This book is dedicated to the every person who feels responsible enough to fight against climate change and to save Earth!

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Participant Schools:

ICS "S. Pertini" di Martinsicuro, Italy - Virginia Marchetti

Escola Bernardí Tolrà, Catalonia, Spain-Gemma Domingo Ricart

Ali Kuşçu İmam Hatip Secondary School, Turkey-Özlem Çelik

Scoala Gimnaziala Avram Iancu, Romania-Mirela Puzderie

Sarıtaş İmam Hatip Seondary School, Turkey - Özlem Seis

SSIG "Michelangelo" di Bari, Italy - Carla Serravezza

Escola Pompeu Fabra, Reus, Spain - Mariam Tarin

Author schools and Chapter themes: 

1. Air pollution: ICS "S. Pertini" di Martinsicuro, Italy 

2. Greenhouse effect: SSIG "Michelangelo" di Bari, Italy

3. Water pollution: Escola Bernardí Tolrà, Catalonia, Spain

4. Deforestation: Ali Kuşçu İmam Hatip Secondary School, Turkey

5. Saving energy: Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 19 „Avram Iancu, Romania

6. Recycling: Sarıtaş İmam Hatip Secondary School,Turkey (Özlem Seis)

7. Saving animals: Escola Pompeu Fabra, Reus, Spain

Preface

We are a group of teachers and students who have met in "Hello, Dear Cli-Mates!" Erasmus+ KA229 and eTwinning project (2020-2022). We have done so many wonderful activities about fighting against climate change and saving our Earth so far. We have written and wanted to share the adventures of our Green Girl, a climate hero with you! Education is the key to solve many problems in the world. Through stories, we can educate people and save Earth! You are also a hero for us as you read this book and learn from it!

                                              Hello, Dear Cli-Mates! Project Team

                                                 Erasmus+ KA229 and eTwinning

Introduction

Hello dear cli-mates! 

Today is 15th May, Climate Day and I'm Green Girl. You will witness my adventures to stop climate change and save our Earth in this book.

Let's read and find out the DOs and DON'Ts to win this fight! I know we will be great heroes of the Earth all together. Are you ready?

Let's know what climate change means first!

Climate change points to the global warming by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns and there are a number of factors that cause climate change and it has great impact in not only human life but also whole ecosystem. Let's start with air pollution as a big cause for climate change!

Air pollution

Day 1

After this super day, Green girl left for Michelangelo....

Greenhouse Effect

SSIG "Michelangelo" di Bari, Italy 

(Carla Serravezza)

Green girl arrived in SSIG Michelangelo

Day 2

Green girl was checking the town to see if people respected their environment. She saw a lot of cars emitting polluting gases.

The cars and factories' gas emissions are increasing the greenhouse effect! I must do something!

I must clean up everything!

Good job! Never pollution again with clean energy produced by solar panels and wind turbines...  But now it's up to the people to do their part!

They're more expensive...

Why don't you use an electric car? It's less polluting!

After some time...

Really?! You convinced me! My future car will be electric!

When you buy it, but recharging it's much cheaper, you save a lot of money over time!

I’m sorry, at the moment it isn’t possible here… but soon 

I ‘ll  equip myself...

Good morning! Where can I  charge my electric car?

Time passes...

I think everything is okay here now, I can go to Vila Rodona now...

Water Pollution

Escola Bernardí Tolrà, Catalonia, Spain

(Gemma Domingo Ricart)

Day 3

OMG! Lots of rubbish everywhere! 

That's a disaster! 

What can we do?

Together, we've done a hard work! Finally, the river is clean and life is back again!

Now, time to visit İstanbul! 

Deforestation

Ali Kuşçu İmam Hatip Secondary School, Turkey (Özlem Çelik)

Author and contributor students: 

Rümeysa Y., Elif Y., Sena A., Hayrunnisa G., Beyza O., Reyhan K.

Climate change and Deforestation

Good morning, my dear students, today we are going to learn about how deforestation and climate change are related and we have a special guest for that!

Day 4

Climate change and Deforestation

Welcome dear Green Girl! You are a great hero. We need your experience and help to learn what causes of climate change and how we can stop climate change!

Hello dear Mr. Jackson and friends! Today we will have a short green trip! Are you ready for a dream? Just close your eyes and count to ten!

Welcome to Woodland my dear friends! Here is the green paradise of our Earth!

Green girl! This must be a real paradise. We have never seen such a beautiful place in our city before! And we wonder why?

Let's hear the reasons from our friends! They have a lot to say!

Hi, children! Forests are our only home! However, people have been destroying our home for years in many ways like...

They cut down trees sometimes just to earn money, build cities, create papers, farming, grazing of livestock, mining, and drilling...They cause deforestation!

They set the forests on fire and made our friends homeless and die out! They destroy the wildlife and ecosystem which will eternally destroy their future, too. I hope they will see that soon before it is too late for all of us!

We don't deserve to lose our habitat and the Earth doesn't deserve so much carbon dioxide because of fires! We need you to be more careful and raise awareness about the importance of forests! They shouldn't cut down or burn trees for money or carelessly!

