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Ecology sure is an issue nowadays, and I think the best place to search about it is the web…

I do recycle at home, we separate the plastic bottles, the milk cartons, and the wine bottles and once a month go to the municipality "green points" to leave it all

I also have a composter where every vegetable waste goes to, and worms on a box. Once the material inside the composter is quite decomposed, i put it in the worms box, the worms eat that compost and make something called "humus" , a fertilizer.

I live one block away from a subway station, so actually i don´t usually have the need of using the car, eventhough, i don´t really like the subway, so i actually use the bike as my main transportation, i come to classes on it and almost everywhere.

Now that i write about it, i realize i might be like an "unconscious ecologist", i´m not really into "eco activism", i´m not in any eco-organization neither... i think i just do it like a normal and an everyday thing and also because i just have fun doing it. Besides, i have no idea how my carbon footprint is, so i have never thought about how to reduce it….

I think in Santiago we need more initiatives from the authorities on the issue, like the bikeways, in the last few years a few have been built, but some are not really well designed and there´s not good connection between them.

On the other side, we need more information, because there are some good initiatives that people don´t know about, and we Chileans are kind of lazy to get informed by ourselves…

*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNiNC3EM8o
If you have time to, i totally recommend you to watch this speech  , the uruguayan president at "Rio + 20", he talks about everything, economic system, ecology..., and.., just life, and it´s interesting and "moving" how, i think, he mostly tries to talk to the normal people, not just governments,  to make us understand ecology, economic system, etc etc it´s not only about the big companies...it also depends on us, on our everyday decisions