Zeitgeist 2011

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Francisco Matos: Our work is about recyclable art.
Daniela: Our work is aimed at sensitizing the school community to recycle as a way of getting funny and useful objects and helping the environment.
Vera: In this work we used cardboard boxes and cardboard as a way of drawing the attention of students to collaborate with us, calling the attention and asking them to put used water bottles, juice and cookie packets and in boxes placed in different places of the school.
Maria João: We also took advantage of the English recycling task, using the materials we had separated at home.
Sara Amaro: In the video we show how our work was prepared and the amount of recycled objects we created.
Francisco Matos: These are some examples of recycled art, where we can see than we can do many things with recycled materials.
Vera: Here are some examples of recycled art objects that we made using recycled materials.
Daniela: We hope you enjoyed our work.
Sara Amaro: And don’t forget: recycle and help the planet!

Daniela Ramalhete, Maria João, Francisco Matos, Vera Pereira, Sara Amaro

Group Work

Guide

WASTE OF WATER

Presentation of work (Sara)

Our work is about waste of water in our school. Our work is based on measuring the amount of water pour a tap on a bathroom, a survey conducted by us and the visit to the cistern 2 of our ETAR.

it's amazing the amount of water that a public building, in this case a school, spend! We made a survey a population of 43 students of our school! The school spend much water but it has some solutions, like we gonna see later.

By caretaker of our school we could visit cistern 2 of our ETAR. It’s amazing a complexity the ETAR! With this visit we discovery that our school have too a hole, one perforation to remove water in underground.

Now, we gonna see a short video made by us – this video is a presentation of our work. Later, rita will talk about our ETAR and Linda and Mafalda will talk about the results of surveys.

We hope you enjoy and make sensitized for this important issue of our day: save water!

ETAR (Rita)

There is a system of treatment and reuse of water f or units 1, 2, 3 and 4 constituted by a set of elements destined to collect water from rain and residual water (sinks and showers) wich uses two wells pumping, located between units 2 and 3, to lead the water for storage in cistern 1.
These waters are conducted to a treatment station in order to be deposited in the cistern 2. From the cistern 2 these waters are conducted to the reuse system of water for toilets and urinals and to the firefighting system.

Surveys (Linda and Mafalda)

1. As we can see fifty-two percent of the interviewed say that they turn on the tap to the end, which is the equivalent of twenty-two people. Forty-eight percent say that they turn on the tap halfway, which is the equivalent of twenty-one people. We conclude that the majority of the interviewed are unaware of the water that is being wasted.
2. We found that fourteen percent of the interviewed play with water troughs in the summer, which is the equivalent of six people. Eighty-six percent do not play with water, equivalent of thirty-seven people. We can conclude that the majority of the interviewed are concerned with the, unnecessary, waste of water.
3. About the existence of the ETAR, fifty-one percent are aware of their existence (twenty two people). And twenty-one people are unaware of the existence of an ETAR at school, equals forty-nine percent of the interviewed.
4. Thirty-eight percent of the interviewed (sixteen people) said that they turned on the shower tap twice. Twenty-four percent (ten people) said that they turned on the tap four times in the shower.
5. Regarding the purchase of bottled water per week at school. Sixty-seven percent affirmed that they usually buy water (twenty-nine people) and sixty-seven percent affirmed that they do not buy it (twenty-nine people).

From the ones who answered that they usually buy water, sixty-six percent (nineteen people) buy every week a bottle of water, ten percent (three people) buy two bottles, seventeen percent (five people) buy three bottles, and seven percent (two people) buy four bottles.

To conclude we can say that there are still many people buying bottled water, when they can simply drink tap water, because it is perfectly safe.

English group work

This is video of work about garbage on the school floor.

Work by, Emanuel, Guilherme, João Costa and João Alexandre

Anjali Appadurai, UN Climate Change Conference

"A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic-check from the stage - a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done. So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep cuts now. Get it done," Appadurai says.

 

Getting to Zero

"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you"

"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you". This is the slogan of a campaign by ONE and (RED), two organizations fighting against AIDS. Some of their objectives are by 2015, to be able to provide treatment to the millions more who need it, drastically reduce new infections, and virtually end the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. 

2011 marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS. Today - December 1st - is World AIDS Day. 

The (2015)QUILT is a symbol of their struggle. It's a piece of digital artwork from people all over the world who are fighting for the first AIDS free generation in 30 years. You have the chance to create and share your own panel. join me, along with millions of ONE and (RED) supporters and create your own panel on the (2015)QUILT.

And, as a bonus, you get to download a Christmas song by the Killers for free.

Here are my panels:

 

'evolution of human stupidity'

Hey guys! I saw this image on facebook, and I decided to share this with you. No words... !

recycling

My recycling week was very interesting. With this experience I saw that it costs you nothing to put your recyclable garbage in the correct ecopoint recycling container, because in this way we help to prevent many environmental problems that lead to the destruction of our planet And if many thought like me, we would live on a healthier planet. Altogether I got a total of 6kg of recyclable garbage this week. I'm satisfied with the amount of packaging which can be recycled, so I think the experience was worth it!

Recycling

Hello everyone!

