A NATIONAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Climate change is a growing concern, as carbon emissions are drastically changing our planet, including rising temperatures and sea levels. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have increased by more than 45% since the Industrial Revolution and are now the highest they have been for at least 800,000 years (Climate Council, 2021).
Currently, food production contributes 26% of global carbon emissions (Kateman, 2020).
So what can we do about it? I don’t believe the challenge is changing people’s perception on climate change, more-so giving Australian’s more ways to enact change. That’s why the Planet Positive Diet would be a great initiative for the Climate Council. By helping people choose foods that minimise their carbon footprint, a Planet Positive Diet has the potential to improve the health of our planet as well as the people who follow it.
BACKGROUND
A study conducted in 2020 predicts, that even if we stopped the use of all fossil fuels, the emissions generated from our global food systems would push the global temperatures past the 1.5°C goal in a few decades (University of California, 2020).
Because what we eat makes up for around a quarter of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions, it's an area that has a lot of potential for improvement.
Thankfully climatarian diets are gaining in popularity. According to experts like Dr. Daniel Boyer “A climatarian diet can promote health and also preserve the environment” (Chaney, 2021).
By avoiding highly processed foods, souring locally grown and
seasonal produce and choosing more plant-based foods over animal-based food products, it's not only the planet that will see the benefit.
A planet positive diet aligns with known healthy eating practices like the medeteranian diet. However, consuming a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and plant-based proteins will also significantly reduce global greenhouse carbon emissions.
A lot of us plan our meals to support our health goals, but how many of us know how to plan a planet positive menu? This campaign will fill that gap.
BENCHMARKING
THINK.EAT.SAVE
UNEP, FAO AND PARTNERS
In 2013, the Think.Eat.Save Reduce Your Foodprint campaign was launched by the Save Food Initiative, in partnership with the U.N. Environmental Programme (UNEP), FAO, and other partners, in an effort to accelerate action and provide a global vision and information sharing portal. Changing the pattern of waste and reducing its negative effect, hoping to inspire more people to act (Gunders, 2013).
The campaign ran across the following touchpoints
• Feature in UNEP Our Planet magazine May 2013
• Dedicated website, Facebook page and Twitter account
• Posters, infographics, flyers
• Media releases across multiple partner sitesUNEP, FAO, NRDC, The Borgen Project, EU Fusions, Peppermint magazine
• Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen featured on NBC cooking show (O’Connor, 2014, p10)
• Key theme of World Environment Day, June 5th 2013 #ThinkEatSave - video featuring Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle
Strengths:
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YOUR PLASTIC DIET
WWF AUSTRALIA
In 2019, WWF Australia launched a fully integrated campaign to highlight the outcomes of a study by the University of Newcastle that, on average, people could be ingesting up to 5 grams of micro plastic each week, which is the equivalent weight of a credit card. The campaign message ‘Your plastic diet’ led the concept and featured recongnisable household objects made of plastic to make the message more relatable and impactful (Shaw, 2019).
The worldwide campaign featured across the following touchpoints:
• Dedicated website that allows people to take a test that approximates their likely personal weekly plastic consumption
• Hero film - digital and television
• Outdoor signage
• Direct mail out to influencers, journalists, business leaders and government officials
Strengths:
• Quantifiable research
• Relatable and memorable through use of everyday objects
SAVE THE ARCTIC
GREENPEACE
Since 2012, Greenpeace (2022) has been running a targeted campaign Save The Arctic’ to encourage people to help stop the oil industry from drilling in the Arctic Ocean. In 2013 the movement was supported by celebrity photographer Andy Gotts and UK fashion designer Vivienne Westwood who spent 18 months to photograph almost 60 celebrities wearing Save the Arctic T-shirt’s. These were strategically place on either side of the escalators feeding the Waterloo underground that’s close to the Shell Centre, the oil producer involved in oil exploration of the Arctic (Vivienne Westwood, n.d.). The images were recommissioned again in 2020 and creatively matched with a set of endangered Arctic animals formed out of the same T-shirts with punchy call to action messages, asking viewers to sign the petition
Strengths:
• High profile celebrities
• Eye catching imagery
• High traffic area
Weaknesses:
• They could have added a QR code to take users to the Greenpeace website, adding an interactive element to the posters.
LESS MEAT, LESS HEAT
WILDAID
In 2016, Chinese based non-profit organisation WildAid, created a public service announcement to encourage Chinese citizens and Amercian's to eat less meat, in an effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The hero video stars American actor and Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, James Cameron and Li Bingbing (Grager, 2016).
Strengths:
• High profile celebrities meant lots of free press coverage
• Strong catch phrase "Less meat, less heat, more life"
• Facts driven messaging
• Strong comparisons - meat's produces more GHG than all transport combined
• Highlights the effects that meat consumption has our health
Weaknesses:
• It's an older campaign but I couldn't find any supporting posters or downloadable factsheets.
