My students participated in an essay contest about climate change and other environmental global issues of an international environment foundation Trust For Sustainable Living (TSL). The topic was"Partnership for a Sustainable Future". Over 70 countries participated in this contest and my students received "Honourable Mention" awards. I am very proud of them. Here you can read their essays.

Zeliha KALE -Teacher - Turkey,2020

GO GREEN

I think that people take Mother Natures creations for granted. We all think that the little things in life aren’t important, but they really are.

For example: trees. They aren’t really little, but most people don’t think about how important they really are for our lives. People cut them down for different reasons without thinking about the damage their doing. We must know natures importance and try to stop polluting and damaging our world. Nature is constantly changing, even before the dawn of humanity. From the breakup of Pangaea to the extinction of dinosaurs, from the Sahara Pump to the Ice Age, Earth has completely changed from what it was millions of years ago.

The balance of Earth’s atmosphere has been greatly damaged by emissions of chemical compounds, thereby increasing the pace of climate change. Nature is not simply an unlimited store of resources to serve humans. It is a combination of all living creatures and plants, including soil, water and air that plants, animals and humans depend on to survive.

Humans quite frequently harm nature for there own benefit. You don’t have to be a genius or a millionaire to save our planet, everyone can do their bit in helping out. ‘Sustainable living’ means different things to different people. In my opinion sustainable living means living in a healthy world between earths limits and reducing our impacts on the Earth’s resources, which is living more simply and taking care of nature so that it can take care of us.

Oceans are one of the most important part of our planet and we must appreciate them, just like everything else. Oceans generate half the oxygen we breath and contain more than 96% of the World’s water. We can reduce water pollution by not pouring fat or oil down the sink or in the toilet pan, because they go into the ocean and is very harmful. We can also recycle. Recycling is very important and helps our World in many ways. By recycling your household items you could reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfills and also reduce environmental impacts

by saving the amount of energy saved in collecting and dumping the trash.You should use more items made with recycled materials. For example: instead of using different plastic bags each time you go shopping you could buy an eco - friendly bag and use that all the time. Another important part of “Sustainable Living” is saving energy. There are many ways you could be saving energy at home by using the new intelligent programmable heating that can learn from the humans behaviour and can control the room temperature, so that no energy is wasted. Another question I ask myself is what are countries doing to be sustainable? Well I would like to elucidate it for you.

Some countries are doing their job perfunctory, when others and doing their job scintillating. Countries should be; using as many recycled products as possible, protecting water quality bye reducing fertilizer use and minimizing the amount of road salt, reducing heat build up and improving air quality. Unfortunately instead of doing these, some countries increase the amount of air pollution by creating more factories.Trees, shrubs and turf remove smoke, dust and other pollutants from the air. Buildings should also be sustainably designed.

Significant amounts of children in poor countries are suffering from all of these. In order to try to prevent all of this we could start planting vegetables in our school gardens and own backyards. That would minimize the amount of harmful chemicals farmers use on plants. Thus I think we can make it possible.

Trust For Sustainable Living Essay Competition-2020

*this article won an honorable mention award Ellis Jessica Kaya- Profesyonel İlgim Koleji/ Marmaris

My students participated in an essay contest about climate change and other environmental global issues of an international environment foundation Trust For Sustainable Living (TSL). The topic was"Partnership for a Sustainable Future". Over 70 countries participated in this contest and my students received "Honourable Mention" awards. I am very proud of them. Here you can read their essays.

Zeliha KALE -Teacher - Turkey,2020

A Good Future for Bad Past

Most countries in the world are in economic crisis. Most are exposed to climate change. They are all trying to be much better for their people. But there is something more important than these problems.

We should be together to overcome these problems. All countries should try to help each other. Only this way we can end the problems.There are many problems in the world that we must solve. For example, some countries have very poor education. But why developed countries don't help these countries for the way of education. Other examples are the problems of Global Warming and Climate Change. Like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines,Tanzania, East Timor, and Vietnam cannot protect themselves against global warming and climate change.There are other problems like water scarcity or air pollution in these countries to cope with. 

There are other problems like water scarcity or air pollution in these countries to cope with. We can stop these problems. If all countries in the world work together against these global problems, we can offer a better future to the next generations. How? It is very easy. Developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands can offer both financial assistance and educational help to underdeveloped countries such as Afghanistan and Nepal. For example, a certain number of students from underdeveloped countries can go to developed countries each year and receive education. In this way, if the student studying there starts to work there, it both provides tax to the state and contributes to himself/herself.

