Youth Exchange Finland-Spain

Works

2009-09-28T20:33:00.005+02:00

All our works about the climate change are here. We made that before to go to Finland. We worked hard and finally we made good works. We put it here.

Clara (.pps/4.36MB)

Sinty (.pdf/online/631K)

Flurina (.pps/2,19MB)

Marc (.pps/1,34MB)

Alex (.pps/1,14MB)

Álvaro (.pps/1,65MB)

Nahuel (wait...)

Neus (wait...)

Pep (.ppt/1,60MB)

Lluís (spanish and english; .pdf/online/89K)

Contact whith us if the link doesn't work. Or post hier.

Youth in Action...

2009-08-20T20:01:00.005+02:00

Made by Jenna

Hello everybody!...

2009-06-21T21:28:00.001+02:00

Before anything I would like to apologize because of the delay… but lately I have much work to do... I’m sorry.

I’m going to remind you what we were explained by Carlos Alonso in the Climate
Change conference, yesterday in la Misericordia.

Our community, Islas Baleares, was the first one in Spain in having a specifically
Climate Change General Direction created in 2005.

The most important information sight is the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), created in 1988. If you have any doubt about climate changes, go to www.ipcc.ch.

We must know a few basics before we continue:

¿What’s the climate? It’s the average state of the weather which is measured in 30 years, so we cannot say that a climate is changing if it hasn’t been stable for 30 years before; if it changes a year, it makes no sense.

¿What’s the climate change? It’s a change on the climate caused by nature causes and humans.

The greenhouse effect:

If it wasn’t for it there wouldn’t of been life on Earth at all because it maintains
The Earth temperatures stable.

But in those last years, the humans are making it faster, and that can have bad consequences for the planet’s life.

The Earth absorbs the Sun’s energy and reflects it as heat.

The curious thing is that the Sun doesn’t heat the air, it heats the objects and those heat the air.The greenhouse gases are the ones who absorb the heat that come from the earth.

If we cut down the trees or we remove the natural floor as to build on it we remove plants and minerals that absorb CO2, and that is no good, because we need those natural elements to absorb the CO2 that accumulates at the atmosphere.

FOSSIL FUELS + OXIGEN (O2) = CARBON DIOXID (CO2) + WATER (H2O)

The air quality can be decreased by toxic substances that get accumulated in organisms and that can cause damages. That’s called contamination. Some substances are: SO2, NO2, CO, O3 and BZ.

Then, Carlos, the lecturer, sowed us that even in newspapers haven’t got clear what the climate change and the greenhouse effect are, and because of that they write incoherent things.

Those are a few consequences of the climate change:

-Sisteme’s heatening.

-Sea level rising (not by ice meeting but or thermal dilatation)

-Raing changes.

-Bigger huricanes.

-The earth heats faster then the sea.

-There are more droughts.

There are no observed changes on:

-Tornados.

-Dust storms.

-Hail.

-Thunders.

-Antartical ice paltforms.

Some things that are previewed for the future are: even bigger hurricanes a cyclones, more heat waves and stronger ones, the anthropological warming will continue, and if all Greenland’s ice melts, the sea level will rise 7 meters.

He showed us some graphics:

The heating will be more intense on Mallorca than in other smaller islands.

Another recommended website is: http://mediambient.caib.es/dgcc

Before the conference ending he gave us some advises that we could try to carry
out at home as to save energy and money in a simple and easy way:

-Use low consume bulbs.

-Turn of the lights in empty rooms.

-Substitute the air conditioning for a ventilator.

-Install solar panel son your house.

-Use natural Light instead of artificial.

-Avoid energy losses in winter.

-Dry out the clothes on the sun heat.

-Use public transport or take a walk.

-Read the labelling of the appliances.

-Unplug the recharger when the charging is complete.

-Only use the washing machine or the dishwasher when they are full.

-Turn of the TV, the computer or the DVD during the night.

