Four meetings, free and online, to learn how be kinder to our planet, in a specific way, but also moments of sharing and helping to identify environmental fake news. He will do these lessons Vandana Shiva, the most important theorist of social ecology. Political activist and environmentalist, Vandana Shiva will speak unfiltered about how our behaviors are destroying the planet, suggesting strategies to be influential and decisive with others.
We live in one society invaded by plastic products and oil. Our daily habits are destroying the planet’s ecosystem, endangering our lives and the lives of the entire planet. The network of plastic-free schoolswhich includes meetings with Vandana Shiva, was born precisely from the need to educate future generations to invent all possible ways to replace the use of plastic with alternative, sustainable and environmentally friendly materialsencouraging the creativity of students and children as a tool to change the habits of adults.
The free online course
Meetings are free and open to all addressed above all to students, the generation of the futurewho will acquire specific skills in digital citizenship education, with particular attention event checking and more demystification of fake newsso that they can in turn become trainers for categories affected by the digital divide or who need to be informed about digital issues, such as the elderly and the very young, in order to create a virtuous circle of sharing skills and experiences.
The meetings are organized by the European Knowledge Hub – IC Bosco Chiesanuova, the permanent school network coordinating the European Erasmus+ Project, Plastic-Free Schools Movement.
Vandana Shiva dating in English is:
The November 30 2023 5 p.m. – We are Nature, we are Biodiversity; LARGE’December 11and 2023 at 5 p.m. – Soil Not Oil. From the age of oil, petrochemicals and plastics to the age of Terra Madre, soil, earth; The January 19 2024 5 p.m. – The Planet, Health is one Health: how food connects soil, biodiversity and climate; and February 20 2024 5 p.m. – Earth Republic: liberation for all beings – environmental fake news.
To join the meetings for free, you must sign up at this link.
Who is Vandana Shiva?
Vandana Shiva is quantum physicist and economist and has always been one environmental activist. Known thanks to the book Monocultures of the mind (1995), a worldwide bestseller, was also made famous in Italy by 2009 documentary by Ermanno Olmi, Mother earth, which tells the story of the rice harvest, near Navdanya Farm in the Doon Valley, where the seeds of local rice varieties are kept, passed down from generation to generation. Vandana Shiva hails from these regions, she was born in a town in Uttar Pradesh, inNortheast India. His family is progressive and has always been dedicated Gandhian struggle on overcoming caste in India.
He spent his childhood between the forests of Rajahstan and the farm managed by his mother, in the charm and majesty of nature. In 1982 he created the Research Foundation for Natural Resources Science, Technology and Policy, an independent research institute, and in 1987 Navdania (in Hindi, nine seeds), a project involving rural Indian communities to promote conservation biodiversity and the rights of farmers.
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