Eco Festival Theophrastus Lesbos Greece, 21th to 28th of June 2023n in Lesbos
Lesbos, the third largest of Greek islands, was created about 21 million years ago after a massive volcanic eruption. The land of pyroclastic rocks, petrified forests, mountains coloured of rare flowers and plants, comprising more than 300 variety of birds and nearly eleven million olive trees, thousands of Chestnut, palm and fig trees.
It’s in the context of global warming and climate change, that we have decided the create a festival in Eressos in Lesbos to discover and learn about the Eressian born philosopher and father of ecology: Theophrastus.
Today, we are all concerned about global warming and climate change.
We want to understand what contribution we can make to “save our planet” What initiatives can we undertake in respect of our planet? We can find out more about Theophrastus of Eresos, Find out in how far his memory is still alive;What was his philosophy? And what did he bring to the world as father of ecology.
Through this festival , we hope that we have the opportunity to meet different people taround the world in Eressos in Lesbos that are able to shed some light on the life of Theophrastus.
Theophrastus, a philosopher and pupil of Aristotle, was born in Eresos, Lesbos, 372 years before Christ. He studied in Athens under Aristotle and succeeded him as the head of the Lyceum, the academy in Athens which was founded by Aristotle.
He recorded anthropogenic changes in climate due to drainage and deforestation, which affected the ecology of entire regions.
The history of botany owes to Theophrastus the first systematic classification and explanation of plants and their uses. He is the founder of Botany.
Today, we are all concerned about global warming and climate change.
We want to understand what contribution we can make to “save our planet” What initiatives can we undertake in respect of our planet? We can find out more about Theophrastus of Eresos, Find out in how far his memory is still alive;What was his philosophy? And what did he bring to the world as father of ecology
Through this festival , we hope that we have the opportunity to meet different people taround the world in Eressos in Lesbos that are able to shed some light on the life of Theophrastus.
Theophrastus` most important contributions to botanical science during Antiquity and the Middle Ages were a series of books called: ‘Plant Explanation’ and ‘Enquiry into Plants’.
In the Enquiry into Plants, he aimed at identifying the plants and at gathering all the available information about them, then, in the Plant Explanations, he proceeded to account for their common or distinctive characteristics.
So, Theophrastus methodically laid out all the differences among plants, by distinguishing major categories and by drawing successive subdivisions within each of these categories; this involved the close study of the parts of plants, their morphology and reproduction, as well as relevant factors of habitat and cultivation.
Founder and organisers of the Eco Festival :
Dr George Tsobanoglou, Vice President, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociotechnics & Sociological Practice (ISA-RC26)
Ioanna Sappho agency
Research groupe for Eco festival
Greece : Dr George Tsobanoglou, Vice President, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociotechnics & Sociological Practice (ISA-RC26)
India : Dr Kiran Prasad Professor and head of Dept of Communication and journalism/country director , Asian congress for Media and communication , India Series Editor, Empowering Women Worldwide
Australia : Dr Edward Spence is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, and Research Fellow at the 4TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology, Netherlands. He is author of several books including Stoic Ethics and Technology in the Pursuit of Wellbeing (forthcoming, Rowman and Littlefield) Media Corruption in the Age of Information (2021, Springer), Ethics in a Digital Era (2018, Wiley-Blackwell), Media Markets and Morals (2011,Wiley-Blackwell), Ethics Within Reason: A Neo-Gewirthian Approach (2006, Lexington Books – Rowman and Littlefield,) Advertising Ethics (2005, Pearson) and Corruption and Anti-Corruption: A Philosophical Approach (2005, Pearson) and the edited volume The Good Life in a Technological Age (2012, Routledge).
