Shoes that Bloom

Finally a store that goes with my believes!! The OAT Shoes store believe we are all connected, that's why they have their special brand of shoes. They believe in a future in which mankind & industries re conciliate with nature as one. They state that we come from earth, we grow in it, play around it and die in it. But this past few years we have been ignorant for it. We have been ignoring the fact that every small thing makes a big impact in our planet!! In order to make greener and stylish choices in life, they created this really  cool Eco-friendly sneakers, OAT shoes!!

This shoes are biodegradable but with style. The industry made them that way so that when your ready to get rid of them you can plant them in your backyard and in a matter of six month wildflowers will be blazing and growing in your backyard!! Isn't that beyond amazing!! I believe all shoes should become biodegradable. Sadly they only have stores in Netherlands, Belgium and other parts in Europe, but it wont be soon till they come to the US!! God I want one of those shoes!! 

Museo de Vida Silvestre

The Museum of Wild Life (Museo de Vida Silvestre) is a must see if you come to P.R. I finally had the chance to go today and visit the museum that had my friends talking for weeks. This morning my little brother's godmother came over to visit, and since it was the first day of vacation for my brothers we wanted to do something cool and different. So I invited them to come with me to the museum, at first I had to convince them to go, but after I blackmailed them everything went OK! 


This museum had wild life written all over it! Literally it had, as soon as you get there you see this huge elephant statue right in front of the entrance to the museum and to an elephant lover like me I just fell in love with the place at first glance. I even named the elephant, Milo!!!

The experience was unique and great, but I do suggest you take a jacket cause its cold inside! The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 6pm. They have 12 different exhibitions focusing on the different biomes the world has. Among them they have the Savannah, Grasslands, Desert, Rainforest and more. In each and one of this biomes they have animals that are commonly found in that area. Dont worry the animals arent real, they are sculptures made of foam that are given the srtucture of the animal. Then they attach the fur of the animal and voula you have a almost real life looking sculpture of the animal. 

The museum is not that big, but it offers the best service and tours ever. They also have an amphitheater that they use to display movies like Chimpanzee, African Cats or local documentaries of P.R. faunas. 

So therefore I encourage you all, those who live in Puerto Rico and those who come to visit, to go to this museum. Families will have a great time together, friends can joke around and adults can chill. To read more about it and get full information on museum price and everything heres the link to their website!

museodevidasilvestre.com

photos  ©Christian Bosch

I am most definately going back, for it is a place that is still integrating new exhibitions and stuff for the audience. Well this was me giving my sort of review on the museum, and yeah have a great day!!!

New Year's "Green" Resolution

First of all I wish you all a Happy New Year!!It is time to say goodbye to 2011 and welcome 2012. And what better way to start the new year making some changes?

I believe you are all aware that we are not the only living things in this planet. Nor are the plants nor the animals! But Earth itself is a living thing too. We don't call her Mother Earth for nothing. Therefore for this years resolution I suggest we all put at least some "green" resolutions among the list. 

Below is a small list of things you can do that will be of a huge change to the environment. I believe in us we can all do this!! 

1.Why bother buying plastic bottles you will most likely end up throwing away? That's why I recommend you all to buy a reusable water bottle. This is a good way to prevent buying plastic bottles. Remember PLASTIC NEVER BIODEGRADE! Meaning it just keeps getting smaller and smaller till it becomes part of the ecosystem. A great example for this is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

2. Not only is it good for you. But its good for the environment, and helps you save up your money. Not only that but you can afford to avoid traffic as well. And we all know how bad traffic can be!

3. Yes! I know this is hard for most of us including me. But if we could time ourselves to take a bath in less than ten minutes we would be making a huge change in the environment and not only that! Why spend to much water knowing there are other countries that do not even have access to clean water?

4. I gave you all another hard one. Try to eat less meat. Not only will it help the animals that are constantly abused in Factory Farms but like everything here it will help the environment. I myself started to stop eating meat at least once a week! Doing this can start at least reducing the meat consumption. This factory's have a horrible cycle and a way to treat this animals. The circle of life does not work like that!!

5. Reuse More!! Thankfully some cities are starting to band the use of plastic bags. Why use plastic bags when we can use cool and unique bags to carry our groceries or the items we buy. Listen to this according to the Clean Air Council less than 1% of shopping bags are recycled each year! Reuse jars! There are many uses you can give an empty jar. Store goods, food, use it to plant, decorate or even use it as a place to put candles. So as you can see reuse more and be creative!

I hope this post inspires all of you to make a change. As I hope you'll spread the word of the benefits of making some green changes! Even for me this post and doing research got me thinking about what it more than I expected. 

       So therefore do some research,

              spread the word 

           and help Mother Earth!