Green-In-Between

Respect of the environmental care, I think that there are a lot of places where people can learn friendly practices. For example I know a private organization that try to bring up different kind of people to participate in their workshops, it doesn’t matter if you are a grown up man or if you’re a child, the only important thing is that you have the interest to save our planet. There are some interesting and useful courses that can teach you about recycling, home gardens and even solar energy. Actually there is a course that started in my University, and now is running for other young people, and it has the project of going to the San Gregorio neighborhood to teach the residents how to build their own solar panels. This is a great initiative, but is a shame that only private organizations promote green awareness, instead the government as a social and public policy.
About my personal behavior, some years ago my family started to recycling and collecting cardboard, plastic, and any material that can be recycled. But this is even easier when a municipal truck passes every week picking up what has collected in each house, so every Monday we took a couple of full bags.
But apart from that I would like to create compost in my backyard, because I know that you can make a fertilizer with biodegradable waste. Also, in future I would like to develop a plantation of different vegetables, like carrots or tomatoes, but I think that I’ve to wait for my own place to do that.
Another way that I’ve applied to reduce my carbon footprint, is to use my bike to move around the city, sometimes I go to the doctor, to meet with my friends or to make some errands, but is difficult to do this very often because you run the risk of being stolen, the city is not ready to encourage the use of bicycles, and there aren’t places to leave your bike safely. Also, the city doesn’t have a good system of bike paths, so is very insecure.