Ad agency Leagas Delaney in Hamburg, Germany, came up with these clever posters for Plant for the Planet, an organization that stemmed from a 9-year-old's school assignment.
A few years ago, 9-year-old Felix Finkbeiner was given the task of writing a school report about climate change. While working on the report, Felix ran across the story of Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who worked to plant trees across Africa. Felix proposed that children from across the country could do the same thing. He suggested a goal of planting 1 million trees, starting with his own school who planted the first tree in March, 2007.
Felix was elected to the United Nations Environment Programme and his school project turned into a real organization. In 2011, they reached their goal of planting 1 million trees. Now, how cool is that?
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I would prefer just to end this daylight saving folly all over the planet...
He does bring up many good arguments of stopping the practice.
Another version of the same myth claims that road accidents in Scotland are reduced by DST since it is lighter in the mornings in winter. Again this fails to work for two reasons; firstly in that the days are so short in the north of the country that the morning and evening rush hours happen in the dark in winter anyway; and secondly again the clocks are changed for summer not for winter.
Quite why these myths exist I don't know, but they do.
My personal gripe is that DST messes with my surfing. Often depending on the swell and the state of the tide the best surf of the day might come before work. There are times of the year in spring and autumn when there isn't enough daylight in the morning to get in a session before work when there would be if we stayed on winter time all summer. What I want is a window before and after work so I can get more chance to benefit from the optimum swell/tide conditions to give the best surf.