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Behaviours – A warning message from our world

We are facing one of the biggest challenges in human history, the world is changing in a rhythm without precedents and most of us are unaware of the consequences and the danger we may face. Our behaviour is harming our world, the industry overproduces, over-extracts, over-pollutes and over-wastes to support our wealthy way of living. We have been so inconsequent in these past years, that we have started changing the ocean – which was thought to be far too big to be affected by us. https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/04/22/61/85/1000_F_422618559_aRLqzp8FaxIzkSf08dh496zKlAhba9I0.jpg The ocean is where life started, the most diverse forms of life live there. More than half of all oxygen that we breathe is from the ocean. It controls the climate by distributing the heat and the global temperature by absorbing the heat. Without a healthy ocean, there is no life on Earth. Yet, it is still an alien in our planet, we put billions into exploring what is out there and we forgot what our pri...

Sustainability with URBEM

URBEM is an NGO based in Lisbon, which aims to awaken citizens living in cities to Nature, through the conversion of spaces little used or with low biodiversity, into miniforests or fast-forests. Using the scientifically proven method of the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who privileges the introduction of endemic native species of low maintenance, we seek to involve the local community to carry out the numerous tasks of planting and maintaining each of these spaces. Equally important are the educational and cultural taskspromoted around these spaces, with the aim of sensitizing the various age groups of the community on various themes related to nature. At the moment URBEM is responsible for two fast-forests in Lisbon - Parque da Montanha in Bela vista - in partnerships with the Lisbon City Council and the European projects CONEXUS and LIFE-LUNGs. In addition to these initiatives, the implementation of more miniforests is planned in 2023 - 2024, partnering not only with the L...

Sustainability with Lego

We were challenged to talk about sustainability. However, this was not a common conversation, where we debated our ideas and came to a conclusion. Instead, we demonstrated our thoughts through Lego. Each one of us had the same amount of pieces and had to create what was, in our opinion, an example of what's not sustainable. Here are the results: Picture 1 - Overpopulation & Industrialization Picture 2 - Polluting vehicles Picture 3 - Pools in dry regions Picture 4 - Vehicles that destroy nature Picture 5 - Factories Picture 6 - Short distance flights Picture 7 - Formula 1 from the future After presenting our creations, we faced another challenge: If what we had just created was not sustainable, then what was? We now had acess to all the Lego bricks available in the classroom, leaving us with the opportunity to spread our creativity on the table. We delievered it as pictured: Picture 8 - Sustainable energy from garbage Picture 9 - Creating a new enviroment for the animals; refl...

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