a Green-in-Between person

I have to be sincere, In general i’m agree with all the ecologist’s ideology, but the fact is that I don’t do many things or have many practics that contribute to save the environment. It doesn’t means that the environment is not important for me. The true is that I don`t have taken a really ecological conscience, and it’s all my fault.

Like I said, I haven`t incorporated many ecologist’s practice in my life, but sometimes i recycle, specially papers, because at the end of a term, i have a lot of fotocopies that i don`t use and i think that recicle it is better than jut put it in the trash. Also I put aside the cans, and in my house we use the Led lights to save energy.

Daily, i don’t use too much the car, basically ‘cause a don’t have one, only when my parents take me to some place at the weekend, but in general I use the public transport to go to the university and other places, because i live far away of everyplace. When I need to go to some place near my house i use a bike that my grandparents gave me a few years ago, and i really like use the bike, more than the public transport, because it’s more healty and don’t pollute the environmen.

I don’t have joined any eco-organisation yet, because i think that you need to get very engaged with the environment causes, but I  think i would enjoy in other moment of my life, when I really take this problem seriously.

I think that in general, Santiago hasn’t developed yet a very important ecological consience in the society, because if you see the city, it doesn’t have many places where you can recycle, or do save bicycling, because it lacks places where the pleople can really develope their ecologist practices, bearing in mind that the pollution in this city it’s very dangerous.

Why some of us like to drive in the middle of the road

This article talks about a real controversial debate on the UK, that has relation with the “middle lane hogging”, a very important trouble for the UK’s people, and that the Institute of Psychological Science at Leeds’ University try to explain by a curious experiment. Apparently, for the british people its more confortable to drive in the middle of the road.

According to the researches, this phenomenon it’s explained because the old drivers have something like a  “built-in safety mechanism” that would lead them to drive in the middle of the road, because they would felt more safe to avoid manoeuvres which could test them to have slowing reactions.

The experiment was made with a touch-screen laptop for the people that was teasted by the researches. They asked them to trace wiggly lines of varying widths-slowly, and at their own prederred pace. After that, they have to steering along 'virtual' winding roads in a driving simulator, with a complimentary tour of the labs to conclude the process.

The purpose of the work is partly to tackle the road-hogging issue than to analyse behaviour in a way which may suggest new ways of helping patients to recover lost motor skills. The experiment's volunteers did not get on to 'virtual' motorways during the research; their 'middle of the road' approach was confined to the lanes set out for them on the laptops and the simulator.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/jan/04/transport-transport-leedsuniversity-richardwilkie-ruthraw-middlelanehogging