Be green don't be mean

ITALIAN STUDENTS IN JASLO

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Hi !
the moment to visit Jaslo has come at last !
The delegation of Italian students - Elisa, Valentina, Elena, Simone and Nicolò - left with their two teachers Mrs Morlacchi and Mrs Rossetti for Poland on Sunday 20th April. After a rather long but exciting air + bus trip we reached our friends in Jaslo who
welcomed us with their host families. Our adventure in Poland could start !

Here you can see Elisa in the role of the crazy chemist ! On our first day at school we made tests on the quality of river and tap water we had taken from Italy. It was quite a nice experiment of multilingual scientific session !

We had a lot of fun and could put in practice what we learn at school in our Chemistry class.

After all the efforts at school, here we are on a mountain track on the top of Liwotz mountain.

We really enjoyed the fresh air and the beautiful nature in the woods ! How different from our towns at home !!

On Tuesday our day started with an official visit to the Province Administration.
After exchanging some information about our project and our school , we were given some presents and shown the main parts of the building hosting the offices of the Province Administration.
We also talked about the possibility to cooperate in the near future with new projects involving tourism, languages , culture and sports.

EU ENVIRONMENT COMMISSION COMING TO NEAPLES

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The EU Environment Commission will be in Neaples on 15 February.

Independently from the results of the emergency plan started by the Italian local government, Brussels wants to carry on the infraction procedure against Italy for disrespecting the directives on rubbish disposal.

The procedure will follow three steps and after the first warnings the EU will send the Italian government an official evaluation of the status of the crisis.

From then on Italy will have two months to comply with EU directives.

If the results still are not satisfactory, Italy will be condamned to paying a fine ranging from 9920€ to 714000€ for each day of infraction.

The worst is that the procedure is expected to finish not sooner than 2010.

FIRST REACTIONS - LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION TO THE CRISIS

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In Neaples even priests are asking people to start the rubbish segregation as the only way to overcome the crisis.

In Quarto ( Neaples ) there are about 2900 tons of rubbish scattered along the roads, close to the houses despite the intervention of the army forces.

In San Giorgio ( Neaples ) soldiers have created two special areas for paper and plastics.

The town administration is working on a 5 - point program:

1) opening a site in town for segregated way

2) starting a door-to-door collection system for segregated waste

3) carrying out an information campaign

4) organizing police controls

5) planning regular assessments

In Ariano ( Neaples ) on Friday a protest against the opening of the landfill of " Difesa Grande " was organised. The landfill is supposed to receive 42000 tons of waste.

But the problem is not common to all towns in Campania. The mayors of 150 towns wrote a letter to the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, to inform him that their administrations started rubbish segregation succesfully years ago. The declared their intention to support other towns in their first steps along this way.

STUDENTS IN NEAPLES EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS

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From the compositions made by the students of the 9th grade of Liceo Virgilio in Pozzuoli, Neaples, we can have an insight into the way young people see and live the dramatic waste crisis in Neaples.

Their thoughts and ideas are very clear and linear.

They suggest being more respectful to the environment and starting recycling; they criticize the local and regional governments and the organized criminality, the Camorra.

They propose to recude the use of plastics and prefer paper and glass instead and to choose not to use plastic shopping bags and extra-packing.

Everybody thinks that 15-year-olders don't care about these problems, but this is completely wrong: young teenagers speak about it and they are perfectly aware that their future is in danger.

LIVING WITH A LANDFILL

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A lot of people in Campania have to live in close contact with landfills to set Neaples free from rubbish.

Opening the existing ( and already closed ) landfills is simply inevitable, said the extraordinary commissioner for the rubbish emergency in Campania in an interview.

He assured he is trying to do his best to create a basis of awareness and common sense which are the only way to overcome the problem.

He called everybody to help reducing the huge amounts of rubbish, starting from the world of industry and trade.

The commissioner declared that by the 28th January 90 tons of rubbish were removed from the streets.

The people of the towns which are most affected by the situation keep protesting in front of their town halls and in the streets.

