“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold
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Must Watch Documentary: Cowspiracy The Sustainability Secret
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
As Andersen approaches leaders in the environmental movement, he increasingly uncovers what appears to be an intentional refusal to discuss the issue of animal agriculture, while industry whistleblowers and watchdogs warn him of the risks to his freedom and even his life if he dares to persist.
Click here to watch another wonderful documentary entitled Earthlings.
Ideas: Local Vegetable Waste Pickup For Composting Initiative Puerto Rico
Ideas: Local Vegetable Waste Pickup For Composting Initiative Puerto Rico
T the initiative is simple. We are sending vegetable waste off to the landfill when we could be using it for composting and returning it back to the Earth to create fertile ground as all it’s nutrients are eroding away.
I use compost for my garden for my plants. So my proposal is to implement a system locally to gather vegetable waste from those who don’t compost their waste. I will give a bucket for those willing to participate where they can dump their vegetable waste and leave at the entrance to their homes and where I would then pick it up weekly to use in my compost.
I will also be going to local supermarkets and see if they are willing to participate as well as they dump most of their vegetables that are going bad.
according to the EPA, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated, more than any other material category but paper. Food waste accounted for almost 14 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, and less than three percent was recovered and recycled in 2010. Food in landfills, unlike in compost piles, breaks down to produce methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This happens because there is an absence of oxygen, the food is buried under more garbage, and a different type of bacteria breaks down the food material into more harmful components.
In addition, we are running out of landfill space and sites. Some cities, like New York, are trucking their waste 600 miles away. Besides, it’s only logical that our food should be returned to the earth where it can do the most good, as a natural fertilizer that replenishes the soil, to grow more food for us for generations to come.
In the United States, food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste sent to landfills. About 40 percent of food goes uneaten and gets thrown away to landfills and potentially contributes to greenhouse gas emissions especially with the production of methane, a greenhouse gas that is twenty-one times more potent than carbon dioxide and one of the most dangerous to the environment. Food waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions by the decomposition of food in landfills and the life cycle, which begins at the stage of production all the way to consumption. Not many people realize that they are the biggest contributors to the increase in methane emissions when they throw out their food as a producer, seller, or consumer. The increased need to reduce food waste is likely to have a profound affect in the environment as it reduces methane emissions and the effect it will have on climate change. Diverting food waste will help reduce the occupancy it makes in landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Benefits of Composting
- Enriches soil, helping retain moisture and suppress plant diseases and pests.
- Reduces the need for chemical fertilizers.
- Encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi that break down organic matter to create humus, a rich nutrient-filled material.
- Reduces methane emissions from landfills and lowers your carbon footprint.
I will be accepting donations for buckets and what not, if you like to comply. My paypal email is rebel@peacedj.com thanks
Maybe others can implement it as well. We can start changing things. If you like to add to this idea, Please leave any comments down below
The destruction of La Poza De Las Mujeres Beach In Manati, Puerto Rico
The destruction of La Poza De Las Mujeres Beach In Manati, Puerto Rico
Update: I wrote this in 2016, but the destruction continues today as people continue to treat this and the whole island like a landfill. Here you can read of the continuation of the destruction of this beautiful beach.
This post was written in 2016 before hurricane maria and hurricane maria did cause damage to the entrance to this beach. But the damage that hurricane maria causes is nothing to what the destruction the people do to this and many other beaches and rivers around the beautiful paradise as the people continue to trash the island and treat it like a landfill.
Here we have Poza de las Mujeres en Manatí, Puerto Rico. A beautiful beach with tranquil waters. This is one of the beaches I decided to be the guardian of as you can read here as to why I decided to be the guardian of the many beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico.
This beach in particular was not well known as it is kind of out of the way where you have to either climb down those rocks below the 4 palms in the center which is the what you will see further in this post or through a path to get there, which was as worse as this one.
But now with the power of social media, people are finding these beautiful gems such as this beach and the adjacent beaches around.
