Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming three months. August, 25th was the 14th broadcast of the series.
This week on Green Wave we talked about the ongoing Biodiversity Inventory Study in the Prince Islands of Istanbul. Our guests were Esra Ergin, from TEMA’s Education Department and journalist Yücel Sönmez who works actively with the “Islands’ Defense. Mr. Sönmez himself is from the Prince’s Islands and works voluntarily for the Islands’ Defense. While explaining their objective for this project he has suggested that the primary reason for this inventory study is to raise awareness about the fragility of the ecosystem and biodiversity in the Prince’s Islands. Furthermore he emphasized the importance of the Islands’ inhabitants to cooperate with the experts to complete this study. In this sense the local people of the Prince’s Islands will also be able to take part in this study on a voluntary basis.
To listen to this week’s broadcast (in Turkish) please use the link
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming three months. August, 18th was the 13th broadcast of the series.
This week on Green Wave we talked about Coal Investments and Human Rights Infridgements in Turkey. Akif Pamuk, the coordinator of this project from Yeryüzü (Earth) Association has shared the findings of the project, which really struck us. By adopting ethnography as the method of research, they have identified 6 different categories of human rights’ infridgments including right tolive, work and healthy environment. In the next phase of the project, Dr. Pamuk and Yeryüzü Association plan to invite different . stakeholders for a roundtable and plan the next steps for this project. Project details (in Turkish) can be downloaded through this link.
To listen to this week’s broadcast (in Turkish) please use the link.
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming three months. August, 11th was the 12th broadcast of the series.
This week on Green Wave we talked about our own “Sustainable Agriculture Network in the EU and Turkey”. Our guests Dr. Hikmet Öztürk, Forestry and Rural Development Department Head and Ayşe Kaptanoğlu, Project Coordinator informed our audience about their new networking project and how this network intends to encourage and stabilize interaction and cooperation of different stakeholders that are involved in organic agricultural production. They are currently working on an online networking platform which is expected to unite these mentioned stakeholders in a common setting. By enhancing online and in vivo interaction between various stakeholders, this project aims to encourage establishment of cooperative interactions. Although the platform currently operates offline, Env.net Team in TEMA intends to share updates on the network once it goes online.
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.net Team in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the comingfive months. August, 4th was the 11th broadcast of the series.
This week on Green Wave we talked about the first and only Cheese Museum, the Eco-museum Zavot in Kars, a Turkish city bordering both Armenia and Georgia. Our guest İlhan Koçulu, the co-president of Boğatepe Environment and Life Association and also the founder of the Eco-museum Zavot, explained how culture shaped the locals’ everyday life including how they founded the museum. Given the geographical location of the city, cheese making has become a cultural heritage to the region. However, due to lifestyle changes, environmental impacts and contemporary cultural influences cheese making heritage is diminishing, as the varieties of produced cheese have reduced significantly. To protect this cultural heritage unique to the region, Koçulu and the Association founded the museum, which attracted numerous sociologist and anthropologists but also was appreciated and supported locally and nationally.
His passion for preserving cheese making rituals as a part of the regional cultural heritage has affected our audience, but also us as the Env.net Team. We are looking forward to hear about similar social and cultural initiatives in the near future.
About 70 participants were present at the ENV.net simultaneous event organised on the World Environment Day on June 4th, 2016 in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. This year the theme was “Go wild for life”. For this event, ENV.net partner from Serbia, Environmental Ambassadors for Sustainable Development, organised bicycles ride for local citizens in Gornji Milanovac.
Green Wave, the radio show produced by the Env.netTeam in TEMA Foundation is now sponsored by Env.net for the coming five months. July, 28th was the 10th broadcast of the series.
This week on Green Wave we talked about the project “Kids of Bosphorus getting to know the city through the sea”, a project carried out by Beşiktaş Science and Arts Center. Our guests for this broadcast were Hanife Küçüker, the project coordinator and Efsun Meva Bozbay, one of the “Kids of Bosphorus”. The project aims to raise awareness about the interrelation between the geographical location of the Istanbul peninsula and the urban culture. Beşiktaş Municipality Education Directory, Boğaziçi University Education Department, İstanbul Technical University Ship Building and Marine Sciences Department, Beşiktaş Municipality and TEMA Foundation have all contributed to the execution of the training “the Sea and the City”.
The effect of the sea on the urban culture, human behavior, nature, technology, science, history and art are the subtopics of the project. The project activities are based on the Thematic Education Model as a framework, which focuses on examining a phenomenon with help of different disciplines and sciences.
This week on Green Wave we talked about the ongoing Biodiversity Inventory Study in the Prince Islands of Istanbul. Our guests were Esra Ergin, from TEMA’s Education Department and journalist Yücel Sönmez who works actively with the “Islands’ Defense. Mr. Sönmez himself is from the Prince’s Islands and works voluntarily for the Islands’ Defense. While explaining their objective for this project he has suggested that the primary reason for this inventory study is to raise awareness about the fragility of the ecosystem and biodiversity in the Prince’s Islands. Furthermore he emphasized the importance of the Islands’ inhabitants to cooperate with the experts to complete this study. In this sense the local people of the Prince’s Islands will also be able to take part in this study on a voluntary basis.
