Taking care of nature!

Today I feel like talking about how to protect our nature, wich is quite a simple task. In fact it is all about balance. To take care of our world you don't need to abdicate of nowdays products or technologies, just don't start to consume spontaneously, have some self control.

   

Also before throwing something away, think about donating, recycling, updating! Trash insn't the only destiny for stuff you don't use anymore.

   

Learn to adimire the beauty of the little things around you, that may create an inspiration to do even better things!

And last but not least, always remember the 3 R's: Recycle, Reuse and Rethink.

A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

No matter how small, all actions matter. That's what we can conclude from the video below. It's a short TED talk by a volunteer firefighter called Mark Bezos. He shows us, in a very simple and clear way, that we can always affect somebody's life. It's up to us. All we have to do is pay attention to the small things. Don't look away just because you wanted to do something big.

His talk was an inspiration for our movie and we hope you enjoy it!

On TED's website there are over 40 subtitles for the video. Check it out: http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bezos_a_life_lesson_from_a_volunteer_firefighter

Glass Recycling in South Africa: A Good example!

The website below shows a CEO talking about a company that recycles glass and is managing to do the recycling of glass packaging in a way that has consequently increased from 18% to 40%, in five years, this kind of recycling.

The company invested in a marketing tactic with the help of another company, TGRC.
TGRC installed over 2000 glass banks in 2006 and provided an SMS service for people to know the nearest bank to their region. Moreover, TGRC helps in education of children about recycling.

South African glass recycling rates are coming close to the ones in Brazil and Australia
(Image taken from the website below).

It is a nonprofit corporation that manages donations to purchase some glasses manufacturers, and manufacturers have invested more than R320,000,000.00 in colors processing plants that automatically break the glass by color. This has made it easier for consumers to dispose of the glass because there isn't the need for glass to be separated into the three colors. Returnable glass bottles can be reused at least 21 times before they have to be sent for recycling.

For more information, check out the link below:
http://urbanearth.co.za/articles/glass-recycling-south-africa

Water Pollution: Prevention

Hey!

The link below is about what you can do to prevent water pollution. It's new ideias that you can put in your routine, and you can pass for your friends. There are many ways they teach you, so now you can do all the things to help. With small actions you can change a lot ;)
http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/water-pollution/prevention-of-water-pollution.html

Here there is a link also talking about what is water pollution, if you know nothing about what I am writing!
http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/water-pollution/what-is-water-pollution.html

Finally,  we have here a link about other types of pollution, like: ar pollution, light pollution and land pollution!
 http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/air-pollution/what-is-air-pollution.html  (air pollution)

http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/light-pollution/all-about-light-pollution-for-children.html (light pollution)

http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/land-pollution/what-is-land-pollution.htm (land pollution)

On ALL these links there are other links talking about what you can do to prevent, types of pollution, solutions, effects.....

Get informed and be part of the change!

- Malu ;)

Air Pollution

Air pollutions is a big issue, it is a big problem. This video shows many pieces of information about this problem, such as statistics, causes, effects and solutions.

Many curiosities are about the countries that have a big gas emission, like the USA, which is responsible for 30.3% of the world's gas emissions. Or that 33% of Chinese people live in such polluted cities, that the air they breath is equivalent to smoking 2 packs of cigarretes a day.

Check it out!

Happy Day P.F

Happy day P. F. is a Social-Evangelizing action realized by Catholic Association Porta-Fidei, which is afilliated to the Parish of Graças. Two times a year this group does a Social-Evangelizing action. A very interesting thing about this group is that on the Sundays that precede the big day of the meeting, the volunteers go to traffic signs around the city to raise money. 

The last action happened on October 3 and gathered 2,000 kids and teenagers, and about 500 volunteers. I'm glad to have been one of them. It happened in a partnership with Mirabilândia park. 
For more information, visit the institution. You can make the difference in the day of a kid too.

Photos of the last meeting:
http://www.divulgarecife.com/galerias/0110-happy-day/

Facebook fanpage:

https://pt-br.facebook.com/umdiadiferente

Recycling Electronics

  

The use of electronic equipment has grown a lot in the last years, changing the way we live and the way we see the world. However, there is a downside to everything and this electronic revolution is not an exception.

Since the productss are not made to last long anymore, there is a constant waste of resources such as metal, plastic and glass, caused due tho the massive discard of products; not just that, but also there is all the impact caused during the production of the electronics, such as energy waste and the impact caused by the toxics in computers, cell phones, etc.

Another enemy of the environment are the batteries. They are made of a variety of chemical products to power up, such as nickel and calcium, which are extremely harmful our's and nature's health. But the worst part is that you don't see a big quantity of campaings warning you about those risks or even a lot of places where you can leave your used batteries to have a proper end.

So, next time you intend to discard some of these materials consider updating its software or hardware and, if that is not an option, try donating it or making the small effort of leaving it at a place specialized in recycling electronics.

And always remember: Small acts, Big impacts.

    Read More Over Here!

    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es400614y

    http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecycling/

    http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecycling/donate.htm

    http://www.stselectronicrecyclinginc.com/whyrecycle

    https://www.cleanup.org.au/PDF/au/batteries_final.pdf