MIDWAY

First of all I have to say sorry for my absences the last days. I have been suffering a food poisoning and I have salmonella and amoebas. So I had hard days and I could not right.
 I could not even prepare an own post so what I am going to share today is something that I saw on facebook yesterday in the wall of a group that I am member (Scuba Diver Life)

The video is a trailer of a film that wants to show us how birds are dieing because of the plastics of the Pacific Garbage Patch. Interesting to watch it and think about it.

En primer lugar quiero pediros disculpas por mi ausencia los últimos días. He sufrido una intoxicación alimentaria por salmonella y amebas he tenido unos días difíciles que no me han permitido escribir.
Ni siquiera he podido preparar una entrada para hoy así que lo que voy compartir es un vídeo que vi ayer en facebook de un grupo al que pertenezco (Scuba Diver Life).

El vídeo es el trailer de una película que nos muestra como ciertos pájaros están muriendo por los plásticos de la Isla de Basura del Pacífico. Es interesante de ver y reflexionar.

Lecture at Bantayan National High School / Conferencia en el Instituto Nacional de Bantayan

Yesterday, C4G had it first lecture for kids at Bantayan National High School. It has been a great pleasure for me to share my ideas about Sustainability with 80 kids between 13 and 14 years old.
At the beginning the kids were a little bit shy, but after 15 minutes they were interacting a lot with me, and I have to say, that they know more than kids in Europe about environmental issues. It was a great experience that I hope to repeat soon in other schools around the country.



Ayer, C4G tuvo su primera conferencia para niños en el Instituto Nacional de Bantayan. Fue un gran placer para mi compartir mis ideas sobre sostenibilidad con 80 niños de entre 13 y 14 años. Al principio los niños estaban un poco cortados, pero después de 15 minutos empezaron a interactuar conmigo. Y tengo que decir que saben más que niños en Europa acerca de problemas con el medio ambiente. Fue una gran experiencia que espero repetir pronto en otras escuelas del país.

Inception / Origen

I do not know if you have watched the movie called inception. In this film, Leonardo Di Caprio, is able to implant an idea on the brain of the people while they are sleeping. Imitating him I was picking rubbish up in a beach at Puerto Princesa, and I could implant the idea in a little girl that was helping me to do it. I did not ask her about it. She just considered it was a good idea and she did it. Here you have a pic of this little girl helping me.
Months ago I post the idea that if we do it, people will see it and some of them will start to do the same... this is  the best example of it.

No se is habéis visto la película Origen. En esta película, Leonardo Di Caprio es capaz de implantar una idea en el cerebro de la gente mientras ellos están durmiendo. Imitándole, estuve recogiendo basura en una playa de Puerto Princesa, y pude implantar la idea en una niña que estuve ayudándome. No le pedí que lo hiciera, únicamente salió de ella cuando pensó que era una buena idea. Aquí tenéis una foto que lo demuestra.
Meses atrás, escribí un post en el que decía que si la gente te ve hacer este tipo de cosas, algunos de ellos empezarán a hacerlo. Este es el mejor ejemplo de ello.

Sustainaility / Sostenibilidad

Many times people do not understand what sustainability means. Here you have a very good video that explains in a very simple way the concept of sustainability.

En muchas ocasiones, la gente no entiende muy bien que quiere decir sostenibilidad. Aquí tenéis un vídeo que explica de una manera muy sencilla dicho concepto. Está en inglés y lamentablemente sin subtítulos.

Recycle for tricycles / Reciclo para triciclos

When I was in Puerto Princesa at Palawan. I was surprised when I saw following picture in one of the tricycles. Tricycles are a way of transport for short distances in filipino towns and cities. It is a motorbike that have a kind of sidecar attached where two or three people can travel.

Cuando estuve en Puerto Princesa en Palawan me sorprendió ver la pegatina de la foto en uno de los triciclos. Los triciclos son un medio de transporte para distancias cortas en las pequeñas ciudades en Filipinas. Básicamente es una moto que tiene un sidecar donde pueden viajar dos o tres personas.

No doubts that The Philippines are working hard in environmental issues.

No hay dudas de que Filipinas está trabajando duro en cuestiones medio ambientales.

Recycling cans at Green Belt, Manila / Cubos de reciclaje en Green Belt Manila

When I was in Manila, I went to a famous shopping center at Makati. This place has a lot of western restaurants and shops where Filipinos and foreigners can buy and go for dinning. I was so glad when I found reclying cans around the whole center. Of course I took a picture to show you that The Philippines are really worried about environmental issues.

Cuando estuve en Manila, visité un famoso centro comercial en Makati. Es un lugar donde tanto filipinos como extranjeros pueden encontrar todo tipo de restaurantes y tiendas occidentales. Me alegré mucho cuando encontré los cubos de reciclaje por todo el centro y obviamente saqué una fotografía para compartirla con vosotros. Valga de muestra de que los filipinos están realmente preocupados por el medio ambiente.

Bali 3

Dear readers,

Apologies for being so long disconnected. Here in El Nido, (where I am now) There is no electricity till 2 pm everyday and there is no wifi in every place. So it is not than easy to keep blog updated.
Anyway, here I am again and I wanted to let you know what I picked up in other beach in Indonesia, Nusa Dua at Bali.
On this beach, you can find a lot of good resorts. Beach is white sand and blue water beach. We could say that is one of the best beaches in Bali for resting and relaxing.
Here is where my good friend Dziga told me when he saw me picking up rubbish... Why don´t you post it in Care for Gaia? And he encouraged me to do it in every beach I am from that moment. So here you have what I picked up in just 10 minutes.
As you can see, it is a lot of rubbish on a beach that should be very clean for high budget tourism. But it is not.
I am still remembering the faces of the local people when they saw us with the blue plastic bag full of rubbish.
They could not believe it and somehow, they did not understand why we were doing this.

A lot of work from every of us to educate people for this. Fortunately, I can say that Philippines is different. I have seen good behaviours here and I will share with you asap.

Bali 2

After two months almost coming back from Bali, I have settle some ideas about Bali and I would like to share with you my opinions.
Bali is one of the most famous islands in the South East Asia. It belongs to Indonesia, and it is the most common touristic area in this country.
Very famous for surfing, Australians and surfers from everywere meet in Bali to enjoy it brave waters in the south. Kuta, is the main meeting point but you can find several places around. North part is famous for diving and you can find very beautiful diving points.
Well. That is a small summarize about what you can find in Bali. Surf, beaches, nature and party.
Now I want to give some details about the quality in the environmental care. Probably I have been in the most dirty beaches in my life. Not because Indonesian people is dirty. Because sea give back to us our own rubbish.
Several beaches are not developed yet and you can go there to have a relaxing day around nature. The problem is that you will find a lot of kind of rubbish on the sand because no one cares and clean the beaches.

 For example, what happend to us in Soka beach. Black sand beach with beautiful landscape but full of plastics. Picture on the right side shows the beach when you get there. Picture on the left side shows what you will find if you walk a little bit around the beach.

As follows you have two pictures showing what kind of plastic and rubbish, even toys parts as wheels.

There is a fishermenvillage on this beach what incrementsthe rubbish on this beautiful beach because they bring it on their nets.
At least some locals try to pick up some rubbish as you can see in the last picture.
Now we have to be concious that beautiful places on earth, are being damage because of our actions.
I will publish more posts about other different beaches.



 Greetings from the Philippines!!

Video: Waking up

Investigating on the Internet I have found following video. It is very impressive how it can match our daily actions with effects on our planet. That is something I have already talked about in different posts. As follow explanation by producers:

A man wakes up from a nightmare of a forest in destruction. As he stirs other visions flash before his eyes with his early morning actions. Frustration and anger turn to calm realisation as he slowly wakes up to the fact that his daily actions are connected to the world around him. His experience changes from feeling to realisation, then to positive action, as he transforms his life from being part of a global problem to becoming part of the solution.
Waking Up is a short movie to spread a message about:Environmental Issues, Fair Trade Issues, Animal cruelty, Vegetarianism, Animal Testing, Energy Saving, Drought, Global Warming, Climate change, Poverty, Pollution, Child Labour, Deforestation, Leather Industry, Sweatshops, Waste, Gaia, alternative way of living, making a change.

Please watch it, and if you like it, post in your facebook, twitter or other social networks you may use.

Raining day in Shanghai

Yesterday I could not post because blogger was not working well. Maybe because of the censure in China... Today I should post yesterday post, but it can wait till tomorrow. Today is raining in Shanghai and it is more important to condemn a stupid habit that Chinese have when it rains. I will explain you as best as I can.

