High School Climate Challenge / Défi Climatique 2009

Hey Everyone!!!!! Sorry about the delay posting the results of the High School Climate Challenge. Things have been pretty hectic since the beginning of COP15 (the climate negotiations in Copenhagen). We wanted to thank everyone for their overwhelming support of our mission to get high school students from across the province engaged in the very serious issue of climate change. Without further delay, here are the top five schools...

5.) College Jean Sauve 13%
4.) Kelvin 24%
3.) Elmwood 29%
2.) River East Collegiate 36%

And the winner is...
Le College Louis-Riel with 56% of their student body signing the KYOTOplus petition!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to all of the schools and rest assured, the voices of the youth of Manitoba have not been ignored. On December 7th our names along with over 150,000 other concerned Canadians were handed over to Jim Prentice, Stephen Harper and the leaders of the Climate negotiations. It has sent strong message to the world that Canadian citizens want to see change. We want to be leaders in the fight against climate change!

Thanks again and keep checking the Manitoba Eco-network youth pages for more events and ways to stay involved!



Game On!
For one week, during the week of Nov. 16th, high schools in Manitoba will be competing against one another to get signatures for the KyotoPlus petition. This petition calls on the Canadian Government to take action on climate change. At the end of the week, the petitions will be collected and sent off to our leaders before the UN climate summit. The school with the most signatures will win!

Que les jeux commencent!
Pendant une semaine, plusieurs écoles et institutions au Manitoba vont participer dans une petite compétition afin d’avoir le plus grand nombre de signatures posées sur la pétition de KYOTOplus . À la fin de la semaine du 16 novembre, les pétitions vont être rassemblées et envoyées à nos décideurs et à nos leaders avant la conférence de Copenhague. L’école ou l’institution avec le plus de signatures gagnera!

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***Nouvelle date limite pour les pétitions: le 27 novembre
***New deadline for the petition is the 27th of November

The competition started! Wanna see who’s registered? Check this out :
La compétition avance!! Vous voulez voir qui en fait parti? Dirigez-vous ici :

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So you think your school is up for the challenge? Here’s how to do it...

1. Join this group, send us a little msg and post the amount of signatures you think you can get on the wall – this helps keep track of which school is doing what…After that we will add your school on the Google map

2. Download the KyotoPlus petition from the link in the discussions (check it out, there are also plenty of other resources in there to make your job a whole lot easier!)
http://www.kyotoplus.ca/en/petition-kyotoplus-en.pdf

3. On Monday the 16th: Start collecting signatures!

4. Give us a shout out the end of the week – send us a nice little e-mail with the scanned petitions.

5. The petitions will be sent off to our representatives before Copenhagen & the signatures will be counted – we will let you know if your school won! Good luck ;)


Alors, t’es près a relever le défi? Voici comment t’y prendre…

1. Joins ce groupe, envois-nous un p’tit message et affiches le nombre de signature que tu pense avoir a ton école. Ceci nous garde au courant de tous c’qui c’passe! Après avoir fait ça, nous allons afficher ton école sur la carte Google

2. Télécharge la pétition de KyotoPlus que tu trouveras dans les discussions (je te suggère fortement d’aller jeter un coup d’oeil dans cette section…tu y trouveras plein de ressources pas mal utile!). Tu peux aussi la trouver ici:
http://kyotoplus.ca/fr/petition-kyotoplus-fr.pdf

3. Lundi le 16 – commence a ramasser des signatures!

4. A la fin de la semaine, envois-nous un p’tit courriel avec les copies de pétition scanner.

5. Les pétitions vont êtres envoyés a nos représentants avant Copenhague et les signatures vont êtres comptés – on te laissera savoir si ton école a gagné!
Bonne chance ;)