The winners ' Express your opinion ' on Youtube

Recently, we. declared. the launch of the international competition ' Express your opinion ', timed to coincide with the 15th Conference of the Parties ( COP15 ) of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Today, on the opening day of the COP15 negotiations (Cop15) in Copenhagen, we are pleased to announce the prize winners of the competition!.

The winner was the movie 's 'estrelitaadelmar', won a part in one of the expeditions of WWF in the next year.




We congratulate the winners of the contest, which became movies. tour. (author DVbelich),. Raise your voice. ! (georgestar1997),. Global Climate Change. (aelinn19) and. Thunder of Climate Change. (SukinBARIN).

Contest Partners are also not left behind and presented their work on climate change in Russia. look at. the channel project. interesting work of the Department TECH g. Moscow and the agency IQ Marketing, Greenpeace Russia and agency Saatchi.




We are pleased that the issue of climate change does not leave our users indifferent.

Short link for the dissemination of project playlist -. bit. ly/cop15russia.

News from Helpteam for events

The project. helpteam. org. ua. (which has already been published ), there are some good news.

First list of partner conferences since the launch of the site has increased significantly. to. Raise IT. (. raiseit. com. ua. ). iForum. (. iforum. com. ua. ). IDCEE. (. idcee. eu. ). Entrepreholic!. (. entrepreholic. com. ua. ) Joined the Ukrainian team movement TED -. TEDxKyiv. (. tedxkyiv. com. ), The master of the garage project - Estonians. Garage48. (. garage48. org. ), And yesterday, two more large-scale conferences -. SEM Camp. (. semcamp. ua. ) and. SMM. ua. (. smm. ua. ).

The second news is just to treat the last two events. They both take place in September (. 16. 09. and. 30. 09. respectively). so. Helpteam for events. have already begun to assemble a team. Just admit, a little place, but we will try to take those who need it. If you think you are such a good time to fill out a form. helpteam. org. ua. Rapid application raises the chances of success!.

As always, personal correspondence to the box. helpteam @ growthup. com.

Homeless Brazilian built a car

A passionate desire to possess their own cars for the Homeless conducted by the Brazilian years of begging and hunger. But efforts were rewarded, and now he has a car of his own design.

Brazilian named Orismar de Souza has always been homeless. All his 35 years he spent on the street, but, as expected, had a big dream. De Souza wanted a car. Buy a car from a homeless and unemployed had no chance, so he decided to act methods available.



For four years he spent on it to construct and assemble a car from scrap vehicles - from the fact that I found at the dump. As a basis, he took a motorcycle engine with 125 cubic. cm, but decided to improve the system start by getting rid of foot and adapt traditional starter for electric cars. Most of the parts that were available to de Susa, were of old wrecked cars Fiat, although his car found a considerable number of components automakers.

The most difficult part was making the body. Since the Brazilian had no experience, no equipment. The only means at hand were a hammer and chisel: with their help, he independently produced all the body panels, drove them as far as possible, picked up the glass.

The most difficult part, according to Avtostroiteley, there was a period associated with the production of this body, because he needed some money (for example, welding ). To get the desired, it is estimated that an amount equal to about 270 U.S. dollars, almost four months, the Brazilian did not eat. All the time he spent on the streets of the town of Sao Jose de Piranhas in the north- eastern Brazil, begging and doing a fine job for a pittance.

As the designer himself South American edition of Globo, all the ... But now many openly envy: in-car de Sousa has even audio system, and in addition, there is a reverse gear in the gearbox.
Moreover, it appeared only in the Brazilian automobile, life began to build - he even found a job at one of the sugar cane plantations, and now he has to go to work than. He's already making plans for the future, a central place in the garage which occupies. If necessary, it is possible to live....












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