So uh yeah some would say that I complain a lot about the garbage here in Puerto Rico. But when you see this day in and day out in such a beautiful place, why would anyone accept this as normal.
This is the walkway to the beach I was in yesterday, La poza de las mujeres. So people would pass through this like like it was second nature.
DA DA DA nothing to see…. move along.
This went on all the way to the other trail going out. Bottles of beers scattered about, it’s truly sad that this is what we as a “society” have become and again it’s not only here but all around this world. this is humanity’s pattern, it has become our way of life. Worldwide.
We have become numb to it, we have become nothing but a world of consumers. We buy plastic cups just to use them once and throw it to the side when we could use a reusable cup, but washing that cup would be too much work for most as we live in a world of convenience.
In my observation, We just want to get drunk from this world. People just want to go the beaches and get wasted and have a good ol’ time.
I think Alcoholism is a huge problem in this island and not only on this island but across the world.
We have become disassociated with nature and we continue to live a life filled with stress and where we want to numb that stress away,we want to break out of the shell and so we have become numb to the world.
The primary garbage that I find all over this island is alcohol, beer bottles and cans. Of course plastic everywhere. Don’t we ever stop to think of our actions. I wrote a blog on plastic and why we should use less and what we could do to change our consumption of plastic, which could be found here.
There once was a travel documentary in the 50’s called “Welcome to Fiesta Island”. Which can be found on that link.
That is what seems like the people just want. To just party all the time and there is no problem with wanting to have a good time.
But we should be responsible for what we do, we should strive to try to change this world and our bad habits. We should want to try to better this world instead of engulfing it with our ignorance.
Garbage should not be second nature. It should not be something we should be used to. We should not sit next to garbage like if it was a normal thing, our children should not be playing in garbage.
This is what your children inherit from their parents. This is the cycle we pass on to them, We no longer know the meaning of respect and like one of my signs read, “You don’t respect the earth, because you don’t respect yourselves.” A radical sign, but something that had to be said.
Enjoy the beaches of Puerto Rico
Come enjoy the beaches of Puerto Rico, Just gotta walk over the garbage to get to the beach.
This is what happens in just one day. This the path going down to the beach through the rocks below.
One person throws garbage the next person follow because this world has become nothing but a world of followers.
We allow ourselves to be manipulated by the actions of others. We become that product of this environment. We see that others don’t care and so we start not caring.
It becomes infectious.
When we should not allow the stupidity of others influence our frame of thought.
People want Garbage cans in beaches like this where it would be difficult for someone to come in to pick up their garbage.
But it all goes back again to convenience, people want others to come pick up after them.
They have this mentality of entitlement. There method of thinking is well if they don’t have a garbage can for us we are just gonna leave it here and that is the kind of mentality we breed and pass on to our children.
It’s just too much work to carry your lighter than you brought it in garbage.
I always say if you want garbage cans and others to come pick up after you then you should pay to enter that beach so that others can come clean up after your entitled buttocks.
It;s that simple, and even more simple than that is you take the garbage that you brought with you back with you.
Most of the people I encounter at this beach come from the metropolitan area, around the capital area of the island, San Juan.
So people come from afar to leave their garbage in this and other beautiful beaches.
WHY?
I ask WHY?
How hard is it to put it back in your precious car, oh no, can’t have garbage in your car.
We are in need of an expansion of consciousness because we live in a world where the people’s consciousness has become numb and sedated.
We and I say we as the world not only Puerto Rico, we need to open our eyes and see what we as a humanity are doing not only to our world, but to the species that call it home and to what we leave our future.
They should not inherit this world. This concrete mentality and environment that we continue to create along with our ignorance.
This is the destruction of the poza de las mujeres and the destruction of our own HOME.
This is what happens not only in this beach but many beautiful beaches and rivers and along the sides of the road of this beautiful enchanted island.
It’s a widespread infectious disease and we just can’t stop burying our home, it’s species, including our own selves.
It pains me to see such a beautiful island and the rest of this beautiful world be destroyed and allowed to be destroyed by our own ignorance and stubbornness.
