This is my team who works for the climate change mitigation. We do it every Thursday.
We jump in the freezing river... and then we feel so good.
It feels so good because it makes you feel alive.
Nothing else makes you feel this good you’re part of nature,
you have all the power in the world. And you do it together: that’s the thing.
We understood in Ii seven years ago that climate change is not coming, climate change is here and
we cannot expect the rest of the world to do anything for our sake, we need to try to
do our best, what we can and take this into our own hands.
So in our school we do something very similar. I have come to encourage and
help younger children to do better choices and help the environment. They’re doing
so well already.
So with this you measure the temperature, first you measure from the floor... and then the ceiling.
It’s quite good, it's under 20 degrees.
With this device you measure luxes, that means the lighting... and we have quite a lot of luxes,
so it's a bit of a bad thing. We would do fine with natural light here.
The lights are on for nothing.
There’s (going on) a big climate crisis… We have to work together to stop
climate change and help the environment together. Many of you might think: what can one human
do? Well actually the small, better choices that we make like switching off the lights
- that’s probably the easiest thing you can do, when you combine it all together,
it really makes a big change.
These certificates are from the 50/50 project. We have saved lots of money and students can themselves decide the way they use this money.
For example those sledges that you saw before have been bought with this money.
We hunt moose and we catch fish and we catch also berries in the summer. But we are going to take some
fish from the lake. We have a trap there and we hope that there are big pikes. But we will see.
Only little fish.. maybe 30 or 40. But maybe we’ll put it back.
Fishing is a matter of luck, we had no luck today.
I do this because I want this peatland to be as it used to be.
This is of course a very little thing in a global scale but this is something concrete
and I like concrete things.
It’s a kind of investment for the future of our planet in a very small scale. So it's not charity in the way that I do it to make only myself
feel good but I know that if I can contribute to this, maybe other people will want to do the same thing.
Wind power...
The power from those wind turbines is going to
the people who live in south Finland. It’s not going to stay in our area. So, we think
they should produce it there, close to the people who are actually going to use it.
It's like they’re going to get all the benefits and we’re going to get everything that’s
not so good. It’s not fair: it’s like we pay the bill and they look good with the green energy.
There won't be a winner there won't be a loser.
We want only compromise.
What a trip! But Ari - nice to see you.
Mum always says that 10 minutes is enough...
I quite often just look at the fridge and do a meal or a dessert out of leftovers
like for example pancakes or pizza.
It's important to not always buy new food and new packages because it saves energy and also
the packing materials like plastic.
We stopped using plastic straws, we have bamboo straws now.
We recycle everything, we’re pretty strict. It's not properly hot enough yet...
Is there enough flour in this?
I'm not mad... I'm just worried about, and kind of frustrated
about the state of this planet.
If we work together, believe that it’s really happening,
I think we can stop it. If we just get these big leaders to believe in it, I think everything
is pretty much possible. I think it’s important to eat food that’s grown locally and not
shipped from other countries like avocados and bananas.
Even in the winter I go to school by bike, it takes time to get there, more than in the autumn or spring because,
you know, there's a lot of snow but I can deal with it.
It is so very easy for us to say that it doesn’t matter what we do
it depends on what China does or what the US does.
There is no-one else, it is us. Yes, we are in an emergency situation. Yes, we need to do a
lot. But I’m very optimistic: I am a mother of two children and whatever I do, I am sure
they will do better.
The most beautiful thing is the collaboration with the schools.
So the children learn that it’s possible to make actions for the better of the environment
and climate and it’s also profitable at the same time. We have been able to cut CO2
emissions so much, and I do hope that everybody in the world will find the same will and want
to do it because it is possible.