Our environmental stories

Pupils from Croatia, Greece and Turkey wrote collaboratively stories about environmental problems and their solutions.

Today they are on their boat in the middle of the sea fishing.They have been waiting for hours but it seems that there are no fish today. They are disappointed and upset at the same time. Something is very ,very wrong…

They notify the coast guard and the municipality. In the municipal announcements, they say that one should not go into the sea for a while. People gather on the beach in fear and panic. Dead sardines, mackerels, shrimps, octopuses, squid, dying swordfish make the entire island people sad. They work hard together to help the officers.

The Mole family is left without one member. A young mole, Ivy, leaves her family of five. She decides to start a new life in another city, to start a family with Tommy. Ivy and Tommy rummage underground looking for a place to settle. They dig the tunnel for 10 days. Ivy wants to be a good housewife, she wants to start a family with her husband, to give birth to little moles and teach them life skills. Her mother taught her to hunt earthworms and run away from enemies. One day her little moles will have to escape…

After this terrible event, Bob and Judy are surprised that people do not realize that they are actually doing harm to themselves. However, it is enough to first look into the eye of a dying swordfish and then into the eyes of the children to understand the effects of this event.

Some kind of spots appear, suddenly fish are coming, but they don't want to catch any of them. They are all dead. What has happened? Bob looks up, in the distance, from the depths of the sea, a strange tube emerges. Bob shakes his head. Judy looks in the same direction. Oh, how awful it smells! Oh, no! Well, that's the tube where the poison comes in…

Mary wakes up with the sound of the alarm clock. She rubs her eyes and gets out of the bed slowly. She opens the curtain next to her. The sky is grey again, like ash grey. Her parents tell her about the deep blue enchanting sky especially in the summer

Mary wakes up with the sound of the alarm clock. She rubs her eyes and gets out of the bed slowly. She opens the curtain next to her. The sky is grey again, like ash grey. Her parents tell her about the deep blue enchanting sky especially in the summer months. However, it has been nearly two years since she moved to this city and in those two years she has never seen the enchanting blue sky that her family has described. She wonders if she can see a clear and blue sky one day. She gets out of her room. Her beloved cat has already taken its place between her feet.

Bob and Judy are twenty-year-old twins. They live on a peaceful and small island somewhere in the Mediterranean sea. They love their island and the sea.&nbsp; They own a shop and sell fresh fish. Every day they wake up early in the morning and go fishing on their small, old, wooden boat. They usually catch a lot of fish such as sardines, swordfish, mackerels, shrimps, octopuses and&nbsp; squids.

And the little stem grows and grows into a strong tree&nbsp; and its roots spread underneath the ground and the soil awakens and bears more trees and flowers and the moles set their home up in the heart of this forest and help the soil recover. Nature is reborn and people stand in awe in front of this miracle. Ivy and Tommy have all they have dreamt of….maybe not just them.

But they cannot find a forest anywhere. Both Ivy and Tommy burst into tears. Their tears keep falling down their faces and water the soil. Suddenly, Ivy notices a little stem with a couple of leaves rising from the ground. She shows it to Tommy. They are both surprised and stop crying. A smile appears on their faces. There is hope after all…

Mary shouts loudly "Help" and despite the commotion, rain and loud destruction her call is heard by the owner of the factory. He quickly calls the fire department and stops the entire factory operation. Until now, he has never thought about the fact that his factory can harm someone. Firefighters rescue all the vulnerable, as well as Mary and her frightened cat. They become the heroes of this city. And they move the factory to a more distant location where it will harm people less. The factory owner asks Mary for help because he doesn't want to pollute his town. Mary makes leaflets which she distributes around the town. In them, she uses a comic book to warn residents about the harmful effects of all types of exhaust gases.

Τhe poor animal is scared and weak.Mary takes the cat in her hands when suddenly the black cloud roars and thunders and a lightning strikes the factory. Rain starts pouring down.The water drops are ash grey and Mary realizes it’s acid rain. Plants and humans are slowly contaminated. People run quickly to hide in their houses but some of them don’t make it. The huge chimney of the factory cracks and collapses. Mary is desperate. Can anyone save them?

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Both Mary and her cat&nbsp; feel bored and wander around their flat. Mary decides to go out for a walk. The cat follows her. When she steps out of her block of flats she sees a huge, dark cloud towering above her. She can’t breath and starts coughing and sneezing. She feels sick and falls down on her knees. The cat runs away in panic. After a while, Mary stands up and starts looking for her cat around the city. After many hours she finally finds it in front of a factory.

They direct their boats towards the place where the tube is. But the tube doesn’t stay in a fixed place. On the other hand, the waves are hitting the dead fish on the boat. Before they can understand what is happening, they approach the tube with a little fear. Something, like pitch, comes out of the tube and spreads quickly into the water. An irresistible smell surrounds them. Their eyes begin to burn and their heads begin to spin. They think that this tube is very dangerous and then they quickly return to land.

And they&nbsp; plan to start a new life for themselves. They wander around the long greenhouse dreaming of a warm home. Winds are blowing in the place of the forest where Ivy spent her childhood. Its clean air and&nbsp; nature have disappeared. Even Ivy has trouble recognizing it. Seeing that Tommy is upset, he says he knows about a forest little far away where they can dance with the light streaming from the sky. They must&nbsp; be on their way before it's too late. But they don’t&nbsp; know what to expect on the way, so they think it will be safer to travel at night. They sleep all day and leave at night. Gray structures replace the forests where they used to run and play. At the same time, they try to console themselves. They continue on their way with hope that people can not destroy all the forests. They search for a forest, they don’t know how many nights they walk.

Table of contents

Introduction...................................................................1

A story about air pollution ............................................2

A story about sea pollution ..........................................11

A story about deforestation .........................................21

From now on, everyone rides a bicycle or walks, the car is used only for long distances, and the factories have to be outside the city. Maybe one day Mary will become a mayor who successfully fights pollution.

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