Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

5 Minutes to Create a Better School - Green Spaces and Food

Task 4 - João Calheiros











This week the recycling weight was:

Paper - 1,00 kg
Plastic - 0,500 Kg
Glass - 0,250 kg (however in the bin were only 2 bottles)


This week was a normal week so as you can see my family produce more plastic (2 bags) than paper(1 bag) although the paper weight more than plastic. the glass normally are 1 or two bins no more.
I always recicle so this task don't came nothing new to me, was a diferent task.







Anjali Appadurai, UN Climate Change Conference

"A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic-check from the stage - a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done. So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep cuts now. Get it done," Appadurai says.

 

Friday, December 9, 2011

Group Work - Alexandra, Beatriz Bento, Inês Teixeira e Miguel

“Five minutes to create a better school”


Panfleto

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Task 4 Daniel

When I came to Coimbra I've started to recycle the garbage.
My results are:

Paper and card ± 2 kg

Plastic and metal ± 1,50 kg

Glass ± 4 kg
That wasn’t a normal week because, normally, we reuse the glass bottles to put water to serve at the time of the meals and this week we decided to throw them way.
I think that the weight of the garbage it’s not much because in my house lives 7 people, so I can conclude that we not spend a lot.



Saturday, December 3, 2011

Task 4 - Beatriz Martins

During this week, I, my sister, my father and my mother did the recycling experiment (task 4).
I think recycling is very important for the environment because we produce a lot of garbage and we "send" it to landfills instead of reusing, recovering, renewing and recycling it. We have to realise that if we do the right thing with our garbage we will live much longer and save our planet from unnecessary pollution. So, I think everyone should follow the rule of the 5 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recover, Renew and Recycle) and be "green"!
I have no weighing-machine at home and because of that I could't measure the weight of the garbage that we produced.

Result:
  - lots of plastic;
  - paper (mainly publicity);
  - no glass.


 

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Task 4 - Pedro =P







 Me and my family (dad, mom and twin) have been reciclyng since our birth (mine and my twin one) and this week we produce aprox.


Paper - 500g
Plastic - 1 Kg
Glass - 250g (however in the bin were only 2 bottles)


With this task I get that my family produces much more plastic waste then paper and glass but we are a green family because we recycle so this amount of garbage will not "damage the Earth or Pollute the sea" XD




Getting to Zero

"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you"


"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you". This is the slogan of a campaign by ONE and (RED), two organizations fighting against AIDS. Some of their objectives are by 2015, to be able to provide treatment to the millions more who need it, drastically reduce new infections, and virtually end the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. 
2011 marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS. Today - December 1st - is World AIDS Day. 
The (2015)QUILT is a symbol of their struggle. It's a piece of digital artwork from people all over the world who are fighting for the first AIDS free generation in 30 years. You have the chance to create and share your own panel. join me, along with millions of ONE and (RED) supporters and create your own panel on the (2015)QUILT.
And, as a bonus, you get to download a Christmas song by the Killers for free.
Here are my panels: