Video 10 ways to be green / Vídeo 10 maneras de ser verde

Today is Monday and it is a perfect day to go green. Here you have a video where you can find 10 simples advices go be green!

Hoy es lunes y es un día perfecto para ser verde. Aquí tenéis un vídeo donde podéis encontrar 10 consejos simples para ser verde!

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.

Souvenirs made of chips bags / Souvenirs hechos de bolsas de patatas

Here you have a video where our little friend Winona is giving us an example of how to make small souvenirs using and recycling chips plastic bags. Later Winona sells these souvenirs to tourists and locals and she can helps her mother.

Aquí tenéis un vídeo en el cuál Winona nos da un ejemplo de como hacer pequeños souvenirs usando y reciclando bolsas de patatas. Una vez fabricados, Winona los vende a los turistas y locales pudiendo así ayudar a su madre.

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.

Plants made of plastic bottles / Plantas hechas de botellas de plástico

In one of my trips around The Philippines I went to Moalboal. Moalboal is a small village 2 hours from Cebu that have a lot of famous diving spots. I went to have some beers one of the days and I found plastic plants made from plastic bottles. It is not the most fancy plant, but definetly is a good way to reuse a plastic bottle in an environmental friendly establishment.

En uno de mis viajes alrededor de Filipinas fui a Moalboal. Moalboal es un pequeño pueblo a unas dos horas de Cebu, y es conocido mundialmente por el submarinismo. Uno de los días fui a tomarme una cerveza a uno de los bares del pueblo y encontré las siguientes plantas hechas con botellas de plástico. No es la manera más a la moda, pero sin duda es una manera inteligente de decorar un eco-establecimiento.

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.

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.

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!

Amazing video!!

I am not usually posting twice in the same day. But this video touch my heart deeper than others. It talks itself so much better to watch it than read me.

Please post in your facebook, twitter, blog or any other media! It has to arrive to everybody!! We are already late but human has the power to change this situation! We can do it all together!!

Have you ever heard about bioplastic?

It is glad to find news on the Internet where you can read that important companies are taking care of sustainability.on
An important food and beverage company is using bioplastic taps for 4 lines of products in Brazil. This pleasant new made me read more about bioplastics.


"Bioplastics are a form of plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, pea starch, or microbiota, rather than fossil-fuel plastics which are derived from petroleum. Some, but not all, bioplastics are designed to biodegrade." Wikipedia.


Nowadays the industry is not highly developed. But it is improving day by day and production of this materials reduces greenhouses gases emission and the energy needed for the production.
We have as well some disadvantages as deforestation and degradation. That has to be under controlled conditions of industrial composting units.


We hope that more important brands care about sustainability and invest to find new ways of packaging that care our planet.
Long way for find the perfect material, but correct way though.

Building with bottles / Construyendo con botellas

Long time ago, I joined a group in facebook called "Construyendo con botellas" (in English "building with bottles"). 


They are a group of different professionals and students from different fields that have run up a NPO in Uruguay. This NPO is developing a program to build houses with bottles for the people that really need it. Dra. Ingrid Vaca Diez (Bolivia) is the mother of this incredible idea that resolves two problems with one action: Cheaper costs to build houses for needy people and resolve an environmental problem.


The blog is in Spanish, but at least you can see the pictures and the projects they are developing. Maybe some of you can develop something similar in your countries!!


Bravo for this idea and the encourage to make it real.