FEBRUARY ACTIVITIES PRESENTATION

We prepared our presentation, the first collaboration of February, and published it in common areas. Click HERE to reach our presentation https://view.genial.ly/5e5377a72049210fb2c0fce2/presentation-save-the-soilfebruary

collaborative products

We collect our collaborative products in a padlette.

Our padlet link is : https://padlet.com/basakbaskaya35/y8720u2fzqye

project article : DEEP ECOLOGY FROM A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Our partners Gabriela MILITARU and Georgiana TRANCA
they wrote an article about ecology and shared it with the project stakeholders.

DEEP ECOLOGY FROM A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Militaru Gabriela and Trancă Georgiana

Colegiul Național „Elena Cuza”, Craiova, România

In simple terms, ethics is a side of philosophy that deals with researching moral issues. Or in other words, ethics is trying to answer the question "What can I know about what I have to do?" in matters such as human or animal rights, human freedom issues, euthanasia, etc. It is difficult to say whether or not ethics manages to solve certain questions because, being not universally valid truths, this side of philosophy risks being accused of subjectivism. However, this should not discourage discussions on certain issues such as ECOLOGY.

In recent decades, human activities have often had negative repercussions on nature, especially as human influences on the environment are increasing as a result of population growth, human agglomerations and the development of industries and technologies. It is known that only in the last month two of the most powerful states in the world (Spain and China) have instituted high pollution alert due to the intense activity of factories, but also of the noxiousness caused by the multitude of vehicles that cross cities daily. Under these conditions, contemporary environmental issues increasingly demand the intervention of ethics in solving their problems. One solution to this could be the use of deep ecology, a notion introduced by Arne Naess in the early 1970s. The Norwegian philosopher has formulated a set of principles that could be the basis of any ecological philosophy. However, as with any ethical issue, in the case of deep ecology there are both pros and cons.

Pro arguments:

1. Naess's ecological philosophy holds that the well-being and development of human and non-human life on Earth have priority in themselves, that is, beyond their usefulness for human purposes. It follows that nature should not be exploited just for the sake of people, but must be valued as it is.

2. People can diminish the richness of nature only to meet their vital needs (for example, food), which in no way encourages the waste of natural resources.

3. In order to diminish the waste, it is the case that the global population decreases, in these conditions decreasing the consumption of resources the result being the assessment of the quality of life rather than adhering to an increasingly high standard of living.

Of course, for these arguments a number of arguments can be brought against:

1. Stopping nature exploitation limits technological progress.

2. What for some means wasting resources for others can mean diversifying the range of possibilities for the benefit of humanity and respect for the uniqueness of each human individual.

3. To reduce the number of the population means to limit the right of people to reproduction.

It is important to note, however, that the existence of arguments against a problem should not discourage discussions on this topic or any other of general interest regarding ethics.

Our project partners exchanged ideas about our types of activities. Project events were created in common consensus

You can reach the padlet where we share our opinions.

Our partners collected all their web 2.0 work in a padlette.

Click here to access the paddle

We held our first meeting with our project partners and exchanged ideas.

February Student Activity Program

February Student Activity Program Week 1- BATTERY RECYCLING - Damages of waste batteries according to soil and environment will be investigated. - A recycling bin will be placed in the school for waste batteries, and nearby batteries such as family and neighbor will be collected for recycling. - The posters of waste batteries will be posted. (web 2.0 tools work) Week 2 - ORGANIC LIFE -The needs of chemical pesticides to soil and methods of protecting the soil from these damages will be investigated. - Natural (organic) agricultural experiments are carried out. (possible with robotic tools, compost can be used, cinnamon spice can be used instead of pesticides ...) - He will prepare a brochure that explains the experiments in stages. (web 2.0 tools work) Week 3 - CLEAN ENVIRONMENT -Damage of the garbage by soil will be investigated. -It will carry out garbage collection activity in the near environment. -The works will be exhibited on the school board. Week 4 - COMMON PRODUCT -For the required text or text in the common "save the land" video -The teams will be set up to stop reading a sentence of the text about that month's topic about his team's affiliation. - Joint video will be created with the photos of the event and the works. (web 2.0 tools work) NOTE: YOU CAN CHANGE THE PLACES OF THE EVENTS IN THE FIRST 3 WEEKS, YOU CAN APPLY THE WEEK YOU WANT AT THE TIME YOU WANT. COMMON PRODUCT TIME WILL NOT CHANGE.