Decalogue to be a “Green Hero” 2nd part

I continue with the Second part of Decalogue, I know that each person is very different in habilities, interest, customs, etc. but I would like to share the work that we did the last year related to Global Warming. I hope that you read it.

Choose
• Your menu before opening the refrigerator instead of keeping it often while you decide, as it consumes much energy.
• Stairs instead of using the elevator.
• In the supermarket, things that have the recycling symbol.
• Use a power point device for all the electrical appliances before sleeping switch off them.

Plant or to Seed
• All the trees that you can.
• Plants in your house and school.
• A garden in your house (tomate, camomile, epazote or parsley)

Protect – defend
• Trees. Remember trees release oxygen that clean air.
• Water. When you take a shower (en la regadera) put a bucket near your feet and reuse the water to water (the plants).
• Parks. Don’t throw the garbage.

Invent
• Instead buy plastic toys, invent your own toys.
• Gifts, plants with color flowers are always a good option.
• Games to separate the sweepings.
• Different ways to wear your clothes (your old pants can be wear as a short or as a fashion handbag).
• Instead of buying notebooks, invent your as with recycle pages or sheets.
• Rides with your friends or your family.

Join
• Find out what the organizations make to take care of the environment and join to their projects.
• Look for the recycling centers.
• Rather all the magazines, newspapers, bottles, tins or cans and take them to storing centers.
• Participate in reforestation activities.

Decalogue to be a “Green Hero” 1st part

Last year, I was working in a great project called Global warming and I worked with many Institutions, Scientist and people who know about this topic. We developed a Decalogue in other to have the same ideas and for help our world. If you want I share this Decalogue and start to work for our Planet called Earth.
I think is better to write in two parts this Decalogue.

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Think
• You are part of the nature.
• The Earth planet is the unique place to live.
• When you pollute, you damage all the plants and animals that live in this environment.
• Plastic pollute a lot, for you lunch use paper bags.
• For washing your teeth you don’t need to leave the faucet open.
• Toilet paper is better to throw it in the trash can at the bath.
• Each thing that you have is possible to recycle or to reuse.
• In your family use less the car. Try to organize your way out.

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Get control
• Instead of using the car, use the metro or the public transportation.
• Take a shower as fast as you can and only with lukewarm water.
• Instead of throwing the sweepings in a single trash can, put 2 trash cans in the kitchen. One for organic sweeping (food wastes) another for inorganic sweeping (plastics, tins, cans, metals, glasses) and one more in the bath to throw the hygienic paper, the used hadkerchiefs or the diapers.
• Use the electrics appliances in short time periods.

Turn or switch off

• The light of your bedroom.

• The TV when you don’t watch it, the radio when you don’t listen to it and the computer when you don’t use it.
• All the light bulbs that you don’t use.
• Put saving energy centers at home.

Observe
• To use a washing machine, it must be full.
• When you buy something, look very well the package. Unicel and plastic contaminate a lot!
• The sunny days are ideals to hang out clothes.

Walk
• In short routes, remember that is always better to walk and in long routes, you can use your bicycle for commute.

You don’t loose the second part and it’s important that you begin to work in them. Good luck!

Do you like robots?

For many years, man has been having the idea to create artificial people, for example: The Greek myth of the Pygmalion, in where his Galatea sculpture brings of life or the story of Volcano that makes mechanical servants and tables that could be moved by themselves.

The word “Robot” comes of Czech, language that speaks in the Czech Republic and is “robota” that means slave or servant.

What is a robot?
Robot is an electronic-mechanical device that can make tasks programmed by people. At the moment, they are used to make all type of activities:
• Dangerous activities for the man like defuse bombs.
• Space reconnaissance (like the Opportunity and the Spirit that are in Mars).
• To make tasks in the industry that are very repetitive, like the assembled of automobiles.

And you, what you would use a robot for?

Nowadays, robots of all the forms and colors exist. Some have human form and they are called Androids, others have form of plants or animals and are used for volcano exploration. Others are sold like toys.

Would you like to learn to program and to assemble your own robot?

Try and have fun you as a child.

A hidden story of… Video games

When you use a video game, you put in your computer or machine and immediately there appear graphics like by magic art of series of very amused video games. But, what are there behind of these games?

Who did make them?

What do they aim it with?

How did they make them?

Atari* was the trade which started with video games and for long time was also a great business.
On the other hand, Nintendo* is another trade of video games which still it exists and continues being a good business.

First, you need to know the video games are a big business. Companies around the world spend million and millions dollars developing games.

There are many companies that have broken totally because their games weren’t successful. And the other way around, when a company obtains a great success with some video game, one becomes very rich company. So:

Companies don’t make games so that children amuse themselves, learn or know electronics.

Companies made games… to make money. But good, the truth is that in this world almost everything is business.

To make video games are tricky, each game need much talent and long time to produce them.

