Post 5: How green am I?

I have mostly learned about environmentally friendly practices surfing the web, I think it’s the only permanent media that shows how to maintain good habits, in several pages I have found many tips about to protect water or maintain fresh air.

Now that I live by myself, I mean, no longer with my parents I‘ve been able to incorporate recycling into my habits, such as create “compost” to recycle all the organic trash, like fruits skins and rotten vegetables, eggshells and potato peels. So, I am using that compost to fertilize the earth for the garden.

Well, I currently use my bike, I am a good biker, and as I can`t drive a car I obviously prefer my bike. It is an old bike but I have maintain it in very good shape.

Officially, I don’t support any eco-organization but I like the performance o SEA SHEPPARD, they protect whales and other see animals fighting against big corporations that kill many defenseless animals using the meanest ways. So, the only way to stop them is fighting back and resists their attacks. Sometimes they get in trouble but this organization has good contacts and their members have a lot of supporters.

I don´t know, I can´t afford a more green kind of life, because is considerably expensive living in a green way of life. Maybe, I could regulate my time in front of this computer, because these machines are not very friendly with the environment, what a contradiction.

So, to reduce my carbon footprint I have tried to use the computer less, or watching TV only a few hours a day, I use my bike more than cars and a I don’t buy anything that a I don’t need. Because I think that consumerism is one of the biggest causes of the depredation on earth and this awful kind of life is very present in our society. Santiago is one of the most problematic city about contamination and total lack of interest to protect our air or water and in this city our authorities maintain this capitalist system and this system is not aware of the environment.