We are right now preparing our participation in Bright Green Youth in Sønderborg, Denmark. BGY has invited over 500 young minds from all over the world to give the Climate Council at COP 15 Summit some visions and good ideas as to face the climate challenges we are facing. The 500 young people will be gathered for four days and will be participating in workshops around innovation, climate, media and visualisation to help them develop and present the best ideas of the crowd.

Bigger Picture will host workshops, give plenary sessions and will be recording everything on one big mural for every day. To help us do that, Thomas Thorhauge will be joining our Bigger Picture-team. It will be great fun!

Future architecture?

Can we get a new mindset, please?

Could we create green cars without wasting materials?

We attended the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in March and tried to capture key insights from some of the speakers.

One more campaign from the Saving Trust in Denmark. This time a hand drawn explanation for the younger audience.

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.

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.

Young Leaders for Nature
Leaders for Nature is a global network of business leaders under IUCN, that together strive to ensure sustainability and nature conservation agendas as a inherent part of future businesses.
Young Leaders for Nature, Holland – a programme of LFN – host an annual Forum, where young business leaders from some of the biggest dutch companies together with their CEO’s and members of the board lay down directions and commitments for the companies’ sustainability actions for the coming year.

This year in January the Young Leaders for Nature Summit was held at Cap Gemini in Utrecht, Holland, where Bigger Picture contributed as a part of the facilitation team. During the summit Erik, Ole and Stine created a 18 meter big picture with summary from key note speakers, highlights from the day, the participant’s ideas and commitments plus statements that the participants contributed with.

Bigger Picture gave also an introduction to graphic facilitation, where the 250 young leaders and board members was introduced to the power of visual language by putting their own pen to the paper and drawing their challenges and wished for the future.

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).