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Tallinn University Green Week focuses on renewable energy and sustainable development

Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 15.04.2014.Print version
April 14-17 is a Green Week in Tallinn University, which is a student initiative that focuses on the introduction and discussions about renewable energy, climate changes and sustainable development education, reported BC the press service of the University of Tallinn.

Experts from Tallinn University and elsewhere help open the topics further. As a special guest, Professor Thomas Falkenberg from Manitoba University, Canada, is also present.

 

"The aim of Green Week is mainly to call on people to think green and to promote this way of thinking – what better place to do that than an institution of education," says the project manager of Green Week, Krista Kant.

 

In addition to experts and lecturers from Tallinn University, Estonian Renewable Energy Association, Tallinn Energy Agency and Tallinn University of Technology, students brainstorm about how to activate people into environmentalism.

 

Documentaries Carbon Nation (USA 2010) and An Inconvenient Truth (USA 2006) are screened at the Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School SuperNova Cinema on Monday evening.

 

There are Humana boxes all around University campus this week to give people a chance to bring their well-kept and clean, but no longer used clothes, textile, shoes and toys, and give them a new life.

 

Green Week takes place in Tallinn University for the second time and is organized by the TU Student Union.






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