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MISS EARTH MEXICO
DANIELA LANDÍN
DESCRIBE YOUR CHILDHOOD/GROWING YEARS
There’s not much to say about this phase of my life. It all resumes in one word: basketball. I started playing when I was 9 years old and that was all I thought about. I had basketball for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was one of my life phases that I enjoyed the most. I met my best friends thanks to this sport; and also, I learnt a lot about life playing basketball. I learnt about discipline, responsibility, empathy, perseverance, teamwork, respect, I learnt how it feels to lose, to win, and that sometimes we can win losing. I love this sport because it is something that, in a certain way, keeps my family united.
WHAT IS YOUR MEMORABLE MOMENT?
The first time I had to live in a foreign country by myself. It was a scholarship I won to study a semester in Canada. Those months far from my family, my friends, far from everything I ever met, it was when I really realized that I could achieve anything I imagined if I worked hard for it and did it by myself.
ANY SPECIAL STORIES OR FACTS ABOUT YOUR FAMILY?
They all played or still play basketball.
Sometimes I think it’s scary but my sister and I have the same thoughts. We are so united that I really think she is my soul sister.
WHAT IS THE MOST UNUSUAL THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE?
To participate in beauty pageants. I had never seen myself doing the things I’m doing. This is something that totally took me out of my comfort zone; it has made me evolve in a gigantic way.
WHAT TIPS CAN YOU SHARE TO PROMOTE ECOTOURISM & CLIMATE CHANGE?
There are super easy ways to practice ecotourism and be a more “green” traveler. We can start by saying “no” to straws. We have a global plastic problem and reducing our plastic consumption helps a lot to reduce it.
Taking a walk exploring new places, instead of driving or taking a bus, and it is also good exercise! We’ll be saving on unnecessary pollution.
Minimizing our food consumption. Nowadays, we use to make elaborate meals just to have more Instagram worthy photos. Sometimes we don’t even imagine how much food is wasted only to get a pretty photo. It is not sustainable.
Saying “no” to plastic bottles and using reusable ones. It is even cheaper! It will reduce the plastic impact on Earth which is one of the principal causes of climate change.
WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY?
Its culture. I have always thought that Mexico has a very rich culture. It has delicious dishes and a different one in each region. Also, Mexico is known because of its cheerful people and its traditions. Its colorful parties are full of food, music and a big diversity of regional clothing. Mexico is one of the world's wild counties that keeps native languages that keeps our diversity and reminds us where we come from and where we are able to reach.
WHAT IS YOUR ADVOCACY?
As we know, global warming is one of the biggest problems that impacts our planet now days, and trees have the ability to reduce the greenhouse effect through two processes related to de carbon cycle, absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and converting it into carbon that is stored in their trunk, roots and leaves, this contributes to the mitigation of climate change. That’s why, my advocacy is to invite people to join this project in which I seek to reforest schools from all states of the Mexican Republic. We are working with the Secretary of the Environment of every state, looking to have an impact on the younger generations.