Turtle Camp!

Se Animan??? aquí les va:

The Plantanitos Turtle Camp at Playa Las Tortugas, Nayarit, needs volunteers in August to help with our conservation efforts to increase the sea turtle population along the pacific coast of Mexico.


The success of our program depends on volunteers, who donate their time and efforts to help conserve the sea turtles that come to nest at Playa Las Tortugas every summer.

The volunteers help patrol the beach at night, collecting the eggs from nesting turtles and bringing them back to the camp for incubation. It is sometimes a race against the poachers.

As the turtles begin to hatch, volunteers help remove them from the nesting boxes in preparation for their release. Just before sunset the baby turtles are released on the beach and scramble across the sand and through the waves to their new life in the ocean.

Help save the turtles, meet new people and make new friends, all on one of the most beautiful beaches in Mexico.

Visit our website at: www.seaturtlecamp.org

For more information about volunteering e-mail Gordon Godfrey at:
info@seaturtlecamp.org


ANIMO!!

un nuevo sentimiento

Apenas el fin de semana pasado comenzaron las lluvias, la madrugada del sabado y el domingo.. una buena lluvia, de esas que no son tormentones con mucho viento y truenos pero si de esas en que si salieras por 2 segundos a ella seguro quedabas TODO mojado...

En fin, estaba yo durmiendo cuando comenzó la primera... autománticamente desperté a cerrar la ventana que está a tan solo metro y medio de mi cama... antes de que mi cuarto quedara todo mojado.... y antes de volver a caer dormida mi cabeza pensó "ojalá que la planta, no sufra, que mis lagunas de estabilización no se vuelvan locas..." también pensé que mi compañero el "encargado de la planta" tal vez tendrí que ir a trabajar el sabado o algo así...

**Què raro que ahora tenga un pensamiento como ese.. preocuparme por el desmadre que pueda surgir en el drenaje, las fugas, el incremento de volumen en la PTAR, etc, etc.. como si no me preocupara ya de muchas cosas.. ja! ***

el caso es que, aún no pasa nada grave... definitivamente la lluvia a arrasado con mucha cochinada, y esa cochinada va a dar al drenaje y el drenaje va a dar a la planta... la planta a experimentado un aumento de nivel y mis lagunitas (que están bastante grandes).. ahora estan llenas de lodo (no todas, pero si algo), hay demasiada comida! y además hay mucha cosa que no se disuelve y simplemente no sirve de comida... qué puedo decir?. Justo hace 1 semana las lagunas estaban muy bien, el agua salía bastante limpia y cristalina... ahora ya no tanto, un poco menos... ya veremos qué resultados obtenemos de las muestras que se harán mañana.

saludos!!
pd. perdón si no saben de qué hablo, pero... pero es mi blog, jajajaja

cansada

Estoy bastante cansada y no sé por qué.... menos mal que no tengo ningún plan, jaja

He pensado que me he portado mal con la mùsica, artistas que me gustaban ahora nisiquiera les doy la oportunidad, y ya no he escuchado con atención nueva música.... la escucho en radio y cosas así, pero luego ya no busco más.... será que me limito por mi "no tengo espacio en mi compu para más.." ???
También estoy con mis clases de guitarre online, y todo iba bien, pero de repente.. puf!! abandonada... la tengo que retomar!!! así no llegaré a nada.

en fin, así va la cosa... y la siguiente semana me espera mucho tiempo en laboratorio.... cansado!!

Ciao

Lagunas de estabiliza... que?

Ok, alguien quiere saber sobre lagunas de estabilización?

Yo antes no sabía nada de ellas.. para mi sólo existían los Lodos Activados.. pero ahora que trabajo con lagunas ya estoy aprendiendo... y bueno, aun siendo lagunas, del trabajo sucio no me salvo....

Hay que tomar muestras de agua una que otra vez... en mi caso 2 veces por semana, y bueno, me tengo que poner guantes, bata de manga larga, pantalones, botas y sombrero.... me pondría lentes también, pero luego es mas problema por que me da comezón en la cara.. en fin, ahora tmb uso unos guantes extra resistentes, de esos para manejar ácidos... así la cosa se hace un poco más sencillo y limpia.

En fin, unas cuantas hectareas de aguas sucias para que ya no salgan tan sucias... qué bien no?... lo único que me preocupa es..... no es demasiado metano despedido a la atmósfera? o de plano no hay otra?.... luego me lo responderé...
si tienen dudas... pregúntenme.. no escribo más por que creo que nadie lo lee.. jiji

ciao

Ok... nueva chamba, próxima titulaciòn... y muchas cosas por hacer

La nueva chamba me gusta por que es con Agua.. y aunque sé que no es del todo cierto.. tmb creo que aún estoy haciendo el trabajo que alguien con un poco de inteligencia podría hacer... las máquinas ya lo hacen todo!! las marcas de las máquinas se encargan de lo dificil... y ahora a nosotros nos toca seguir las instrucciones.. ya no nos quebramos la cabeza pensando.. cómo puedo cuantificar la cantidad de cromo en el agua??.. etc. etc.

la titulación.... me está pareciendo más sencillo de lo que esperaba... sin embargo aún estoy esperando el momento en que me llegue el golpe... en que me de cuenta de que no lo era y que a lo mejor la riego.. no??

bueno, muchas cosas por hacer????? muchisimas! y no tengo el tiempo ni las energías suficientes.. grrrrrr

que vamos hacer?

qué vamos hacer? o bueno, más bien que voy hacer yo???
bueno, ya se verá.... esta semana se puede poner interesante!!


