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How to plant a tree inside a building
Authors: Kerstin Schnatz, Klaus Esterluss
They came to COP18 in Qatar to open the eyes of the negotiators, young students from different parts of the world had an idea about how to really grow roots in the heads of everyone at the climate conference. The organization YOUthinkgreen planned to plant a tree made of garbage inside the conference building. The people at the conference should use their “Tree of Hope” to pin their own demands, wishes or fears on it. But a garbage-tree was not allowed on site. So Luisa from Germany, Pavlos who lives in Doha and all the others from YOUthinkgreen had to find another way to bring their message to the conference. They invented the human tree and the tree grew strong and it’s leaves meaningfull and lush:
Green leaves, green hopes: Young participants plant the “Tree of Demands” at COP18 from DW_Global Ideas on Vimeo.
One of the leaves was written by Ahmed from Qatar, whose thoughts about cars are still not very common in his home country:
Ahmed from Doha on how to make Qatar a greener country from DW_Global Ideas on Vimeo.
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