I think that being conscious of the environment is something really important, and is definitely something that I wanna practice more. I think that if you do this, you're more consciuous about yourself, because we can't think us outside the environment, the environment make us but we also make the environment, that's the important thing
In Chile I think that doesn't exist an environmental culture, you just have to go to a mall to realize it, or even walk on the streets. Chile is a neoliberal country, and with the consumerism as a base, it's very distant of being a country that cares about the environment.
Anyway, in the multiform culture that we live, there are some iniciatives that cares about the environment. You sometimes can watch them on the tv, or listen it by an eco-organization, or a famous person who promote it. But most of people don't see it.
Personally, I try to consume the least as possible, that is, I try to use the much as possible my clothes or the things I have, and when I bought clothes, for example, I try to do it in second-hand stores. I walk a lot, use my byccicle sometimes and the public transport and with my family we try to recycle the glass and the tetra pack cartons of milk, for example. Other thing is being vegetarian. I think that it's a little more ecological practice than eat meat, because to feed the animals the business of meat use a lot vegetal kilograms to "make" a kilogram of meat, so it has a big impact... anyway I'm not very shure about this because some vegetals could damage very much the soil, like soja.
I have never joined an eco-organization. I think that you have to dedicate it you time and effort and today I want to spend my time in another activities. But always being ecologic yourself is a good iniciative.
In our country or our city, I think that it would be good to have more ecological trash cans and a culture and activites that promote an ecological life... all too change the mentality of the citizen. But much more than that, we would have to change all of our habits and our economy to change our way of life in order to become a real ecologycal country. Consumerism is the thing that is killing our planet and environment.