What do you do to reduce the carbon footprint?

First of all I think that living in a sustainable condition with the environment by now should be a requirement more than a personal need. In other hand, the cultural environmental policies of the Chileans are very low, is a matter of see in the Street how people of any social class throw his garbage of the vehicles while this peoples are in streets or subways without worry about our own habitat. Is because of this that it should be much more rigorous the educational issue about teaching to the citizens in general. So the people that had the courage to learn about conditions more friendlies with the environment do this thing through of his own knowledge like internet, books or documentaries, but in public policies the truth is that are little.

In my case, I try to always use the recycling like a way of living. In my house for example, a couple of years ago that in my backyard it was built compost to put organic waste that mineralize the earth, after a few years we had to cover because it was a lot of accumulation but in my family the issue is always present. In fact, on winter we don’t light the stove unless it is electric because is more friendly with the environment, while in homes is still used paraffin like an effective way of heating. His level of carbon dioxide is as contaminants that lose the way. Maybe I’m not a fan of the bicycle, I rather use the public transport, but my older brother, uses the bicycle like a Daily transport vehicle. Rather when I can, I use the car but only in special occasions, I never uses in the daytime or in the rush hour traffic.

Well Irespect to inform to the citizens, I participate in several groups of animal and environmental defense, which they performing direct actions with the purpose of the community know that exist alternative media to the conventional to live the daytime. In regard to my animal policy, as I said in previous blogs, I’m vegetarian, because in addition of all the torture the animals have in his daytime, we must add that a person who eat meat, pollute the environment more than an industry because as to feed a cow it needed thousands of hectares of industrial soya for his feeding which is equivalent to six buses no catalytic.

Maybe what I like to do is maximize and descend the cost of the called “green energy”. This means that a rise in solar panels, focus in not approve policies like “alto del maipo” that damaging the most important ecologic reserve of Santiago as is the “cajon del maipo”, also take advantage of the wind energy and facilitate his installation. You don’t have to be a genius, here are vested interests. Large companies as “chilectra” or “aguas andinas” don’t want that we seek an alternative way because his business could be over. Reduce the carbon mark is important maybe with little changes every day; know how to use the water properly well. Not washing out teethes or wash the dishes and let the water run. Closed the water when is not used, maybe not have the lights on if it’s are not in use and be conscious that the water is fundamental, because there are people that before take a shower, turn on the water of the shower and then wait that the water is warm, lay out the water unreasonably. Also change eating habits and recycles as much as you can; it implies a commitment because the trash trunk at the end has everything join together, so for that we should go and deposit this remains separately.

Finally the society is lack of take this seriously; assume that if they don’t do something, today our children and grandsons will suffer a truly barbarity with respect of the earth gave us freely.