How green are you?

Well Today I'm going to write about one of my favorite topics of the world: Save the environment!!

In my house, We install three different things to help environment. First, We replaced the old bulbs for others of  low consumption, like this, we save money and save the environment. Also, We implement a recycling system with three container to save glass bottles, tins of beer or other drinks and pieces of paper or cardboard. This last one, recently applied we save the organic waste of the kitchen or the garden and collect this in a plastic container to use it as compost (fertilizer).

Where did I learn about environmentally friendly practices? Actually I don't know exactly, but I suppose principally  from my friends or my family. Also, as Internet  is the "mother of knowledge" nowadays and in a topic as important and contingent as the environment It is the best learning tool.

Well, Unfortunately I don't participate in any eco-organization, because I don't have initiative, but just today I am seeing in different websites or Facebook, different organizations near my home to defend the nature, and other organization about community vegetable patch. Where different people work the land and the plants and the gathering is for each and every one of them. Well I am seriously thinking  in joining to this organization. 

Well, Today in Santiago We have a big environmental  problem: pollution. This thing is produced for various reasons, the geography of the city, a big hole surrounded mountains and hills  and thermal inversion, for the factories and the cars and  the majority of public transport. I try to do my contribution to change this problem. I try to walk as possible as i can and to use the public transport, to use the bicycle to go to the  place near my house, but it is difficult because I don't live near the center of Santiago or the University or any place.I hope with this little things I reduce the carbon footprint. 

Election Day

Well, today I  going to discuss about the contingent topic: the vote. In November,  the Chilean citizens must choose the next president, the members of parliament and COREs. I understand to vote is important and a part of the democracy (not all, of course). I going to vote the next 17th November, I register when I'am eighteen years old, but I will not vote for the candidates for president. Why? Easy, Because I don't believe anybody. 

I can listen the electoral campaigns, and listen the long list of promises, progress in health, education, AFPs, etc. Even I am O.K  with this, but  I don´t believe not one of candidates. Even more, I am embarrassed  watching his political material. They are selling oneself for votes, as a thing. The campaign don't have ideas, only smiles, clothes, maternal attitude. They create a character and they sell this. The politic party share out posters in the streets, pamphlets contaminating the city and spending millions. The question is ¿Are political the  problem? or The politic system and the interests transform a good people in bad political?

I think a good political must tell the true, They must know his people and his problems. He or she, must to be a consequent, His promises, his project's law. 

Well when I was a girl I want to be a political, but because I want to earn a lot of money. But, today I think that the politic is more complicated, It is a power game, and to change the things and the system is difficult but isn't impossible. There is the little politic, the neighborhood politic, little social organizations, ONGs, little institutions would be able to change the bad things 
Here, part of electoral campaigns

Article from the Guardian

The piece of news I selected is called "Regenerative urban development as a prerequisite for the future of cities". This article is about notion of sustainability and how we are thinking the cities in the today's world. For this we must change the concept of sustainability that until this moment is vague and unambitious and transform in concrete things, for example and is the topic for this article, the regenerative urban development.  I think that the problem of the concept of sustainability is in the notion of tomorrow, of to keep and to take care resources for the future. This idea prevent to watch the problems today. In other words, the problem isn't in the concept or his intentions, but in that the humans don't act for to progress and to change.

This type of development (regenerative) aims to working in the progress and "actively working towards regenerating soils, forest and watercourses". This process is a step by step, It is to change the shape of the cities, renovating old builds and built new constructions with efficient and renewable energies etc. This article puts the example of Wilhelmsburg, a district of Hamburg of 55.000 residents that has regenerate the city. Introducing new technology and inversion for to transform the city right now. 

The Nazi Bunker converted in a plan of renewable energy. 

The author of this article shows that the change have a politic side, It is the most important thing that we must to change for to make a regenerative cities, the public, the private and civil population must agree for a best present and future.

This is the link of article enjoy it!

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/regenerative-urban-development-future-cities

My favorite Band

Hi classmates, Today I'm going to write about my favorite band of life, because I always have a singer or band i like for a short time, a month, a year or a week, in fact right now I'm listening to Nano Stern (I love his music). But I have a band that I can listen to them all the time and all the situations. This band is Pink Floyd, I don’t remember exactly when I began to listen them but I think that in my home they were played constantly, because my big brothers love them. 

They were an English Band that started their career in the 60's (last part of this decade) It was characterized to play a progressive or psychedelic rock. They were the creators of various emblematic songs and discs such as "Dark Side of the Moon", "Animals", "The Wall" etc. By the end of the 60's, Syd Barret (vocalist and leader of the band) left the group, and the leadership was assumed by Roger Waters. Their music was a bestsellers, for example "Dark side of the moon" had the record of being more than 803 weeks in the Billboard 200 List.
In the 80's, the band  and Rogers Waters started a soloist career and demanded rest of the band for copyright for the name of Pink Floyd and a big part of their discography.  Recently (2005) they met again in a concert in London. 
I like this band for several reasons: I started to listen to them very young with my brothers, and I listen to the band at all times, in my house alone, with my friends, walking on the streets, on the subway, on the Transantiago etc. 

It's difficult for me to choose a song of all works, but I put a video of "one" of my favorite song, for the sounds, the mix, the contrast etc..

A day to remember

Well I am going to write about a remarkable day in my life... I always try to remember this event on the holidays in "Torres del Paine" (five years ago, 2008) to save in my heart and my mind during the academic or work year and survive to this. 

Me, my brother and his wife were walking for seven hours (the maps told us that maximum the trekking was maximum five hours) and we were late to stay in the camping sites because the majority of them were use by other campers, in addition, our things were very wet because it had rained the last three days. We had to camp far away from basic services (bathroom) and the lodge (for the people with more money) in a site in the middle of a forest with a little area to install the tent. The place was wonderful but not the most appropriate for camping.  

We prepared our food, I don't remember exactly what there was, but I think that there was Asian noodles (typical in this situations). My sister -in- law went to buy a carton of wine (for the price) and shared with other people, Mexican and Chilean people we were talking about everything, the long walk, the country, the landscape, politics, etc.We didn't have a bonfire because in the National Parks is very dangerous, obviously the night was very cold,  but we enjoyed the life, finished the long way and the sharing with other people in the nature.

Well, it is a typical message, but this situation in my life helps me to remember the important things, the food, the drinks of course, the family, the conversation, the people, the nature etc.

Second term 2013