If you are going to the beach this weekend, don’t forget to bring your sunscreen! However… did you know that 14.000 tonnes of sunscreen reach every year coral reefs, making them susceptible to bleaching, deforming baby coral and degrading its resilience to climate change? Most of the sunscreens are made from chemical UV filters of Read more about Sunscreens: do they really protect us?[…]
Taking advantage of the last weeks of class, the SbE Barcelona team realised four more workshops to secondary school students of ages comprised between 11 and 13 years old. These events were held at Escola Arrels, a concerted school located in Sant Andreu’s district. Being aware of the great success achieved with the Sustainability by Read more about Workshop at Escola Arrels, in Barcelona[…]
How many times may our parents have told us that we must not waste the food? And even though, are we really aware of the amount of food that is wasted every day in our planet and its consequence at an economical and environmental level? Every day, around 1.3 billion tons of food suitable for Read more about The major issue of food waste[…]
Last Saturday, May 15, three Sustainability by Education instructors went to the Luis Buñuel Spanish High School, in the west of Paris, for another day of workshops and talks to school students! The theme was again “Sustainability and Energy”, and the talk followed the same pattern as the previous ones but with some changes. In Read more about Workshop at the Spanish High School in Paris[…]
This is the continuation of a two-part article on the Fridays for Future movement. To read the first part, about the origins and expansion of the movement, please head here. The big strike of March 15th Fridays for Future’s growth and expansion during the fall of 2018 and beginning of 2019 culminated in the Global Read more about Fridays for Future and the rise of climate strikers around the world: A review on the movement’s origins, its impact and its future (II/II)[…]
On March 15th, more than 1,400,000 students around the world took to the streets to protest government inaction on climate change, in what was considered the biggest global climate action in history. More than 2,000 protests took place in over 125 countries, with Europe being the leading region in terms of organization and participation. These Read more about Fridays for Future and the rise of climate strikers around the world: A review on the movement’s origins, its impact and its future (I/II)[…]