Erasmus: Workshop „The Ecological Handprint”

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The Ecological Footprint is the only metric that measures how much nature we have and how much nature we use.
Ecological Footprint accounting measures the demand on and supply of nature.
On the demand side, the Ecological Footprint adds up all the biologically productive areas for which a population, a person or a product competes. It measures the ecological assets that a given population or product requires to produce the natural resources it consumes and to absorb its waste, especially carbon emissions.
On the supply side, a city, state or nation’s biocapacity represents the productivity of its ecological assets (including cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds, and built-up land). These areas, especially if left unharvested, can also serve to absorb the waste we generate, especially our carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel.
The Ecological Footprint is also a method to calculate the individual carbon footprint expressed in use of weight of CO2.

In our Workshop we focused on The Ecological Handprint aiming to understand how individuals and communities can expand their actions that have a positive impact on our planet. The Ecological Handprint is a symbol and a measurement of our commitment to positive actions the planet will benefit from in the present and the future. An important part of expanding our handprint is encouraging others to take positive action – not only do we grow our own handprint, but others’ as well. When we join together with many others to multiply our actions, our handprints grow even more.

The students worked in four areas of positive action on the subjects of Transportation, Food, Energy and Consumption. They discussed positive possibilities to reduce emissions and live in a more climate-friendly manner. They designed their results in a creative way as a handprint with pictures, pieces of information, slogans.

Next Erasmus activity was a guided tour of the Museum Las Claras.

 

All posts about the Erasmus project can be found here.

erstellt am: 26.11.2024 von Julia Kabatas

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