Be Green

In this day and time where we are suposidly so concered about the enviornment. Many people are talking about ¨going green¨, recyling and resuing. We need to add one more cause to our list of causes to support. Many people from the US probably don´t even think about it because it´s not part of our daily life. As some say ¨out of sight out of mind¨. This should not be true for our harmless docile turttles and our depletign forests. They are in great danger of being extinct. The turttles are one of the only animals we have left that date back to the prehistoric times of the dinsour. If we don´t protect the sea turttles who will?
We are all conected. We live on the earth along with the animals and plants. As we protect them they not only do some provide us with sustance but most with vital information about what we need to do. One of the many incredible points that stood out in our reading The Naturalist and our ¨charla¨with Dora was the concept of polycultural farming. While studing the palnts we can understand why farmers planted the way they did. Many plants were planted in one area to protect each other. One plant would attract certain insects and another would deter them. This would create a natural pestidcide producing an organic enviornment for various crops. Not only was a natural pesticide implemented but polycultural planting encouraged the maintence of rich soil. This soil that nutured many crops could be resused because the minerals were not depleted.
If we fully implemented this system into agricultural systems world wide we wouldn´t lose so many trees, soil and animals. Especially here in the tropics, when trees are cut down to create more farmland, wooden crafts, furniture and other ¨neccesities¨ animals die from lack of shade. Others loose thier homes and some loose thier food. What are we thinkng?
We share this earth with the plants and animals. There are so many ways to protect the earth. Let´s all pitch in and do our part. Support polycultural farming, proctection of the sea turttles, and reforestation projects.

It just makes sense if you want to stay on this earth as long as possible.