What is your carbon footprint?

 Hi guys!

This time the topic is: Environment and Carbon footprint.

Carbon Footprint is the '' (...) total of greenhouse gas emission directly and indirectly by an individual, organisation, event or product'' (www.met-net.org.uk/greenhouse-gas-reporting
.html). Today we had to calculate our carbon footprint in the page www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx It was an interesting experience, because I realized what is my impact in the environment. 

According to the website to calculate my carbon footprint, it is around 1,7 tonnes of CO2e, less than Chilean average (3,87 tonnes), and less than worldwide target to combat climate change (2 tonnes).
 I'm surprised by the results, I have to admit that I'm not the best environmentally friendly person, I would like to do more things for the planet, but I think it too depends on the place where we live, for example, when I'm in Queule (my origin place), I recycle more the waste because in there doesn't exist waste collection vehicle or dumping site where the community throw their garbage, so we have to be clever and give different uses to the things. For example: the cardboard we use like doormat in the porch, or we make smaller box to contain little things, like nails, screws, etc., usually to contain tools, and do the same with tin bottles; with organic matter, we collect in pails and once a week we bury somewhere my grandparents want to plant; with fabrics, we make handkerchief, table decorator, or cloth to clean the table; we take care the water, etc.  Here in Santiago I can't do exactly the same things, but with my parents, we go once every two weeks to the nearest recycling point and let everything that can be used, and in the house we unplug the things we are not using, we turn off the light, try as little as possible to open the refrigerator door (I read that the Freon is harmful to the ozone layer), and when I have time, I make crafts of recycled material. 

  I think making this actions we contribute to reduce the consume of energy, and reduce the ecological impact. I would like to sow and plant to obtain my own food, but is difficult because I don't have enough space to plant, and the soil in my house is not good enough to plant the things that I want. I hope someday do this, and other ideas that I think could be interesting to do. 
Give me some ideas to make this a better world C:

Have a nice weekend.

 

Planning a fictitious trip to London

Hi again!

The last work in the class was make a planning of a group trip to London.  Of course it was fiction, I have no money for this :C  but I would like to go to London.

In the activity, we had to choose one or two destinations to visit every day for a week. For this, I considered elements such proximity and opening times of the places to visit. I think this activity wasn't so difficult to me because I am very structured and I like have a plan of things to do or places to visit when I go somewhere, and I always use maps (in pictures or drawn in a piece of paper). I must admit that I used to argue with my boyfriend when I went out with him to some place and he didn't know how to get to the destination xD Now, together we search the directions before leaving home.

In my opinion, the activity was an excellent tool because it teaches us to use the internet for something very quotidian as the search for an address or plan a trip to somewhere, so this is important for the useful in daily life. 

Picture of the Natural History Museum, London

 

I read a little about every place to visit, and the place that caught my attention and now I am hopeful to go someday, is the Natural History Museum... why? because its architecture (is a wonderful building),  by its collection: it has specimens collected by Charles Darwin!!, and because it is known as the great centre of natural history and investigation. It also has a ''Crime Scene Live'' where you can be an investigator and solve a crime of a murder mystery. I would like to do this activity, I think I'd enjoy it.

About a place I wouldn't like to visit... mmm.. I think the Madame Tussaud, because it is a wax museum, it has mainly famous people, and I don't care famous people, I wouldn't pay for entry and take a picture with a wax figure, not with the real people.

 

There are other place I would like to go in 

London: The Sherlock Holmes Museum, in Baker Street. I've read all the stories of this fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and I would like to go and see how this writer thought the house of Sherlock and Watson, see some objects that are mentioned in all the short stories, and try to recreate this character.

I let you one video of this museum:

I hope you are fine and have a nice weekend.