当飞机离开温暖湿润的巴塞罗那降落在寒风凛冽的泉城济南的时候,正值世界各国元首齐聚哥本哈根。
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电视上越来越多的“低碳经济”报道,让我期盼已久的“探亲之旅”,也变得不仅仅是对家人的思念、对故乡的眷恋、对美食的期盼,更让我联想到在西班牙留学期间发生的一些有关“低碳生活”的小事。
“四轮”变“两轮”也是一种进步
那是一次西班牙语课,老师让我们用过去时态造一个句子。
我造的句子是“爸爸以前骑自行车上班,现在开车上班。”老师听完以后想了想,说:“这个句子要是倒过来就好了!”于是,我的句子被改为“爸爸以前开车上班,现在骑自行车上班。”
老师微笑着点头,“这下就环保多了!”
我惊讶于中西方思想的异同。关于我们来说,开车比起骑自行车是一种进步;而关于外国人来说,骑自行车却比开汽车要进步得多。
一种是工业上的进步,一种是环保上的进步,一个是物质,一个是思想。
在西班牙,汽车并不算昂贵,几乎家家都有,但是每天开车上班的人却是极少数,他们只有在周末度假出游的时候才会开汽车。平时上班,大多数人选择方便快捷的地铁,当然,越来越多的人开始选择骑自行车上下班。
西班牙各地的政府投入大量的资金修建公共自行车站和自行车道,只要花三十几欧元就可以骑一年的自行车,这比起七十几欧分一次的地铁和公交车自然要便宜得多,甚至各大高校中都有免费租借自行车的服务。而且,公共自行车站几步就一个,比地铁站也要密集得多,自然也方便得多。
以前,骑自行车关于西班牙人来说只是一种锻炼身体的方式。而现在,出门在楼下的自行车站刷卡取一辆自行车,也变成了一种时髦的出行方式。
最受关注的垃圾桶
最近,巴塞罗那当地的报纸上最常出现的图片,不是西班牙首相萨巴特罗,不是新科足球先生梅西,竟然是一排一排新的垃圾桶。
原来,巴塞罗那市政府正在更换旧的分类式垃圾桶。新型垃圾桶更方便,容量也更大,政府希望能够适应人们对垃圾分类更秩序化的需求。
刚来西班牙的时候,我惊讶于西班牙人关于垃圾分类的积极与细致。和国外的学生一起租房子,他们最先给我讲解的,不是如何分摊水电费,不是如何排值日表,而是垃圾分类。
于是,在接下来的一个星期里,我认真地进行垃圾分类。但是仍然会有一些小疏忽,比如,忘记拆掉纸质牛奶盒的塑料帽儿,扔废纸的时候竟然用了塑料袋⋯⋯室友们都一遍一遍不厌其烦地给我纠正。
一般来说,在西班牙,每个家庭都有4个垃圾桶.最大的装生活垃圾,另外3个分别是纸垃圾、塑料垃圾和玻璃垃圾。西班牙朋友跟我讲,其实早期的时候,人们也嫌麻烦,不愿进行垃圾分类,政府就采取方法,在垃圾桶里装上摄像头来监督那些不守规矩的人们。慢慢地,人们意识到进行垃圾分类其实只是举手之劳,却能给国家节省大量的资金,给工人节省大量的时间,绝对是一件环保节能的好事。
现在,西班牙的垃圾分类做得有声有色,越来越方便细致,不单单是日常垃圾的分类,像很多超市门口,也都有电池形状的旧电池回收桶;每一个星期,还有一天专门回收旧家具和旧家电⋯⋯
墓地也环保
一次朋友开车带我去郊游,路过一片“太阳能田”。
在西班牙,“太阳能田”是常见的风景,尤其是在南部。西班牙由于日照强烈,并且很少阴天下雨,太阳能的利用也非常普及,很多小镇都采用的是这种无污染可再生的太阳能资源进行发电。他们把一片片太阳能板排列在田野上,远远的看起来,就像是种庄稼的田地一样,“太阳能田”也就因此而得名。
朋友突然幽幽地说:“你知道吗?这里其实是墓地⋯⋯”
我不禁打了个冷战,可仔细一看,哪有什么墓地,明明是一片片排列整齐的太阳能板啊?!
朋友看我用怀疑的眼光看着他,笑了笑说:“这里确实是墓地,只是这个小镇人口较多,相对拥挤,人们找不到更大的地方来大面积安装太阳能电池板。于是,有人想到了墓地,经过大家的争论,最终小镇居民决定在墓地安装太阳能电板来支持小镇的太阳能发电事业。”
我听得目瞪口呆,不禁赞叹道:“西班牙人为了合理的利用空间和资源真是绞尽脑汁。我想,那些在墓地里安睡的祖先们应该也会举双手赞成这项造福后人的环保方法吧!”
In Spain, automobiles are not expensive, so almost every family has one. However, few people drive their cars to work. Usually they use their cars at the weekends or during holidays. Most people go to work by the convenient subways. Of course, more and more people are choosing bicycles as the way to go to work.
The governments all over Spain have invested large amount of funds in constructing the public bicycle stations and bicycle lanes. For just over 30 euros, one can rent a bicycle to ride for a whole year, which is much cheaper than taking subways and buses that cost 70 cents every time. In some universities, there are rent-free bicycles available. Moreover, since the public bicycle stations are distributed everywhere, it is very convenient for the citizens to rent bicycles.
Previously, for the Spanish people, riding a bicycle was a way of getting exercise. Nowadays, renting a bicycle at the bicycle stations near their home has become a fashionable travel mode.
The latest popular photo published by the local newspapers in the city of Barcelona instead of the Spanish Prime Minister or the new Mr. Football--Lionel Messi was of row upon row of trash bins. Since the government of Barcelona is changing from the former classification-type trash bins. The new trash bins are more convenient to use with larger capacity.
In Spain, usually every family has four trash bins. The biggest one is for the domestic waste and the other three are for the paper, plastic and glass. My Spanish friends told me that in the early days the local people refused to sort their trash due to the complicated selection. So the government adopted compulsory measures. Video cameras are installed over the trash bins to supervise those who did not obey the rules. Gradually, people have become aware that the classification of trash can save a lot of money for the country and a lot of time for the workers, which is helpful in environmental protection.
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