Chloe Meineck - A Carbon Education

Chloe's education kit she created for teaching local school children about embedded carbon is obviously a transferable idea that kids and grown-ups alike can learn from. Her replica groceries are weighted according to much carbon is embedded in the manufacture, growing and/or transportation. So a banana is surprisingly light due to being grown in the right conditions and transported slowly in large quantities, where as the air freighted asparagus is amazingly heavy!

Chloe’s blow-up, inflatable figures represent how much citizens of different nationalities create on average in terms of carbon emissions. By cleverly using inflatables, children have to literally use carbon-dioxide to blow-up the figures.

The visual and physical comparisons between the figures representing western countries and those of other developing countries tells an immediate visual and physical story as a means to deal with an abstract, scientific concept.

Chloe is working with local schools, undertaking playful workshop events to help educate pupils about a complex but critical issue in innovative but simple ways.

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