Twavel makes it fun for you to make green travel choices and shows how even the little differences you make soon add up to a significant benefit to our environment.  Track your travel choices and see how much C02 you can reduce!

At it's heart is a powerful carbon calculator that is easy to use because it allows you to quickly record your travel by distance or time, and mode.  A dynamic baseline allows Twavel to track your rate of carbon emissions and show your trending day by day.  You can compare how you are doing to other Twavel users around the world  and be a part of the cumulative CO2 reduction of all Twavel users.

Your carbon footprint is displayed as a unique Twibble character that changes between 5 different looks based on the choices you make in the ways you get around. Your Twibble will become a wheezing, machine-beast, or a clean-air loving friend, it’s up to you!

Twavel offers a fun way to enable a dialogue about climate change with your family and friends and employs proven community-based social marketing techniques to motivate positive behaviour change. Let your kids add your daily trips in Twavel so they can learn about reducing carbon emissions while caring for their Twibble.  Share tips on low-emission living with like-minded people through Twavel’s built-in social networking, all the while earning points that you can use to buy your Twibble cool accessories, such as: a pirate hat, a bow tie, or a crown.  The more you use it, the more it rewards you.

The goal of Face the Change is to mobilize support to tackle climate change by highlighting its social impacts. By putting a human face on global warming, we aim to elevate the current debate on science and energy policy to one that includes key human rights issues of natural disasters and forced migration. The web-based platform will primarily use video and other multimedia to document the current and future impacts and facilitate a global dialogue with the intention of shaping policy. To reach communities without widespread access to the Internet, we will run a pilot project using cell phone Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to raise awareness, rally and gather feedback from impoverished communities whose homes and livelihoods will be directly threatened by rising seas, drought and other climate change related effects. Cell phones are the windows to the world for many in developing countries, but their potential as a medium that informs under-represented people and allows them to participate in debates is far from realized.

Focus Bangladesh – a pilot study

For our pilot study, we intend to focus on Bangladesh, a country expected to be hard-hit by climate change but where public awareness is very low. We will work with local partners - non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups and communication companies - to carry out a market study with surveys and focus groups to determine perception and informational gaps. This study will guide the conceptualization and production of the voice, text and video messages to ensure that they are culturally relevant for targeted audiences and compatible with the mobile devices. The key to making such a campaign a success is to produce provocative, informative and motivating messages and to include outlets for interaction: the website, reply text automation for additional information, and requests for feedback. To disseminate to the appropriate market, we will engage NGO and community groups to deliver the messages to people on their contact lists as a first wave of recipients. If packaged correctly, the message will encourage the recipients to forward them onto their friends and relatives, who will then forward them to others in their contact lists, thus creating a ‘viral’ multiplier effect.

Power of the platform

For market delivery we will engage phone companies to track receipt and forwarding on their networks. The text feedback will be transferred to the Face the Change-Bangladesh website, which will be designed to offer a national discussion platform. It is our hope that greater awareness and discussion about the issue will empower the people of Bangladesh to pressure their leaders to include them in the decision-making process and enable them to be a part of a search for solutions. Bangladeshis have developed many ways to address climate variations over the centuries and these adaptations may be useful in coping with future changes. If successful, this campaign will go a long way to giving a voice to those sections of society that are too often ignored and the ability to have a say in their own future.

 EduIcan Sharing Knowledge will be a social networking for students in the whole of Namibia. Students will be required to register for the service and they can choose the subjects they want to register for and proposed environmental projects they want to embark on. Every time they have a question in a certain subject they SMS their question to the code of that subject and the question is sent to all registered students in that subject who than can reply or comment on the question and is sent again to the group. Even those who didn’t ask the question will be able to learn from what their fellow students asked. They registered students will be required to team together and come-up with environmental projects on issues affecting their communities most. Climate change has also affacted the country in the past 2 years where by floods has been hitting the country and affacting lot of people. Surveys will be done on a monthly basis to see how the students are benefiting from the project and to access environmental projects they have created within their communities. They will be required than to implement those projects by sharing their solutions with the community and educating them on climate change issues.

The idea is to help students form diffirent backgrounds learn from their peers and engage students from public schools with students from private schools.