The overview effect
OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.The awe of earth gazing. Astronauts' testimonials what this experience does with people's understanding of and attitude towards the earth and the universe.
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Ecosystem services made visible
A picture says more than a thousand words. These pictures from a recent DEFRA publication are extremely helpful to explain ecosystem services to non-experts. They do so by making the abstract concept...
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Learning to start a sustainable change strategy
Frogleaps offers you knowledge and tools for sustainable developmentAchieving environmental objectives requires behavior change. You want to influence people to stop harming nature. And to start...
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Education or communication?
If you want understanding - use education. If you want action use communication or campaigning.Campaigning involves stimulating action, best achieved by narrowing the focus and eliminating distractions...
View ArticleSundarban Mayer Moton (Motherlike Sundarbans) campaign theme song
Music can be a powerful means to get attention, touch emotions and convey a message. Wildteam of Bangladesh uses in this video a message strengthening the relationship between the mangroves of the...
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Eye in eye with the tiger
Looking the tiger in the eye. Seeing nature on film can still give you a powerful experience: this is almost the last shot of a short video by Erlinda Kartika about the release of a stray tiger in...
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Frogleaps on strategy
Strategy is not a plan you implement. Strategy is a three-fold skill set you learn along the road Ctowards desired results. You learn these skills by practicing, contemplating and practicing. In other...
View ArticleRhino campaign in Vietnam
Strategic communication aims to support a change in behaviour. "Say no to the illegal trade and consumption of rhino horns", is the message of this campaign of Education for Nature Vietnam. It aims to...
View ArticleBetter in the dark
A new social media campaign, launched as a result of the Powered by Nature Awards - an initiative of IUCN CEC and ALCOA - encourages people to turn off their lights and turn on their senses. With...
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Story telling demand survey
Listening to users is a first step when developing a new e-course. To develop the new frogleaps course on storytelling to trigger action for conservation, we did not only research the literature, but...
View ArticleA story sticks better than a case study
Taste the power of storytelling on the Media Impact site to brand their work. Soon a CEC e-learning course on story telling to trigger action for biodiversity will be on line on: www.frogleaps.org. Now...
View ArticleTiger Team Story
Stories stick better than reports or factsheets. Linda Kartika (from the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia) was for three months an intern at WildTeam in Bangladesh as part of her Wageningen University...
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Visiting Boč ten years later!
In 2002 – 2003 I was involved in assisting Slovenian protected area managers in dealing with the issue of threats by visitors to biodiversity in the mountain landscape park of Boč. After long...
View ArticleListening leads to the right intervention
COMACO is a recipient of the Equator Prize. The award has a database with case studies of all its winning projects. Even when a few are accompanied by a video, they are not easy to read. Telling their...
View ArticlePatience as a sustainability value
Patience is a sustainability value that honours the carrying capacity and resilience of the natural systems of the earth. Often we use abstract concepts of short term and long term. But this video...
View ArticleBuddhist values as basis for change
In 2012 The Cambodian community forest project won the Equator Prize. In the UNDP publication (United Nations Development Programme. 2012. Monks Community Forest, Cambodia. Equator Initiative Case...
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To change others you have to change yourself
In 2002 The Suledo Forest Community won the Equator Prize. The project is described in the UNDP collection of casestudies (United Nations Development Programme. 2012. Suledo Forest Community, Tanzania....
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Health motivates positive action
The Environmental and Social Studies Group, a Mexican NGO is one of the 2012 Equator Prize winners. The case is described in: United Nations Development Programme. 2013. Environmental and Social...
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Respect as a basis for help
The Indian Sashwat NGO received in 2012 the Equator Prize. Based on the UNDP case study (United Nations Development Programme. 2013. Shashwat, India. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York,...
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Consumer model or investing in resilience?
Namdrik Atoll Local Resources Committee is a 2012 Equator Prize winner. The case is described in United Nations Development Programme. 2013. Namdrik Atoll Local Resources Committee, The Marshall...
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