How green are you?

Punta Alcalde's 
thermal power station.

I think that most of the people of the modern society have not developed eco-friendly habits with their environment and in a certain way it is the fault of a society that worries more about the material production than the natural life, a good example of this are the dykes built on the southern part of Chile or the thermal power station of coals on almost all the northern and central area, two types of industries that produced a lot of electrical energy but are highly destructive to the ecosystem and the people who lives in that places. 

Recycling bins

Personally, I don't do great environmental activities, like the people of eco-organization groups, but my family have always teach me to be more conscious about the nature with little but helpful actions: not trowing the food wrapping at the floor when I am out of home and  far of a trash can, walking to near places (not using the car just for commodity), picking up the pieces of paper or wraps that other people trow out or separating the garbage at home between plastic, organic waste and paper, so that once the trash collector has picked up the garbage, it will be easier to recycle and reuse the useful remains.

Nice ideas of how reuse
a plastic bottle!

I would like to learn or incorporated to my habits new ways of recycling so that I would be helping to reduce the     pollution on the planet (or at least in our community) but I think that it is also necessary that all the people became aware of the situation that even if we can live with the environmental pollution, the nature can not, and that will inevitably affect us. 

Article from The Guardian

The article I choose take place in the context of Hajj pilgrimage's week that starts yesterday, when more than 2 million Muslims visited the Saudi Arabia's Mina Valley in order to follow the footsteps of the prophet Muhammad. While they were arriving, they realized all the changes on the sacred places of the city that the authorities with foreigner influences have been making, as the director of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation says, the authorities are trying to destroy all the prophet's heritage in the Mecca, Grand Mosque and others important places for the community. In this way, with the influence of the globalization and the purpose of simulate the big occidental cities, the authorities have been destroying the consecrated and historical monument, building in  it's stead luxury hotels, public lavatories, underground car parks and metro lines, they already have bulldozed the Muhammad wife's house, forbidden to pray in his birthplace and demolished a group of 500-year-old columns that used to show Muhammad's poetry and journeys.

It shows one more time the constant struggle of the modernity against the material culture remains and in certain way also against the culture itself, not allowing the people do their religious practices in peace in their sacred places. It is important to remind that this pieces cannot be recover once they (or when we allow these people to) destroy them. 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/14/as-the-hajj-begins-the-destruction-of-meccas-heritage-continues

My favorite band

Hello!! being honest I don't have a favorite band or singer, I like a lot of different types of music and I always had have troubles to choose one (actually I don't have a favorite color either). But as I have to choose one band, I'll write about this group that I really like: The Cure. They are an English post-punk band that have being playing since the 70's and they still do, in fact, they came to Chile last year while they were on a tour for South America. Sometimes they mix different types of music like alternative rock, new wave and electronic music to give to the songs that particular signature that define them. The first song I listened was "Friday I'm in love" (I think that is the most popular song that they have) when I was fourteen and I liked that they used deep and introspective lyrics, like the music of The Smiths or Joy Division, but with that complement more dynamic of the new wave. I like many of their songs so I can't decide for one as my favorite, but I'll post the song that I said before so you can listen it, enjoy!

A day to remember

Hello people! today's topic is "A day to remember", so I'm going to talk to you about my classmates at high school. We had never been a very united class, there were good relationships but always in separate groups. At the end of our first semester in 2011, in senior year and starting the second - and last - semester of school before university, we were in the classroom, it was another normal day when suddenly someone had the idea to go to the kiosk of school to buy some snacks and spend some time all together and everyone agreed, even the teacher! so we cleared up space, put the tables away and sat all together right in the center of the classroom, after that everything was amazing, we talked, we laughed, we sang and we danced too. I really liked how that great moment started on something so spontaneous and that was definitely a great day for us because after that we became more friendly with each other and we had a successful and very enjoyable end of high school.