Sorry for the delay.

CYA all

Europe speech

2009-05-09T16:14:00.002+02:00

On Tuesday April 14th, from 1pm to 2 pm, we went to a conference about the European Union.

We took some notes about the things we thought were more important.

The EU is formed by 27 countries from the European continent.

The countries are: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Low Countries, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

There are some conditions for a country to enter the EU:

-To be in the European continent.

-To be a democracy.

-Respect the equality (languages, religions, politics, genders…)

-Respect the human rights (right to life, to education, to health, to decent housing…)

And many others

Admission of countries in the EU.

It isn’t the same thing to enter the EU that asking for admission. When a country asks for admission in it, it has to fill in a test of about 15000 pages and that usually takes them about two years.

1957-6 states: Germany, Belgium, France, Italia, Luxembourg and the Low Countries, Treaty of Rome (to avoid entering in the III world war, maintain peace and to improve conditions of living and welfare).
-1973- 1st enlargement: three more states: Denmark, Ireland and the UK.
-1981=on more state: Greece.
-1995=three more states: Austria, Finland and Sweden.
-1986=Two more states: Spain and Portugal.
-2004=ten more states: Cyprus, Slovaquia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and the Czech Republic.
-2007=the last enlargement: two more states: Bulgaria and Rumania.

At present there are three countries who want to enter the EU:

Turkey (also known as the eternal candidate, it never accomplishes all the requirements)

Macedonia

Croatia (it’s the one who has more chances)

You can only enter by absolute majority ( all of the countries of the EU must

agree in the county’s entry)

European Union’s symbols:

Flag: blue with twelve Stars. The blue background is the symbol of the tranquillity and the golden Stars symbolize wealth. The number of Stars, twelve, was selected because it’s considered pure number (12 hours, 12 months, 12 apostles…)We have no shield.
Hymn: Beethoven’s ode to joy, without words.(4th movement of the 9th symphony)
Languages: we have 23 official languages, but the number is reduced to three working languages: English, German and French.
Coin: EURO (three countries are exempt from this rule: UK, Denmark and Sweden

The three most populated world powers:

China
India
EU

You can find more information in http://europa.eu/

Thanks to Catalina Morro for this conference.

Meeting minutes 18-4-09

2009-04-22T15:16:00.011+02:00

Date: 18th April 2009
Place: Sala de prensa de la Misericordia (Palma de Mallorca)
Hour: 18:30 to 20:30 (GMT+1)
Resume:

In this meeting we’ve talked about the Project we’ve done. It looked to professional and they couldn’t believe we did it ourselves. We will have to work more on it.

We have to work our best because we all agree the experience is worth it.

We have also talked about the recent departure of one of the members of our Exchange Group, Marina, who didn’t want to carry on with it. I clearly repeat that if anyone isn’t interested in the Exchange or thinks that it doesn’t worth the work you can quit when ever you want.

After those explanations we continued talking about our BlogSpot.
As I’m writing this over, Marc is creating and editing it as we agreed to do in the meeting: updating and placing photos, weather, icons… When he completes it, he will send the address to everyone.

Later on we gave tasks to everyone:

Marc will take care of the BlogSpot.
Alvaro will search for images to place them in the BlogSpot.
Neus (me) will take notes during the meetings.
Nahuel will translate what Neus writes.
Clara and Flurina will correct the translation.
And Sinty, Luis and Pep haven’t got a task yet.

I remember you all that we have to search information about the climate change (not much, less than 300 words), we have to prepare some questions for the Finish school [we’re going there on the last days of June (they talk Spanish)], and we have another speech about Europe next Monday June 29th. But don’t panic, we will remind this to you when the time comes.

Next meeting will be in May 17th at 10a.m. in Artà (at Flurina’s house). After that, about 2p.m., we will visit the medieval festival in Capdepera. In the next meeting we will talk about what activities the Finish girls will do here.

Cya all

Neus

Translated by Nahuel