Sustainability involves fulfilling the present generation’s resource requirements without reducing future generations’ ability to have the same access to the benefits of these resources. While the environment reclaims all nutrients and returns them to the ecosystem, humans have an unusual skill: they modify their environment to suit themselves. We cut down forests and plant crops and we build houses.
We have to remember that the soil is an essential, limited, and non-renewable resource. About 95% of food production depends on it and consequently, both human life and all living biosphere components are interconnected and depend on each other. Intensive farming, hydrological instability, erosion, the increasing population, and desertification all threaten this unique, indispensable resource.
Our project includes the 2030 AGENDA goals, 11 (sustainable city and communities), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action), and 15 (life on the land ) as a challenge for students to discover the importance and the richness of our land. In our huge school garden, there are several species of plants. The students learn to know and to classify them, and work to realize a green/botanical garden and a mini wooden-box vegetable garden. Through different activities, such as sowing, cultivation, and composting, they learn the importance of theecosystem, and the different cycles of Nature, and to respect and protect it.
