Earth Day 2023 - Think Before Following Another Trend

                 Few days ago, it was Earth Day!!! Horayyyyy!!! 🎉🎉

No much to celebrate though, seeing what we are doing to Mother Nature!!!

It's more like a reminder to be kinder and more respectful!!!

                                        BUT...

How many of us have shared an #savetheplanet 📱💻or used one of those icons Instagram had on the GIF, just because it's cool or to get more followers and likes👍, while buying new clothings that we are going to wear only once and ending up in a landfill?! Or switching the lights off when leaving the room?! Or throwing away less food or eating more vegetables and turning the tap off while brushing our teeth?!

                          I am sure A LOT!!!

How many of us have actually taken a minute to think about any of those things before hitting the share button on our phone or keyboard!!!

                                                "It's another trending Hashtag, let's be part of the community, I don't know what that is, but everyone is posting about, so why not?!"

"After all it's only today Earth Day, tomorrow I will use my washing machine or dishwasher half full again!!!"

"I will start recycling from tomorrow!!!"

"The exhausted batteries?? Put them all together in the same rubbish bag, they won't do any harm, it's only 2 of them!!"

No, I am not reading your minds, but that's what we are all thinking. So multiply that by... I don't know... Let say... roughly... Billions of People?!🧮➕❌➗❓❓

It's not only 2 batteries anymore🔋, it's not only few gallons of water anymore.💧

It's much more... So much more TO LOOSE...💥

Big like an entire planet!!! 🌍🌎🌏

So: Think, Before Following Another Trend!!!

Microplastic: From the Highest to the Deepest Place

Plastic has become a huge problem!!! Microplastic were already found on the Everest Mount, the roof of the world!!! 🗻

And while you are thinking: "it got everywhere and we reached the bottom...", well.. nope!! Not really!!

In fact it has been found in the Marianas Trench, the deepest place on Earth!!! 😰😰😰

Now we can say: "WE HAVE REACHED THE BOTTOM!!!" 😓😓

And we shouldn't!!!

According to James Lovelock's Theory: Gaia (Earth) works like a self-regulating system, so in my opinion the planet is overloaded by this material (which takes 450 years to decompose) and it's trying to find a way to distribute it everywhere else. 

It's like getting fat and your body, already in bad shape, trying to move it to your ears or toes because the other places are already full.

Sounds funny, but that's what I think is happening!! 🙈🙈

Now, the question here is: what shall we do??? And why we are not doing it???

Internet is already filled with to do/task lists about how and why recycle plastic items, where to dispose them, reuse it many times and choosing other materials instead.

So why we are not improving they are only few simple actions? 😥

End of Summer

 I am in my flat and outside it's raining...

All the sudden I get memories of when I was a child/teenager, going to the sea with my mum and siblings.

In Italy there is a national holiday called "Ferragosto" on the 15th of August, which is considered the hottest day of Summer.

People celebrate it by spending the entire day at the beach with the whole family, eating and playing, or by going up to the mountains and having a barbecue.

During the Ferragosto week most of the people from North of Italy come to the South to pass by the holidays with their families by the sea and get tanned, after all the sun's benefits are countless.

That makes beaches, shops and streets really crowded, which is something we were not used to.

Few days after everyone is gone, everything is back the way it was before and all the sudden, us kids feel Summer is going to end, even if there are still a couple of weeks left in August and, why not, even in September. But all is left is a bitter emptiness feeling: you know sooner or later you will get back to school and the days will turn into cloudy rainy and eventually cold.

And in a such blink of eye you are at the shop pushing a trolley full of pens, pencils, diaries and notebooks.

...and I get back to this my flat, alone, still saviouring that vivid feeling  my memory gifted me with..

Sometimes time seems only wrapping into itself and even if you are on an upper layer, by just turning your head you can see your past, even touch it, almost you are standing right there next to the youngest yourself and watching like in a black and white movie.

29th of July 2021: Overshoot Day

How many of you know what the Overshoot Day is?

It's when all Mother Nature's resources of the year are over!!!

Basically we are consuming quicklier than the planet takes to restore in a year!!!

It's a symbolic date calculated by a simple mathematical formula:

 the Biocapacity of Earth to produce resources

divided by the human annual requirement

times 365 (days in 1 year)

And every year it gets earlier and earlier, meaning we are consuming everything faster and faster.

We need to take action!! We need to make this to change!!! Starting with acting as respectful guests!!!

Mother Nature loves us, let's love her back before it's too late!!

🌍Happy Earth Day!!🌍

Today it's Earth Day!!!🌍

Many people will celebrate it in different ways: cleaning a park or a beach, taking care of the garden, having a walk..

I tried to contribute creating some inspirational collages of pictures I take.

Hoping you will like them and you will feel inspirated by them, I wish you a HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!

The floral power, the natural beauty.

The water power, the natural beauty.

The sky power, the natural beauty.

🌊🏖💙Blue Cave Croatia💙🏖🌊

Today my feet.. well my memories.. took me to Croatia and in particular to the famous Blue Cave!!!

The Dalmatian coast is so called because it's formed by many many little islands and islets, which recalls the black spots on a Dalmatian dog.

The Karst region is a really and crumbly territory because characterized by limestone.

But how this beautiful cave was born?

As I said above, the limestone is very fragile and the wavy motion erodes the rock escaving half submerged caves.

Through the rock cracks, the sea water gets inside underneath the island, filling the cave up.

The entrance is really tiny, as it's half submerged, in fact to enter it we had to crouch on the boat, we weren't allowed to sit on the benches.

And this is what we saw:

the sunlight reflected by the outer water is diffracted into the inner one, creating this beautiful effect!!

I obviously embraced that moment with all my senses: I stretched my hands overboard and the water was so warm; the silence was wrapping everyone up, even if it was full of tourists, for just few seconds in the darkness, I felt connected with Mother Nature.

Curious & Curioser Facts: Animals Laugh!! 😂

Have you ever seen those programmes where people don't have to laugh otherwise they are out? 😂😂😂😂
Laugh is a natural behaviour to express happiness and joy!!

But did you know animals laugh too??!! 😰😂

According to some ethologists, monkeys 🐒 laugh a lot as much as children. Dogs 🐕, best man's friend, do the same, changing their muzzle expressions when they play, basically when we see pictures on internet like this one, wondering if they are real, well they are!! Cats🐈 instead, to express their feelings, meow in a particular way.

And finally parrots 🎶🐦, famous for their copying skills, can even sound like they are having so much fun!!😉

So, did you like this curious fact about animals?

Would you like to add anyone else?