Let's Do It 2008

Let's do it 2008 (Estonian: Teeme ära 2008) is the largest campaign to activate civic society in Estonia since the Singing Revolution in 1988. The international campaign for cleaning all countries, that grow out of it, is called Let's Do It! World.

Over 50,000 people, or approximately 4% of the population of 1.3 million, participated in the cleanup of the forests and countryside, which would proportionality equal 15.3 million people in the United States, or 57 million people in India. Momentum for the event was built up with a media campaign from October 2007 to April 2008. The action was carried out during one day on 3 May 2008. More than 10,000 tons of garbage were removed from the country's forest in about 5 hours for less than 500,000 euros. Under normal circumstances it would have taken the government 3 years and 22.5 million euros to accomplish a similar feat.

Organizers

The initial team was:

The group met at 29 August 2007 as recorded in the first protocol.

Other people of the main team:

Spreading the model

This has led to the international action "Let's Do It! World"

External links

Country teams

News and videos

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