Monday, 8 November 2010

GreeeeeN green..


Hi everyone, today we talk about environmental topics and another “green topics”, nowadays people want and wish have more time in to share in outdoor activitiesm, people are interesting with environmental and conservation issues and we can show them some places, internet sites, and publications where they can learn more about this, like www.chileflora.cl, www.chilebosque.cl internet sites where you can find a lot of flora and vegetation information, a lot of beautiful pictures and more things related with taxonomi and distribution of chilean plants. Other web site where you can find information about different projects, conservation status of some particular place and a lot of more things in the ONG Chinchimen website www.chinchimen.org. These guys are working hard in fauna and flora conservation with a lot of voluntaries and love for earth.

Some places in Santiago city are very good equiped to transport you to everywhere by bike, not some places really, some neighbourhood in fact In Providencia for example you can rent a bike for few money and go toeverywhere that you want, its neighbourhood has a lot of bikeways with its respetivity signals and traffic lights. Here, in front of our campus we had a beautiful and long bikeway, a bikeway what today doesn’t exist because the government construct a busway and they forgot the poor people again, who doesn’t has money to pay a bus daily.

The past Sunday, walking Vitacura street I saw a beautiful and interesting architectonic idea. Green walls, the International hotel has its walls wrapping with beautiful and green grass, idea that a lot of new construction should lead.

Our city like a lot of cities around the world has many desabited roofs and whe can tap it constructing some greenhouse or a orchard as well, something that can reduce our carbon footprint. Try it!