Here are some ideas from our World Café at our 3 Tree Academies and our fourth online one. Would you like to add some ideas? Then email us at orla@easytreesie.com please!
How do we ensure the media reports about us
Word of mouth; Tell everyone you know – or phone them. Post to them and ask them to post to their friends. Spread the word.
Talk. Talk to adults
Text
Beg!!
Help the environment; more media coverage
Say something that will help our world
Tell the climate change story
Tell Felix and Wangari and our story
Invitations to the media
Contact companies and ask them to promote it
Set up a stand to show people about us and give them stuff like a tree to plant
Spread the idea to other communities, e.g. talk to secondary schools and their green school committees, talk to schools.
Advertising
Get an advertiser; call them
Flyers in Post offices, shops, libraries
Advertise on billboards and
Bus stops ads
Buses
Advertise on fb to show what we’re doing to help the world
TV ads
Put up posters – make millions! Arrange poster-making creative sessions.
Merchandise;
On jumpers
T-shirts
Hats
Pencils
Bags
Plant pots
Badges
Make stationery
Write a book
Write stories
Write poems
Write a muical.ie
Use a laptop
Make a website; make multiple websites. The children make a website.
Media;
Email pictures of all the trouble
Go on the radio
Call in to radio stations
Say something on the news;
TV news
Tell the TV people
Press
Tell the Press
Write a report for local newspapers. Other newspapers and magazines.
Write articles
Make documents
Ads at the cinema
Digital; Social Media
Email people
Ezines
Infographics
Surveys
Polls
Ask questions
Live; stream and tell all the watchers
Film; make youtube videos – viral if possible 111
A youtube group ; in every video ask to help the planet. Ask people to subscribe
Bloopers
Write a blog
Tik Tok
Snapchat
#Everyone remember this! Use #
Talk to celebrities
Ask celebrities and politicians – local and larger – for help e.g. to spread the word, sponsor you, advertise for you, sing or write poetry or stories for you, whatever the celbrity does. To post a video for us if they are famous.Talk to them. IIII
Ask people to recommend what you say
Ask people to spread your message
On Instagram
Send pictures to your friends on WhatsApp etc.
Optimize on google
Other
Wikipedia
Fortnite
Make noise!!!
How
Use voice, phone, laptop, ipad
Quiet protest – silent
A Trees Party
Create a project
How Do we Organise a Planting Party
Make a list
Make a plan; to plant at least 100 trees – and mulch
Allow people book
Get prepared
Arrange tools
Arrange gloves
Holes
Visit schools
Baloons, decorations
Fix time and date
Invite celebrities, the sea scouts because they are amazing
Tell local places about it; “Let’s plant trees for a better future”Use leaflets in school, invitations, social media, adverts, text friends,call them, radio, streaming, postering
Get the council involved
Have as many plants as possible
Arrange transport if it is far; a party bus, electric bus
Ask friends
After planting Feed people – pizza – , drinks
Invite friends from school, get adults to help, give out Plant-for-the-Planet materials
Try to get the public and media to join, to dig holes
Send pictures of previous events
We need an area, find the area. Put it on the map. plants, water e.g. rain, people
Ask Ecosia
Make it a P.E. class
Litter Pick as you go
We need lots of people
Get schools involved
Put it up online
We need to spread the word
Gimmicks like trees in little tubs
What can we do next
Biodiversity
Plant more trees
Use less CO2
Cut down fewer trees
Plant flowers
Stop killing animals and insects
Waste
Try not to use plastic
Use paper and fabric bags
Recycle, Re-use II
Stop littering
Energy
Use renewable energy
Be energy friendly
Turn off lights
Get an electric car, use electric transpost
Solar panels
Other
Organise protests II
Engage cubs and scouts.
Arrange talks for groups e.g. cubs and scouts
Go on strike
Arrange a group and have meetings and planting parties
Plant with cubs, scouts. Get all the scouts together.
Cleaning
Clean up around your own home – or anywhere; street cleans, Beach cleans
Collect the mulched Christmas trees to use on other plants
Create
Join green schools
Buy Fair Trade
Raise money for climate change
Use a road cleaner
A path cleaner
What big ideas did you learn today
Pay someone to make an ad to make people help
Different types of Trees
How to measure a tree for the carbon inside – we learned how to measure the amount of CO2 in a tree. X 3
I learned that trees can weigh over 1,000 kg
We need to stop forest fires
How Asia produces a lot
Planting trees helps to solve climate change and is very good for the environment
Trees offset flights
How much carbon we produce
How to tall apart trees by their puds
How to plant trees
That the Arctic ice is melting
Beg!!!
There is more money in N. America then in South America
That Asia produces the most Carbon dioxide