WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

Just a couple of hours ago, when I was taking the underground back home, I found out that today is he Word's Environment Day, while I was looking at a poster.
How many others don't know that?? The government and media should have organized more events and advertisements about today...

Searching in the net I've learned that this year the theme is "Green Cities" with the slogan "Plan for the Planet!". I think the slogan and theme were well chosen and we really need to think about them and take some action on it.

During the next 25 years world will suffer a great demographic development, essentially in the urban zones, 60% of world's population will live in urban zones. Such growth creates a lot of social and environmental problems, such as ghettos, poverty, unemployment and bad city planning.

The disordered city growth has lots of effects in the environment. Cities are large consumers of natural resources and producers of waste, destroying the surrounding natural life, biodiversity and polluting water.

The slogan "Plan for the Planet!" synthetizes the major concern that authorities ought to have. There are lots situations where we can experiment the problems caused by bad city planning, such has the buildings to near the beaches in Algarve.

We all can do something relating to this day, such as fight near the authorities, and spreading, the idea for more green spaces and better care in those places.

GOOD ENVIRONMENT DAY!

Great Song

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But its home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walkin down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
And know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a...

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone

green day - boulevard of broken dreams

International Children's Day

It's always good to remember our childhood, how innocent, free and griefless we were.
Yet, we all, still have a child inside us, a happier side, that makes us do things that others may consider childish, when thinking with their frozen reason.

The International Children's day is widely celebrated today, June the 1st, and has it's origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva in 1925, dedicated to children, to all children's, no matter what's their skin color, religion or any sort of cultural and social beliefs.

Children we once were and today's children will be the adults of tomorrow, but they are still children!!! So let them be children, don't want them to grow up too fast, there's a right time to everything.

Perhaps, people should spend same time thinking in what indeed means to be a child, what cares does such condition require, how should they be educated. Modern society creates a new stereotype of children, parents don't give them enough attention, because they have no time or will, compensate this by buying their kids lots of things, as a part of a consumerist society that they are.

All over the world there are lots of different children, in different countries, cultures and with different means, yet they all have something in common, they are all children, and that's how they should be looked at.

We mustn't forget those children who live in the so-called third world, today we have an excuse to help them, by donating cash and other means, or directly, if possible.

A great movie that has everything to do with today is "Finding Neverland"