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Books, movies, ted talks about sustainability

Here you can find list of some books, documentaries and Ted talks if you want to learn more about sustainability and ecology. Books: 1. Eating animals - Jonathan Safran Foer 2. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - William McDonough & Michael Braungart 3. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future - David Attenborough 4. On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal - Naomi Klein 5. Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future - Mary Robinson 6. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability – Designing for Abundance - William McDonough & Michael Braungart Documentaries: 1. Seaspiracy (2021) 2. Cowspiracy (2014) 3. RiverBlue (2017) 4. Garbage Island (2008) 5. An Inconvenient truth (2006) 6. Planet Ocean (2012) Ted talks: 1. Olivia Tyler: The Complex Path to Sustainability 2. Alex Steffen: The Route to a Sustainable Future 3. Mike Biddle: We Can Recycle Plastic 4. Tomas Saraceno: Would you live in a floating city in the...

Tools used in the project

In order to achieve a remarkable result throughout some activities that involve people with a common aim , there have to be implemented some tools that would help in learning and understanding a topic, so that is why some magic tools are important for a project that provides sustainability, too. Furthermore, these are the ones used in our LLLS journey: Firstly, some icebreakers aka activities to get to know each other For example, making a circle with the whole group so each person, one by one, says his/her name and associates it with an animal and a gesture. Another game is the Clock game: the one that help people meet and discuss on a topic for about 3-4 minutes for every hour of a clock (12 meeting per general) Secondly, to start the team-building there is another activity by staying in a circle with eyes closed and trying to take 2 random hands and then untying the formed knot of hands connecting to the nature and learning more about what it means, what everybody is doin...

I CAN DO IT more sustainable

In today’s day and age, learning how to be more sustainable is mandatory in achieving an increased quality of life.          As a consequence of human expansion, our planet is suffering from daily amounts of non-recyclable waste, for example plastic waste, food and water waste, energy waste, compulsive shopping, etc.—           Everything we use and buy has an environmental footprint and consequence. If you would like to put your daily choices under control, it’s time to get informed and take action in order to save the planet, because we only have one.             Also, in case you think individual effort doesn’t cound, let’s rethink this argument.               According to the EPA, the average person in the U.S. produces  4.9 pounds of trash per day , as of 2018. That's equates to about 147 pounds of trash per person per month, or 1,788.5 pounds per year. That's up ...