But, who is in charge to make video games?

Mario Bros* is a famous character.

In the production of a video game takes apart many people like: Producer, designer, writer, an artist, programmer, person or people who try it and finally I tell you GAME OVER

If you want, you can play your favorite video game!

Get excited!

People and animals feel emotions like fear, happiness, wrath, sadness, etc.

The word emotion means movement because the main emotions that we feel, the ones we share with animals, encourage the body to act. But the difference between animals and people is the intelligence that help us to understand the reason why we feel emotions and don’t spare being dominated by them. That’s why we can be people emotionally intelligent.

I’m happy but how do you feel today?

A body made of words

Will be possible that a body with head, eyes, nose, tongue, ears, hair, arms, legs, etc. made of words exists?

This is possible in the book “I make your body with voice” written by María Baranda, who gathered 19 Mexican poets and asked them to write some poems about a part of their human body. Later, Gabriel Pacheco drew some illustrations for each poem, having this book as a result, which was edited by “Fondo de Cultura Económica”.

This book is written with the purpose of children to enjoy it and laugh with words.

When you read the poem to the eye, from Francisco Hinojosa, I assure you’ll laugh a lot:
Eyes that don’t see
But through
Other eyes:
The glasses.

Another poem of Eduardo Lagagne about the nose:
Asylum of the dry snot,
Spring the watered down snot
An unfolded handkerchief
Clean good the tum;
When you blow your nose
The echo of an infinite hole is heard

And other so many amused, mysterious, enigmatic but all graceful ones.

You don’t lose them!

Curiosities about the air

The clean and pure air forms a layer of approximately 500,000 millions of tones and surrounds the Earth. Wind means air in movement.

Hot-air balloons were used in many diverse combat operations during the First World War.

Fish are organisms that breathes dissolve air in water.

People who lived during the XVIII Century, they used windmill or warship to decorate their hair, in order to maintain clean and free of dust.

Atmosphere contains, at least, 20 times more oxygen that water.

Wind energy is produced by the wind. This energy is produced by windmills like in some places in Europe.

This kind of energy is very kown in Spanish as “Energía Eólica” because “Eolo” was the God of the Wind for the Greeks.

Monet, the old man who painted his garden

Claude Monet was painter and lived in France during the XIX and XX centuries. Ever since he was a child, he enjoyed to draw and to mix the colors; Do you like it?
What Claude enjoyed more was to be in the garden, the park or the beach. He paid attention very well and later he painted with many colors which he saw. He put painting in his brush and soon he painted with small points.
In Paris, he knew a his friend Pissarro (another painter) and together they were going away to paint the gardens and beaches, in one of the their work trips they knew a young woman called Camille. When Monet saw her, he said to her: “You are very beautiful with that green dress, I want to paint to you”. Time later, he got married with her and they had two children, Jean and Michel.

After that Monet went away to live to Giverny (a province of France) because he wanted to have a wonderful garden and to draw every day the water, the flowers, el sky and all the pretty that he saw.

Monet became old and continued painting his garden until he died…

Water source of life

Long, long time ago, we lived in a beautiful place. We used to plant our seeds expecting them to blossom and obtain food. But it was not always a simple task to get water. Aahhhh!

<> Sometimes days and months went by without rain. We had to walk under the burning sun to find water. One day, there was no more water, earth dried out and the creek died. So we went to see Tlaloc, the god of rain, we took presents for him, so he was happy and willing to send rain to quench earth’s thirst
<><>Please Tlaloc, give us life back, do not leave us with out the gift of rain. And he paid us attention, it ran so much, so very very much, that earth blossomed again. But my friends did not want to live there anymore, they wanted a place where they always had water. After a long way walking we found the signal, a big eagle.

In an islet that was in the middle of a beautiful lake, in that specific place, we settle and built our houses, and so the great Tenochtitlan began.Since then, we learned that water is very important for life and we most take care of it.

Dialogue in the dark a light in the shades…

Without a doubt a great event in Papalote was the excellent exhibition called “Dialogue in the dark” that has appeared in several German cities(Germany’s cities), France, Holland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Brazil and it returned again to our country to increase the offer (the supply ?) of Papalote.With the support of some sponsors, Dialogue in the dark opened in August 17th, 2006. This extraordinary experience, where (in where) blind people were the guides of a tour by diverse daily atmospheres, with the peculiarity to be completely in (I) the dark.

Dialogue was created in 1988 by Andreas Heinecke, who has been working in many projects to favor the communication and to foment the respect towards the people with different capacities.

The main contribution of Andreas is to contribute to wake up and to value the importance of the senses besides to promote foment the mutual respect and integration between the people who can normally see and the blind people.

“Dialogue in the dark” left me a big life experience (learnings), I think the best was the friendship of some blind photographers that taught me to see the life in different way. (otherwise the life).