y en una hora y cacho veremos quièn se presentará en coachella...mmm... será que este año me tocará asistir?? ojalá y sí :D

Copenhagen "It is done. People did not like it here"

Y bueno.... ya pasaron las charlas en copenhagen "COP15" segun recuerdo el 15 es porque es la 15a vez que se reunen a hablar al respecto... pero bueno, eso no importa... el chiste es que esto no resultó un èxito como quisieramos muchos (lo que estamos concientes y nos importa) y unos dicen que si fue bueno que llegaron a un acuerdo, pero en realidad no se llegó a algo concreto y ahora ya no estamos a alturas de ir pensando y decir q haremos algo... es tiempo de HACER y bueno, eso no es lo que resultó... mi buen amigo Thomas Yorke(ya quisiera) siempre ha estado muy metido en esto y el nos posteo esto, que alguien más escribio... me parece que sí es lo que muchos pensamos y sentimos... así que por favor leanlo...
un abrazo!
y suerte a todos.

-->THOM: i have been trying to write something about my impressions of being there etc, but then Ben Stewart from Greenpeace happened to send me something he wrote on the last night which is so much better than anything i've done so far so i'll leave it to him for now

-->BEN: "The most progressive U.S. President in a generation comes to the most important international meeting since the Second World War and delivers a speech so devoid of substance that he might as well have made it on speakerphone from a beach in Hawaii. His aides argue in private that he had no choice, such is the opposition on Capitol Hill to any action that might challenge the dominance of fossil fuels in American life. And so the nation which put a man on the moon can’t summon the collective will to protect men and women back here on Earth from the consequences of an economic model and lifestyle choice that has taken on the mantel of a religion.
Then a Chinese Premier who is in the process of converting his Communist nation to that new faith (high-carbon consumer capitalism) takes such umbrage at Obama’s speech that he refuses to meet – refuses, in fact, to do much of anything beyond sulking in his hotel room, as if this were a teenager’s house party instead of a final effort to stave off the breakdown of our biosphere.
Late in the evening the two men meet and cobble together a collection of paragraphs which they call a ‘deal’, although in reality it has all the meaning and authority of a bus ticket, not that it stops them affixing their signatures to it with great solemnity. Obama’s team then briefs the travelling White House press pack – most of whom, it seems, understand about as much about global climate politics as our own lobby hacks know about baseball – and before we know it the New York Times and CNN are declaring the birth of a ‘meaningful’ accord.
Meanwhile a friend on an African delegation emails to say that he and many fellow members of the G77 block of developing countries are streaming into the corridors after a long discussion about the perilous state of the talks, only to see Obama on the television announcing that the world has a deal. It’s the first they’ve heard about it, and a few minutes later, as they examine the text, they realise very quickly that it effectively condemns their continent to a century of devastating temperature rises.
By now the European leaders – who know this thing is a farce but have to present it to their publics as progress – have their aides phoning the directors of civil society organisations spinning that the talks have been a success. A success? This deal crosses so many of the red lines laid out by Europe before this summit started that there are scarlet skid marks across the floor of the Bella Centre, and one honest European diplomat tells us this is a ‘shitty shitty deal.’
Quite.
This deal is beyond bad. It contains no legally binding targets and no indication of when or how they’ll come about. There isn’t even a declaration that the world will aim to keep global temperature rises below 2 degrees C – instead leaders merely ‘recognise the science’ behind that vital threshold, as if that were enough to prevent us crossing it. The only part of this deal anyone sane came close to welcoming was the $100bn global climate fund, but it’s now becoming apparent that even that’s largely made up of existing budgets, with no indication of how new money will be raised and distributed so poorer countries can go green and adapt to climate change.
Not all of our politicians deserve the opprobrium of a dismayed world. Our own Ed Miliband fought hard on no sleep for a better outcome, while President Lula of Brazil offered to financially assist other developing countries to cope with climate change and put a relatively bold carbon target on the table. But the EU didn’t move on its own commitment (one so weak we’d actually have to work hard not to meet it) while the United States offered nothing and China stood firm.
Before the talks began I was of the opinion that we would only know Copenhagen was a success when plans for new coal-fired power stations across the developed world were dropped. If the giant utilities saw in the outcome of Copenhagen an unmistakable sign that governments were now determined to act, and that coal plants this century would be too expensive to run under the regime agreed at this meeting, then this summit would have succeeded. Instead, as the details of the agreement emerged last night we received reports of Japanese opposition MPs popping champagne corks as they savoured the possible collapse of their new government’s carbon targets. It’s not just that we haven’t got to where we needed to be, we’ve actually ceded huge ground. There is nothing in this deal – nothing – that would persuade an energy utility that the era of dirty coal is over. And the implications for humanity of that simple fact are profound.
I know we greens are partial to hyperbole. We use language as a bludgeon to direct attention to the crisis we’re facing, and you’ll hear much more of it in the coming days and weeks. But really, it’s no exaggeration to describe the outcome of Copenhagen as an historic failure that will live in infamy. In a single day, in a single space, a spectacle was played out in front of a disbelieving audience of people who have read and understood the stark warnings of humanity’s greatest scientific minds - and what they witnessed was nothing less than the very worst instincts of our species articulated by the most powerful men who ever lived.
I will leave the last word to the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who would have given voice to the insanity of Copenhagen better than I ever could, and whose poem Requiem is perhaps appropriate at this moment: ‘When the last living thing, has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up, perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done. People did not like it here”.