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

该项目将吸引节日观众参与科学和工程，以减少他们自己的碳足迹。它将在人们享受自己的环境中这样做，即在音乐节上。它将与节日组织者，活动经理和科学传播者合作，使用同伴教育，互动显示和手持设备来传达减少个人碳排放的措施的基本科学和工程。面对你的大象同伴教育设施是由年轻人设计的，作为C-Change项目的一部分。http://www.switchonswitchoff.org/在英国，一个人的典型排放量相当于两头大象。挑战是将这个值减少到一个小象-因此标题。它包括展示材料和实用的互动展览，让人们参与到他们可以采取的减少碳足迹的行动中。该设施将扩大，通过更新显示器，手持设备以及研究人员，博士生和科学和工程大使的参与来增加科学和工程的数量。一个在手持设备上运行的碳计算器将被用来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和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，以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;制作相关的文字、视频、图像，在手持设备上显示，并培训同伴教育者。这一方法将在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.