POST 7 ¿HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

Now there are many foundations and groups who try to promote the environmental causes. They

teach people techniques to be eco friendly, like how to measure your carbon footprint, to recycle, to develop and use clean energy (not from water)  amongst other things that people have designed to avoid causing more damages to nature.

To be honest I haven’t incorporated recycling to my habits, it’s too difficult I think because you don’t have at home different garbage cans to classify your waste. Or even if you can classify this the garbage truck doesn’t do this! So is pointless.

In transportation the best way to help the planet is to avoid using a car or if you can’t stop using this al least practice carpooling. In my experience I don’t have a licence so I don’t use cars, instead I walk almost everywhere I go, is more comfortable allow me enjoy the city, and help me to relax myself after a hard day at university. I prefer this that using the metro or even a byclicle (this is to dangerous here in Santiago there is too much traffic).

I have never joined to an organization like this because this is not my major concern, so is not that important for me (to be honest). But I would like to change this.

To reduce my footprint I have planted like 10 trees, I use energy-efficient lightbulbs, I try to reduce the garbage,nmm I think that's pretty much it!

In answer to what's missing in our society, I think having a Environmental Ministry as an institution is a step forward but does not solves the problem. Maybe the common citizen have change his behavior to an eco-friendly one, so now the  challenge is to envolve in this issue all company no matter if they belong to the private or public sector.