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How can you help saving the endangered oceans?
In this article, we will explain why oceans are more than ever threatened by overfishing and plastic pollution, and how can *you* contribute to save them. 📽 At the end of it, a short video will sum up the main information. 📖 You will find an “Ocean and Sea Guide”, to keep always next to[…]
AT CORFU, YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS DETERMINED TO SAVE ERIMITIS
On the Greek island of Corfu (community of Senies), young greeks are organizing a resistance against a project which they consider to be an ecological, social and economic disaster. Since 2016, the New York investment fund NCH Capital has held the title to “the Kassiopi property”. A 99-year concession, priced at 23 million euros. And[…]
Sterotypes and rumors
Stereotypes are part of our everyday life. People have to face imaginations of other people either they want or not. As a touristic place, also Lefkadian people have to face prejudices. Did you ever hear of Germans wearing socks in sandals, Austrians drinking loads of beers, English who are always sunburned, Norwegians who are easily[…]
The organic certification in Greece
Starting to work against the wrong imagination that “bio labels” are “all a lie, a fake cooperation company, not trust able etc”, the members of the W(e) DID workshop started to make a research in Lefkada´s supermarkets about biological products. We tried to find out, which ones are available and what signs are printed on[…]
Bio here, bio there, bio everywhere- but also INSIDE?
What does sustainable certification mean? Sustainable standards implement a voluntary use of norms and standards that are linked to environmental, social, ethical and food safety issues. This idea started in the 1980s with the first “Ecolabels”, as well as organic food standards. The most important issues are environmental quality, social equity and economic prosperity.[…]
Why Green shopping?
Sustainable shopping. This is a phrase that everybody might have heard before. But how to really put it into practice and why it should help the worlds environment is still not clear to the average consumer. There are several reasons why we should all try to reduce our demands of goods and to improve[…]
What W(e) DID about Lefkadian products and “green”consumption
The beginning of our workshop was all about collecting ideas of Greek and local products and to write them down on a mind map. Our group of 13 people different ages, was actively thinking of products or services around Greece that are strongly connected with local production, tourism or tradition. For the Greek products in[…]
What W(e) DID about women, advertisements and sexism
In the meeting yesterday a group of 14 people gathered to talk about women´s situation nowadays, the influence of media and the connection with society, the education of values for our children and problems that occur through teenagers years. In the beginning we watched a video and commented or talked about the chosen pictures.[…]
A message of love the day before Valentine
Saint Valentine. Admittedly in my home country people prepare for the “day of love” weeks before. A consumption hype developed the last years, just like the day of Christmas was turned into an “event”. The real meaning of these days got lost in hysterical shopping- trips. The shops are prepared with decoration of hearts, roses[…]