We have just been chosen as partners in Bright Green Youth – an Innovation and Climate Camp for youth aged 14-18 year. Other partners include Danfoss Universe and the Danish Association for Co-Operation. The Camp is held in Denmark August 2009 where 3-400 participants will come up with inputs to the Copenhagen Summit (COP15) in December. Visual language and graphic facilitation will be key elements in both the design and hosting of the event. If you know of a bright green youth you think should attend – contact BGY.

In Denmark the Saving Trust is running campaigns both online and on TV where viewers are helped to save money on energy. This is a brilliant visual explanation for the younger audience.

There are so many great initiatives around “being green”, doing the right things, living sustainable etc. And the best part is almost that they have all gotten the thing about communicating in a powerful visual language. I found this site on John Grants blog, and just love the simplicity, the overall theme, the visual language – and finally the way you as a reader is guided through the site.

I will be presenting at this years DMI conference in Milan: Changing Realities. The focus will be how the visual community can apply our thinking, skills and tools to help tackle some of the complex challenges we as people, organisations and societies are facing.

This visual explanation does a great job of both telling a story piece by piece, but it ALSO has the entire story put on one single page. Here is a bet: I believe that we have just seen the begining af this way of using mutilple angles to convey stories – and help people “get the bigger picture”.

Erik Petri is one of the best illustrators in Denmark with a fast pen and sharp brain. This illustration was created at a Young Leaders for Nature Summit i Holland i January this year. Learn more about Erik Petri.

During a 2 hour brunch on “How women can build capacity for climate change” (hosted by Kulu), we decided to sit in and at a café table make a process drawing of the meeting. The debate and suggestions which came out of the meeting will be given Minister Connie Hedegaard (Ministery of Environment).