The stubbornness to change our ways and instead of leaving nothing but footprints. we leave a path of destruction.
Such a beautiful paradise that we have confined into a hell that we continue to make it. We took heaven and confined it into hell and we continue to go no where in this world but to our own demise.
I want to get paint and paint on this giant wall,some of the signs because people need signs in order to remind them what they need to do. But something like what is written in this world won’t suffice in a world to numb, which is why my signs had to be “radical and extreme”.
Well I know most people won’t like what I have to say but it has to be said. The problem of this world is we stay silent about things that matter.
I am not trying to paint this island in a bad way. I just want to bring attention to the problem at hand.
We have to stop the mass consumption again bring your own cups and you can use your cooler as a garbage can the same way your brought it in.
WHAT A CONCEPT!
We have to reduce our consumption as best we can.
Let’s wake up, lets change the way we see this world, lets not accept this as normal, we are the change,we can either be the plague or be the cure.
We have to pave a better path for a better future, we should not be handing down our shovels. We should only pass down shovels if we plan to grow food, not garbage!
Here is a video
Please share this post so that others could get the picture, we must protect these beautiful places and truly cherish it.
Do you think this post is justified or do you think I am over reacting and that garbage is not an issue or that there should be garbage cans there for the people to leave.
Please leave any comments, your feedback is appreciated.
11 Facts Not To Use Plastic And What We Could Do About It.
11 facts not to use plastic and what we could do about it.
Currently, I am in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, I pick up trash every time I go anywhere on this island since it has become a landfill, I find many plastic cups, bags, straws that would all end up in the ocean and suffocating the species that call this world home if no one picked it up.
But no one gives a damn since we live in a world where people no longer respect life. So much plastic and for what, we buy cups and Use it only once and then throw it wherever and so it continues. We use shopping bags for one or two things only because it’s convenient.
It’s not only here, but in many parts of our world. I think we must stop using plastic cups, bags, and everything else made from it. Stop using things that continue to contribute to this world we have created. So much plastic that we are drowning in garbage.
But it is that people want convenience. They do not want to bring things that have to be washed later. And we continue every week with mountains of garbage on top of more trash, since people’s minds are full of garbage that they do not think of the effects they cause and thus we continue to contribute to this inundation.
Here in Puerto Rico, the government is passing a law banning plastic bags. But it is sad that people need the government to tell them they have to stop using it. When people should be more aware of how we live in this world and the impact we create. People will continue to use bags until they prohibit it, when they could stop now.
11 reasons to stop using plastic
- 44 percent of all seabird species, 22 percent of cetaceans, all sea turtle species and a growing list of fish species have been documented with plastic in or around their bodies..
- Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences in the oceans making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. 80 percent of pollution enters the ocean from the land.
- Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
- Plastic in the ocean breaks down into such small segments that pieces of plastic from a one liter bottle could end up on every mile of beach throughout the world.
- Plastic chemicals can be absorbed by the body—93 percent of Americans age six or older test positive for BPA (a plastic chemical).
- It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade.
- 50 percent of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away.
- Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.
- Americans throw away 35 billion plastic water bottles every year, now multiply that number with the rest of the world
- Plastic constitutes approximately 90 percent of all trash floating on the ocean’s surface, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile.
- One million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.
Ways to stop using plastic
- If each person brought their own cups and plates and washed it when they get home, we could eliminate much of the waste that we contribute to. Use reusable glass bottles or metal containers.
- We should no longer accept bags and instead use bags made out of fabric. We could do our part to improve our world and stop contributing because you are all complicit for continuing to use plastic.
- Spread the word. Talk to your family and friends about why it is important to reduce the plastic in our lives and the impact of the pollution.
- I know it’s hard to completely ban the use of it, but if you must use it for certain things. recycle. I know there are many places recycle in mostly every city.
“Plastic should be a high value material… [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it–I think that’s not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)”
― Susan Freinkel,
We need to change our mentality. Change how we view our world. What type of world do you want to leave for the future and the species that inhabit it? I implore you to change your ways. The change starts with us.
