Summer Festivals

I know that there is still much time for the Summer. But, while the rain is falling and the cold is making me sick, I can think about what I'm going to do in this wonderful season. And I'm going to a summer festival, that I'm sure.
I went to Rock in Rio in 2008. And one thing that I noticed (besides the fantastic environment, great music and funny people) was all the trash in the grass.
The truth is that summer festivals can have a negative environmental impact on our planet. However, the organizers are trying to reduce the waste produced, the emissions of carbon dioxide and making people more aware. People that go to these festivals should really think about being green, and try to reduce their waste.
I'm going to Rock in Rio this year. I'm NOT going to miss Snow Patrol, of course. And I'll try to be the greeniest I can.

Rita

Where is the Love?

One thing I have noticed is that people are no longer good to each other. I mean, is like they're always dressed in an arrogant skin, and we need to give them something in return to receive their sympathy. People can be so mean and so selfish... That's not how it's supposed to be!
We should be able to get a free hug whenever we want, or to receive a peck on the forehead when we feel like... To be surrounded by the people we love, every place and anytime.

Rita

Eco-Christmas

Yes, it's Christmas. Everybody has got their christmas tree, their house decorated, many gifts to give and receive... In this time of the year we care about everything, except the environment. But there are many tricks and tips to have an eco-Christmas, and we all are able to at least try them. So eat the chocolates you want, laugh, be in the company of those you love and try to be eco-friendly, so you can enjoy the same or better Christmas next year!

Rita

Surfers' marks

Surfers are permanent travellers. What defines us is the search for the perfect wave. In my case, I’m still looking for the correct position in the surfboard and the suitable timing to stand up… I’ve only surfed in two beaches yet, but millions of surfers in the world have already visited Australia, Hawaii, Indonesia, Maldives, Morocco, among other places also desirable. But at what price do they go to these spots?
Today, unfortunately, surfers tend to leave behind an incalculable amount of garbage, like empty water bottles, packages of cookies, broken ropes, etc. Will the man be someday able to preserve what he so admires? Maldives, for example, is hugely polluted because some surfers don’t care about what is done with their trash.
How to avoid it, how to prevent it, is something to which I have no answer. I think that our environmental and collective consciousness should work. We never ask ourselves about the impact that many surfers may have in certain areas of the planet. We have to rethink what we want from surf in the future. Sometimes, the problem may not be the increasing of surfers, but the impact that each surfer has in the places they travel.

Rita

The Great Global Warming Swindle

A few days ago, we saw in our Biology class a documentary called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. It’s about the true cause of our planet’s heating and it presents ideas opposed to those on which global warming is based on. Scientists, politicians, economists and writers give evidences and agree that it’s not the human carbon dioxide emissions that are causing Global warming. They say that considering the temperature and the levels of carbon dioxide since the beginning of the Earth’s History, CO2 couldn’t ever be the cause. And it is a greenhouse gas with a low percentage in our atmosphere.
Besides that, the Earth’s climate is always changing. Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period and Holocene Period are periods where the Earth’s temperature was higher or lower than normal.

The film shows us lots of graphs when we can clearly see that when the carbon dioxide is increasing rapidly, the temperature is decreasing (Post war economic Boom for example).
“An Inconvenient Truth” omits some very relevant information. Al Gore says that the relation between temperature and carbon dioxide is complicated. But he failed to mention what those complications were. “The temperature rises or falls, and then 800 years ago, CO2 follows.”

So, what is changing the climate?
The Sun, is the answer the film gives to this question. They say that there is a correlation between the sun activities (sun spots) and the Earth’s temperature.

When the film was over and we were leaving the room, my head was more confused than ever. Global warming is a fact. But what is causing it? Are all the campaigns and commercials about Global warming a lie? I don’t know in who or what to believe. I thought the solutions were in our hands, but if we’re not the ones who started the problem… How can we solve it?

Rita

You can see "The Great Global Warming Swindle" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzuXPM1W3k

Is Biodiversity important?

Who cares if there aren't so many species?

Well, I think we all should care about it. No matter how small species are, they all have an important "role to play" in our life.

So change your way of thinking because while we dominate this planet, we still need to preserve the diversity in wildlife.








And if you do, in the future you may have the lucky to find a strange specie like those in the pictures.
If you don't, in the future you will find nothing but a depopulate planet.

Think it over!

Marta

Water Pollution

Our planet is the only one in the Solar System that has water on its surface. It covers 71% of the Earth. Pictures?

Words are unnecessary. Water is the most precious thing we have. And we're polluting and wasting all the reserves.

Rita