FACE YOUR ELEPHANT; ENGAGING FESTIVAL GOERS IN THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF REDUCING THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT

该项目将让参加电影节的人参与科学和工程，了解如何减少自己的碳足迹。它将在人们享受的环境中做到这一点，也就是在音乐节上。它将与节日组织者、活动经理和科学传播者合作，利用同伴教育、互动展示和手持设备，传播减少个人碳排放的基本科学和工程措施。“面对你的大象”同伴教育设施是由年轻人设计的，作为C-Change项目http://www.switchonswitchoff.org/的一部分。在英国，一个人的典型排放量相当于两头大象。挑战在于如何将这一价值降至一头小象——因此得名。它包括展示材料和实用的互动展览，让人们参与到减少碳足迹的行动中来。该设施将通过更新的显示器，手持设备以及研究人员，博士生和科学与工程大使的参与来扩大科学和工程的数量。在手持设备上运行的碳计算器将用于帮助人们测量他们的个人碳足迹。展览的关键部分是节日观众与同伴教育者之间关于家庭能源和未来低碳经济的对话。手持设备将提供音频、文本、图像和视频来帮助解释科学和工程。他们还将被用来收集问卷和碳足迹数据，从而收集有关他们的知识、态度和行为的信息。这项建议将更新材料；开发相关的文本，视频，图像显示在手持设备和培训同行教育者。这种方法将在2009年试行，然后在2010年的主流音乐节上使用。

The project will engage festival goers in the science and engineering of how they can reduce their own carbon footprint. It will do this in an environment where people are enjoying themselves, that is, at music festivals. It will work with festival organisers, event managers and science communicators using peer education, interactive displays and hand held devices to communicate the underlying science and engineering of measures to reduce personal carbon emissions. The Face Your Elephant peer education facility was devised by young people as part of the C-Change project http://www.switchonswitchoff.org/. The typical emissions of someone in the UK is equivalent to two elephants. The challenge is to reduce this value to one baby elephant - hence the title. It consists of display material and practical interactive exhibitions that engage people in actions that they can take to reduce their carbon footprint. This facility will be expanded to increase the amount of science and engineering via updated displays, hand held devices and the involvement of researchers, PhD students and Science and Engineering Ambassadors. A carbon calculator, running on hand held devices will be used to help people measure their personal carbon footprint. The key part of the exhibition is a dialogue between festival goers and the Peer Educators about energy in the home and a future low carbon economy. The hand held devices will provide audio, text, images and video to help explain the science and engineering. They will also be used to collect questionnaire and carbon footprint data, so gathering information on their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. This proposal would update the material; develop related text, video, images for display on the hand held devices and train the peer educators. The approach will be piloted in 2009 and then used at mainstream music festivals in 2010.