• 7 Billion

    World of 7 Billion

    Competition Guidelines:

    Create a short video – up to 60 seconds – about human population growth that highlights one of the following global challenges:

    Preserving Biodiversity, Sustainable Resource Use, Protecting Human Rights.

    All videos must include:

              a) how population growth impacts the issue

              b) at least one idea for a sustainable solution.

    Consider narrowing your focus by concentrating on a subtheme within your topic. Possible subthemes include:

    • Promoting Environmental Justice – Food deserts, climate migrants, placement of hazardous waste sites, effects of the fossil fuel industry, redlining, mistreatment of indigenous peoples and land, environmental racism
    • Strengthening Global Health – Access to health care, pandemics and emergency response, disease spread (zoonotic and vector-borne), maternal health, sanitation, health effects of environmental pollution
    • Re-Imagining Industrial Systems – Procurement of raw materials, waste management, brownfields/CAFOs, energy production, production/distribution of consumer goods, occupational health and safety

    Link to full rules and guidelines

    Deadline for submissions: Please click on the link at the top of this page for the most recent deadline information.  Most deadline dates typiccaly occur towards the end of February or early March.