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Our website is finally finished, you can find us now at http://sep.aieseciasi.ro

You can also apply there for our project. This weekend we will finish moving this blog to the website, which we will update with a lot of awesome info.

Things are going great for our project, so we encourage you to visit our website and most of all, apply for our project !

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IaSi Planteaza Photos

We went to the IaSi Planteaza initiative and we had a very fun time. It was indeed a lot of hard work, we were all exhausted at the end, but the feeling of doing something good was worth the effort :

Here are some pictures from Saturday:




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IaSi Planteaza

A very fun initiative is going to take place this Saturday, IaSi Planteaza. What is it all about? You go with the rest of the volunteers to an area affected by landslides and plant trees there.

We find this opportunity, to go and plant a tree, an excellent chance to show your support for our environment because to make a change you have to start with small things. And planting a tree is a small gesture towards that direction, making a change, and besides all this, it won't be very time consuming (around a few hours).

Therefore, we recommend you all to go sign up and make a small gesture towards helping our environment, you'll be very pleased with yourselves after you've done this, trust me ;). Have you ever planted a tree? We haven't, and we are very excited to do it :)

For more information, click here
Cya Saturday in front of the CCS at 8.30 am.
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More Rustle the Leaf

Hey there, it's been a while since we've last posted, but things are going great for our project and we had a lot of work to do the past 2 weeks :). We will update you on some exciting news, but not right now ;).

Until then, enjoy a few more funny Rustle the Leaf comics:

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Eart Hour 2010: Coming soon!

Just one month left until Earth Hour 2010, which will be held on the 27th of March between 8.30 and 9.30 pm. But you may ask "What is Earth Hour? I've never heard of it".

Well, Earth Hour is a global event organized by World Wildlife Fund and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. It is held on the last Saturday of March.

The first edition took place in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The event was adopted by many cities in 2008 and in 2009 hundreds of millions of people showed their support by turning off their lights.

Show your support for our planet by turning off the lights for one hour. We will take part in this event, will you ?

Visit the official website for more information.

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Funny environmental pics

These past few days, looking everyday for environmental news, environmental tips and basically everything eco related, it was impossible not to find some funny environmental pics that just made us laugh out loud :). You can already find some of them on our facebook account, but we're gonna share them here too, so enjoy :




And our absolute favorite:




More to come :)

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The "Rustle the Leaf" Comics

Ok, it's time for a more lighthearted post, since the last few ones were a bit formal/serious :). Anyway, we've recently stumbled upon a very entertaining site while looking for environmental related comics. It's called rustletheleaf.com, and wouldn't you know, it has a whole archive full of entertaining eco comics and they're quite funny, yaaay :D

I haven't finished going through the whole archive, but I'll share one of my favorites:

I especially enjoy Rooty, the sarcastic and often quite cynical acorn sprout (that's what he actually is, according to the site, he looks just like a walnut to me) which reminds me a bit of Garfield regarding his sarcasm.

Well, seems we have what to do when we get bored and we'll post more funny comics about Rustle the Leaf and his friends :)

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"Respect for the future" by Petrom

Around 2 years ago, Petrom launched a CSR project entitled "Respect for the future". Their first advertisement had a very powerful message, and now, in the context of our project, it is the perfect example of why we should start being sustainable, so obviously we're gonna share it :). Enjoy :




Do you care about your child's future?

For more information about Petrom's CSR projects, click here

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About SEP's organizers: part 2

In our last post we talked about one of SEP's organizers, AIESEC. Now we're gonna tell a bit about SEP's other national organizer, which is The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).












Royal Bank of Scotland PLC was founded in Edinburgh in the year 1727 and ever since it has grown significantly. Together with other well known names of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, such as NatWest, Ulster Bank, Coutts or Citizens, provides financial services. At the end of the year 2007, RBS successfully lead the bid to acquire ABN AMRO, and in Romania the bank became RBS in October 2008.

The partnership with AIESEC Romania resulted in the foundation of the Sustainability Education Program, a cooperation based on the many years experience of working together with positive results for both organizations and the specific needs of the local environment.

The Sustainability Education Program was launched in March 2007 and contributed to the education on sustainable development of young people in Romania, through theoretical dimensions and also through implementation of practical activities. The pilot program was implemented in eight Romanian cities: Bucharest, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Galaţi, Iaşi, Oradea and Sibiu. You can find the results of the 2007-2008 edition here.

Thank you RBS for your continuous support and may this year's edition surpass everyone's expectations :)

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About SEP's organizers: part 1

After we've explained what our project is all about, now we would like to tell you a bit more about the organizers of SEP. As you already may have noticed in an earlier post or in our description, SEP is developed by AIESEC Romania and RBS.

So, in this post we will provide you with more info about AIESEC:









AIESEC Romania is one of the network’s 107 countries that are part of the largest youth-run organization in the world. With a history of over 60 years of activating youth leadership at global level, AIESEC offers students and recent graduates international experiences and leadership opportunities that contribute to their development.

In Romania, AIESEC has been actively involved in the education and career orientation of young people for almost 20 years. AIESEC is now present in 13 cities around the country: Bucuresti, Brasov, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Galati, Iasi, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Oradea, Sibiu, Timisoara, Targu Mures. The local chapters count together 1270 members and run annually over 100 projects with an impact of over 50.000 students, 267 companies and countless other stakeholders.

AIESEC Iasi was founded in 1993 and it currently has 193 members, organizing approximately 15 projects every year, like IASHINGTON - the biggest international conference in Iasi, StartMe - the biggest non-formal education program in Iasi developed for high-school students, BRIO - a leadership conference that provides communication and entrepreneurship sessions.

For more information about AIESEC please go to the following links: AIESEC Romania , AIESEC Iasi

In "About SEP's organisers: part 2", we will be telling you more about RBS, so stay tuned :)

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What is Sustainability ?

Ok, so we've mentioned earlier what is SEP, but we didn't mention what sustainability means. Some might know or guess what it means, others never heard of this word before. So in order to enlighten everyone, we invite you to see this :

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Earth 2100

We stumbled upon a very interesting video the other day, a story about what might happen to our planet in the near future, as it would be experienced by a person born in our days.

We were very impressed by this video, so we want to share it with the rest of you:

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What is SEP ?

SEP (Sustainability Education Program) is a national project developed by AIESEC Romania and RBS, with the purpose to raise awareness and teach Romanian students how to live a sustainable life in connection with Earth.

The project aims to put together Romanian students and interns with worldwide experience in a learning environment which will provide them the best opportunities to find out things about sustainability, development, responsibility and social impact.

We believe in this education program because on medium and long term the students will represent good change agents in the society, regarding sustainable development on one hand and organizational representatives on the other hand.

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