RUBBISH EMERGENCY IN ITALY

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Since Christmas some parts of the region of Campania in Southern Italy have been living a real emergency.

Tons of rubbish have remained uncollected for weeks and now the situation is collapsing.

The responsibility is in the hands of local politicians who have joined forces with the local criminal system.

All around the world the image and reputation of Italy is seriously endangered.

The consequences for Italian economy and tourism are already visible and will have a serious impact in the upcoming months.

We have collected some newspaper articles and realised a short press report about some of the most important aspects of this sad moment of our history.

Stay tuned and send in your comments !

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM ITALY !

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To all our friends in Poland

BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR !

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FROM THE PHOTO GALLERY : VISIT OF JASLO STUDENT IN CASTELLANZA

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NEW POSTERS

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NEW POSTERS : GALLERY UPDATE

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Hello to everybody !
Here are some new posters made by the Jaslo students on the topic of rubbish disposal and recycling !
A complete poster gallery will be ready on the website of our project : http://www.zs3.jaslo.pl/etwinning/index.htm

Enjoy the visit !

Thursday 25th October

2007-11-01T00:30:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we had the hardest day at school. We were divided into three groups and worked on different things: a power point presentation about our visit at AMGA, the first blog update and the audio-vocabulary.
We recorded our voices for some of the words of our Environment related vocabulary and we also decided to make a little Communication Kit so that we can learn some Polish and some Italian ! It was a lot of work but it was fun too.
In the afternoon we took a train and went to Como, to see the lake and go shopping.
The weather looked slightly better when we left but it was cloudy most of the afternoon. At least it didn't rain ! As usual the visit was too short but we found some presents for our friends and relatives.
In the evening we had a farewell dinner at school. There were lots of different things to eat which the families of the hosting students had prepared. We also watched a slideshow of some of the pictures we took during these four days.
The it was time to say good-bye !

VISIT OF THE POLISH DELEGATION TO CASTELLANZA

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Monday 22

h. 12.30 Meeting with the six Jaslo’s school students and their two teachers.
h. 1.40 p.m. They met our headmaster prof. ANTONIO VINCI.
h. 2.30 p.m. After a lunch break we visited the town of Castellanza.
h. 4.00 p.m. We came back home.

Thursday 23

h. 8.30 a.m. Presentation of Jaslo school.
h. 10.00 a.m. Meeting with the Major of Castellanza.
h. 11.00 a.m Visit to the private university “LIUC”. It is a very beautiful school.
h. 12.00 Presentation of our project focusing on illegal waste cycle and waste disposal.
h. 2.10 p.m. We took the train to Milan.
h. 6.00 p.m. We came back home.

Wednesday 24

h. 08.30 a.m. Students from Italy and Poland met again at Fermi institute to attend classes where we talked about waste disposal and prepared for a trip to AMGA.
We spent three hours at Amga, the manager told us about the system of rubbish collection and segregation provided by this company.
h. 10.30 a.m. we were taken to a place where rubbish trucks arrive and we took a photo.
h. 12.30 Lunch break.
h. 3.00 p.m. Visit to Legnano.
h. 6.00 p.m. We came back home.
h. 7.00 p.m. We had a barbecue, the party was great!

Thrilled about our first meeting !

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Hello to everybody,
just one more week and we'll finally have our first E-Twinning meeting !
Here at Fermi we are ( almost ! ) ready to welcome your delegation from Jaslo and we hope that our Polish students and teachers will enjoy their stay.
We'll try to keep everybody at home updated through this blog, ok ?

Come back soon !

prof. Rossetti

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Poster contest

2007-04-28T15:15:00.000-07:00

Hello to everybody !

The poster contest on energy saving is officially open !

Here are some contributions from the Jaslo students. You are kindly invited to share your comments and opinions.

Welcome !

2007-04-03T14:44:00.000-07:00

Dear students of the E-twinning project " Be green, don't be mean ",
welcome to your brand new blog !
This space will be used as an instrument to exchange views, comments, suggestions about our products on the topic of ENERGY.
Our deadline for the competition Save Energy is April 22nd !

Keep up the good work !

The teachers' staff