How Green Are We
Our Activities.
Here's some of the activities we promote in our project.
Study trip to Lipor
As part of our “How green are we” Project we visited the premises of LIPOR, the entity responsible for the management, recovery and treatment of Urban Waste produced by the eight municipalities that comprise it, including Maia.
Tree planting and potted tree treatment
Inserted in the European Project entitled: “How Green Are We”, within the scope of the “eTwinning Erasmus +” Program, the Vocational School Novos Horizontes carried out on March 3, the activity “Planting Trees and Treating Trees in Pots ”.
The project in question has a partnership with three Turkish schools and an Italian school.
This activity counted on the participation of students from the 11th class of Legal Services Technician and the 11th class of Technical Restaurant-Bar. The supervision was in charge of the teachers, Celeste Batista and Jorge Sá.
How Green are you quiz
The students of several schools have joined and played at www.kahoot.it and with the Kaoot! App in their smartphones.
Here’s the link of the quiz: How Green Are You Quiz
Best Logo Polling
All the students and teachers have voting in their favourite logo that will be chosen to represent our project. And the winner is:
Tree Planting
Finally I have met with my students at school today taking the necessary precautions .We have planted two trees on our school ground .
Interview with the Manager of Chamber of Environmental Engineers
Students interviewed with the Manager of Chamber of Environmental Engineers in Atakum .
Students:How can we protect the environment in Atakum?
Manager of Chamber:We can at least individually recycle and reduce environmental pollution.Samsun is a city that has the capacity to collect garbage and discharge it to a suitable areas.In other cities trash is trown on to the mountains and it mixes with soil.This problem destroys the balance of nature and human health as the food comes from the soil.
Students: Is environmental pollution increasing in Atakum?
Manager of Chamber:We cannot talk about toomuch polution expect for veichle pollution.We haven't detected data on environmental pollution that goes over the limit.We are lucky in terms of soil and water pollution.Our green spaces are on the avarage of Turkey.We have been trying the best to increase these rates.
Students:Should cars be restricted?
Manager of Chamber: We face global warming.Vehicles are effective.
aka ,Hayat Hande Güngör and Berhan Ayaz
Students:How often is the garbage collected in the neighborhood?
Manager of Chamber: Every day .Twice or three times a day.
Students:Is nuclear power safe?
Manager of Chamber:I don't support nuclear power.The material used can remain in the nature without losing its effect.
Students:does Atakum make recycling easier for people? If it makes it easy ,what
kind of work does it carry out?
Manager of Chamber:Recycling begins at home.If you separate your trash at homes individualyy,we can collect them correctly.We have been sorting trash containers in over a hundred points.These help us sorting the trash easily.Apart from that,we have indoor boxes in many places,especially public institutions.As atakum municipality,we have been collecting waste batteries and herbal waste oil.We are going to collect electronic waste soon.
Students:How much green place do we have in Atakum?
Manager of the Chamber:The value per person is 12m2.It's approximately 8 square meters across Samsun.Total standard is provided in Samsun.However,this standard connot be met in places where urbanization is high.
Translated by Zeynep Yaka ,Hayat Hande Güngör and Berhan Ayaz
Meeting with TEMA (Environmental Organization)Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion
TEMA Samsun provincial representative Leman Gürses Özay mentioned about TEMA's environmental activities and projects.
The Project of Fellowship:''Our natural assets have been seriously damaged by the increasing population and skewed urbanization in recent years.The TEMA foundation performs with one of the most effective methods to reduce this damage through nature education''.
Green Collar Event:''When you volunteer for TEMA foundation ,a sign called ''Tema Environment Volunteer''is hung to the institution you are in.The logo of TEMA foundation is extremely important and patented.The leyellow letter ''E'' in the text TEMA,refers the lost lands mentioned by Hayrettin Karaca,founder of TEMA.Lower part of it is thin.The green line under the text means lost lands and greening the nature''.
She informed , ''The soil protection team meets within the structure of governership every month.The signiture of TEMA is very important in order to build on to a span of soil.It is rejected if it harms to the environment and nature''.
Field and Volunteering Studies:''If you are already volunteer for Young TEMAs ,you can set up Young TEMA Club at university or join in Young TEMA if there is''.
Leman Gürses Özay said,''If there is land,there is life.We need young people for this.We must protect this unique earthly paradise.Owing to the TEMA volunteer cards,you can become the theme chair Young TEMA when you volunteer in a community at the universty.Then you train national,international ,ecological and environmental educations''.
''Tema became the ninth in the first year and then first in the second year in Turkey.We have volunteers in 17 districts of Samsun and our teammates continue their works in 17 districts'' said Leman Gürses Özay.
