How Green Are You?

I am not an entirely ecologic person, well, maybe because I do not think too much over it. What I try to do, however not consciously, it’s recycling and re-using. I love creating things from rags, such as pieces of furniture, decoration items, etc.

As stated before, I do not think too much over eco-friendly practices, and I think that consequently, people in our country people also do not think about it and a reason is because they do not have many chances (just as I did) to learn all the aspects related to being environmentally friendly.  I think that people get only a tiny bit of this soft skills instruction at school, although it’s restricted only to separating the rubbish and clearly  the scope of recycling and “being green” goes a lot further. Basically, I think there is a lot more than meets the eye.

I have little by little included recycling habits into my life, as I mentioned before, I try to separate paper, plastic and glass, but also, I try to find new uses to artefacts that otherwise would be sent to garbage. The last thing I did was to transform and decorate a piece of construction waste into a lovely night-table, imitating Jade-stone.

I also know that another part of being eco-friendly is to reduce the carbon footprint, which is a concept I learned years ago travelling, and it is still something not quite widespread in the nation. As I am somewhat aware of it, I try to walk as much as I can, for health, to reduce my carbon footprints and it also helps me saving money, another thing I do is that I took up a no-driving policy, I do not have a car and certainly, I won’t have one any time soon. I know it is a huge inconvenience, especially considering the traffic and public transport system of the capital, but it makes me feel good…somehow.