After a week without putting waste in the recycling containers, I realized even more the amount of garbage that a person, in this case a family, produces. After joining and separating all the garbage I got:

- 1kg of paper / cardboard

- About 800g plastic (Milk cartons: about 1.2 kg)

- Organic waste (I don’t weighed, but of all the garbage, organic waste was about half).

Despite the plastic being less weighs, the plastic container was that has more waste. This is normal because for almost all products that we buy today are surrounded by plastic.

I did a "construction" with almost all the waste that my family did this week. Through the collected waste, I tried to represent almost all types of environmental pollution that man does (industrial pollution, "domestic" pollution, pollution by vehicles and river pollution) sensitizing all do so for the sorting of waste and we don’t pollute the environment, show how it looks "ugly" our planet is made ​​up garbage.

Many of us still don’t have the sensitivity to preserve our planet! Nobody like to see litter in their house, walking through the house and step on waste. Planet Earth is a home to everyone, so we must treat it as the house of every one of us, that is uniquely ours! We must separate their garbage in order to save the planet, not wasting the already limited resources so that the planet has to give us. Don’t pollute the rivers, because they give us is that which is so essential for us: Water!

If we all work together, we preserve the "health" of the planet for it during much more years!

Sara Nunes

Recycling

This week in my house i lived a new experience, to recycle all the garbage.
The kilos of garbage was counted 14kg then again a lot of garbage.
Well by analyzing the amounts of garbage and thinking on a planetary scale can be seen the influence that recycling is not for the pollution of the planet.
A little help from each can be a great help to the planet.

This is my work about Recycling.

During a week i had a new experience...Recycling!!!
During this week i talked with my family and we decide recycle.

In this video you can see the quantity of garbage that we did in one week.
I have to say that we don´t have the habit of recycle, this was the first time that we did it, but all of us know the importance of recycle. It helps our planet to have less pollution and be a healthier planet.
I liked this experience because i learnt where put the plastic, the glass, and the paper in respective boxes.
All of us should recycle! It´s so easy and a simples action helps our planet!
Don´t you want have a new and beautifull planet???
So don´t wait, 
You can do the difference!!!

Task 4 - Recycling Experiment

This week the task was about reclycling! During 7 days we were suposed to collect the garbage and separate it, in order to see how much of the total garbage the recycled garbage were.
I separated it into four diferent species, plastic, glass, paper and organic waste

plastic: milks, juice, yogurts, plastic, etc (4.6 kg)
glass: wine bottle, beer, flask, etc (5.1 kg)
paper: cereals, packet of cigarettes, pill box, etc (3.3 kg)

here are some images

About the organic waste it was to my little pig eheh say hello to Briosa!!

To finish I would just like to say that if we all contributed we could make the world a better place :)

Task 4

Right, here i show you that what i could recylce during a week. I Know that is a bad recycle because it can be more, but i never in my life, me and my family, had the habit of recycling. During this week i forgot sometimes to put the garbage on the right place, sometimes i put on my garbage can. In first picture, we can see the papers and the the cards too, ohhh and my swetty cat!! In the second picture, we can see both, the cards and papers, and the plastic. In the third picture we see da plastic. Lack glass, but in fact i didn't ''produced'' glass like i thought, so, neither on glass :(( SORRY GLASS! (he will kill me)
I didn't weighed the trash because my balance don't works, and i don't know the percentage about my recycling during a week, but i can tell you that made a good difference here in my home.
We all know that is importante use recycled materials that day, these will improve the results of pollution in Planet, is obvious that don't is just this measure that will change our Planet but is one of many that can make a difference.
This week it was a week about recycle in my house and i hope that i can improve my way of protecting th environment!!

Recycling experiment

• In my house during a week my family and I had a new experience, recycling the garbage.
• Since Wednesday (16/11/2011) to Wednesday (23/11/2011) we recycle the garbage. After one week we can watch the quantity garbage of we can recycle, is the big quantity the garbage we can recycle and didn’t before.
• With this experience I realized a quantity the garbage that can recycle and we don’t do. The result that obtained is 8 Kg of glass, 2 kg of paper and 4 kg of plastic, the facts is a big quantity the garbage that we can recycle.
• With this experience I realized the quantity the garbage that I can recycle to help our planet. Through a simples gesture we can help our planet to be a planet greener and healthier.
• This is the experience interesting and we can realize that we can help our planet and we don’t do.
• Was a new experience that should be then forward so that we can have a beautiful planet.

Recycling Experiment . daniela sofia

Recycling is very important because with it we are helping our planet and reduce the pollution on our planet.
With this project , in my house, in a week i joined about a third of recyclables. I think it's good because at home we do not have much in the habit of recycling. It's a small gesture that can help our planet. And in addition to more, recycling is so easy: just put paper or cardboard boxes in blue ecopoint , glass in the green , and packaging, cans, bottles plastic and bags in the yellow ecopoint .
do as I, recycle and help the planet!

Back to the start

Sustainability is one of our main worries today (or at least it should be). It's time to rethink our actions, learn with our mistakes and change for the better.

Task 4 Recycling experiment

This task requires the involvement of your household.

