Category Archives: Enviroment

Collecting the treasures of nature..

The Mother Nature holds the best medicine.. Here in Halkidiki region, that is so rich in various species of different fruits, berries, herbs, vegetables, etc, we try to do our best to use all the resources available. As we have already mentioned before, we have our own garden as well, where we grow all sorts…
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Volunteering

How to enjoy a cleaning day? The cleaning of the house is important for the good maintenance of the place. After the cleaning our volunteers prepared the space outside, in the backyard garden, to enjoy the dinner all together with the good greek weather while watching a movie. Amazing volunteers 👌 Yamaaas 🍻
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Earth building

Earth building entrance is getting ready!! The front entrance of our house is built with a cob technique. Cob technique is a mix of soil and/or clay, water, organic materials and glass. We are rebuilding the previous structure that failed with a new mix of soil with clay and experiment to see if it will…
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European Solidarity Corps

Our daily work in the organisation Currently, we have different projects happening in our organisation. Here we can see Vinicius, our ESC volunteer, transferring the plannings made during the group meeting to online platforms to be accessible to everyone within the organisation. With this, the information will be clear and organised for everyone. Besides that,…
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COMPOSTING

Our compost experience Where do food scraps go once you put them in the garbage?Food scraps will end up in the landfill, thrown to the ground, decomposing with toxic wastes and gradually becoming polluted organic material. Why should we compost?Composting is the process that speeds up the decomposition of organic materials by providing unique conditions…
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World Environmental Day 2020

World Environmental Day in Psakoudia 🌍 On Friday, June 5th at 18:00, Europe Direct Halkidiki and The Hives Project celebrated and reported the World Environment Day in Psakoudia, Halkidiki.During this afternoon, public information material on the abolition of disposable plastic in Greece was distributed to inform the locals.After this information point, we went to clean…
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