign is to encourage citizens to take active part in transition to zero-waste Solar economy - sustainable use of renewable energies and materials as a way of climate change solutions and sustainability implementation.

How it works?

Our mission is to create an European web of institutions and individuals working on the topic of renewables - NGOs, commercial companies, expert groups, students and municipalities - and inform people about existing environmentaly friendly and healthy alternatives in areas of energy, transport, eco-housing...

We want

to create a space for exchanging knowledge, skills and ideas;
to promote partners work among European citizens;
to support legislative changes at national and European level;

Planned actions:

running webpages www.sunnycampaign.net as an information platform
« Best examples » postcard book and exhibition (February - August 2008)
Local events for promoting the campaign and its partners (summer 2009)

We are searching for partners!

For more info contact Sunny Campaign coordinator Michal Ruman on:

email:ruman@konopa.cz
GSM: + 420 724 106 808
Skype: Rumickus

Forward green festivals: Campaign for more ecological cultural events

About the "Greener festivals" project:

Greener festivals project was organised by six environmental non-profit associations from Czech Republic (Konopa, Youth and Environment Europe, Eurosolar.cz), Slovakia (SOSNA) and Hungary (Nimfea, Green Action) in May 2009 - May 2010 period.
It is a part of a long-term campaign for sustainable life, Sunny campaign run by Konopa and Youth and Environment Europe federation since 2005.

With the Greener festivals project we wanted mainly to:

Decrease negative impact of cultural events on the environment by transfer of knowledge and good practices;
Show to people different ecological techniques and how to apply them in their daily lives;

How did we do it?
We organised pilot festivals where we will show richness of greener solutions as much as possible “in action”: sustainable transport, local food, water management, energy use, compostable toilets and dishes or separation of garbage.

We invited different festival organisers, environmental NGOs and environmentally oriented companies – renewable energies, materials and sustainable techniques suppliers – to round tables where we want to establish a long-term partnership and design the best model of cooperation with intend to decrease negative impact of cultural events on the environment.

We created the “greener festivals guideline” with good practices that will help to share experience and facilitate conversion of cultural festivals to more sustainable ones.

To know more...
See the Greenfest section or contact one of the partners:

Konopa
Website: www.konopa.cz
Contact person: Michal Ruman
Contact Address: Kubátova 1/32, 102 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
GSM: +420 724 106 808
Email:ruman@konopa.cz

Youth and Environmental Europe (YEE)
Website:www.yeenet.eu
Contact person: Michal Ruman, Alberto Mogio Perez
Contact Address: Kubátova 1/32, 102 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
Tel: + 420 27 17 50 643
Email:info@yeenet.eu

Eurosolar.cz
Website:www.eurosolar.cz
Contact person: Milan Smrž
Email: info@eurosolar.cz

Zöld Akció Egyesület (Green Action Association)
Website:www.greenaction.hu
Contact person: Milan Smrž
Email: greenaction@greenaction.hu

Nimfea Természetvédelmi Egyesulet
Website:www.nimfea.hu
Address: Ecsegi u.22, Turkeve, 5420, Hungary
Tel: +36 56 361 505
Email: info@nimfea.hu

SOSNA, občanské sdruženie (SOSNA, association)
Website: www.sosna.sk
Address: Zvonárska 12, Košice, 04001, Slovakia
Tel: +421 05 56 25 19 03
Email: sosna@sosna.sk

The project was supported by: