Damage of the environment is a consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living During the last centuries, the improvement of the standard of living has been closely associated with the rise of consumer goods, which means that the majority of people think that they will find their happiness by buying material things. This is one of the ideas that the media and companies try to sell us. Every time we are acquiring material things, even if we do not need them, but we think that they can be useful, but in the end, a lot of times this things are just disposable goods, we use them only once or twice and then, we store them or throw them to the rubbish can, this is the first cause of damage of the environment. The grow of consuming needs, leads to a race between the companies that produce those goods to increase their sales and profits. They are creating every time more and more products with slighty new features that captures new customers or tend to make older users to upgrade their products to a new version, even if it is not really necessary. That is the reason why these companies have the urgent need to get a vast amount of supplies and materials that are obtained through ativities such as mining, deforestation, chemical and physical processes that generate a lot negative consequences to the environment like throwing waste, air and water pollution, reduction of the rainforest and gas emissions. Personally, I recommend not to be so bounded to material things, there is not any evidence probing that as long as you get more goods you are to be happier or you will get a better standard of living, because in the end, we all are going to notice that one of the most important factors to get a better standard of living is precisely when the environmental conditions are favorable to everybody's health, which can not be bought anywhere.

Public transportation First of all, I'd like to know if the correct sentence is public transportation or public transport. Anyway, I want to write about the means of transport in my city. Here, there is not any train system, neither subway, there are only buses whose system is very disordered, they polute the environment because are very old. This system doesn´t contribute at all to improve the mobility of the people in city, there are not bus stops, so they pick up and drop off people anywhere causing congestion and traffic jams. Things don't change because the ones who control this system are often friends of the politicians who are in charge of the regulations or are connected in some other way. I would like to see in this city a friendly system, ruled by the order, where people can trust the schedules, so they could know the exact times to pick up the bus and to arrive to their destination, it would give us a better standard of life. I don't mind if I have to walk some blocks to get to the station, the point is that the journey to the office or home be quick.

Today was a boring day Hi everyone. At the moment I am not working, I decided to quit my job about two months ago, so I am having a lot of free time. The first three weeks it was quite fun because I had the chance to have some rest but now, I am getting bored. Today, I woke up early because I am used to do so, I read two newspapers in order to be updated about the things that happen in my country and all over the world. I cleaned the house and washed the dishes, then, I cook the meals and waited for my wife to have lunch together, but when she left home again, I felt bored because I did not have anything else to do. So, I decided to sleep for a few minutes, but they became a couple of hours, then I read and watched TV and did one of the things that I enjoy the most which is practising English.