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Project Title	Project Details
Take Your Waste Home	A farmer from Chainart province joined forces with a civil servant from Narathiwas province to work with two local schools to educate students about the life cycle of products and where they end up after we throw them away. This is to raise awareness about the problem of waste in the community and to encourage waste segregation and the RES 3 policy. This activity was supported by the municipality office and schools management.
RE-Y	This girls’ team from Thammasat University ran a campaign with fellow students to recycle waste. Participating students received points when they brought recyclable waste to the University’s Environment club. The points could be redeemed for attractive prizes, such as, an external hard drive, thumb drive, van tickets to town, etc. Over one hundred students participated in the project, and all waste collected was sold to be recycled.
Supermarket Forest	Students and lecturers from Eastern Asia University got their hands dirty by working with Nonpeung community in Amnartcharoen province to expand green areas. They planted 300 edible plants (mango, guava, coconut, rose apple, pomegranate, lime, etc.) over a three-rai area within a temple. The plants were taken care of by students in the community and the municipality office.
Veggie Veggie	Four working women went to Suanplu market every day, not to shop, but to engage with stall vendors to segregate organic waste and to use it to produce bio water from effective microorganisms that are environmentally friendly and multipurpose. This helps reduce the amount of organic waste in the market and the vendors can benefit fully from the bio water they produce (it can be used as cleaning fluid, fertiliser, etc.)
Not a Virgin	“I’m not a virgin but as good as one!” is the slogan the Little Ant team uses to campaign to the public to encourage them to reuse their plastic bags when they go grocery shopping in order to reduce the number of new plastic bags being used. They are trialling the campaign at a market in Bangna area and are contacting local supermarkets to expand the project further.
Change and Share	The Change and Share project came about from the belief that we can tackle over-consumption and thus climate change by sharing. Four students from two universities organised a series of fun activities as a forum for students at Kasetsart University to exchange books with each other. They are planning more activities to encourage students from other universities to exchange not only books but other unused items as well.
Seven Saves Earth	A foursome from the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University has been convincing five Seven Eleven shops in the Rangsit campus to turn off air conditioners from 1 to 5 a.m. in the hope of reducing energy consumption and setting an example for other convenience stores. Their request was answered by the area manager who agreed to look into it while also inviting them to discuss other ideas about working together to make the five Seven Eleven shops more environmentally friendly.
Theatre In Education Project	The This Is Environment project aims to educate elementary students about climate change through the theatre. The series of activities is fun and encourages students to think, ask questions, use their imagination and learn about the environment around us. The activities were successfully run at Wat Treetosatep and Wat Mahatat schools and there have been requests from other schools for theatre-lovers to visit their schools too.
Cool Bus Cool Smile	The wheels on the bus go round and round and it’s not just any ordinary bus. The Cool Bus Cool Smile team organised a bus painting competition among school and university students to raise awareness of climate change and to encourage people to take public transportation. The three winning designs are painted on actual number 29 buses which are in service around Bangkok for 3 months.
Wake Up!	Have you ever imagined what it would be like if there was only one tree left in the world? Wake Up! is a 15-minute animation telling a story about the relationship between a boy and a tree to raise awareness about climate change and to encourage the audiences to help save the environment while we still can. The trailer of the animation is available on youtube. The full version will be coming out in June.
Bento Saves the World	lunch box is back in fashion at Kasetsart University Sriracha campus after a group of students joined forces with the University to promote the use of lunch boxes instead of plastic bags when buying food from the canteen. The participant will be awarded one point from every purchase. Five points will be equivalent to one credit from the University.
How Coo!	A group of designers got together on an ad-hoc basis to work on the How Coo! Project to invite people to calculate their carbon footprint on the How Coo! website and suggested tips on how to be more environmentally friendly in their everyday life. They also gave out cool items such as Coo! Money for people to put in their wallet and make them think before they buy.

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