Julian de Blücher

Julian v. Blücher (25), Germany

Background: Works for a consultancy implementing CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) and Climate Neutral Strategies

Project: Julian has a fascination for Solar Energy and has already had success installing solar panels on his university.

In his campaign, Julian realized a federal CO2 campaign: with a Solarlounge he visited 13 german Universities and activated students to install solar power plants on their campus by:

  1. Offering free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and a nap in a Solar lounge (mobile bar, fed by solar energy)
  2. Giving a lecture on Climate Change supported by pictures from the Arctic
  3. Explaining benefits of solar energy and describing possibilities to finance other events out of that, as he did with: www.unisolar-karlsruhe.de 
  4. Spreading a how-to guide for installing solar power plants
  5. Arranging workshops and brainstorming sessions for local implementation


Target:
Help implement solar panel projects at 3 universities:
http://www.study-guide-bw.com/events/1671/

Campaign Results:

  1. Six out of 13 Universities now have initiated their own solar power plants
  2. a second branch of the Unisolar concept with 10kWp at his Univesity was build:
  3. in total 150.000 € have been fundraised as loans
  4. reduction of 750 tons of CO2 in 25 years
  5. monitoring and visualizing on a digital panel the amount of CO2 cut down at all Universities: thousands of students are sensitized every day

Next Steps:

  1. Expand the success story by an Unisolar Network; the 2nd federal meeting will take place at the end of January 2008:
    1. crosslinking existing and start-up solar initiatives via an internet platform
    2. linking the Unisolar structures by dint of a german coordination centre financed by the “Youth Committee for Renewable Energy at the Federal Ministry for the Environment in Germany”
    3. Unisolar has its own Corporate Identity and is “self-made climate protection”: it is modular, can be realised in a short period and gives immediate feelings of success; a second branch is e.g.: www.unisolar-leipzig.de
    4. once founded, Unisolar structures are easily scalable and perspectively offer an ideal pillar for further climate protection activities (investments in heat insulation, CHP generation or the like)
  2. on the long run building a Climate Neutral Network of Universities.

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