How green am I?

In home my parents always told me I have to take care about the nature and the animals (our little brothers) and respect them, because we, the humans are nothing without the bugs, animals, plants, etc. But they didn’t know so much about environmentally friendly practices.

When I was a child I learned recycling practices with children’s TV shows like “profesor rosa”, “Cachureos” and with “Discovery kids” when it was a scientist TV channel made for children.

I would like to can recycling, the problem is I can’t, because in my community we don’t have a “green point”, that’s why I do what I can, for example, I bring to the University all the paper we don’t use to put it on the boxes for baby’s diapers. Also, we contribute to save some water, and not contaminate it using “clean balls” to the laundry (these are even more effective than the traditional detergents), in home with my family, we make ecological bricks (in plastic bottles we put plastic packages and when it’s full, we press very much), when we have a lot of them, my boyfriend and I carry them to the GAM (    Centro cultural Gabriela Mistral), it’s really far from my home, but it´s just once at month we do that.

I haven’t reduce so much my carbon footprint, I try to print less paper, and use more the notebook, also I prefer to walk in little stretches than take a bus or a taxi, and in long stretches I necessarily need to take a bus, because I don’t have a bike, and even if I would have it, I would not use it for run to work or the University because I live really far away from everything, and the time is not enough to arrive from one to other. I work in an informatics business, and they are a green one, they use ecological PC, made with recyclables materials and have a low consumption of energy, they have solar panels too.

I’m always doing the best I can for the nature, that’s why I’d like to join some eco-organization, but I don’t have time, neither the money to do that, I hope someday I can to be an eco-activist.

A last thing, I think in our country, not only Santiago, the government should to have an ecological program for every cities, made according the requirements of each one. In the schools the children should have a course of ecology and environmentally friendly practices, and of course, apply everything they are learning, I mean, if the school teaches to recycle separating the different kinds of garbage, that school (and I think every school should) must to have garbage disposer to every kind of trash, in the same way, stimulate the children’s parents do that in home. But, to can do that, the government has to build green points in all the country, and every community, that’s the only way all the people has access to the recycling practices.

Other thing is teaching the children to love the nature and take care of it, live with and in it, not destroy it, because in that way we will have a much better society.

Voting or not voting.....

Voting is not the only way to express your opinion about politics and your country reality, there exist other ways to do that. Since 2001 the students have made a strong campaign to have a good education,  with marches and different kind of protests showing they want better public politics and equality, and of course, a free and quality education , even that, the politician have always said the young people is not interested in politics, they don’t care the future of our country. They say that just because the most young people don’t vote, but the problem is they don’t listen us, they do whatever they want and not what we need. It means, the government will never make the changes we need and we want,  that has to be done from inside the system, that’s why I think we have the power to change our country in our hands, we can to work for a best country, for a quality lifestyle, and that calls “poder popular” (popular power), we can to do that with our family and neighborhood, and if we don’t have a representative candidate, we have two choices, a void vote or propose a candidate.

 

In the actual presidential campaign, we have a historical situation, 9 candidates, and we always had two! With that on mind, we can to imagine there is a diversity of ideology and government programs, so, we can’t say this time, we don’t feel represented by anybody. Many people want to change the actual economic system to can change the social reality, so, we all have to vote to make it real.  Also, we all should to have some considerations and know how difficult was to take back the democracy, so, I think that giving my vote I’m exercising my rights.

About the campaigns, to be honest, I think are really poor, the most candidates don’t say anything, they only have a jingle and pretty people smiling like if the real life would be so nice and easy. That demonstrate the people who are candidates, the most of them are corrupt persons, and they should to be in jail, we can’t have that kind of people in public charges, because a president has to be an honest person, who wants to work for the people and the country, not for the money or the power, and obviously, that person musts to have knowledge about politics.

Finally, the campaigns in my district are horrible, because the posters in the street are disturbance, and contamination, they think that with a poster behind other we are going to vote for them, instead that they should to make informative campaigns showing to the people what they want to do, not only a poster with a smiling face, and using arguments so stupid like “I live here, so, vote for me”.  And honestly, I would like to be a politician, because I would really represent to the people, not a politic or economic group, and I would like to be “the voice of who don’t have a voice”, the poor people, the animals, the indigenous people, etc.  and of course, I would not make that kind of campaign, I would like to do something so creative like the Giorgio Jackson’s campaign (they don contaminate with posters, they use a stencil to mark his name in dirty streets and walls).

A burial talking: it's science, not magic

This article is about a recently find, an england king from the XV century suffered a common infection of the medieval age and currently.

Between 1483 and 1485 in England was a King called Richard III, the most famous king in the medieval age (thanks to Shakespeare). The Archaeologists from University of Leicester found the human remains from Richard III last year under a parking site, that used to be part of the church in that city.

How did the researchers discover this? Well, the archaeologist from Cambridge University studied the soil extracted from the pelvis and cranium section.

What did they find? A lot of roundworm eggs in the pelvis soil. The roundworms are intestinal parasites that attack principally the lungs, but they grow up in the intestines. There is no reason to think that the eggs came from another stratus (superior stratus) because they didn't find eggs in the cranium soil.

Just like the most paleopathological researches, we can to relate the findings with the lifestyle, and Richard III probably eaten cooked meat (completely cooked), that because they didn't find another kind of parasites typical from edible animals, only the roundworms, in adition, his noble status didn't save him from this infection.

This article shows the amaizing results we can getting with paleopathological  studies, I mean, they were capable to discover these parasite eggs in the 500 years soil and relate it with what he eaten.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/04/richard-iii-roundworm-infection-scientists