In the Middle East, which is the most important oil resource of the world, there are wars just because of money and this affects all the countries in the world.

The correct usage of resources without wasting also provides us a more sustainable future. Other countries, except the United States and all the Eastern Countries, are slowly consuming all their oil and usable fuel. And that's why they start Foreign Trade. However, if people become conscious and learn to use their oil more properly, it will help the countries that have to buy it.

Agriculture in most countries is quite scarce,hormones are added to fruits or vegetables. There are few places where agriculture can be done because climate crisis increases.

Because of the climate crisis and global warming, Arctic ice is melting, causing parts of Italy and especially Venice to flood. The water in Venice increases by 1.48 centimetres every year. And if this is not averted, Venice will be submerged by year of 2049.

In India, China and countries like these, air pollution has skyrocketed. It is hard to find fresh air , visibility is low. You can prevent this. The density of exhaust fumes can be reduced and the use of perfume and deodorant can be reset.

The world's problems do not end there, the waste that ships release into the sea while swimming causes dozens of fish to be poisoned and even killed.

And when people eat these fish, they actually get poisoned. There are dozens of undiscovered species of fish in the waters, and we destroy them before we can even see them. And we have to stop it. 

And all the countries in the world can unite and do many things about it. Campaigns can be organized. They can unite and stimulate people and, most importantly, create awareness.

As a result, there are dozens of reasons and things for countries to unite and provide a more sustainable future for young people and everyone. A better future means a better generation and a better world.

Trust For Sustainable Living

Essay Competiton-2020

*this article won an honorable mention award

Tuna Nazlı Durmaz- Profesyonel İlgim Koleji/ Marmaris

My students participated in an essay contest about climate change and other environmental global issues of an international environment foundation Trust For Sustainable Living (TSL). The topic was"Partnership for a Sustainable Future". Over 70 countries participated in this contest and my students received "Honourable Mention" awards. I am very proud of them. Here you can read their essays.

Zeliha KALE -Teacher - Turkey,2020

My name is Meryem Ece and I'm eleven years old. I live in a small town in Turkey. Recently, I have seen some articles and I have watched some documentaries about climate change. We are experiencing the worst climate ever experienced in the world.

 Scientists can not predict what kind of climate it will be later. If we continue to do what we are doing, all living things will be affected but the humans will be the most miserable ones. I think that if we want to do something,we must do our best.

    I know, it is too late to change everything but we can try to change as much as we can. I think that a little change can make big differences. I am in a group of students who have been trying to change something in our school and at our homes. Maybe we won’t make a magic to sweep climate change but everybody (our teachers,friends,parents)tries to help us and improves our plans, I am sure that we will help nature.

      My first plan is to sell something in our school fair and with the money we earn, we will buy saplings. And we will plant them.

Secondly, we spoke to our principal to put recycle bins into our classes.We brought cardboard boxes in to our classrooms so that nobody could find an excuse not to throw them. These are all for now, but I am sure that we will do much more things like these. But,as I said before we can not change the most crucial things without large countries like China and the USA.

The earth has mostly damaged by these countries. On 1 April 2016, the United States and China, which to get her represent almost 40% of global emissions, issued a joint statement confirming that both countries would sign the Paris ClimateAgreement. On June1, 2017, United StatesPresident Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease the participation Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. Nobody has the right to damage our world to earn money.

You can earn money from different ways but when you damage the earth, maybe you won’t and can’t reform the nature as it was before.

Don’t be desperate. If we all want to do something, we can do. All we need is support and an international plan. I hope, we will have a healthy and a clean nature.

Trust For Sustainable Living

Essay Competiton-2020

*this article won an honorable mention award

Meryem Ece Horoz- Profesyonel İlgim Koleji/ Marmaris

What is Climate Change?

Donika Lici – Kongresi I Manastirit

Climate change refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate.

The global climate is the connected system of sun, earth and oceans, wind, rain and snow, forests, deserts and savannas, and everything people do, too. The climate of a place, say New York, can be described as its rainfall, changing temperatures during the year and so on.

But the global climate is more than the “average” of the climates of specific places.

A description of the global climate includes how, for example, the rising temperature of the Pacific feeds typhoons which blow harder, drop more rain and cause more damage, but also shifts global ocean currents that melt Antarctica ice which slowly makes sea level rise until New York will be under water.

It is this systemic connectedness that makes global climate change so important and so complicated.

Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere because an increased amount of the energy (heat) striking the earth from the sun is being trapped in the atmosphere and not radiated out into space.

The earth’s atmosphere has always acted like a greenhouse to capture the sun’s heat, ensuring that the earth has enjoyed temperatures that permitted the emergence of life forms as we know them, including humans.

