Post 7: How green are you?

Hi! Today I will talk about practices in “thinking Green”. Well, in my opinión, and following my idea in post 6, I think that during the pre-school and school education green thinking should be strengthened, but this does not happen. So, green conscience must be searched by every person and really, most people are not interested in it.

Some few ones that are interested, are searching for new ways or any ways for implementing green thinking in our every day life. For example, my family and I have the fortune of living in a commune that recycles. We have been recycling for  10 years, approximately. We recycle glasses, plastic, cartons, paper, tins, cardboard, etc. Sometimes, I tried to make humus but my worms died because I couldn’t feed them because my baby was born and I just took care of her and I forgot my worms. Sad story…

Well in my sondary school I founded the “environmental commission” it was a group of students worried for the environment; we trained our classmates, we were volunteers of beach cleaning, recycled, organised green festivals, rehabilitated animals, etc. But few people were interested. In practice It was very difficult to teach  our classmates just to recycle… (considering it was a landmark school). So, I understood that It is very important to take action since pre-school . After that, It is really very difficult.

Well, now I will participate in a group of urban orchards, It is a pilot project. Well, I dont use a bike because I dont have one but I really like it. In the mean time, I am trying to take many people in my car.

Good news!!:
Convenio de colaboración para incorporar temas de educación ambiental desde los jardines infantiles

Post 6: Trash Management

Hi! Today I will talk about Trash Management. I think that trash management is necessary for our civilization because we produce tons daily and if we don’t take action someday we will live on that. I know several forms of trash management divide in two big grups: Recycling of organic matter and recycling of inorganic matter. The first includes the production of organic manure (compost and humus) with organic residues for example the trash of animal and vegetal origin, including dairy. The second group includes the recycling of glasses, plastic, cartons, papers, tins, tetra pack, etc.

The way to implement the trash management is to make a awareness campaign nationwide, always looking to promote good practice and create pockets of development in the community. For example, the commune is the unit is the basic structural and functional unit of the civil society and a good way of starting educating on the trash management and the separation of residues from the homes, would be to begin for the comunes. In Chile this have developed for some comunes as La Pintana.

In Chile the awareness campaign must beging in the school as a lesson mandatory, thus the implemento of trash management to comunity will be easier.

Nevertheless, much is absent for this since the quality of education is very low. Probably in a future intelligent reform of the education the ecological conscience is included.

Post 5: Future job

Today i will talk about my future job. Well when I decided to study agricultural engineering I thought that I wanted something related to ecological management so I thought in natural resources or agricultural engineering. Then I got into Agriculture engineering and when I begin the career I believed that a wanted to job in the future in a laboratory. But then, I worked in, as volunteer, in a laboratory of INIA and I hated to work indoor. It was horrible!

So I decided searching for a new direction and I searched incessantly my vocation. It was very difficult because in some areas of agriculture exist the corporate thinking where the production is intensive and the mentality is to get a lot of yields thus to get a lot of money. But, I have a sense of welfare and I in every moment think contribute to society, to help to smallholders, to work with low resources and to do with that something incredible. So, my intention in my future job is to can to help to the smallholders or to teach environmental awareness in schools or municipal workshops or to have my own business that promotes self-cultivation in the city.

I know that maybe I will not win a great salary but I would be happy with that.

Post 4 : Genetic Modified Organisms

Well, I will talking about of genetic modified organisms. As brief introduction, all organisms are develop continually according to environmental stimuli, this is called adaptation. For adaptation happen, within each organisms occur changes in the DNA but, this naturally is very low. Thus, the organisms had can survive an any conditions.

However, in the last time this changes have been very fast because of global warming, and many organisms, as plants and animals, have not been adapted at the same rhythym, and they can not survive. The same occur with the crops can not to adapt and its efficient use of resources is low, too.

In the history, the transgenics born as famine in the world (India), so a scientis breeded some grians crops and he got to increase the yields of this crops whit the breeded. This scientis is called Borlaug and himself considered that the creating transgenic as a natural extension of their work in the green revolution must be continued.

Agricultural biotechnology is essential in developing nations, this biotechnology can double or triple the product yields, herbicid-resistent, drought resistant, cold resistent, or allow to incorporat any other gene. This is some advantages of transgenics, whichever organisms can be genetic modified organisms for this times is very useful.

I leve you a link the others positives things of transgenics: http://www.actionbioscience.org/esp/biotecnologia/borlaug.html

Disadvantages are GM crops pose increasing the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture. Such products may not only affect the transgene product, but also seriously affect traditional varieties, destroying them and causing irreversible loss to biodiversity. We have known many cases where farmers are forced by law to cultivate GMO seeds only and, therefore, has been losing traditional seed. Also, is says that increase the rate of allergies.

Personally, I think that breeding is necesary because the must have food for all and the crops no modified can not to response at the demand global but must exists ecological management of this crops.