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The New Green Island

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Aiming to become an Eco-island by 2020, Gozo and the Gozitans are trying their best to conserve the natural and historical heritage left for us by our forefathers.  Eco-Gozo is an effort to transform Gozo into a sustainable island, where the ecology and economy balance each other.  The success of Eco-Gozo depends on the education of the citizens, and the local government and NGOs are collaborating to achieve this goal.



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The Gozo Heritage

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As part of my Systems of Knowledge examination I decided to do voluntary work with Wirt Għawdex, a Gozitan NGO that takes care of the heritage left for us in Gozo, under the area of the Environment.  During this experience, I got involved with this organisation and learnt more about the values regarding the environment.



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Sustainability Club

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The Sustainability Club at St.Clare College Girls’ Secondary School Pembroke is training the students to be environmental friendly by teaching them how to be creative with things that normally ends in the dustbin. The students are shown how not to throw away things that may be used later. So a recycling scheme was introduced in the school, which will show how to recycle more and so send less to the landfill by using the five R’s Re-think, Reduce, Replace, Reuse and Recycle.



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Stopping Illegal Dumping of Waste!

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I went around Cospicua to see if the environment is well kept. I found that a part of Cospicua is clean but a particular area is full of rubbish and discarded things. See photos. Such sites lead to a bad reputation for Cospicua because if tourists come they will say that Cospicua is full of abandoned waste. Then tourists will not come any more. If we keep the environment of Cospicua in a good state it will be an attraction for tourists.



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Stop Turtle Cruelty!

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There were once several million green sea turtles worldwide. Today, however, there are only less than 200,000 nesting females alive! Processes and slaughters 15,000 to 20,000 a year continue despite the government set quota of 4,000. Turtle egg gathering and trading is also rampant throughout Indonesia.



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Stop overfishing now!

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Nowadays, I think that many families depend on fish for their food supply but we have come to a point that many types of fish are becoming endangered as for example the Blue Fin Tuna. Many organisations around the world are trying to do their best to advocate about this problem of overfishing, but not every country is actually doing their best.



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Spread the word to save the world

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The way the world is being destroyed is called pollution and it is very harmful to the biodiversity and ecosystem. There are several ways how pollution can be made but they can be divided into four groups which are sea pollution, air pollution, land pollution and noise pollution.



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Solar Panels: Source of Clean Energy, an Expensive Equipment or an Eyesore?

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Solar panels are a form of active solar power. Through solar cells or photovoltaic cells placed in a grid-like pattern on the surface of the solar panels, they collect sunlight during daylight hours and turn it into electricity. In this way, solar panels make use of renewable energy from the sun, and are a clean way of collecting solar energy.



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Progression that is Leading to Regression

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Location Naxxar.  Date 10/2/2010.  On my Dad’s insistence I was made to go to mass since for us Maltese, the 10th of February is a public holiday- the feast of St.Paul’s shipwreck.  I was still a few days from a couple of exams that required alot to study and to be honest, I was quite frustrated since I felt that I was not well prepared although my mind was stuffed with alot of definitions and formulas.  These left me no idea on what should I write in order to criticise development and other agents of nature destruction.



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‘Please help save the world.’

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The call from all generations was clear: ‘Please help save the world’, as the biggest climate change summit in history COP15, opened in Copenhagen on December 7th 2009. All around the world, global warming has become an international problem which if, all generations won’t act together, will cause disasters and hazards across the world.



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