Author: Johline Lindholm

  • Intensive and fun days at Nya Malmö Latin with ‘Young Ideas for Europe’

    Students are working hard on a political manifesto for sustainable future
    Students are working hard on a political manifesto for sustainable future © IFOK GmbH

    It’s half-way into the project week with ‘Young Ideas for Europe’ and so far we have had tonnes of new information that the participants absorbed from expert presentations, videos, and watching the live stream of 24 Hours of Reality“, organised by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. At this very moment the students of Nya Malmö Latin are creating their political manifestos for the role-play, as well as working on their own positive vision for the energy and climate policies in Europe in the next 15 years that will be delivered to EU’s top politicians in Brussels in a month from now.

    We all learn new things every day. Not only the students, but the facilitators as well. Together we are doing the math and asking critical questions, trying to make peace with the fact that there are no definite answers, but only a definite direction we need to go, and an overwhelming sense of urgency to follow a sustainable path.

    On the project’s first day on Monday we had one of the lead authors of the IPCC’s latest assessment report, professor Markku Rummukainen, joining us at the school and delivering a brilliant and well-balanced presentation. Tuesday was filled with politics, inspiringly presented by Lorenz Tovatt, a spokesperson of the Swedish Young Greens, and Anna Bengtsson from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Positive visions for Swedish and European climate and energy policies were brainstormed in the afternoon of the second day. Wednesday marked the start of the two-days long role-play.

    It’s half-way through the project week of ‘Young Ideas for Europe’ at Nya Malmö Latin, but only a starting point for these young people’s engagement with climate politics. And we are there with them to support them on every step along this way towards a climate-safe, prosperous, and just world for all.

  • Handla Hållbart i Huddinge med Wake-Up Call

    Johline delivers her presentation to one of the school classes in Huddinge
    Johline delivers her presentation to one of the school classes in Huddinge

    Denna vecka är Wake-Up Call upptagen på Huddinges hållbarhetsvecka. Vår trainee Tova Melin började veckan och levererade sin inspirationspresentation till sex utav femton klasser från Huddinges grundskolor. Från och med mitten av veckan har jag, Johline Lindholm, tagit över stafettpinnen och fortsatt att få och ge frågor och inspiration.

    I år handlar Huddinges hållbarhetsvecka om konsumtion och de har valt att kalla temat ”Handla Hållbart”. Handla hållbart kan tolkas på två sätt: att konsumera på ett hållbart sätt och att agera hållbart. När jag skapade min presentation inför veckan så valde jag att fokusera på alternativ nummer två.

    Mina mornar i Huddinge har varit fyllda av musik och min morgonrutin blev att testa ljudnivå och högtalare med Save the World Tonight av Swedish House Mafia och låten blev min veckas temalåt. Varje gång som jag står inför en publik som den i Huddinge så lär jag mig nya saker och den bästa känslan infinner sig när deltagarna frågar och ifrågasätter det jag säger. När de gör det så visar det mig att de är alerta, koncentrerade och reflekterande och detta gör också att jag behöver vara detsamma och alltid tänka steget längre och jag lär mig alltid någonting.

    Jag ser fram emot att starta min fredag med att höja volymen och pumpa musiken medan jag förbereder mig för att få frågor och att bli ifrågasatt.

    Happy Johline accepts a certificates for the eight trees planted in Wake-Up Call's name
    Happy Johline accepts a certificates for the eight trees planted in Wake-Up Call’s name

    Uppdatering från fredag: Huddinge valde att skippa snittblommorna och chokladen när de tackade för vårt deltagade i temaveckan Handla Hållbart. Vi kunde inte ha blivit gladare för de 8 träd som de planerat runt Victoriasjön i östra Afrika i Wake-Up Calls namn, vilken fantastisk idé!

  • Sustainability Week in Huddinge with Wake-Up Call

    Johline delivers her presentation to one of the school classes in Huddinge
    Johline delivers her presentation to one of the school classes in Huddinge

    This whole week Wake-Up Call is busy at the event called Sustainability Week that takes place in an area of Stockholm called Huddinge. Our trainee Tova Melin started the week and delivered her inspirational talk to six out of fifteen school classes participating in the event. From the middle of the week I, Johline Lindholm, took the stage and since Wednesday I’m doing presentations and discussing with the students.

    This year Huddinge Sustainability Week is about sustainable consumption. In Swedish language “handla hållbart” can be interpreted in two ways: to consume sustainably and to act sustainably. And I chose to focus on the second one when preparing my presentation.

    Coming to Huddinge in the morning I have been welcomed by a projector and speakers and the first thing I did was to try the speakers by turning up the volume listening to Save the World Tonight with Swedish House Mafia and this has been my theme song this week. Every time I interact with an audience like this, I always learn new things and the best feeling for me is when they are asking questions and also when they are questioning what I say. This shows me that they are focused and that they are thinking and this always makes me think one more time myself and I always learn something.

    I am looking forward to starting my Friday by pumping up the volume on the speakers and preparing myself for questions and questioning.

    Happy Johline accepts a certificates for the eight trees planted in Wake-Up Call's name
    Happy Johline accepts a certificates for the eight trees planted in Wake-Up Call’s name

    Update from Friday: As a little “thank-you” the organisers of the Sustainability Week donated money to one of Wake-Up Call’s favourite projects, an agroforestry initiative Vi-Skogen. Now eight more trees will be planted around the lake Victoria in Eastern Africa in Wake-Up Call’s name, awesome!