Thursday, 28 February 2019

Planting the gardens!!

After a few weeks designing the gardens, this week we had the different aromatics and vegetables we has ordered and the gardens were planted by 1º ESO EP!

Here are all the plants we bought...


Some were planted as "guilds" under the trees..





and we also planted the nursery garden, and 2 sections of the other vegetable gardens on the Batx roof. More pictures and explanations about what we are doing will be published soon!

Keep checking in the with the Change Happens... blog!!!


Why we should be talking about CLIMATE CHANGE

It isn't just Environmental Club that are talking about Climate Change, IB1 have prepared an information sheet as part of their IB CAS work. There is a growing body of young people across the world - inspired by Greta Thunberg - who are raising awareness about the seriousness of the problem.


Thursday, 21 February 2019

Environmental News this week...

In the last month 55 million Americans have experienced below zero temperatures in the states of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota. North Dakota has experienced temperatures as low has -32° Celsius and Minnesota -52° Celsius. This is extremely important since it affects the citizens of these states in extreme ways. According to the National Weather Service wind at -32° Celsius can freeze the human skin in about 15 minutes, this is dangerous for all the homeless people living in America who could die because of this.

This fall in temperatures has caused authorities to close schools and government offices temporarily, and cut all flights arriving and coming to the affected states. This also caused a problem since when this happened the Super Bowl was just days around the corner and the fans of the teams where expected to arrive during those days.

This is because of the polar vortex having a sling causing the cold temperatures to make it farther north in America than usual. Of course we all know that this is a result of Climate Change a problem caused by us, humans. We are putting ourselves in danger because we are not taking advice from what the analysis and experts are telling us about this problem. It is time to make a change.

 Frozen Lake in Michigan

Monday, 18 February 2019

Climate change report



"Things that normally happen in geologic time are happening during the span of a human lifetime," says Fagre. "It's like watching the Statue of Liberty melt."


We listened to the following 20 minute podcast in Environmental Enrichment last week. we found it incredible and think it's really important that everyone listens to it...

What can we do right now about Climate Change?


Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.
"If we don't have it, we don't need it," pronounces Daniel Fagre as we throw on our backpacks. We're armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers, and bear spray to ward off grizzlies, and we're trudging toward Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. I fall in step with Fagre and two other research scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program. They're doing what they've been doing for more than a decade: measuring how the park's storied glaciers are melting.

So far, the results have been positively chilling. When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers. Since then the number has decreased to fewer than 30, and most of those remaining have shrunk in area by two-thirds. Fagre predicts that within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear.


Thursday, 14 February 2019

Planting in early years!




Last thursday we started the project that we had planned in Environmental Club. We went down to Nursery to plant some radish seeds with the little children. We sat down with them and explained them the process of planting seeds and then went and did it.

The best bit is that we planted the radish in yogurt pots which we had recycled from our lunch. The children were really interested in the plants and were waiting to find out if they would grow. This Thursday we went back.. and here are the photos of the plants!!! When they reach the target height of 5cm, the Year 1 pupils will plant them out in the garden.

Julia and Cristina 1º ESO
 


Environmental News this week...

Greta Thunberg is 16 years old and is from Sweden. This girl in August of 2018 made the decision to stop going to school on Fridays and instead use her time to raise awareness about climate change by picketing outside the Swedish parliament, this made headlines. What Thunberg wanted to do was pressure the Government to act on a legislation to reduce carbon emission with Paris. Since she did this in August she has attended the World Economic Forum and the COP24 Inited nations climate change summit.