I´m very green

Today enviromental problems have transformed in a very important matter, because If we don`t do anything about it the world don´t live to much more.
If someone ask me where to learn about environmental practices, I think that today there are a lot of sites to obtain this kind of information like magazines, books and websites like www.veoverde.com a website that I like a lot. There there are a lot of green solutions to live a life based on sustainable development.

Just this days I started thinking to put another trashbag in the kitchen to throw organic garbage. With this I want to do with my roommates a compost and put it in the garden to plant some things to our consume.

Also I try to use my bike the most that I can, minimum I use it 3 days a week when I go to my job. It is better than use public transport, you can save money, time and it is much more funniest.
I have never participate in an eco-organization because I don’t have to much time and I prefer to do something by myself.
Another thing that I usually do is recycling glass bottles and avoiding throw garbage in the street.

If I have to think what is missing in our Chilean society to improve this problem, I think that Chilean people have little conscious about environmental problems specially in Santiago where all the people know that we have big pollution rates and in spite of that the people continue travel one by one in these cars and continue polluting a lot our city.
The first that I think that we have to do with our society in environmental terms is to change the mind of the people around us.

Business scepticism for Cameron´s Big Society

Summary extract from http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/business-scepticism-for-big-society

Nick Hurd the minister for Civil Society talked about the difficult to promove the idea of Big Society in Business world. He explain about the necessity of the companies coperate to transfer power from politicians to the people.
Hurd said when he was ask about how this idea could be realized that the goverment is open to new ideas.

Jo Fox, deputy director of the Bigger picture at Sky, show some ideas about how Big Society could work, he talked about business relation with charities, but how he said If we want to this idea continue in the long period business people have to make sense about his employees and costumers. But the question is if the businnes wants to make this change.

Trewin Restorinck founder and chief of an enviromental charity talked about the risk of Big Society, he said that on of the biggest problem of this idea was that a greta part of the groups of civil society will be unable to satisfy his needs and probably will be excluded from this proyect and this increase the difference between rich and poor people. Against this affirmation Hurd said that this gropu of civil society have to be training to Big Society idea could work.
Another problem of this kind of ideas is like Uk studies shows that business that offer community support are not realized in the communities that needs most help.

Peter Madden, the chief executive of sustainable development charity Forum for the Future said that the idea of the business of cooperate with the society it would be a big mistake if them only put his attention on community engagement, he said that the most important thing that business has to do is create a strategy that give sustainbility to themselves and to the society.

A Chilean´s capital trip

If come here some foreigner friend I would take him to a lot of places, for this way I will show him how is Santiago´s life.
First of all I would take him to know San Cristobal´s hill because from his top you can see Santiago complety, as well is a very beatifull long walk full of trees and nature.
Later this same day I would take him to the Piojera´s bar, there he could know Guachaca´s life of Santiago, this is the name of popular culture in Chile. So in the Piojera´s bar you can know some tipical character of Chile, and drink with them some tipical drinks like Terremoto, Borgoña and piscola, also you can eat some tipical dishes like Arroyado´s sandwish, Sopaipillas and a tasty Pebre.
The next day it´s necessary to do something more relax because the trip of the last day provoque to someones some head and stomach ache. So this day it´s recommendable go to Santiago´s downtown walking trough the Forestal´s Park that is very beatifull. During this trip you must know the Goberment house´s called The Moneda and the main street of Santiago The Alameda.
Another places in Santiago that a foreigner must know is Santa Lucia´s hill that is the place where Santiago was founded and Brazil´s neighbourhood that is the place where I live, as well is a neighbourhood with a lot of history, a lot of old aristocratic´s houses and with a lot of pubs to enjoy Santiago´s night.

I think that all this places are necessarynto know Santiago´s life.