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Eco-Contest for Gib Youth

A few weeks ago Friends of the Earth (FoE) Gibraltar launched a new project to advance the joint environmental themes of "reduce, reuse,recycle". That first stage involved a very successful auction in the Garrison Library to raise funds for the next phase of the initiative.In essence it's a kind of competition to raise awareness about pressing ecological issues among young people. It's not by preaching to them but by actually involving them in using their imagination and fresh perspectives to show the rest of us how to adjust our lifestyles to sustainable progress. So, children, teenagers and young adults are invited to submit their ideas, one or more projects aimed to save energy, reduce pollution or optimise the management of non-renewable sources. Any medium will be accepted, from written articles, to paintings, from blueprints to actual devices, from short stories about environmentally-friendly utopias to flashy campaign posters and slogans, from photographs to promo videos, as longs as it puts across the pro-eco message.

FoE co-coordinator Lyana Armstrong-Emery hopes to be overwhelmed with innovative ideas after the challenge is launched on 5th June, World Environment Day (WED), when guidelines on how and what to enter will be explained in detail. Then young people will have all summer to fire up their imagination - and show off what nifty solutions they are capable of when before the deadline for handing in entries for an exhibition to show the general public in October.

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