Our common humanity

By Thomas King on September 11, 2015 at 11:33 am in Expedition - 0 Comments

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..?

By Delphine Zacharias on September 11, 2015 at 6:46 am in Expedition, Fotos - 0 Comments

Arriving in the arctic. What do each of the earthTeam members say about it? Also we met Jason Box.

Day 2: The Hills

By Delphine Zacharias on September 10, 2015 at 12:23 am in Expedition, Fotos - 2 Comments

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!

By Delphine Zacharias on September 8, 2015 at 11:59 am in Expedition - 8 Comments

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

By emjay on September 8, 2015 at 9:36 am in Expedition, Fotos - 0 Comments

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

By emjay on August 28, 2015 at 4:30 pm in Greenland2016 - 0 Comments

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

By emjay on July 13, 2015 at 9:37 am in Production - 1 Comment

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)…