If you see garbage, straws, bottle caps, bags, pick it up wherever you might be. Here I wrote about a challenge, where if everyone picked up just one bagful of garbage, we could start changing things.
Here I posted a video, when birds eat plastic.
Watch this video by surfriders
How much plastic do you use? Don’t you think it’s time to stop using it?
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Short Thought-Provoking Video Exposing The Lie We Live
Exposing the truth about our corrupt world and what humanity has become.
This is a short documentary film made by Spencer Cathcart, questioning our freedom, the education system, corporations, money, the American capitalist system, the US government, world collapse, the environment, climate change, genetically modified food, and our treatment of animals.
I could have not said it better myself. Most of what this cosmic soul says in this well put together video is what I have been saying throughout this blog and throughout my videos and it is something many around the world are awakening to. Many of us are waking up from this world we live in and seeing it for what it is and not for what it appears to be.
But the lie we live. What a lie it is. The illusion right on front of our eye. I always ask myself why do we live this way. Always asking if we are put here for the mundane. To rinse, wash repeat our way through life and to follow the path going no where. Life should be more than chasing the perceived happiness that is paper. Life should be more than a repetitive cycle. It should be spontaneous, it should be thrilling, it should lived with a purpose going beyond than the mundane.
Anyway enjoy the video. I think I shall start making more videos soon with a better presentation such as this video. I think it is time to step up my game in making videos. I was going to write a blog about the lie we live in and I just searched to see what I would find and this video showed up. He has some other cool one’s as well, so be sure to check out his channel.
Why I Decided To Be The Guardian Of The Beaches And Rivers In Puerto Rico
Why I Decided To Be The Guardian Of The Beaches And Rivers In Puerto Rico
Hello My name is Jivan and I have been living on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico for the past 8 years and for the past five years I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico as I grew tired of seeing this beautiful world of ours inundated with trash.
I would walk around with my many signs every week at various beaches and rivers around the beautiful island of Puerto Rico to raise awareness to the people about the destruction we continue to cause by leaving the beaches, rivers and roads dirty with trash.
Most people would ask why do I care for the beaches and rivers here in Puerto Rico, when I am not even a native to this island. But few would understand my philosophy in life and how I view our world. I don’t see division or borders or countries or race. I see our world, our home and I would fight for my home where ever I may be. I don’t fight for a country, I fight for OUR world.
I do it for this beautiful world that is our home that we have been so disconnected from. For all the species that also call it home.
Here we have this beautiful paradise and I just see the people sitting next to the garbage as if it was nothing as you will see in this video here. Nature has become the Garbage can and sadly not only here but all over the world, garbage has become second nature to the people.
So I decided enough was enough. Someone had to do something and that someone was me.
I awoke with new eyes to see the world and its beauty around me. We all have a voice to use but we have let it become suppressed because we fear of what others might think. So we often conform to all the injustices around us.
I believe action is key and a call of action is what this world desperately needs for us to progress and to evolve.
The signs that I carry are a call of action. I would go everywhere with my signs as I have become a human billboard because we now live in a world where people need a dose of reality.
Anytime that I would go to the beaches or rivers I would bring my sign because we live in a world where we need signs in order for the people to realize the world around them and as a reminder of what they must do. The signs I bring are a way to educate the people.
Some will find my signs to be aggressive and some would consider them “radical and extreme”, but they need to be in this day in age where people have grown comfortably numb to this beautiful world and because please stop dirtying the beach does not cut it anymore.
My signs have left a positive impact to the people who have read them. The people would respond by cleaning up when they read those signs.
I often ask myself why do I care so much about the environment and our world so much, when we live in a world where it seems no one cares at all and that is what we all probably tell ourselves so we choose to go on ignoring the problems this world faces and choose to follow that same mindset of not caring.
I believe we must free ourselves from that mindset. We must start caring more and we should not accept this type of world because this is the type of world that our children will inherit.
We should want to strive to change things. Strive for a better tomorrow and for a better world. Stop being complacent with the way things are.
