With the participation of Chemistry, Quality Systems, and Environment Control students, a discussion on the Earth Charter was held at the University Institute of Technology Dr. Federico Rivero Palacio, on 9 March 2018, organized by the Research and Postgraduate Department, under Professor Joel Campuzano.
The activity began with a video called “The sustainable future is in our hands”, where awareness was generated among attendees about how and why we should all defend the rights of Planet Earth and that only together we can save our only “spacecraft,” as Professor Walter Martínez in his Dossier program expressed.
Professor Joel Campuzano, Head of the Research and Postgraduate Department of the IUT-FRP said, “Our planet is the only space where we live, the Earth Charter as an ethical document, is a vision of hope, a call to action in defense of the rights of Planet Earth, for present and future generations, and for the community’s well-being.”
“The Earth Charter gives us the notion of integrality working from values, love, a culture of peace, solidarity, generating reflections to act under the fifth objective of the Nation’s Plan. Therefore, this call to action is aimed at IUT students who bring their proposals and their projects to carry them out jointly inside and outside the institution,¨ stated professor Campuzano.
Campuzano added: “IUT-FRP endorses the Earth Charter, and therefore commits to disseminate and promote, from the Quality Systems laboratory and the Environment Department, the sustainable development of our Planet Earth. Also we invite all of those who want to join this noble initiative, to join the promoting team, and in addition, to thank all the directors of the institute lead by Professor Hector Constant, for all the support.”
These activities encourage interest of students, such as Ronaldo Paiva, a student of Control of the Environment Sytems, who expressed “Initiatives such as the Agroecological Park are very interesting, as we must begin to revert the situations that are affecting the preservation of life in Planet Earth.”
Other students, of the Quality and Environment Systems programme, such as Enyerlis Luzón stated, “I loved the discussion, I learned what the Earth Charter is and why we should all put its principles into practice for the benefit of all.” Jean Carlos Boscán expressed “Pollution is a very serious issue affecting us now, we must all work to ensure our present and future, and the key to this is to put into practice, disseminate and promote the 16 principles of the Earth Charter.”
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Text and photos by: Alejandra Guzmán and Guillermo Navarro.