- They know that our everyday lives are easier when we have plenty of energy, and they know and understand what will happen if we just go on using more and more energy. And what is more they know what everyone can do to conserve our energy.
The Rainmakers are energetic, playful, curious and smart. They have their own universe and they use their own alphabet. A Rainmaker is someone who cares about things and who know how to reduce the use of energy in the world. The Rainmaker?s emblem is a spinning top, a super-energetic toy.
The Rainmakers is a national concept for children initiated and funded by Enova SF (the Norwegian Energy Agency). The goal is to involve and create interest and engagement for the energy subject among children and young people. It is seen as important to view children as a resource taking an active part in their own education.
Children in Norway between the age of 6 and 15 can meet the Rainmakers on www.regnmakerne.no and there is also an international version for children from other countries available at www.rainmakers-eu.eu.
The story of the Rainmakers, by Klaus Hagerup
The story of the Rainmakers will be in three volumes. The first volume was distributed to all Norwegian primary schools in the autumn of 2004, and now children and school classes are invited to help the author in continuing the story.
A brief summary of the book:
The story starts with a strange parcel lying on the front doorstep of Reinert?s house early one Sunday morning. A parcel from nowhere? Inside there is a spinning top that spins with the strangest colours - and it sings.
When Reinert wakes up in the morning, he thinks it is going to be just another ordinary day, but everything changes very quickly. First, there is the spinning top, and when he makes it spin, he meets Regina, the Rainmaker from Jonia.
Jonia is a planet that is gradually being extinguished. If this happens, it will die. Jonia is dying because those who live there are using up all the energy but they don?t really understand what is happening.
Reinert goes to Jonia with Regina and sees all sorts of gadgets and machines he could only dream about at home. Regina tells him that the development of Jonia is much more advanced than on earth. Or is it?
