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Living Organism Project
The Living Organism Project, implemented by the Geologist Center for Children and Teenagers in Arkhangelsk in 2010, was intended to popularize healthy lifestyles among school students 7 to 17 years of age, to teach them to care about their health and to protect the environment. A key component of the project was a young people's ecological summer camp in Kiy Island in Onezhsky District in Arkhangelsk Region. The camp's program included ecology quizzes and lessons, a tour of the Kiy Island local history museum, garbage-removal exercises, and wildlife and vegetation study sessions. The project involved about a hundred school students.
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| Schoolchildren team presents ecological project |
Outdoor seminar in ecological summer camp |
"Ecology for All" Social Projects Competition
A social project competition entitled "Ecology for All" has been implemented in Arkhangelsk by ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. and the GARANT Social Technologies Center. It was intended to promote active participation of children and young people in addressing the city's social and ecological challenges and in urban landscape impromevement work.
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Alley trees planting in commemoration of the end of WWII 65th anniversary |
Project work involved practical environmental efforts, including landscape improvement, litter removal, and planting of trees, flowers, and bushes near schools, child-care centers, and libraries in and near Arkhangelsk. In the course of the competition, an expert panel comprising representatives of environmental NGOs and the Arkhangelsk Region Administration's Ecology Committee selected 14 NGOs that had submitted the best projects. The winning projects meet the following criteria:
- they have been developed and implemented with active participation of children and young people;
- each project provides an efficient solution to the subject problem;
- they all target achieved specific results - a measurable environmental improvement;
- they draw public attention to the city's social and ecological problems;
- the projects' results receive wide media coverage;
- they provide for active involvement of Arkhangelsk people and volunteers in implementation work.
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| Planting of rose hips bushes |
Water analysis lab tests |
Joint Creative Project of ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. and Garant Non-Profit Center in Arkhangelsk
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The Northern Vast photo contest was organized to support creative initiatives of Arkhangelsk and Arkhangelsk Oblast residents, draw attention to environmental problems and possible ways to solve them and imbue environment stewardship in the Northern region. Over 600 photos by 107 authors were submitted to the contest.
To take a decision on contest winners, an Expert Council was formed of well-known Arkhangelsk photographers, including Pavel Kononov (photographer), Yuri Gnatyuk (photographer, and Dr. Andrey Zhdanov (Magazine publication editor-in-chief, Pomorye State University lecturer).
As the result, 36 works were selected and presented at the exposition. The best works were exposed on December 19, 2009, at the Arkhangelsk Oblast N.A.Dobrolyubov Scientific Library. All authors whose works were presented at the exposition were conferred laudation diplomas, including ten cash prize winners. The contest was won by Kirill Karpov for his works, such as “A Portrait of a Serious Cat”, “God’s Life”, “After Lunch”, “An Instant from Childhood”, and “That’s Me!”
Photos showing nature maltreatment will be used for developing a special exposition for city schoolchildren jointly with the Arkhangelsk Education department.
It is planned to hold the youth action “It Should Not be This Way…”, and leaflets with photos presented in this contest nomination will be printed for the event.
All photos submitted for the contest and information on the contest can be found on website: http://fotokonkurs.ngogarant.ru/ |
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