Without our atmospheric greenhouse the earth would be very cold.

Global warming, however, is the equivalent of a greenhouse with high efficiency reflective glass installed the wrong way around.

Ionically, the best evidence of this may come from a terrible cooling event that took place some 1,500 years ago. Two massive volcanic eruptions, one year after another placed so much black dust into the upper atmosphere that little sunlight could penetrate. Temperatures plummeted. Crops failed. People died of starvation and the Black Death started its march. As the dust slowly fell to earth, the sun was again able to warn the world and life returned to normal.

Today, we have the opposite problem. Today, the problem is not that too little sun warmth is reaching the earth, but that too much is being trapped in our atmosphere.

So much heat is being kept inside greenhouse earth that the temperature of the earth is going up faster than at any previous time in history. NASA provides an excellent course module on the science of global warming.

How afect the global warming in some species?

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are the poster child for the impacts of climate change on species, and justifiably so. To date, global warming has been most pronounced in the Arctic, and this trend is projected to continue. There are suggestions that before mid-century we could have a nearly ice-free Arctic in the summer. This increases the urgency with which we must act to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change.

Polar bears have relatively high genetic diversity within the species and can disperse over very long distances, suggesting that they may have some capacity to adapt to the ongoing changes in the Arctic. However, their dependence on sea ice makes them highly vulnerable to a changing climate. Polar bears rely heavily on the sea ice environment for traveling, hunting, mating, resting, and in some areas, maternal dens. In particular, they depend heavily on sea ice-dependent prey, such as ringed and bearded seals. Additionally, their long generation time and low reproductive rate may limit their ability to adapt to changes in the environment.

Polar bears have relatively high genetic diversity within the species and can disperse over very long distances, suggesting that they may have some capacity to adapt to the ongoing changes in the Arctic.

However, their dependence on sea ice makes them highly vulnerable to a changing climate.

Polar bears rely heavily on the sea ice environment for traveling, hunting, mating, resting, and in some areas, maternal dens. In particular, they depend heavily on sea ice-dependent prey, such as ringed and bearded seals. Additionally, their long generation time and low reproductive rate may limit their ability to adapt to changes in the environment.

Can polar bear live in warm climate?

No, definitely not! Polar bears have quite many adaptations to survive in extreme cold weather. They cannot survive in warm weather—not even for one day. Polar bears will probably die in minutes if they are bred in warm habitats.

Why is the polar bear important? As an apex predator at the top of the food web, polar bears can signal that there are problems in the Arctic marine ecosystem. They are likely to be among the most significantly affected species as the Arctic warms and sea ice melts.

Polar bears overheat—a lot polar bear's body temperature runs around 98.6º Fahrenheit, typical for most mammals, but their adaptation to cold weather means they have an unfortunate propensity to overheat.

Seven different species of sea (or marine) turtles grace our ocean waters, from the shallow seagrass beds of the Indian Ocean, to the colorful reefs of the Coral Triangle and the sandy beaches of the Eastern Pacific. While these highly migratory species periodically come ashore to either bask or nest, sea turtles spend the bulk of their lives in the ocean. WWF's work on sea turtles focuses on five of those species: green, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, and olive ridley.

Over the last 200 years, human activities have tipped the scales against the survival of these ancient mariners. Slaughtered for their eggs, meat, skin, and shells, sea turtles suffer from poaching and over-exploitation.

They also face habitat destruction and accidental capture—known as bycatch—in fishing gear. Climate change has an impact on turtle nesting sites; it alters sand temperatures, which then affects the sex of hatchlings. Nearly all species of sea turtle are now classified as endangered, with three of the seven existing species being critically endangered.

WWF is committed to stopping the decline of sea turtles and works for the recovery of the species. We work to secure environments in which both turtles and the people that depend upon them can survive.

Weather extremes, also linked to climate change, mean more frequent and severe storms which alter nesting beaches, cause beach erosion, and inundate, or flood sea turtle nests. Hotter sand from increasing temperatures results in decreased hatching rates or complete nest failure.

Human use of nesting beaches can result in negative impacts to nesting turtles, incubating egg clutches and hatchlings. The most serious threat caused by increased human presence on the beach is the disturbance to nesting females. ... Beach Driving, either at night or during the daytime, can negatively impact sea turtles.

The panda, with its distinctive black and white coat, is adored by the world and considered a national treasure in China. This bear also has a special significance for WWF because it has been our logo since our founding in 1961.

