INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR SCHOOL PROJECTS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY "ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT" FOR THE 2009/2010 SCHOOL YEAR REGISTRATION FORM FOR COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS Country: Bulgaria The title of competition project: Let’s be like Don Quijote in the 21 Century

Nomination, which your project corresponds to (please, mark) For schoolchildren: 3 A Name and surname of the author(s): Branimira Vasileva, Ivana Shiderova, Elitsa Petrova Age of author(s) - for schoolchildren (up to 14,15,16) Name and surname of teacher/project leader, position and place of work: Mrs Miroslava Petarcheva, CAS cordinator, Mrs Susan Botcharova, English teacher Title of educational institution - for schoolchildren (school, club, college): American College Arcus – ECO club Contact information of the author(s): Address: Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo 5000, str. Dragoman 16 Telephone with country and city code:+359 (062) 619 966 Fax:+359 (062) 619 961 E-mail: [email protected] , arim1 35 @gmail.com Project abstracts:

Actuality - what local or regional problems caused necessity of your project? Bulgarian citizens are not well-informed about alternative methods of energy production, specifically – wind energy.

Main content - what was done, what energy saving measures, models of resources, description of lesson, etc. Since the primary goal of this project is informing and educating citizens.

The first stage includes gathering information about alternative energy production; preparing that information to be distributed; making arrangements for the Earth Day celebration, which include talking with the mayor and the media, choosing the logo and other related activities.

The second stage is the actual campaign, which will take place on Earth Day.

Achieved or expected result. The third stage of the project are our expected results, which will be: A better informed population which will be more interested in using and learning more about alternative ways of producing energy, especially, wind power.

List of appendixes. (Not more than 3, each on 1 page): 3 We agree that all of our project materials can be published on the SPARE web-site, in booklets or in other SPARE publications. Date 08.02.2010 Place Veliko Tarnovo Name, surname and signature of responsible person Mrs Miroslava Petarcheva Let’s be like Don Quijote in the 21 Century

Our project is connected with the idea of making popular the alternative methods of developing energy while using wind power, because wind power stations are the fastest developing branch in the world of power industry for the last decade. The increasing popularity of wind power is based on its low prices, its ecological priority and the decreasing price of the wind power stations. Unfortunately, Bulgaria is among the European countries with the lowest use of producing energy from the renewable energy sources. However, Bulgaria has the potential to produce 440 000 kWh of geothermal energy, 750 million kWh from hydrostatics and 30,65 kWh from biomass. Wind power has a variety of possibilities as an alternative source of energy, because the building of wind parks is now possible to be done with a turbines from 1,5 to 3 MW generating power each. This power can be reached with a rotor diameter of over 100m and the same height of the columns. In the Bulgarian coastal waters of the Black Sea as well as some other areas there is a high Wind Power potential.

Climate changes in the recent years in Bulgaria had been leading to increasing winds and decreasing rainfalls. This is connected with the bigger temperature disproportions (which actually provoke the movement of air masses) caused by Global warming and the deforestation in our country.

We want to make an ecological campaign for distributing the wind power on the 22nd of April, Earth Day. Bulgarians, due to many subjective and objective reasons have a much lower level of ecological culture compared to other citizens of the European Union countries and other developed countries in the world. Compared to countries with high ecological experience and culture, our country has been poorly introduced to these ideas and citizens are uninterested in the global ecological problems. For distributing information on alternative ways of producing energy, we have made a plan of action. Stages of conducting ECO campaign “Let be like Don Quijote in the 21 Century” I. Stage Preliminary preparation /duration – 1.5 months/ 1. Determination of the day, the place and the hour – the centre of the town in front of the garden of "St. St. Kiril and Metodi" faculty of art of university of Veliko Tarnovo, about 12.00 am, 22 April – Earth Day 2. Choice of logo of the campaign - “Lets be a Don Quijote in the 21 Century”. The logo comes from the idea - the image of the philosophy of eternal character Don Quixote – dreams change the human in Human. 3. Making of 299 little carousels from recycled paper – they are type like a child’s toy /see the scheme /, which we stick on bamboo twigs with polystyrene 4. Making of advertising board with inscription on white cloth “Let’s be a Don Quijote in the 21 Century” 5. Collection of information for the Wind Energy. Producing and printing the 3000 flyers with information about the impact of wind Energy nowadays and its ecological advantages. The texts of the flyers will be applied in the end of the project. 6. Sending a letter to the mayor of the Department of Ecology of Veliko Tarnovo for the environmental event. 7. Holding a press conference with media about the environmental campaign.

II. Stage

Real part /continuance – 2.30 hours/

1. The campaign starts at 11.00 am, when all of the little colorful pinwheels will be placed in the garden in front of the faculty. 2. The club members will be dressed in blue T-shirts. 3. The advertising board with inscription will hang up in the garden. 4. At 12.00 start to distribute flyers which are in Bulgarian and English with information notes on the role of energy saving to the citizens. Each passing child will be given a paper pinwheel, which will be removed from garden. 5. Giving interviews to the media because the use of mass media (they are the most accessible and popular sources of information and influence) and advertising are important for the Bulgarian citizens’s ecological culture.

III Stage /long-term effect/

Expected effect

1. The citizens and guests of the city of Veliko Tarnovo will be provoked by the idea of the non-standard environmental campaign and will receive information about facts which they don’t know. 2. People will think about alternative ways of obtaining energy. 3. Flyers will expand people’s environmental education. 4. People will know what the practical benefits of using wind energy are. 5. Expected results are mostly related to the fact that people will think about the level and development of their environmental culture. 6. The messages, questions and answers, and the vision of this eco campaign will have the function of a catalyst for public opinion, which will raise the issue to a national level and seek to promote environmentally correct behavior.

The flyers’ text  Wind power is preferable because there’s plenty of it, it’s cheap, it’s an inexhaustible source of energy, it doesn’t lead to water pollution or weather anomalies. Over the past twenty years, the prices of wind power have fallen by 85%. Wind energy is more preferable because is cheaper compared to other technologies that generate energy.

 Wind technologies use the energy of air masses, which are a result of the movements of the earth and the movements that have been caused by the Sun’s heat.

 The wind generator is independent and it’s energy can be used to charge batteries, light parks, parking lots, buildings, to heat the water in a water-heater, to supply office installations and air-conditioning with energy.

 Wind power is considered to be a technology from a green class because it has a minimum influence on the envoirment. Wind energy doesn’t pollute the air at all.

 Small European countries started building wind turbines in shallow ocean waters to generate electricity.

 Wind mills were used about 200 years B.C. to grind grain and to pump out water.

 Small wind turbines are maybe the cheapest energy supplier for a household, that’s not connected to the net.

 In the US a small wind energy system costs about $3,000-5,000 for each kilowatt of its capacity or about $40,000 for a normal 10kW system.

 An ordinary household uses about 9400 kilowatt-hours energy a year. A 10kW wind turbine, that’s installed on a place where there’s 12 miles/per hour average wind speed, generates about 10 000 kilowatt-hours a year.

 A wind tubine that is well located can decrease your electricity bills by approximately 80%.

 A poultry farm in Masstown, Canada, produces 75% of its electricity through 3 turbines, that supplies the households of both owners with energy.

 Are wind turbines safe for people, animals and structures? Yes, they are. It is more likely for a tree to fall on your house than to be hurt in some way by a turbine.

 Germany is the country that generates most amount of wind energy.

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