{"id":2447,"date":"2016-04-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunce.itlaganini.org\/en\/children-for-the-happy-earth\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:19:30","slug":"children-for-the-happy-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/news\/children-for-the-happy-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Children for the happy Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day, over <strong>800 children participated in a rich program of events organized by the Association for Environment, Nature\u00a0and Sustainable Development Sunce<\/strong>. With the aim of informing, linking and acting, a visit to <strong>Split&#8217;s urban garden<\/strong> for <strong>young people, primary and secondary schools, competitions and the Eco Film Festival for the mature audience was organized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday and Thursday, <strong>11 kindergartens and 1 elementary school<\/strong> visited the first <strong>Zelenpoje urban garden<\/strong> in Croatia where the <strong>Green Spirit<\/strong> <strong>Spiral and Sunce Association educators<\/strong> learned about plants in the garden, <strong>learned the basics of sustainable development, composting, waste separation<\/strong> and <strong>gardening<\/strong>. For the end of the visit, the children planted their seedlings, which will complement the already rich garden with a rod, hooks, apples, pearls, figs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning was a sign of anticipation and celebration of the students from <strong>14 schools<\/strong> participating in the contest <strong>&#8220;Before and After &#8211; Earth Day Students<\/strong> <strong>2016&#8243;<\/strong>, which has traditionally been organized by the Sunce Association in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cistoca-split.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u010cisto\u0107a Split d.o.o.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to primary schools this year, high school students attended the competition. Sunce educators had a difficult task in choosing the winner because the students had very <strong>creatively and imaginatively edited the school environment<\/strong>, supplemented the s<strong>eparate waste collection grounds, created minor<\/strong> <strong>pieces of art from recycled materials and promotional videos for environmental protection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All class projects were rewarded with educational books, while the best was awarded with a <strong>Green Day Tour<\/strong> organized by the Sunce Association.<\/p>\n<p>1st prize in the category of elementary schools (lower grades) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/os-gripe-st.skole.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gripe Elementary School,<\/strong><\/a> project: Recycle &#8211; We are guarding Planet Earth !<br \/>\n1st prize in the category of elementary schools (higher classes) &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/os-lucac-st.skole.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> O\u0160 Lu\u010dac<\/strong><\/a>, project: Can we make a picture book from waste?<br \/>\n1st prize in high school category &#8211; <strong>Split School of Crafts<\/strong>, project: Transforming waste into decoration<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday was also marked with the beginning of the first Split <strong>Eco Film Festival<\/strong> in cooperation with <a href=\"http:\/\/zlatnavrata.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kinoteka Golden Gate<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/zelena-akcija.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Green Action<\/strong><\/a>. After answering questions about real climate damage and the mysterious TTIP, Friday will offer information about C<strong>roatia&#8217;s potential for renewable energy sources<\/strong> and about <strong>ecological agriculture and permaculture as a peaceful revolution against the unsustainable system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>17:30 Delivering a Sustainable Future &#8211; Energy, 30 min<br \/>\n18:15 Permaculture seeds, 90 min<\/p>\n<p>The colorfulness and joy is also expected at <strong>Prokurative on Sunday at 10:30<\/strong> where, in cooperation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roda.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Roda Association<\/strong><\/a>, where we have already traditionally set up <strong>booths for sale of used children&#8217;s equipment, clothing <\/strong>and<strong> toys.<\/strong> Moms, daddies, aunts, brothers, toddlers &#8211; everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day, over 800 children participated in a rich program of events organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}