LEVEL 4 >> Post 6 (Week 8) >> HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

- Where do people learn about enviromentally friendly practices?
- Have you incorporated recycling into your habits? Describe
- Do you use a bike or your legs instead of a car?
- Have you joined or supported any eco-organisations? Why/Why not?
- What else have you done /would you like to do?
- What have you done to reduce your carbon footprint? 
- What's missing in our society/Santiago regarding this issue?








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Most people get information from TV campaigns and some ecofriendly programs. Kids get educated if they are lucky enough to study at a school preoccupied with these problems. Only a few people in Chile belong to ecofriendly institutions.

To be honest I haven’t incorporated recycling to my habits, it’s too difficult I think because at home you usually don’t have different garbage cans to classify your waste. Or even if you can classify this the garbage truck doesn’t do this! So it's pointless.

In transportation the best way to help the planet is to avoid using a car or if you can’t stop using this at least practice carpooling. In my experience I don’t have a licence so I don’t use cars, instead I walk almost everywhere I go. It's more comfortable and it allows me to enjoy the city, and help me to relax after a hard day at university. I prefer this over using the metro or even a bicycle (this is too dangerous here in Santiago, there is too much traffic).

I have never joined to an organization like this because this is not my major concern, so it's not that important for me (to be honest). But I would like to change this.
To reduce my footprint I have planted like 10 trees, I use energy-efficient lightbulbs, I try to reduce garbage. I think that's pretty much it!

In answer to what's missing in our society, I think having a Environmental Ministry as an institution is a step forward but does not solve the problem. Maybe the common citizen can change his behavior to an eco-friendly one, so now the challenge is to involve  all companies in this issue no  matter if they belong to the private or public sector.