• The video message was to conveying a bleak future which might not motivate all viewers
POSITIONING
New Media
Community
The Planet Positive Diet campaign will use more new media, like QR codes and an interactive app. Our campaign
Conventional
Strategy
Education
Innovative
Action
The Planet Positive Diet campaign stick to fairly conventional methods to educate and predominately encourage the audience to take action. Our campaign
THE BRIEF
1. WHAT
The campaign will be sponsored by Climate Council Australia and will focus on promoting a planet positive diet, to educate and create action.
2. WHY
Food production contributes 26% of global carbon emissions and even if we stopped the use of fossil fuels, the emissions generated from our global food systems would push temperatures past the 1.5°C goal.
3. WHO
The target audience is predominately woman aged 26 to 55 years, living in metro areas.
4. WHEN
The brand can be launched on World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June with the intention that it will continue on as an ongoing entity.
5. WHERE
This campaign will be run nationally by print, digital and via social media.
6. HOW
Outdoor advertisement at metro tram, bus and rail stations. Facebook advertisements that also run across Instagram. Dedicated website and app. Merchandise, like t-shirts to help the movement grow in popularity. Strategic Google Adwords targeting, as well as YouTube ad placements.
THE STRATEGY
Campaign goal is to appeal to our audiences aspirational selves. To provide them with the incentive to have a more positive impact on the planet. We don't want to focus on the negatives as I think we all can agree that we know what they are. Instead we want the Planet Positive Diet to become a movement!
THE AUDIENCE
THE CONCEPT
The Planet Positive Diet campaign will provide Australians with the knowledge and motivation to choose food that will benefit both themselves and the planet. With an uplifting and energetic colour palette, clean and simple graphics that re-enforce to the audience that this is a no fuss method. With less processing, less packaging and less impact on the planet.
The main image for this campaign is an illustration of planet earth sitting on the top of a fork, like a piece of fruit. This image concisely represents to the audience that food consumption is at the heart of the issue.
The following keywords capture the brands tonal values:
• Encouraging
• Energetic
• Honest
• Uncomplicated Brand values
MOODBOARD
DPDESIGN PROCESS
The moodboard conveys the process behind the initial thought that then led to the brands identity.
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hsl(141,42%,55%)
rgb(93,190,127)
#7cccbf #8dc
mediumaquamarine
hsl(170,43%,64%)
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#2f84fe #38f dodgerblue hsl(215,99%,59%)
rgb(47,132,254)
#f9f9fa #fff ghostwhite hsl(240,9%,97%)
rgb(249,249,250)
#272e38 #234 darkslategray
hsl(215,17%,18%)
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The initial concept sketches were put through a user evaluation process. While the focus of all concepts were quite similar, one concept stood out as a clear favourite.
THE GUIDELINES
LOGO TYPOGRAPHY
Poppins Semibold
Regular
Eds Market Main Script
Script
Abril Text ExtraBold
Accents
COLOUR PALETTE
Primary colours
THISTLE #EABECE
RGB(234,190,206)
CMYK(0,30,4,0)
DARK SLATE GRAY #3C3B39
RGB(60,59,57)
CMYK(67,62,63,54)
Secondary colours
MEDIUM VIOLET RED #C0215D
RGB(192,33,93)
CMYK(7,99,46,0)
LIGHT CYAN #D5F2F5
RGB(213,242,245)
CMYK(18,0,5,0)
MEDIUM AQUA MARINE #77BFB4
RGB(119,191,180)
CMYK(67,0,36,0)
WHITE SMOKE #F0F1ED
RGB(240,241,237)
CMYK(4,2,5,0)
THE DESIGNS
IMPLEMENTATION
WEBSITE
ANIMATION
Click to view video https://youtu.be/LNIyeDEcbWw
SOCIAL MEDIA
MERCHANDISE
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IMAGES:
Image 1: World Resource Institute. (2020). Interactive Chart Showing Changes in the World’s Top 10 Emitters [Infographic] https://www.wri.org/insights/ interactive-chart-shows-changes-worlds-top-10emitters
Image 2: Bon Appétit Management Company. (n.d.). Eat Low Carbon website home page [Screenshot]. http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/
Image 3: Quorn. (n.d.). Take a Step in the Right Direction campaign [Image]. https://www. campaignlive.co.uk/article/marketing-good-quorntakes-steps-help-consumers-save-planet/1693962
Image 4: Otarian. (n.d.). I went for a burrito and stayed to save the planet [Image]. https:// www.campaignlive.com/article/ogilvy-launchesad-campaign-worlds-first-low-carbonrestaurant/996052
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Think.Eat.Save:
Image 1: Video screen grab of Gisele Bündchen from the World Environment Day promotional video [Screengrab]. https://www.pinterest.com.au/ pin/126804545731008810/
Images 2 – 5: Think.Eat.Save. Logo, infographic, poster and publication cover [Image]. https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/ resources?%2Fresources=&keys=&type=All&page=1
Your Plastic Diet:
Image 1: Video screen grab of campaign message ‘Your Plastic Diet’ [Screengrab]. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=rET9pdBzb8E
Image 2: Photograph of the campaign direct mailout [Photograph]. https://www.dandad.org/awards/ professional/2020/231703/your-plastic-diet/ Images 3 – 6: Artwork for the ‘Your plastic diet’ campaign [Images]. https://campaignbriefasia.