Tema deputy representative Yusuf Dursun DURMUŞ said, ''Within the TEMA foundation ,we operate in education ,advocacy and environmental policies.In education;we provide trainings in the field of nature and zero waste''
Translated by Başar Kaygusuz
The videos were prepared by Gökhan Sarıyıldız
Conference about Recycling And Wastes
Güven Atık (Environmental Organization)
-Conference about Recycling And Wastes
Our Situation;
1-For work on waste management and zero waste use by using training seminars for kindergarten,primary and secondary school students.
2-Mammamatics were placed at certain points in atakum.Food is provided for cats and dogs when the citizen throws the waste pet bottle here.
3-There are clothes collection boxes at certain points in Atakum.
Our plans;
1-Continuing education seminars for students throughout school education periods without interruption.
2-Organizing brochures in residences,housing estates and businesses for citizes
Details of Our Studies
1-Informing activities are continued with slides and videos by going to schools and giving presentations in conference halls.Poster work was carried out in schools for the waste battery collection. Competitions have beed held throughout the year.
2-Mamamatik works with the solar energy system also contributes to the ecological sustainable environment.
3-Garment Collection banks are for the reuse /use of easte and to reach the needy of the goods /items that can be used,to allow second-hand use.
Translated by Ece Güloğlu and Hayat Hande Güngör
Conference about Clean Sea (Turmepa Clean Sea Organization)
A bottom cleaning was done by our volunteer drivers at the position of Samsun's Atakum district Kurupelit as Turmepa /Clean Sea Association Samsun Branch.1200kg waste was taken off during a diving which lasted only 1 hour.While taken off wastes were being seperated,metal drink bins were the ones which were encountered mostly.Tons of fish were found stuck in the bins either dead or alive.Each of them were left to the sea by cleaning carefully
While our drivers was doing the bottom cleaning,100 primary school students watched them and saw the harm which wastes did to the nature by living it.
Our bottom cleaning and on-site education continue.Both of sea and beach of Samsun is dirty.Even though Atakum Beaches are cleaner relatively the others,İlkadım,Canik and Atakum are the same sea.So being dirty of those sea pollutes Atakum Sea as well.The most intensive pollution starts from Terme and continues to the Kurupelit Marina by having a break at Atakum Sea.The most wastes that we encounter are metal drink bins and plastic bottles.These shows us that we leave and move away whatever we consume in that place.If we don't end this going,our country seas will be able to run into a plastic island one by one.
As Turmepa ,5600 students which who are living at the position of Atakum's village and center were educated about coast and ecosystem,their parents and fishers were included to these educations and coast cleaning were held.
Community was warned and raised awareness
Creating awareness was aimed through awareness and sensibility in individual scale.Our educations continue toward this aim.
A skimmer was gifted to the Samsun Metropolitan Municipality to clean the sea and get cleared of a little a TURMEPA,skimmer (on the account of the fact that is costly)cannot be used.
Translated by Berhan Ayaz
Our Project Posters
Working Process
Landmarks of Samsun
There are must mention monuments i should mention about the monuments situated in the city where me and my friends in this project live.You should definitely go to bandırma steamboat museum in Samsun.Inside the museum, there are wax sculptures of Atatürk and his friends.Everywhere Atatürk is in is beautiful.
There are many museums in Samsun for example; gazi museum, archeology and ethnography museum are some of them.Finally, there is the amisos hill.You can reach Amisos hill by taking a short trip by cable car.In addition to the cable car ride, you can also tour the Amisos Hill and you can spend time in the restaurants there.The works from this place in 2008 are now in the archeology and ethnography museum.These are of course some of the beauties in our country, you should come here and visit these places.For example Çakırlar Wood(Hidden Paradise).tt is a stopover point for those who want to have a picnic in the water-repellent forest, whose spouse is very similar, for those who want to have a wedding, or just want to have a good time.This area has four seasons of beauty.
Written by Zeynep Ay
Extereme Sport in Samsun
EXTREME SPORTS IN SAMSUN
I think extreme sports are very exciting and also dangerous. Sometimes people get bored with their ordinary lives and want to try different things, and extreme sports are a great option for this situation. Also, some people may just want to try extreme sports.
Although it seems a little scary and dangerous at first, people working in this field are very careful and take many precautions. Because if these measures are not taken, people can be seriously injured or worse they may die.
Also, I think extreme sports have many good sides. You will never forget these exciting moments you have experienced. It will also add difference to your life and this will save you from your boring life for a long time.
There are extereme sports in Samsun.Turkey’s first and only festival of extreme sports Falcon Fest was organized for the second time by Samsun Metropolitan Municipality and Samsun Tourism Area Infrastructure Service Association (SAMTAB) in Vezirköprü Şahinkaya Canyon between 4-9 August 2018.Triathlon Of Samsun was hold in Atakum.
Festival offered the participant various extreme sport activities including Canoe, Dragon Boat, Paragliding, Kitesurf, Paramotor, BASE Jump, Slackline/Highline, Rock Climbing, Trekking and Mountain Biking. It was also possible to participate in concert which was organized in camping area.
Written by Ece GÜLOĞLU