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Are you a student and interested in the power of images/multimedia? Are you concerned about sustainability and how your behaviour could have consequences for now and the future? Then take action now by creating a 60-second film for web! Be creative and become famous!

More than 200 youths from environment clubs and universities/colleges in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hai
Phong, Da Nang participated in the launch of the campaign “Green Generation joins Eco-Handprints”
last weekend (5th and 6t h June 2010).
Vietnam Green Generation Network would like to share the event results as follows:
• Number of participating clubs: 16 (Hanoi), 2 (Hai Phong), 8 (Da Nang), 6 (Ho Chi Minh) from
19 universities and colleges
• And 17 representatives from government agencies, local and international NGOs
• Total number of initiatives: over 70

“Young people today constitute an important group within our consumer societies, and the habit they develop now will play a decisive role in future consumption patterns. Their decisions as consumers exercise a growing influence on markets and lifestyles. Therefore, they deserve special attention in efforts to change wasteful consumption patterns into ones that are more attuned to sustainable development”- Achim Steiner- Executive Director UNEP and Koïchiro Matsura, Director- General UNESCO

On behalf of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) organises the Advanced International Training Programme “Climate Change – Mitigation & Adaptation” (http://www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=9821&a=28355&l=en).

The He Xanh (VGGN) is so happy when we, “green change agents” have had a wonderful meeting today. On behalf

Let’s imagine that every morning, you get to work and enjoy more of
the fresh air and less of the fuel from the combustion of the
motorbikes and cars in Hanoi! Fortunately, this scenario is possible
in Hanoi and our individual choice of transport mode everyday is a
part of the solution.

Along with the development of society, humankind is facing the challenge of how to achieve sustainable development and a sustainable lifestyle as they are key to protect the earth, our home for future generations. To answer this question, young professionals from over twenty countries have shared their ways of living and their vision for the future in the “Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyle” (GSSL)

The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual meeting place for capacity building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development.