com/2019/06/12/grey-malaysia-launches-wwfcampaign-that-reveals-plastic-ingestion-by-peoplecould-be-equating-to-a-credit-card-a-week/
Save The Arctic:
Image 1: Montage of eight ‘Save The Arctic’ campaign posters by Bonfire Creative Intelligence for Greenpeace [Image]. https://creativepool.com/ greenpeace/projects/greenpeace-save-the-arcticcampaign
Image 2: Poster featuring a whale made from T-Shirts [Image]. https://www.behance.net/ gallery/100283501/Greenpeace-Save-The-ArcticCampaign
Image 3: Photograph of the posters at Waterloo station [Photograph]. https://creativepool.com/ greenpeace/projects/greenpeace-save-the-arcticcampaign
Image 4: Gotts, A. 2020. Photograph of Pierce Brosnan in a Save The Arctic t-shirt [Photograph]. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ article-8509257/Celebrity-photographer-Andy-Gottsremembers-favourites-shoots-30-year-career.html
Image 5. Section of the polar bear constructed from t-shirts [Image]. https://www.behance.net/ gallery/100283501/Greenpeace-Save-The-ArcticCampaign
Heart Foundation:
Image 1: Screen grab from 30sec campaign video –The Heart Foundation [Image]. https://www.adnews. com.au/news/hand-on-heart-an-integrated-brandcampaign-to-raise-funds-for-research
Image 2: Video screen grab of trainee Cardiologist Geoff Page [Image]. https://www.thirdsector.com.au/ heart-foundation-launches-powerful-hand-on-heartcampaign/
Image 3: Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, featuring in the Hand on Heart campaign [Image]. https://hitechglitz. com/yellow-wiggle-greg-page-stars-in-the-heartfoundations-hand-on-heart-national-campaign/
Moodboard:
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Image 3: MintSwift. Hands holding the earth for Earth Day [Vector]. https://www.pinterest.com.au/ pin/365073113553388793/
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Image 5: Earth Hero. (n.d.). Screen grabs of the Earth Hero app [Image]. https://causeartist.com/appsoffset-your-carbon-emissions/
Image 6: Klima. (n.d.). Mock-up of Klima app with greenery [Image]. https://causeartist.com/appsoffset-your-carbon-emissions/
Image 7: Vinogradova, N. (n.d.). Earth Day poster [Vector]. https://www.vecteezy.com/vectorart/300342-earth-day-vector-template-for-cardposter-banner-flyer
Personas:
Image 1: Блажин, A. (2021). Elegant girl sitting on a stool [Picture]. https://www.pexels.com/photo/ elegant-girl-sitting-on-a-stool-10867234/
Image 2: Nilov, M. (2021). An elderly woman in white shirt wearing glasses [Picture]. https://www. pexels.com/photo/an-elderly-woman-in-white-shirtwearing-an-eyeglasses-8307331/
Image 3: Muhamad, A. (2021). Asian man in black suit with white background [Picture]. https:// unsplash.com/photos/hq2LVeFz4a0 Mockups: Mockup Hunt. (n.d.) Bus Stop Billboard Sign MockUp. https://mockuphunt.co/products/bus-stop-billboard-
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Mockup Hunt. (n.d.) T-Shirt Mockup with Happy Woman. https://mockuphunt.co/products/t-shirtmockup-with-happy-woman
Artwork:
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Comauthor. (n.d.) Collection hand drawn arrows [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-8875-
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Elena. (n.d.) Falafel pita wrap illustration [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-88754e15ae50b8b9?asset_id=356211073
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Natis. (n.d.) Chicken drumstick illustration [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-88754e15ae50b8b9?asset_id=250474121
ONYXprj. (n.d.) Top view of coffee in cup illustration [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-88754e15ae50b8b9?asset_id=249995833
Sunnydream. (n.d.) Tuna steak illustration [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-88754e15ae50b8b9?asset_id=253501775
Tartila. (n.d.) Corn cob illustration [Vector]. https://stock.adobe.com/au/Library/ urn:aaid:sc:AP:689a9ed8-90ab-4439-88754e15ae50b8b9?asset_id=258673680
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