TURIN CLIMATE SHERWOOD CAMP

The Turin Climate Sherwood Camp is organized from the Building Site Other Development, a collective of activist university students, to manifest in a pacific and creative way their dissent on the way the G8 University Summit that will take place in Turin from 17th to 19th May, is going to deal with the environmental problem. In this Summit will take part 40 delegates belonging to the university world, only coming from the countries of the G8, that will be involved in a comparison on the themes concerning Sustainability. The university students accuse the summit: - to aspire to represent only a group of very important Universities so that they can become privileged partners of the G8 in a logic of financings hunt ; -to be at a standstill as concerns a definition of environmental sustainability exclusively finalized to the economic growth not recognizing the physical limits of the Planet and the social disparities as concerns the access to the resources; -to have a total faith in the technological and financial solutions for environmental problems, that are often expression of perverse market logics; -to have as objective "the formation decision-makers as exporters of scientific and technological knowledge for the solution of global environmental problems" - In this way they forget the primary task University has in the diffusion of the culture of sustainability and the conscience of a serious environmental problems. The Camp is an echo-camping in the city formed by about one hundred tents with sorted waste collection, three compost-toilets and a garage for bikes. In the kitchen there is a solar oven and dishes are made of tin plate or of ceramics. During the three camping days will be discussed all the principals themes concerning environmentalism and the echo-sustainability in a thematic workshop showing that ecology is a theme that concerns every one and that it must be studied and applied also starting from an echo-camping.

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