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.