2 - Have an awareness event/activity e.g. a play or song on climate change issues - a piece of art, including junk art in a public place with a climate change message - an ideas and inventions show to demonstrate your solutions to climate change - local produce market - fair trade food and fashion show
- a low energy, candlelit supper for parents and members of the local community, with a guest speaker
- a fancy dress ball with a climate change theme - a walk/cycle for the whole school/group - a pledge your positive actions day, with a central display area to place your pledge card - an exercise bikeathon in a public place to raise awareness of cycling.

3 - Create awareness products e.g. posters, T shirts, bags, badges, etc, and even your own newspaper, with messages about the following: saving energy, switching off, closing doors and windows, walking, cycling, using the bus, car sharing, swapping, re-using, recycling, composting, stopping climate change, caring for the natural environment and wildlife, saving the rainforest, growing your own produce, buying local products, buying fair trade products, buying less, not being wasteful with food, repairing rather than replacing, buying products made from recycled materials. You could also run campaigns around these topics.

4 - Donate to charities and projects worldwide, e.g. provide clean drinking water, food, healthcare, wind turbines, solar power - buy genuinely threatened acres of rainforest and support other conservation projects, like adopting an animal - support educational projects on sustainable living, organic farming etc, in developing countries.

5 - Invest in equipment and resources to set up a sustainable business in your school or group,
to keep your budget topped up e.g. a sewing machine and hand printing equipment to make shopping bags - equipment to make recycled paper - stands to make a ‘Swap It’ shop - tools to make wooden boxes for growing your own vegetables.

We have been in touch with the charities appearing on the cover of the book, in order to ask them for a note to you, explaining their work regarding climate change. We thought this might be helpful if you decide to donate money to a charity. Of course, there are many other charities you could support.

Click on the penguins below to see the notes.

•   WWF-UK
•   Oxfam
•   Sustrans
•   Greenpeace
•   Friends of the Earth
•   The Wildlife Trusts

WWF-UK

At WWF, we think the world is amazing, which is precisely why we are so passionate about protecting it.

WWF was established over 25 years ago with the aim of saving some of the world's most endangered animals, such as giant pandas, tigers and rhinos from extinction.

WWF still continues to protect our planet's amazing wildlife, but we also work to find solutions to the many problems that threaten all life on earth from climate change to pollution and waste.

WWF is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation, working in over 90 countries around the world.

DID YOU KNOW?

switching off lights when you are not using them can help polar bears? It might sound strange but the energy you use to power lights and TVs usually comes from burning fuels such as coal and oil. This is causing your climate to heat up. The rise in temperature is causing the polar ice caps to melt and destroying the ice that polar bears hunt from. The less energy you use, the less your climate will heat up and the more ice there will be for polar bears.

...using recycled paper could help protect a gorilla's home? Again, this might sound odd but because paper is made from wood, huge numbers of trees are cut down every year to make it. The problem is that the wood used to make paper could have come from a forest that is home to animals like gorillas.

For more information about WWF visit www.wwf.org.uk/gowild/ and www.wwf.org.uk

Oxfam - Oxfam is already helping people to cope with severe climate events worldwide and plan for the future. In Indonesia, for example, we supplied emergency relief during floods in early 2007. We now work with communities there preparing for any flooding to come.

But Oxfam doesn't wait for emergencies. Poor communities around the world are already adapting to climate change and with our help, are improving their chances of beating poverty.

In South Africa, for example, farmers are planting faster-maturing crops, making the most of less-reliable rains. In Bangladesh, villagers are creating floating vegetable gardens, to protect their livelihoods against flooding. And in Viet Nam, communities are planting dense mangroves along the coast, to diffuse storm waves.

And we lobby for international action on climate change, too. We speak up on behalf of poor people to governments and powerful organisations. We encourage people to speak up for themselves and change their lives for the better.

Oxfam believes that everyone can make a difference and that includes you! There are some really simple things you can do to help, or you can get together with your friends and plan something big! Whatever you want to do it all helps to make the world a fairer and better place. For more ideas about how you can work with us to change the world, visit http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/

Sustrans - At Sustrans we think everyone should be able to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. We want people to be able to walk and cycle much more, and use public transport too.

We particularly want more children to be able to get to school under their own steam over 30% of children want to cycle to school, but UK-wide only 1% do. That's why Sustrans started Safe Routes to Schools and Bike It & two ways that we help ensure that children can have their independence, and parent's peace of mind.

We're also the charity behind the National Cycle Network, a third of which is entirely free from traffic & a great big playground waiting to be explored.

Join the Movement because:

when you walk and cycle your emissions only bother the person behind you.

If everyone gave up just one car journey a week and walked, cycled or used public transport instead, we'd take 10% of traffic of the roads?

If you cycle and walk everyday you are getting lots of healthy exercise as well as helping the environment.

For more information on Sustrans and where to get cycling and walking visit www.sustrans.org.uk

Greenpeace - is a group of people who really care about our world. 

We live in lots of different countries but all work together to protect our world so that it is nice for children like yourselves and for your children when you grow up. We spend our time looking at what people do and if we see that people are doing something that we believe is bad for people, wild animals and fish or plants and trees, we try to stop them from doing it.

We believe that if you tell people when you see something bad happening, that everyone will want to stop it. When we see something bad we do things that get people’s attention, like putting up a big banner to tell people or getting a story about it written in newspapers or talked about in the news on television.

As well as teaching people about climate change, we are asking people to make little changes to the way they live so that they don’t cause as much climate change and save the penguins (as well as lots of other animals, fish and plants). Your book ‘who will save us?’ has many good ideas for things you can do to help. There are also some things which are difficult for you to do, like talking to the Prime Minister about the problem, going to the south Pole to check on the penguins, or closing a factory because it makes too much of the gas which causes climate change. Greenpeace tries to do these things for you.

“Regretfully, Greenpeace cannot accept donations from any profit making organisation (e.g. a private school which is owned by a company and run for profit) as this is against their policy.

For more information about Greenpeace visit www.greenpeace.org.uk

www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/your-personal-guide-to-helping-save-the-climate

Friends of the Earth - Friends of the Earth believe that we need to protect the planet and give everyone on it a good life. We always like to think positively and try to suggest better ways to fix problems, rather than focusing on the bad things. To do this we involve lots of people and make it easy for them to make a difference. We have groups all over the country (and in other countries too) and we help them to make changes in the areas where they live.

We also try to make changes on a bigger scale. We helped to bring in a law that means recycling things like paper and glass at home is now easier for everyone. We also work to protect the countryside and to persuade big companies to behave better and be more environmentally-friendly.

In 2005 we started a campaign called The Big Ask to do something about climate change because we feel so strongly about it. We need to stop producing so many of the dangerous gases that cause the planet to warm up. Lots of people supported our campaign and together we asked the Government to do more to fight climate change. We've been really successful and soon there will be a UK climate change law that means we have to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we produce.

There's lots more work to do and lots of ways you can get involved, visit www.foe.co.uk to find out more.

The Wildlife Trusts - Wildlife Trusts across the UK are committed to encouraging people to live more sustainably. They do this through education and community work and by working with planners and policy makers. As well as persuading people to change their behaviour to minimise their impact on climate change, Wildlife Trusts are working to create a truly living landscape. This means one where habitats and species have the room and opportunity to adapt to climate change.

Donating to your local Wildlife Trust is probably the best way.

For more information about The Wildlife Trusts visit www.wildlifetrusts.org
Junior website www.wildlifewatch.org.uk