Aidan Dwyer. A solar energy expert!!

I was surfing the Internet looking for new ideas about solar energy. When suddenly I found a new about a 13 years old kid who discovered something amazing.

Aidan Dwyer (NYC) has discovered how to increase the productivity of the solar panels studying the position of the tree leaves by the Fibonacci Sequence. He designed a new model of solar panels position and he got incredible results. The performance was increased between 20% and 50%.
If you want to know more about this fantastic story please click here.

Thanks Aidan to care for it and develop such a good model. Nature is full of answers for our million questions.

Quote of the day

Sometimes a simple sentence like this, is full of meaning:

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard."  

Standing Bear

I think is the perfect first quote for Care for Gaia.

Daily actions turn into a world effect

This post is for those people that are willing to change our world but they do not know to do it.


Everyone that is worried about something, try to find a solution. Depending on the size of the problem we are able to find a solution in a faster way or slower way. However, for global problems as pollution on earth, animal extinction, war, famine, people usually think that they cannot do anything and they give it up... They consider that the problem is on hands of others and they cannot do anything for help.


This is the first, and most common mistake that human makes.


It is true that we cannot eradicate the famine in one night, or that we cannot remove all pollutant gases from our sky in one week... but our daily actions turn into a world effect.


Think about it. Imagine that you are in the beach, and you see a plastic bottle in the sand. You have two options: 
- Not pick it up: You did not throw the bottle, and it is not your work. Why should you pick it up?
- Pick it up: Someone  unconsciously threw it, but this is your planet, your house and you know that this bottle should not be there.


The action you choose has an immediate effect in the world. You probably never thought about it. Look :
- If you do not pick it up, the bottle will be there, probably it will go to the sea and it will take around 50 years for degradation. In this process, there is a high percentage of probability that fishes, birds and other animals (even humans) were affected for it.


- On the other hand, if you choose the second option the effect is completely different. This bottle will be probably recycle and reused after a long process. No animals will be affected, the ocean will be a little bit cleaner and the most important thing: If only one person, only one... see what you did and realize that it is the correct choice, next time will not be only one bottle but two. You implement an idea in someone else, this is what makes our daily actions turn into a world effect.


The power is inside us, everyone can help. Do not forget it.

Alternative containers for plastic containers

Last night I was having dinner with two very good friends. We were talking about plastic bottles topic, and we were thinking about an alternative for them.

I was thinking about glass. Why? Because when I was a kid, I remember that my grandmother was giving me empty bottles to go to the shop, leave them there, and get new ones... That means that these glasses were reused (not recycled).

I got up today and I have been searching some information about how the glass is recycle. Nowadays, usually glasses are broken after their use. That means that we need a lot of energy to reuse them again. Anyway, it is still an interesting material because it can be recycled unlimited times and it is not than pollutant as plastic is.

In the following link you can read how the glass is recycled and which targets they have to reuse (not recycle) empty glass containers!

http://www.glassworks.org/product_stewardship/how.html

I am wondering why we changed the correct behaviour we had when I was kid!!

Glass is a good alternative, have it in mind when you go to the supermarket!!

Rubbish in the oceans

It is disgusting when you are walking on the beach and you see plastic bottles, cans, cigarettes and other rubbish on the sand. But no one is picking up when we see it.

All of it is going to the sea, contaminating oceans and killing fishes and birds because they thing it is food.

Here you can see a TED documentary where Mr. Charles Moore explain it in a very understandable way.

Now it is up to you if you keep ignoring this rubbish after knowing what you did not know before.

PLEASE DON'T THROW RUBBISH AND PICK IT UP!

The Gaia theory

I think the first post after welcoming post should be about Gaia Theory. It is an interesting point of view about how the planet behaves as a system.

If you have watched AVATAR (the film) you will easily understand the theory.

Here the link of the official website: http://www.gaiatheory.org/

Is the universe behaving in the same way as a bigger system?

Wellcome to care for gaia

Hi!

This is my first post and I wanted to welcome everybody to share any information, activity or wish to care our beautiful planet.

I am getting started so I will try to post interesting things soon!!

Warmest!