Make It Happen

Population Awareness Ideas

• Coordinate a committee to do letter writing, publicity, or anything else (including below)
• Plan an event: Earth Day, local environmental event, etc.
• Arrange a billboard -- population growth and its relation to personal life
• Arrange subway/train advertisements
• Arrange a presentation or workshop with a group you know or a local school, etc.
• Arrange for a teachers workshop to fit population into ecology courses
• Adopt a college and be our liaison with its environmental groups
• Do a Population Connection/Boston newsletter or outreach vehicle
• Encourage college, cable, public or commercial radio or TV stations to carry Population Connection Public Service Announcements (PSAs) or programming.
• Write letters to newspapers or magazines
• Write letters to government officials, organize a post card campaign perhaps writing a generic (reusable) letter or postcard.
• Do an article for a local newspaper
• Contact environmental or socially concerned groups; have them sign the Priority Statement on Population and/or encourage them to make population a part of their activist message [see Top-10]
• Encourage local or college papers and magazines to carry Population Connection PSAs
• Place signs on condom machines: "Approved by Population Connection"
• Encourage your community schools to do more complete sex education
• Do Population Connection event press releases, follow up for free and good publicity
• Keep up with what other Population Connection (or other groups) chapters are doing; liaison
• Build and maintain a library of materials
• Create a professional looking booth display
• Arrange an (ongoing) population display at a museum
• Keep up the population connection message in environmental (electronic) bulletin boards
• Research -- find a real steady state economy which can serve as a model
• Find a wealthy individual or corporate benefactor
• Help build our ranks of activists
• Display a banner at the walk for ________ noting that ________ can't be saved without dealing with population
• Display a banner over the highway noting that if there were fewer people, you'd be home now
• Arrange a counter demonstration at Planned Parenthood clinic
• Write a children's story which makes kids think about population issues.
• [Suggest additions to this list]