If everyone would just care a little we can start changing things. It all starts with you. We are all the dents and together collectively we could all make the biggest impact.
It has become my duty as it should be all of our duty to be the change this world need in order for us to change our world.
Along with walking around with my signs to raise awareness, I would go around cleaning the beaches and rivers whenever I visited them. I issued a challenge to the people to go out to the beaches and collect just one bagful of trash that they find anywhere they are in this beautiful world. You can read more about the challenge here.
I decided to be the guardian of wherever I will be as I would be watching to see if people would leave their garbage behind and to speak out against those who do. Here I did a social experiment where I hid behind a tree to see if people would pick up garbage
We could all choose to be the guardian of wherever we may be. To speak out against those who are damaging the environment with their neglect. To care after this beautiful world. Again, action is what we need more of instead of being complacent by doing NOTHING.
My intention was to wake people up to the paradise that our world is. So many beautiful places on this island. over 200 beautiful beaches and so many rivers all of which are mostly all contaminated by garbage. You damn right I will be vocal, by any means necessary.
I believe in doing what you love. This has become my work, this has become my “job”. To take care of this world and the species that inhabit it. I don’t get paid for this, I do this from the heart.
By the way my native language is English. My Spanish was really bad entering this island, but thanks to the help of translate websites and friends that I made along the way, I made all these signs for the people to read.
Who knows, maybe if my Spanish was better I would have a bullhorn. but I think the signs make a powerful statement and yes most of what the signs say came from my mind and are unique to me and they have surely made a positive impact wherever I go.
I accept donations to continue my plight, so I can continue to spread awareness.
Here is a video of what I do.. Be sure to subscribe to my channel!
Thanks for viewing and reading. Enjoy and please share so that the awareness can spread further.
Please leave any comments down below on what you think about my protest.
Por qué decidí ser el guardián de las playas y los ríos en Puerto Rico W / Photos
Por qué decidí ser el guardián de las playas y los ríos en Puerto Rico W / Photos
Mi Español no es tan bueno. Uso google translate para traducir esto. Si hay errores por favor dejar me saber gracias. Versión en ingles aquí.
Hola, me llamo Jivan y he estado viviendo en la hermosa isla de Puerto Rico durante los últimos 8 años y durante los últimos cinco años decidí ser el guardián de las playas y los ríos de Puerto Rico al concienciar a la gente sobre el La destrucción que seguimos causando al dejar las playas, ríos y caminos sucios con basura.
Lo que hago cada vez en las playas
Caminé con mis carteles todas las semanas en varias playas y ríos alrededor de la hermosa isla de Puerto Rico y la mayoría de las personas diría por qué me preocupo por las playas y ríos aquí en Puerto Rico, cuando ni siquiera soy nativo de esta isla.
Pero pocos entenderían mi filosofía en la vida y cómo veo el mundo. No veo división o fronteras o países, no razas.
Veo nuestro mundo y voy luchar por mi mundo donde quiera que esté. Se ha hecho mi obligación. Junto a protestar, me voy por ahí limpiando playas todos los días que voy a la playa. Para cuidar de este mundo y las especies que lo habitan.
No soy nacido aqui pero se que hice mucho para esta isla que muchos nacido aqui, Mientras muchos viven con la cabeza ademtro de la tierra, yo lo vivo con mi raices penetrando esta bella tierra. Y no lo digo para que te sienten mal, lo digo para despertar.
Muchos me ven como extranjero , pero yo te veo como hermanos y hermanas.
La tierra tiene fiebre
Tiembla, llora, se duele del dolor más doloroso
Y es que piensa que ya no la quierenY es que no hay respeto por el aire limpio
Y es que no hay respeto por los pajarillos
Y es que no hay respeto por la tierra que pisamos
.La pregunta es si no yo, quien?
Todos de ustedes tienen una voz y yo veo un pueblo de mudos que se quedan callado de las cosas que importa. Y un pueblo de ciegos que miran a el otro lado ignorando las problemas de esta isla Yo quiero inspira mi gente, porque asi es como lo veo, de esta bella isla para que usan su voz.