Shanghai, has many offices buildings. It is the city with more skyscrapers in the world. All of these buildings were built with fancy materials and designed to be the most fancy ever. But nobody thought that it could be a problem when it rains... and in Shanghai, it rains a lot. Every floor is made of slippery materials when water is on them. So coming inside to the buildings when it rains is a dangerous task and an added risk for going to work

This is even funny when you see people slipping... but what I will tell you now will probably make you cry. To avoid slipping people, brilliant Chinese minded person thought: why do not we release a plastic bag for umbrellas when they get into the building? Bingo! they found a cheap solution for this little problem and they can keep their fancy buildings. Here you have the machine... (pic on the right side)
Instead of using carpets, that are reusable and you can keep them for a pretty long time, they deliver plastic bags. Do you know how many people is living in Shanghai? 20 million. Maybe 5 to 7 million of them are going everyday to these kind of buildings and they are receiving a plastic "condom" bag for their umbrellas when it rains.

Each rainy day in Shanghai, uncountable plastic bags are being delivered within any control and making our planet more dirty.
(Here you have a happy Chinese with his plastic bag)

And here on the right side you have the result of an umbrella with it "condom"
I do not know if you can see the damage that it represents to our planet. And I am pretty sure that it is not something that it is only being done in Shanghai. Other cities in China are doing as well. And I am pretty sure that many other countries in the world have the same stupid habit. Tomorrow post will make you think deeper about it. It is a video about our daily actions...

By the way, I was inspired to post it today because I refused to use the plastic bag for my umbrella and someone in the door tried to force me to use it. I did not know that water is worse than a plastic bag...

PS. Of course I did  not use it and I use my hand to drain the water from my umbrella.

Did you know that...

Global warming is affecting directly to the size of animals and plants?
The university of Singapore has proved that different species are decreasing their size because of the global warming. Shoots and fruits are between 3 and 17% smaller per warming Celsius degree. Marine invertebrates between 0.5 and 4%, fishes between 6 and 22% and polar bears 11%.
Scientist think that it can be affect directly to the food chain.

From my point of view, another signal to realize that global warming is not a theory, but a FACT.

Think what you buy!

I was going to work this morning when I saw a woman who was around 55 years old having a juice. This juice was packed in a kind of plastic bag as the one in the left side.

At these moment, ideas come to my mind and I thought that it had to be the post of the day.
If we think about it, that woman who was drinking her juice, never thought about the material of the package, process and consequences of chose this juice instead of a tetra pack or glass one.
Why did she chose it then? We may think because of the flavor! but certainly probably because of the design, brand, or even the picture that the pack has printed in.
Whatever the reason is, the fact is that she never thought about if buying this is going to be harmful for the environment or not.
This post is to propose people thinking before buying:


1. Am I sure that I need this?
2. Am I sure that I am choosing what cover my needs?
3. Am I sure that choosing this one I will not do something harmful?


Everyone has the right to drink a juice, but it does not mean that we have the right to do it at any price. Find the way to reduce the damages. Be responsible, be happy.

Small actions, turn into world effect! remember previous post!

Plant for the planet

"Stop talking. Start planting" this is the slogan that Felix Finkbeiner chose for his organization which promotes planting for our planet.
What is really shocking is that the spirit of this organization are children. Yes, our little friends are fed up about global warming and they are taking actions:

"Everyone loves to talk about the climate crisis. But talking alone isn’t going to stop the glaciers from melting. Or the rain-forests from disappearing. And each time adults just talk and don’t act, it’s up to us, the children, to take matters into our own hands. Quite literally. Plant-for-the-Planet is an organisation where kids all over the world plant trees as a sign of climate justice"

Up to now, they have planted around 4 million trees in more than 91 countries. We do not have any doubt that they are doing more for the planet than anyone else. All my support to you Felix. You are making real a dream of many people.


If you want to support the movement. Please visit their web and follow the instructions.

Wangari Maathai

Few days ago, Wangari Maathai passed away because of a cancer. Maathai was one of the most important defenders of our planet. She was fighting hard in Africa and she was first woman in Africa to receive the Nobel Piece Prize.
Mother of the Green Belt Movement was focused on planting trees, environmental conservation and women rights.

Gaia lost an icon, but we can keep her spirit alive. Lets have a thought or pray on her and her family.