Dear friends, let me tell you how deforestation threatens our future in detail! Forests absorb not only the carbon dioxide that we exhale but also the greenhouse gases that result from the human activities for urbanization. When there is no forest, these gases heat the atmosphere and cause global warming and climate change. So, the forests save our Earth, our life and animals, then why don't we save forests?

You are so right Green girl! We need forests for a greener future and breathe deeper and fresher! We don't want our friends to be homeless and we want green areas to run and play as the children who lived years ago. We want to stop global warming, save our forests, but how can we do that Green girl? Guide us!

Follow me then, my little cli-mates!

The best ways to stop deforestation are to plant trees and take care of them besides starting campaigns to make people hear us!

Let's start with planting trees!

I have green arrows for you! Let's plant them to let us our Earth breathe!

Yeess! Let's do it Green girl, you are great! Operation green arrows! Understood!

We did it, Green Girl!

Thank you so much for guiding us to help our Earth against deforestation and global warming.

Now, it is our turn to start a campaign and increase the number of green heroes in our city! We will be a big family of Green Girl!

Then, it is time to turn back to our school and start a green act for our future! I'm proud of you, my little green heroes!

Welcome again! Did you enjoy your green trip? What did you do?

It was great, Mr. Jackson! We learned a lot to save our Earth against global warming and climate change. We will stop deforestation all together for that! We will start a campaign and teach everyone why we need forests!

I will be waiting to hear of your campaign dear green students! We are together in this :)

Let's prepare a magazine to inform people about the deforestation! Work in groups and give it a start with our cover page!

Students work in groups for a while.....

We are grateful for this great activity, Green girl! Thank you so much!

And I'm also grateful to all of you who are determined to save our forests and stop climate change for a sustainable future! You made a great magazine! Stay green everyone! I must go to Timisoara now...

Thank you Green girl!

Saving energy

Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 19 „Avram Iancu, Romania

Oh no! This house is wasting energy! We should do something about this.

Day 5

Oh! It is very cluterd in here! We should save some energy!

First, we should turn off the tap. Now let's get the pots off of the stove and turn it and the oven off.

We should also stop the microwave, as well as unplugging the unnecessary stuff.

This place is saving so much energy now! We did a great job!

What happened here? Who are you?

Oh my god! You're Green Girl! But what brings you here?

I saw that you were wasting a lot of energy. So I am here to help you save energy!

Alright! We will listen to your advice. Thank you!

You're welcome! Now I have to go, I will go help others save energy! Time to go to Trabzon!

Recycling

Sarıtaş İmam Hatip Secondary School, Türkiye (Özlem Seis)

Day 6

Oh my God! Everywhere is full of rubbish! People shouldn't be so selfish! What can we do dear Green Girl?

We can create an art from our waste! People should learn not to waste their waste! Zero waste should win!

How can we do this?

I will take you a school and you will see how students turn waste into art! Come on!

Really? That would be great!

Students from Italy, Spain, Romania and Turkey made great crafts from their waste in an eTwinning and Erasmus+ project called Hello, Dear Cli-Mates!.

Wow, they have done beautiful things. When I go to school tomorrow, I will start a campaign about zero waste with my friends. People should learn about from waste to art act.

Great idea! Maybe, you will invite me to your art exhibition, too?

Yess! That would be great! 

You are great Green girl!

Thank you for such a green idea!

You're welcome my dear! Together we are stronger & greener! Waiting for the good news! Now, I'm leaving for the North Pole, someone is calling for me...

Saving Animals

Pompeu Fabra School, Reus, Spain

(Mariam Tarin Garcia)

Day 7

Hello dear polar bear! 

Did you call me?

Yes Green girl. I need your help.Come with me.

Hi Green girl. Our habitat is disappearing. We are dying. Poles are melting. We are afraid. 

Help us save home!

We don't want our home to disappear! What can we do? What did we do wrong? we don't understand :(

You didn't do anything wrong. People are destroying the environment and they started global warming. So, melts are melting. They are not aware of your suffering.

Then, what should we do? 

Please, tell them. Tell we are dying.

Don't worry. I have an idea. I will start a campaign and they will understand you.

Welcome to Green News dear viewers, today we have bad news. Polar bears and penguins and many polar animals are dying because of our actions.

We are wasting energy and pollute the air unconsciously. Then do you know what happens? Let's see!

Our friends are dying. Let's take actions. Let's turn off when you don't use, don't use fossil fuels...

Green girl is right! We can be more careful and help our friends...

Green girl is right. Let's be more careful!

Yeesss, we can save our friends! Let's turn off TV now and read books instead. We don't waste energy.

We are thankful 

Green girl! 

Thank youuu!

You're welcome my friends. Now, more people are aware of your suffering. I hope people will be more conscious because we share the same planet. There is no Planet B.

THANK YOU FOR READING!

WE CAN STOP CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVE EARTH WITH SMALL STEPS!

DON'T HESITATE TO TAKE SMALL ACTIONS! 

EVERY STEP IS CRUCIAL!

HELLO, DEAR CLIMATES PROJECT TEAM!