Pandas live mainly in temperate forests high in the mountains of southwest China, where they subsist almost entirely on bamboo. They must eat around 26 to 84 pounds of it every day, depending on what part of the bamboo they are eating. They use their enlarged wrist bones that function as opposable thumbs.

A newborn panda is about the size of a stick of butter—about 1/900th the size of its mother—but females can grow up to about 200 pounds, while males can grow up to about 300 pounds as adults. These bears are excellent tree climbers despite their bulk.

How does climate change affect the giant panda?

Giant pandas have been allowed to persist only at elevations higher than land that can be used for productive agriculture. However, as the agricultural value of land in current panda habitat increases under a changing climate, activities like growing crops and grazing livestock may further encroach on their habitat.

Habitat loss and fragmentation remain the gravest threats to the survival of the species. A large proportion of the panda's habitat has already been lost: logged for timber and fuel wood, or cleared for agriculture and infrastructure to meet the needs of the area's booming population

Donika Lici – Kongresi I Manastirit

 Water And Its Secrets: Water Has A Memory

 Eleonora Burnete , Secondary School Saint Andrew Mangalia, Romania

Project eTwinning ,, WATER,,

The true nature of water, which is the source of life – is unknown. We still know very little about the fascinating properties of water and its secrets. However, we certainly agree with Leonardo Da Vinci who said that ‘water is the driving force of all nature‘.

Water hides a lot of power that we are able to release and shape with the help of the energy of our strong emotions, both positive and negative.

Thoughts and words have unique magnetic codes, which can interact with water; according to Dr. Emoto.

Masaru Emoto, a doctor of alternative medicine and first of all, a scientist with an open mind, has carried out worldwide water research and how it affects us, humans and our environment.

Emoto, who wrote several volumes of a work titled “Messages from Water”, is famous for his claims that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water.

Thoughts and words have unique magnetic codes, which can interact with water; according to Dr. Emoto.

Thoughts and words have unique magnetic codes, which can interact with water; according to Dr. Emoto.

His experiments with water showed that the water reacts for our words and depending on what we say and what emotions accompany our words, it creates either beautiful and harmonious shapes or ugly and irregular ones. We learn from Dr. Emoto that water has a memory – a memory far longer than our transient lifetimes.

The behavior of this memory can be compared to our modern CD storing digital data or magnetic tape.

Today, many scholars admit that water is an amazing substance capable of the efficient gathering of information from all things as soon as it comes in contact with them!

The behavior of water memory can be compared to our modern CD storing digital data or magnetic tape.

The theoretical physicist Emilio del Giudice at the University of Milano, Italy, could explain together with cooperators that water has the ability to store information over long periods of time.

Also, Vitold M. Bakhir, a Russian inventor and a mining engineer conducted many water memory experiments confirming the earlier results.

Jacques Benveniste (1935 – 2004), a French immunologist discovered that water holds a “memory”, and is able to digitally record and then digitally re-write other water, even when the substance has been removed from it.

Benveniste’s experiments were followed by many other scientists worldwide.

One of the Russian scientists, Alexander Stiepanow put a dish with distilled water on the forehead of a lying man. It was made to save microenergetic information extracted from the man. Then, Stiepanov began to study a graphic record (chart) of water used in his experiment with a special device.

Jacques Benveniste (1935 – 2004), a French immunologist discovered that water holds a “memory”, and is able to digitally record and then digitally re-write other water, even when the substance has been removed from it.

He compared it with another chart obtained in the case of ordinary water, not exposed to the biomagnetic field of the human being. These two charts were UNLIKE!

Now it was time for another experiment. Alexander Stiepanov put a glass of distilled water on exactly the same place but on photography of the man’s forehead.

Then, the scientist compared the graphic record obtained in the second experiment with the first one. Two graphic records were IDENTICAL!

The graph for water exposed to contact with the man’s forehead gave the same reading as the graph exposed only to the man’s forehead on photography.

The scientist repeated the experiment several times. The result was always the same.

The essence of the memory of water can be compared to the alphabetic puzzle – the same letters can be arranged into different words with different meanings, which have different information. Such letters are in the case of water – its molecules.

It’s like a “code” containing a whole range of relevant information and suitable properties but depending on many different factors. Similarly, as in the case of the genetic code of living organisms. 

WATER is one of the carriers of such information. This information can be transmitted further via the internet, phone lines. It’s hard to imagine what more can be made with this kind of information. The possible applications are innumerable.

Research into water is just beginning! New research from the Aerospace Institute of the University of Stuttgart in Germany supports Dr. Jacques Benveniste’s 1988 assertion that water has an imprint of energies to which it has been exposed.

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