Do not let this culture melt
Even in the coldest, most isolated places a rich culture can be found. The Greenlandic Inuits have lived on the ice for over 45,000 years. During our travels we were gifted an insight into this ancient yet adapted life style of residents in Nuuk. Young children played soccer in the playgrounds as old man watch over their streets and oceans. The…
Our common humanity
On boarding our flight in Nuuk yesterday morning, we noticed a small face peering through the circular plane window. She was a sweet little girl – most likely two years old – travelling with her mother to Kangerlussuaq. During take off, the little girl burst into tears. She was terrified of the fast propellers on each side of the small…
The arctic is..?
Arriving in the arctic. What do each of the earthTeam members say about it? Also we met Jason Box. Day 2: The Hills
When reading the posts from my fellow travellers you might notice that we had some (and today even worse than yesterday) problems with landing at our destination again. That’s why we are in Nuuk for one more day. After the arrival we felt the need to get some fresh air so we decided to go for a hike up a hill next to the airport. The view was…
Day 1: Let the journey to the arctic region begin!
Two days of preparation in Hamburg are behind us. Finally we met the whole team and all of our earthTeamMembers (Kevin, Delphine, Kalinda, Nesha & Thomas) in Copenhagen to give the final start for Youth4Arctic 2015. After a quick breakfast in the hotel, we rushed to the airport for our 9 am flight from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq/Greenland….
In Hamburg we get on the train to the airport
The earthTeam and youth4Planet-Team in front of the hamburg main trainstation just before we leave to the hamburg airport to fly over copenhagen to greenland! We are very exicited what we’ll see and experience in the next 10 days! From left to right: Verena Winkler (coordinator y4p), Kevin Hendrawan (earthTeam), Nesha Ichida (earthTeam),…
Youth4planet our aims and vision
The project was born in the idea of enabling youth to directly confront themselves with climate change and visit locations which are critical for the global climate. Since not everybody can visit the artic – this would place a burden to the ecosystem of the arctic – the earthteam – a group of young people from different regions in the world -…
The youth4planet team at work
Just to give you a little insight in the development process of the project: That’s how it looks like when we have a meeting with the youth4planet team in Hamburg / Germany (Not on the foto is Joerg Altekruse who’s taking the picture and is the actual producer)…
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