Air Pollution

One of the most important issues that we are hearing nowadays is the environmental crisis. This environmental crisis refers to the global warming and all the causes and consequences of it. One of the factors is air pollution that contributes a lot in global warming. Air pollution can come from the methane of cows to the gases expelled by the industries and large factories. All these gases are trapped in the atmosphere and provoke the global warming by holding more heat from the sun rays, this is normal, until it becomes too much. What we need to do is control our emissions of CO2, methane, halocarbons, and the volatile organic compounds like dust.
Dust is also a really big problem, especially here in Hermosillo. If you take a look at our city form the highway in the afternoon or in the morning you can notice that there is a dust dome covering it. I don’t know how we could control this problem, but it causes a lot of effects on people, like allergies. We should find a way to make it better so this is no longer a problem, if we took care of it, we would also be making a change to prevent global warming, besides, I could use saving some sneezes.

The Secret Behind Google

Google is now one of the most powerful enterprises in the world based on the Internet search technologies that we all know and use every day. For some people, especially students, it has become a powerful and necessary weapon to know more information to do our homework. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both from the Stanford University. The use of Google has become so popular not only because is free to use, but the usefulness of the page as it organizes the entire world's information in just one place. Almost 99% percent of the profits of Google come from its advertising programs. The search engine, which is the most popular among us, dominates the US market. I think that this enterprise is one of the most successful ones and that has impacted the society the most. If we don't know something, we just google it. Google even has a page for almost every country, like "Google Mexico". As we move to new technologies, such as the Internet, people become more in contact with information they want to know in just a few seconds. It's like opening the doors to the world. However, the freedom of information that travels in the search engine of Google has also been banned in some countries like China, where the government wants to control the information to avoid "dangerous actions" against them. Since there is another blog talking about this issue, I will focus more in what is behind the Google enterprise. When we were on class of Planeación de Vida y Carrera, they show us a video of how the Google business works. I was surprised to see the excellent treatment the employers received. Human capital is a crucial element in a business, so I think that a good treatment from the enterprise will have its benefits. People not only will be happier but the work they will do will have a greater quality. Their environment is amazing, since they offer all the services inside the building such as, transport (bikes), restaurants, free beverages, dress the way they want, etc. It would be cool to work there :)

I think that this type of freedom can help people work in such a better way, they will feel free and less stressed. They don't have an established schedule and they even give them time to dedicate it to own personal projects. This is very important to maintain in an entreprise since it can affect it in a positive or a negative way. Sometimes I entered to businesses where the employeers seem so unhappy that they don't motivate you to buy anything or at least with a sensation of not coming back. Humans are not machines, we also deserve a good environment to work on!

Our home: Earth

Yesterday another natural disaster occurred in America! Chile suffered an earthquake of 8.8 in the Richter scale, and it had 90 replicas and one of them of 6.2 in the Richter scale. At the moment there had being registered 708 deaths.

We know that Chile is in seismic zone as Mexico City and humans can’t control when it occurs one. But maybe all of us are responsible for some of the natural disasters that had been occurring in the past years. I think this because we don’t care about Earth, and we are damaging it more every time. We are contaminating ocean, air, and land; we are overexploiting our resources; we are deforesting; we are not recycling. So the earth is reacting to all the changes we have made.

There have being ecological campaigns but they include just a small percentage of the human population. If every person could join them, we could avoid problems, and maybe reduce global warming. We should all get involved so we can have a better home called Earth!

Society Vs. Global Warming

Few days ago I was asking myself about how many generations will live after us. Then my grandmother took some disposable glasses, and I told her that we shouldn’t use them because they affect our environment, while we’re suppose to take care of it (environment) and I also explained her the way they affect it, but she denied to stop using them because she said that she is going to die, soon. I was like surprised because, obviously, I don’t want her to die soon and because of how come that people don’t care about their environment and their future generations.

I also asked myself about how can we like, make a conscience on others, to stop doing things that affect our environment like using disposable glasses or dishes, hair sprays, throwing water, don’t caring about separating trash (organic, plastics, etc.) and all those kinds of actions that deteriorate our planet because It won’t be forever. I have been wonder this for several weeks and trying to find out a way to make my family take more care about what surrounds us.

But I found that, for one is very difficult to make a change, but a group has more probabilities of doing it. Because I find society as many brains together and if you convince one, he will change another and so on until the whole society is changed of mind, just like a chain. If a group does this will be much more easy. That’s why I joined this group called “Greenology” in my school to gather some ideas and imply them in my house (family).

take care of YOUR planet!

When someone tells us what to do, we always refuse to do it because is an order, and naturally we do the contrary; most of the time it happens.

An example is when your mother tells you to clean up your room; you don't do it. When someone tells you to throw the garbage in its correct place you don't do it, but why most of the people do not care about the environment in our society?

It is more usual to see somebody throwing garbage in the streets that someone throwing it in the dumpsters.

If we all are aware of the consequences of not taking care of out environment, why are we still behaving in that way? eventually, we will be the ones that are going to be affected by our actions, we are the ones that are suffering because of global warming, we are living in a society where there's consciousness about everything that is happening, but we also live in a society where most of us are blind, and do not want to see consequences of our actions.

We know about the tsunami, but we didn't visualize ourselves in that situation, that is why we are aware of the situation, but we don't want to see ourselves suffering for everything we are doing and that we have done.

Let's start recycling, let's realize that we have to take care of our planet, it is ours!