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title: How the European 350 Team Became Strippers for the Climate
date: 2010-09-29T23:06:11Z
modified: 2010-09-30T10:31:31Z
permalink: "https://350.org/how-european-350-team-became-strippers-climate/"
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status: publish
excerpt: Maybe you've seen the latest video from the European team and were wondering to yourself, "how did stripping become
wpid: 23607
author: The 350.org Team
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Maybe you've seen [the latest video from the European team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZg1e3aFp8) and were wondering to yourself, "how did stripping become part of the job responsibilities of a bunch of climate campaigners?"

![sites/all/files/350_org_23_09_10_005_0.jpg](/wp-content/uploads/imagecache/Medium_250_Pixels_Wide/350_org_23_09_10_005_0.jpg "Behind the Scenes of 350 Europe Taking it Off for the Climate")

Well, it all started one day last week, when a couple of the 350 Europe team members and I left our Berlin office for a creative lunch. The task: come up with a video concept for our next social media push to energize people for 10/10/10. We'd just done a series of videos showcasing the work we were doing in the office and decided we needed a change of scenery to keep our audience captivated. After exploring a few ideas, our European Coordinator, Diana, blurted out, “why don't we strip?”

Hmm, why _don't_ we strip? Could we actually pull it off (pun intended)?

So we took an inventory of our resources:

![sites/all/files/350_org_23_09_10_006.jpg](/wp-content/uploads/imagecache/Medium_250_Pixels_Wide/350_org_23_09_10_006.jpg "Behind the Scenes of the 350 Europe Video Shoot")

- a consumer camcorder;
- a five-person team, most of whom are not used to acting for the camera, and all of whom (I think!) are not used to stripping in front of one;
- and enough creativity to tweak a [successful idea from last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY) to fit our message for 10/10/10.

…Not _quite_ enough to turn the idea into a reality.

But throw in a 30 Euro budget, a kind contribution of studio space from [Heidi Scherm Fotografie](https://www.heidischerm.de/) and the selfless donations of a few embarrassing moments from each of us, and we had the makings of a rockin' video.

In the end, making this video to promote the 10/10/10 Global Work Party was a mini-Work Party in and of itself. Who knew you could have so much fun stripping on a Thursday morning for the climate! We hope you have as much fun [getting to work on climate solutions in your community on 10/10/10](https://www.350.org/map) as we did in bringing you this video.

Have a [look at the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZg1e3aFp8) and tell us what you think – how well did we pull it off?

![sites/all/files/350_org_23_09_10_001.jpg](/wp-content/uploads/imagecache/Large_500_pixels_wide/350_org_23_09_10_001.jpg "Hilary Strips for the Climate")