Bill McKibben and 350.org

Bill McKibben

William Ernest McKibben, commonly known as Bill McKibben, was born on the 8th of December 1960 (he is now 58 years of age). He attended high school in the suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts and in 1978 (age 18) he entered Harvard University. In 1980 after the election of Ronald Reagan he decided to dedicate his work for an enviormental cause. 

In 1989 McKibben released his book titled The End of Nature that is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and in the 2013 won of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize and in 2014 won the Right Livelihood Prize. He is also the founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide climate change movement. This organism which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country except North Korea and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

McKibben is still passionate about is work and wants to write about 12 more books and to expand his knowledge on Climate Change.

Thanks to Gabriela for sharing what she found out about Bill and his movement!!

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Environmental news this week...

The new diet that could save the planet!

According to a study about sustainable diet, we are allowed to eat 1 meat burger a week OR 1 steak a month in order to keep our personal resource use and carbon footprint at a sustainable level. The change is to eat more legumes, vegetables and nuts to get protein in other ways... and this would be more healthy too!

The article comes from a newspaper aimed at secondary school students called The Day

READ IT HERE!

Recent Environmental News...

Dog Food made from insects 

The first dog food made from insects goes on sale this week in the United Kindom. This is a new project to help reduce the damage we do to the environment. In present time it is estimated that our pets consume 20% of the meat and fish and is also responsable for a quarter of enviormental impacts of meat production. 

By making dog food from insects we reduce the amount of cow meat dogs have in there food. By doing this we also reduce the amount of demand we have on cow meat and by that we help on global warming since the gas the cows release is bad.

If you are worried about your dogs health there is no need. Insects provide a relatively high 40% of the protein, they are very nutritious, contain essential proteins, fats, minerals and amino acids and are also easy for animals to digest. 

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Thanks to Gabriela and Samuel for sharing the news!

Environmental News this week..

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet -- 61 centimeters -- higher by the end of the century compared to today. Also this has a great impact on the animals such as penguins and polar bears. The ice melts so the animals die. This can also cause greats tsunamis and flood.

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Thanks to Bruno Bofarull for finding the news!

Getting our hands in the soil!

This week a group of 1ºESO EP implemented a planting workshop they had prepared for the Reception class. They organised the materials and planted seeds : parsley, cat grass, pansy and other flowers. All these plants were chosen because they grow quickly and are adapted to a cold environment (winter is coming!).

Thanks to Carlota Carulla, Hugo Thackwray, Anna Rosell from 1ºESO for doing this project, and to our photogaphers Tatiana Mussons and Valentina Latorre and Hugo Thackwray

At the same time we had our IB CAS environmental team leading a gardening session on the Batx/IB roof. This week they were checking on the seeds they planted two weeks ago, and harvesting useful plants from the garden to share with the school community!

Planting on the Batx / IB roof!

Two IB1 students are running some gardening sessions with students from 2ºESO, after deciding what to plant and planning it, they have planted seeds today...

We planted corn, lettuce, carrots, flowers. We planted corn, lettuce and carrots because they
were all autumn/winter food and so that we could eat it in school as they are healthy. We also
planted flowers because we discovered that if you plant flowers with food the insects will go to
the flowers and not to the food.
Our experience was great, we had a great time planting plants. We enjoyed working in teams
with IB girls, and we learnt how to plant.
Next week we want to see if our plants have grown and if something goes wrong, for example,
they are rotten, we will take the plants out.

What can help stop climate change?

According to BBC, chip fat and other vegetable oils can help in stopping ships causing so many greenhouse gasses.

Click here for more information:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45862228

Hugo Thackwray

Check out this information about 4ocean!

Valentina and India have produced an amazing and informative presentation about an organisation which is trying to reduce and remove plastic from the oceans. As you may know the plastic pollution problem is killing animals, damaging habitats and poisoning our water.. find out more with this series of posts about 4ocean!!!

Environmental news report!

Environmental news this week..

Floods in Mallorca 

At least 12 people have died and a child remains missing after torrential rains ravaged Sant Llorenç and other small towns on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Two more bodies were recovered on Thursday in Artá. Rescue services said they might be a German couple who had gone missing. A five-year-old child is still unaccounted for.

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In this same week the IPCC has published a report and concluded we have 12 years to make a real difference and stop the worst effects of climate change. 

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It's time to act and stop climate change!