Y quiero inspirar a todos para empezar de cambias las cosas como todos esperan el gobierno para cambiar las cosas. Pero para cambiar las cosas eso empiezas con cambiar ustedes mismos en la manera de pensar y de ver.
Yo creo que todos tenemos una voz de usar, pero hemos dejado que se convierta suprimida porque tenemos miedo de lo que puedan pensar los demás.
Así que con frecuencia conformamos con toda la cosas que nos rodea. Creo que la acción es la clave y la llamada de acción es lo que necesita desesperadamente este mundo para que podamos progresar y evolucionar.
Mis letreros son una llamada de acción. Voy a todas partes con mis letreros porque ahora vivimos en un mundo donde las personas necesitan una dosis de realidad.
A menudo me pregunto por qué me preocupo tanto por el medio ambiente y por nuestro mundo, cuando vivimos en un mundo en el que parece que a nadie le importa y eso es lo que probablemente todos nos decimos a nosotros mismos, así que decidimos seguir ignorando el Los problemas a los que se enfrenta este mundo y eligen seguir la misma mentalidad de no preocuparse.
Creo que debemos liberarnos de esa mentalidad. Debemos comenzar a preocuparnos más, no debemos aceptar este tipo de mundo porque este es el tipo de mundo que heredarán nuestros hijos.
Deberíamos querer esforzarnos por cambiar las cosas. Luchen por un mañana mejor, luchen por un mundo mejor. Deja de ser complaciente con las cosas como son. Si a todos nos importa un poco, podemos empezar a cambiar las cosas. Todo comienza con usted. somos todos la abolladura y juntos podemos hacer el mayor impacto.
Se ha convertido en mi deber, ya que debería ser todo nuestro deber ser el cambio que este mundo necesita para que cambiemos nuestro mundo. Además de caminar con mis señales para crear conciencia, voy por ahí limpiando las playas y los ríos cada vez que los visito. Desafío a la gente a que vaya a las playas y recoja solo una bolsa llena de basura que puedes encontrar en cualquier lugar en este mundo hermoso. Puedes leer más sobre el desafío aquí.
Decidí ser el guardián de donde sea que esté. Estaría vigilando para ver si la gente dejaría su basura y hablar contra los que lo hacen. Aquí hice un experimento social donde me escondí detrás de un árbol para ver si la gente recogía basura.
Todos podríamos elegir ser el guardián de donde sea que estemos. Para hablar en contra de aquellos que están dañando el medio ambiente con su negligencia. Para cuidar después de este hermoso mundo. Una vez más, la acción es lo que más necesitamos en lugar de ser complacientes haciendo NADA.
Mi intención es despertar a la gente al paraíso que es nuestro mundo. Tantos lugares hermosos en esta isla. Más de 200 hermosas playas y tantos ríos. En su mayoría todos contaminados por basura. Seré vocal, por cualquier medio necesario.
Creo en hacer lo que amas. Esto se ha convertido en mi trabajo,. Cuidar este mundo y las especies que lo habitan. No me pagan por esto, lo hago desde el corazón.
Por cierto, mi lengua materna es el inglés. Mi español fue muy malo al ingresar a esta isla, pero gracias a la ayuda de de traducción como google translate y amigos que hice en el camino, hice todas estas señales para que la gente las leyera.
Estoy Orgulloso de cada gota de sudor que has caido, en mi camino, orgulloso de cada gota de lagrimas que has caido de ver como esta bella isla estas destruido. Orgulloso de llama esta isla mi casa.
muchos estan orgulloso de este paraiso pero ese orgullo no significa nada cuando tratan esta bella isla como basura y cuando no hacen nada por cambiar las cosas.
ver los fotos abajo esta pagina, pondré al día este post sobre una base semanal con más fotos.
Acepto donaciones para continuar mi campañas, para que yo pueda seguir difundiendo la conciencia. Aqui puedes hace donaciones. GRACIAS!