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On 20 April YEE team took part in the Earth Day celebrations on Toulcuv Dvur. We thought that the Right to Be(e) campaign fits perfectly with this big celebrations. So we organised an informational stand with interesting games, facts and cartoons about bees. We also painted small bees on our faces and everyone who wanted to have one too.

The highlight of our day was sowing the seeds of Lacy phacelia (or Svazenka vraticolista in Czech). These flowers are favourites among local bees who like to pollinate them and produce tasty honey. The planting was very easy and a lot of fun: we just took handfuls of seeds and scattered them around the small field on the farm. Then we only had to work a bit with a rake and hope that the seeds will stay in the soil and grow to be nice purple flowers.

Earth Day celebrations on Toulcuv Dvur were also very interesting and educating at the same time. The main theme was animals and so the visitors could learn a lot about different animals, make their own toys and walk around the farm.

We hope that you will celebrate Earth Day by doing something nice for nature around you and join the Right to Be(e) campaign.

More photos in our gallery

Training Course: Green For Future

When: 12 - 18 September 2013
Where: Sardinia, Italy
Organiser: Mine Vaganti, Italy
Application deadline: 1st May 2013 – Youth in Action
Partners: Programme and neighbouring partner countries of YiA Programme
Contact person: Maria Grazia Pirina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If your organisation wants to become a partner, please fill in the attached partner identification form and send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. till 25th of April 2013!

This project is focused on the issues of: ecology, recycling activities, green skills, green jobs as a new solution for employment, youth participation and active citizenship.

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On 17 April YEE hosted its first upcycling workshop in Prague with Czech member organisation Hnutí Brontosaurus. The workshop was an informal, open event designed to inspire participants to get creative with waste. People were invited to bring old t-shirts, jeans and fabric to make book covers, bicycle bags and shopping bags. YEE also provided extra materials such as tetra packs to make novelty wallets.

The workshop was successful in transforming old things into new. Several colourful bags and wallets were made. We hope they will be useful! The workshop was also designed to promote environmental consciousness about consumer waste. Upcycling is a fun, cheap and sociable type of activism. It can save you money and prevents excess waste from filling up landfills or being incinerated. This is especially true for materials that are currently 'unrecyclable' in your country. If your local authorities cannot or will not recycle your waste, consider upcycling. Follow YEE's International Upycling Campaign to learn more.

Special thanks to Hnutí Brontosaurus for providing the room and such delicious cake!

See the photogallery here.

YEE is gathering simple vegetarian recipes for cooking in small teams – in small offices of 5 people.

The recipes will be published on the YEE blog which aim to inspire small teams working together in an office to cook for one another and so to save energy and money, eat healthier and get to know each other better.

We don't search only for recipes, please feel free to share with us if you do something similar in your organization, share with us stories from cooking for your team-mates. Pictures would be very much welcome as well. All this input would be valuable and hopefully also inspiring for others.

You can check the blog with some recipes which we would like to constantly update:

https://officecuisine.wordpress.com/

Looking forward to your contribution and we are even more looking forward to try your recipes (we are getting out of ideas sometimes).

Write to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Your YEE office

Soon big changes will happen in YEE office.

Maria Dokupilova will be changed at the position of Secretary General by Mercedes Fioravanti from Spain.

Gosia Zubowicz-Thull will be changed at the position of Main Coordinator by Natalia Luchko from Russia (currently EVS volunteer).

Soon you will be able to get to know better new YEE office members.

For now we would like to welcome them and wish good luck and a lot of great moments with YEE!