Eco After Me

Hello!

Few days ago, I came home and mummy passed me a box with an "Eco After Me' tag right on top the lid! I love the texture of the box and how cute it is!

The box was specially delivered to my doorstep and here what's inside the box! 

So What is Eco After Me? 

Well, Eco After Me is an environmental communications campaign co-founded by Lim Li Yi, Lyrenna Loh, Melissa Lim and Ong Ting En who are graduates from Singapore Polytechnic, known also as "The Thinking Cube"! (P.S: The same polytechnic as me haha!) 

In conjunction with Youth for the Environment Day 2014, Eco After Me is supported by the National Environment Agency, through the Call for Ideas Fund, and City Development Limited. 

Eco After Me aims to ...

✔ Increase offline interaction 

✔  Increase adoptions of environmental habits amongst the youths 

✔ Encourage youth to change their bad habits by using the element of pranks 

Senders will get to prank their close friends by exposing the recipient’s bad habits via personalised postcards. The front of the postcard will have a clue on who the sender is, In order to reveal the sender’s identity, the recipient will have to prank another friend. 

What is the meaning behind Eco After Me? 

‘Eco After Me’ is chosen because it sounds similar to the Echo After Me cheer that students usually do it in camps, and are therefore familiar with. The camp cheers works in the way such that the campers will mimic the action of their leader and repeat after him. Eco After Me plays on this concept to encourage youth to join their peers in pro-environment efforts.

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It is really easy!

Just go on to http://ecoafterme.com/ to start having fun!

The first thing you'll see when you click that link above.....

Is a really cute page... hahaha! You can actually kind of switch on and off the light on the page. 

After which you had enough fun switching on and off the light, and you accepted their terms & condition, you can proceed to press START...ϡ

First you choose how you want the front of your postcard looks like.

You can either upload a customise picture or choose default.

In my case, I chose default and typed in a sentence of mystery to get my victim thinking and guessing.

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Press "Next" to proceed...

Yup, you choose a category in which your friend's bad habit falls on!

In this case, I chose water and enter my friend's name just below the phrase "Water-wasting".

The challenge I chose is reducing shower time by 10min!

Well, you can also create your own challenge by choosing the "other" option from the dropbox

Now you have the final say! You can type in whatever you want to say or anything that makes the challenge special, exciting or even encouraging!

Next, upload a photo of probably yourself because this is when you are exposed!

Your friend will actually get to reveal who is the prankster on the same website you created your Eco After Me postcard prank. ;) After that remember to choose a caption for your photo! I chose #BeEcoWithMe!

So here's the photo I uploaded for the revelation! Some cheeky face. LOL

Finally, this is the time when you get to see how your postcard will look like.

Once you are satisfied with your post card, you are ready to post it (or rather email) over to your friend!

I am ready!!!! Are you???

You can share Eco After Me on your social media platform to encourage people to join in the fun and you just might be the next to received one! :P

It's really easy, and I felt that the website is quite entertaining in terms of its graphic and all. It's easy to navigate and instructions are written clearly on the website itself. It has steps by steps guide to help you as well! A little effort goes a long way to help everyone to be Eco-Friendly!

Here's a summary of how to create your postcard prank.

Aside from creating postcard pranks and encouraging each other to be Eco-Friendly, there are also contests & prizes in which you can be part of too!

[FACEBOOK CONTEST]: Eco Challenge 

How to participate? 

✐Take a snap shot of you and your friend attempting the Eco Challenge together, as well as the postcard prank you have received. 

✐Email the photo together with both of your personal particulars to hello@ecoafterme.com 

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Once the photo has been uploaded onto their Facebook page, get your friends to ‘like’ it and the photo with the highest number of likes will walk away with the Grand Prize of $200 City Square Mall Shopping Vouchers + 2D1N Stay at Wanderlust Hotel. 

4 consolation prizes ($50 City Square Mall Shopping Vouchers) will also be given out to remaining participants who fall under the Top 5. 

[FACEBOOK CONTEST]: Story Sharing contest 

How to participate? 

✎ A postcard photo will be posted onto their Facebook page. To participate,  participants have to share about why they decided to send a postcard challenge to his/her (food/water/plastic/paper/ electricity)-wasting friend. 

✎ The 3 best comments chosen by the management team will be featured as stories on our page, and they will win prizes worth up to $30.

[WEBSITE CONTEST]: Send a Postcard 

How to participate? 

✏ Send a postcard prank through Eco After Me website (www.ecoafterme.com) and stand a chance to win a $100 worth of City Square Mall vouchers + 2D1N stay at Wink Hostel. 

✏ Receivers who post up their challenge on Facebook will also stand a chance to win $100 worth of City Square Mall vouchers. 

(Prizes for the programme were sponsored by Wink Hostel, Wanderlust, Toby’s Estate, LINS Smoodees, Xscape, Gong Cha and The Paper Stone.)

So are you game enough to take up the challenges? ;)

Thank you note:

Thank you Lyrenna for contacting me and thank you to the one that delivered the box all the way to my doorstep! Thank you The Paper Stone for the sponsored items as well. :)