Manila, sunset and rubbish

First of all wishing all of you a good week! Monday is the best day of the week, because everything starts again!

Here I go with Monday post. I was at Manila few weeks ago and I went to see the beautiful sunset on the bund. Here you have a beautiful picture I took there while the sun was being extinguish by the power of the ocean. This is awesome...


But when sun has gone, we have another reality over there. We can find a lot of rubbish just there, were the sea    and the land share a piece of space. Obviously, this rubbish has been delivered by ocean. Maybe you think I am very focus on rubbish from the oceans, but the true is that everywhere I go, I find thousands of kilos of it. And it makes me wonder if I am alone in this fight... I will never give it up, and I will share thousands of times more if I keep finding it.

It is horrible when you see that the beauty of the nature is being damaged for the human being.
The consequences of this are really serious. Animals and plants are dieing because of our wrong habits. Think about that when you use and throw out your rubbish.

Quote of the day

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars".  

Walt Whitman

Sweet video about our planet

Hi! For today I have a wonderful video to share with all of you. Music, images and feelings are increible. I hope it touchs your heart as it did it with mine. Enjoy it.

Thanks to my good friend Javi for sending it.

Remember that you also can share any kind of information with me and it will be published!

The Philippines: Manila, planting trees

As I was explaining you in a previous post, The Philippines is taking a lot of care about environmental issues. The intention is good, but sometimes the country is not prepared and you can still seeing not very good things.
Anyway, I will give you some examples of both things.
We can start with a very good thing. Very close to Intramuros(old downtown) there is an avenue where Filipinos can ask for plant their own tree to fight against the global warming. Here you have some pictures of the avenue and one of the trees. Definitely, every city in the world should copy this great idea from our friends.

Quote of the day

"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."

Anonymous

Niger

I have been surfing on the Internet and I have found something really disgusting. Niger is a country in Africa where companies as SHELL are spilling toxic wastes as oil and other chemicals.
The delta of Niger river is already polluted in quantities that we can consider extremely dangerous. There are places where plants cannot grow anymore and animals and humans are affected. Life expectancy has been reduce in around 30 years. Cases of cancer have increased and children born with deformities.
Here you can find a link where you can check an oil spot spilled by Shell. Of course Shell say that they are not the responsible of this and they refuse to clean the zone.
Shell oil spot
Experts say that this area would take around 25 to 30 years to be cleaned and the initial cost would be 1 million USD.
Just judge yourself.

Diving in Moalboal!

Dear friends,

Today I am at Moalboal. It is a small village in the west coast of Cebu Island in The Philippines. Clear waters and sea biodiversity that we have to keep.
Here I attach a pic of a Kid playing on one of it clean beaches, White Beach.
Keeping this place in good conditions is a work that have to be done for all of us. Enjoy the pic!
By the way, what kid is holding is a piece of bamboo!

Happy new year!

Happy new year to all of you!! I will be back soon aftet this long brake! Here a beautiful pic taken during my holiday!!
Love for everyone as nature does!

Put a Value on Nature

Dear friends,

Here you have an interesting video I watched in Ted. Mr. Pavan Sukhdev talks about the economical value of Nature and what we should do to stop it degradation!

Quote of the day

The Nature is wise and the human will never be wiser than Nature.

One day of peace

Long time ago I saw this video in Ted Talks. I really wanted to post it in my blog but with problems with Internet while I was living in China made me postpone it. Here you have a very interesting project.

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.

Quote of the day!

Hi readers! Today I am in El Nido at Palawan Island. And this afternoon I remembered following post and I wanted to share it with you!

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

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!!

In the Philippines

Dear readers

You maybe are wondering where is Pangea? I have had no post since last tuesday but I was so busy because I moved from Shanghai to The Philippines last friday.
I had many things to arrange in China before I came out of this country. Paperwork with visa, transfer of money and packaging. As you can imagine it is not easy in a country like China.
Well, no I am in Manila and I am flying soon to a paradise Island to look for next steps in my life. I am preparing some posts for you with very interesting content.

See you in a bit!!

Quote of the day

Meanwhile I solve problems I have... here you have a quote:

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” Gandhi

Having problems

Dear Readers... Last days I am facing problems and I cannot publish pics and videos. I am trying to figure this out and I will soon post for you about Bali and other interesting things.
Chinese censure goes forward! Accept my apologies!

A post from a follower!

As my blog indicates... This is a blog for sharing ideas about protecting our planet. This is the first post that someone sent me to publish it in C4F.

Friends be aware of the problems we are facing in The Earth. Be conscious and educate your children in order to give them the best future possible. Care for Gaia.
"Children wake up,
hold your mistake up
before they turn the summer into dust.
If the children don't grow up
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up
We're just a million little god's causin rain storms
Turnin' every good thing to rust.
I guess we'll just have to adjust"

I encourage you to send me posts to careforgaia@gmail.com. I will post them and I will name you as well.

Thanks Sergio P. for this first post!

Happy weekend for everybody!

ElectroCity: A game that turns in good actions

Today post is going to be a little bit different. Several weeks ago I found a website were you can build a virtual city considering environmental issues, politic issues, economic issues, etc.
I saw it interesting and I started to play. You have 150 turns to build the city up and each turn will give you new possibilities for natural resources, energetic resources, and industrial activity and trading.
It was so easy to start and funny! But step by step it was getting complicated becuase you have to make people happy, keep development and respect sustainability and environment.
Finally I passed the 150 turns and my small town was one of the finished ones and it was registered. If you want to have a look click here.
The most amazing part, is that at that moment. I realized that this game is specially for children. Teachers can register on the site and use this game as part of teaching program in New Zeland schools. As follows self explanation:

Our goal is not to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of the controversies in the various energy debates. Rather, our goal is to spark an interest and lay an unbiased foundation for later learning.
We set out to make a game that was fun and educational. A game that gave kids something different to do in class and share with their parents. And a game that was clearly designed and built in New Zealand.

I invite you to check this game out and promote it with your children, friends and everyone. You will have a good time and maybe you can find a better way to build cities in the future.

 

Pale blue dot (video)

Happy Monday to every reader. Today I want to share with you a beautiful video of Carl Sagan. One of the most important scientist of our time described our planet in one of the most beautiful ways I ever heard. Listen and think about it... awesome.