What’s Posidonia oceanica?

Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Sea Grass, is a plant (it is not a seaweed), adapted to underwater life into the sea. It is a key element preserving the Mediterranean ecosystems, protecting  from coastal erosion, and regulating CO2 absorption in the sea and in the atmosphere.
The main threats for the posidonia ecosystems are the maritime constructions, the pollution of near-shore waters, the anchoring, the beach nourishment with sand, the warming of sea water due to climate change and the elimination of the dead leaves on the beach sand.

Due to the very slow regeneration process Posidonia oceanica determines no-renewable ecosystems/resources. At the moment, the posidonia prairies are disappearing throughout the Mediterranean Sea.

Posidonia Festival 2012 will be in Carloforte and Sitges

The International Festival of Art, Environment and sustainable Development is back with a double edition in Italy and Spain – in Carloforte (Sardinia),in July, and in Sitges (Catalonia), in September –, and launch a call for proposals for the new logo, preserving  Posidonia oceanica.

Finally the first details about the next edition of Posidonia Festival, a festival of art and nature that takes its name from the Posidonia oceanica, a marine plant that is the key element for the ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea and preserving from coastal erosion.
This year the festival doubles its appointments, between Italy and Spain where he returned after a year's absence from the previous editions held in Formentera: after Carloforte, the only town on the island of San Pietro (Sardinia) that was already the scenery of the 2011 edition, which will host from 20th to 22nd of July, Posidonia Festival will be in Sitges, a seaside resort 20 km from Barcelona, famous for its Carnival and the Festival of Cinema, from 31st of August to 2nd of September.