Environmental news this week

We found an article with top tips on how to reduce your carbon footprint and take steps towards sustainable living, the top three are fly less, eat less meat (especially beef), make sure you're only heating inside your house - and that by closing windows, and insulating your house properly you don't waste energy.

Here is the article with 15 ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

There is also a whole blog dedicated to share all the most recent information about climate change! It's a long read...

The Alaska fish is just one of several species that have had to change their behaviour because of climate change (see our earlier blog post about whales) read more about it here

What will be the big environment events in 2017?

Happy 2017 from the Environmental club!

This article is about the important issues this year

and next week we may well be hit by a cold wave of weather - as low as -3 in Barcelona!?!???!

News from Escoles Sostenibles, and Happy Xmas!

Notícies de Escoles Sostenibles

Secondary school students can decide how to transform their schools with Escoles Sostenibles..

Conèixer el projecte Tinguem Cura del Planeta, un procés que ofereix un marc de treball perquè l'alumnat de secundària decideixi les accions que transformen el centre i l'entorn. La proposta permet dotar d’eines per diagnosticar l’estat del centre, planificar les accions que volem dur a terme per transformar-lo i dur-les a terme, implicar tota la comunitat educativa i comunicar els resultats...

Aquest procés és simultani a escala mundial amb altres centres i, per tant, es realitzen trobades d'intercanvi entre joves a escala catalana, estatal, europea i internacional. Aquestes conferències són un punt rellevant de motivació per a l'alumnat i de millora de la qualitat de les propostes.

Per tal de facilitar el seguiment del procés, s'ha establert una proposta dels passos que cal seguir, en la qual es detallen un seguit d'objectius i fites que s'han d'aconseguir per a cadascun dels tres cursos. Podeu trobar més informació aquí. També disposeu del vídeo resum del procés.

Eco News...

This week we found some information about ghost nets - nets

that are used for fishing in an illegal way. Sometimes when you fish with a giant net it may break

and that net will end in the ocean under the sea and some animals get trapped in it and die,

normally these are animals close to extinction.

So if you want to help, try to not to buy cans of tuna that don't show how they catch the fish

because that means that they use a ghost net, illegally.

If you want to know more information and which animals get stuck with those nets, look at this

video and you will find out !!!!

This weeks news:

The big news this week is that Donald Trump has been elected next president of the United States. He said ´´Global warming is a hoax´´.
This is a sad day for the great majority of people who care about the future of our planet.

On the plus side another American is making news with a great film about Climate Change - Leonardo DiCaprio (Best Actor 2016 at the Oscars and huge film star) has made a documentary, he met Obama, the Pope and traveled the world to see how our environment is being affected... WATCH IT!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgsaYLH1ph4

Enviro news!

This week we have chosen a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. 

The bad news happened in Madrid. Madrid´s city council has been thinking about just letting 50% of the cars of the city into the city center, this is happening because the Spanish capital is struggling with the high levels of air pollution.

The council thought that they would let in cars that finish with even numbers on their number plates on even days and the cars that finish with odd number plates would be allowed in on odd days.

Far away in San Fransisco the U.S city has required that certain new buildings have to be built with a green roof, this means that there will be plants on the roofline. 

This new law will be started in January and new buildings will have to incorporate 15 - 30% of roof space with solar panels, green roofs or a blend of both.

Wildlife is falling!

World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years'

Since the 1970s the world´s wildlife population is falling and animals in lakes, rivers and wetlands are suffering the biggest losses.

The fresh water habitats are decreasing because humans are taking water out of the rivers systems, and blocking the water systems with dams.

Environmental News this week

Sara, Aina and María created a presentation and shared news about Killer Whales who are changing their behaviour because of Climate Change - Killers Whales are moving from their usual habitat because their food is very hard to find and the temperatures are rising where they live because of climate change. Killer Whales are coming close to the Mediterranean but we are not sure if they are going to actually be in the sea because our sea is too hot for them. Read more in this link below;


  http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/cetaceans/Oo_home.htm

Joves i ciència

Joves i ciència és un programa de la Fundació Catalunya - la Pedrera que té per objectiu fomentar les vocacions científiques dels joves. S’adreça a cinquanta estudiants de 4t d’ESO que, fins a l’entrada a la universitat, tindran l’oportunitat de viure la recerca científica en primera persona durant tres anys.

PERFIL DELS CANDIDATS

• Alumnat de 4t d’ESO.
• Bon expedient acadèmic, que ha d’anar acompanyat de ganes i il·lusió per participar en el programa. Busquem joves que, a més de tenir bons resultats acadèmics, tinguin molt interès per la investigació científica, amb talent i curiositat per les ciències.
• Bon nivell d’anglès. • Intenció de cursar el Batxillerat Científic i/o Tecnològic.
• Compromís per aprofitar les oportunitats que ofereix el Programa Joves i Ciència durant els seus tres anys de durada. 
• Estudiar en un centre de secundària de Catalunya, ja sigui públic, privat o concertat. 

PROCÈS DE SELECCIÓ

Per a la selecció es valorarà:

• Respostes a les preguntes dels formularis d’inscripció del candidat/a. 
• Carta de motivació. 
• Recomanacions del centre. En són necessàries dues: una d’un membre de l’equip docent de l’àrea de ciència, matemàtiques o tecnologia, i l’altra del tutor/a, cap d’estudis o director/a. 
• El nivell d’anglès. 
• Expedient acadèmic. 
• Entrevista personal, en cas de superar la primera fase de la selecció