It is going to be quite simple: during a week, separate the garbage you produce at home and keep the one that can be recycled (paper, glass, metal, plastic, batteries, etc.). Weigh it to check the amount from your total garbage that can be recycled (Weigh different types of garbage separately - plastic/metal, glass, paper, etc.).

Document your experiment with pictures and write a brief report on it.

Here you have some instructions and links to help you:
Recycling Guide UK
Sociedade Ponto Verde
Deco

Our planet seen from the International Space Station

This is a video suggestion I got from National Geographic. It's a " time-lapse flyover made with NASA photos taken 240 miles above Earth from the International Space Station.". Once more: our planet is really beautiful!

Recently did a video about some of my best friends, and I found interesting to share with you ... hope you like

Weather Rapport by Levi Tafari

ozone friendly

Weather Rapport - Levi Tafari by João Pereira

linda inês

This is my video about the poem "A Match made in Heaven" by Levi Tafari

Ozone friendly poem by Big Boss

Ozone Friendly - Levi Tafari

Hello! This is my video about Ozone Friendly - Levi Tafari

Here i send to you my viedeo about Levi Tafari :)

Weather Rapport

here goes my beautiful video, I hope you enjoy the best! :)

Levi Tafari- Weather Rapport. Carolina f.

A Match Made in Heaven

Hey!! This is my video about the poem of Levi Tafari. Hope you all enjoy it! :)

hello, this is my video about the poems by Levi Tafari

Task 3 - 7 Billion

Watch the video 7 Billion by National Geographic. After carefully thinking about it, to write a comment on it.

  

Levi Tafari - Weather Rapport

Hello! Here's my video about one of the poems by Levi Tafari ... I hope you enjoy!

7 Billion

"The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? "

River Mondego

How can we not care about our environment?

Hey guys, Halloween is almost here! I found out this video and decided to share it with you, hope you enjoy it!

Our beautiful home

Isn't our home awesome?

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Generation Awake

This is a new campaign by the European Commission "to raise awareness about the need to use natural resources wisely, and to encourage citizens to think about their impact on the planet when making purchasing decisions."

To know more, click on the logo.

Task 2 - Environment poetry video

Levi Tafari, a British poet, has some great poems on environmental issues. You can check some here.

One of the fabulous things about poetry is that each of us create our own "pictures" in our mind as we read/listen to it. Share does "pictures" with us! How? Choose one of Levi Tafari's poems and create a video to illustrate it.

Here are some of the resources you can use to create your video:

• Animoto
• PhotoPeach
• PictureTrail
• Microsoft Movie Maker
• Microsoft Photostory
• Slideshare

New Challenge

We have a new challenge:

Steve Jobs

Inspiring

Emanu´s Footsprint

I am amazed by the result because I thought it was worse, but the bottom remains very ... I have to think of better ways to help improve our planet, because every gesture makes a difference

Change the World in 5 Minutes

This is a video to inspire your group work for this term.

Task 1: Footprint Calculator

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) offers you a simple way to assess your impact on the environment. It is fast and it can give you a new perspective on your acts and ideas for the future.

To use it, click on this link and follow the instructions. 

Then, leave your feedback here, in the "Comments". Tell us about the result and whether you were surprised with it.

resume of the documentary by Emanuel Brás

In class on 4 October, which saw a documentary called "Home" ... The subject was treated in 200,000 years on Earth, mankind has upset the balance of the planet, established for almost 4 billion years of evolution and that humanity was about 10 years to reverse this effect and become aware of the full extent the destruction of the Earth and change their consumption patterns ... The director of the documentary is Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Documentary

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooo friends.. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but no problem..
The other day we start seeing a documentary about the planet Earth, and I really enjoyed it. It had lots of beautiful sights and it transmitted to us the importance of preservating the natural resources. It also showed us the evolution of the planet over the years, and it sensitized us to worry more about the planet.

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Documentary (04.10.2011)

The documentary seen on replacing English class was really interesting. He showed us the changes of the planet earth over the years and it is not only important to save human lives as well as other ecosystems. It is important to think that ultimately we are not only unique visitors on Earth. Trees and all other animals are our friends, it's true! The towns and villages develop their own, forgetting that particular environment is increasingly at risk. Man becomes increasingly dangerous, and when it's all over, are we the only culprit. Since our subject of study will be the environment I think is well suited to the documentary, was used so that animals and realize that simple things are as or more important than us.

Commentary on the documentary "Home"

On 4 October 2011, in English class of 11ºI, we saw “Home”, a documentary about environment and how man is threatening the ecological balance. It was made by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a french journalist, phtographer and environmentalist, in 2009.

The documentary shows the story of our planet Earth, since the beginnings to present days. Show us how life began in this planet and how it was developing to our days.

We saw this documentary to part where show the big cities like New York.

Man began to threaten Earth with agriculture. After, with discovery of fire, petrol, with formation of cities, with appearance of trade, with the construction of the big buildings, with excessive hunting, etc.

In the beginning, the man belongs to Earth. Actually, the Earth belongs to man.

I’m really enjoying watching this documentary because I love seeing these types of programs and because I’m very interested in such issues.