His face is probably familiar to you.
If not, I'll give you a hint.
Laura Madrueño
(Madrid, 1986) is Telecinco
's weather girl
and, from that channel, she has been telling us for eight years if tomorrow we will have to go out with an umbrella or a hat.
Since you already knew that (or you already know), today we bring to these lines its most unknown facet, the one that you cannot appreciate from the screen.
She is an
eco
girl , a defender of nature and also of life before.
And her latest milestone has been to build
a 100% environmentally friendly house
in the mountains of Madrid together with her husband, the architect Álvaro Puerto.
"Since I was a child I have had a relationship with nature. My grandparents had a house in the mountains and they were hunters and fishermen, they had their garden, their chickens, their pigs... I have always been in the countryside. And also in the sea, where I
used to spend the summers.
My parents, who were pioneer divers in Spain, have taken me since I was a baby
. When I was three or four years old, my father took me to what I called
the black
. There I discovered a world full of light and color. My I owe my fondness for nature to them, who have taught me how important it is", begins the presenter, who today
cultivates her own vegetable garden
-and he barters vegetables and eggs with his neighbors- and is dedicated to filming the seabed to raise awareness about how climate change and the hand of man are destroying them.
In line with that respectful life with the environment that he proclaims, shortly before the pandemic he began to shape an eco house to which he moved this summer,
a "sustainable" house
, he says, in which materials of kilometer 0, natural and artisans.
"We wanted the house to be an example of efficiency," says the journalist about her new home before detailing that it does not waste water, that it catches the sun to heat the house and that its insulation also allows you to avoid turning on the air conditioning.
"It is a very
showroom
house - where several companies have participated, including Samsung -, because it brings together things that did not exist until now," explains Madrueño, who whenever possible invites his followers to carry out gestures like these.
"
We must be aware to reduce our footprint as much as possible
. It is important to invest to save," he adds in this regard.
His vital idea is to return to the customs of
his grandparents
.
"I always have them as an example. Back then they didn't throw anything away," he says.
For this reason, she
tries, for example, not to order food outside of her and cook a lot of seasonal products at home
, do the shopping in a sustainable way, buying in bulk or even bringing her own bags and tupperware for cold cuts.
"You have to try to have the least impact. It's complicated but it can be done," says the meteorologist, who always travels by train rather than by plane whenever she can.
Through the networks, and to a certain extent from television, he tries to spread his message.
In the first, he shows his garden, offers
tips
on traditional food... In the second,
he talks about how it rains less every year, how there are more storms and temperatures rise...
"These gestures are the basis of future generations", points out the journalist, who also strives to show how the seas deteriorate every day.
He has been diving for 20 years and seven years ago he
created a production company
with some colleagues from Telecinco -We Are Water Films- with which they record marine documentaries during their vacations where they especially show the damage suffered by the
"demonized" shark
, an animal with which he loves dive.
"They are elegant and they give you peace and respect. I have swum with them many times, most of them at night.
It is an animal that can kill you but it is not the bad guy in the movie
. It is essential that people know the role it occupies in the ocean and the overfishing it suffers," details the journalist, who has recently filmed -and swum- in Mexico with the red shark -the second most aggressive-, in the Maldives with the nurse shark and in Sudan with the hammerhead shark.
"I would love to always be on a boat.
During my vacations I embark for weeks to record these reports
," acknowledges Madrueño, who also gives talks whenever he can to raise awareness about the evils of the seabed.
A year ago, he also published
a book
on the same subject.
"There I tell the most mine part, my diving diary of the last 20 years, with the best experiences that I have lived, and also the three main problems that exist:
global warming, overfishing and plastics
".
In Madrid, in the countryside or at sea,
there is no rest
for this journalist.
"I'm always working, but it's something I love," she sums up.
DNA
- He grew up in Chamberí
- He studied Philosophy for a few years.
- In 2015 he founded his own production company, We Are Water Films
- His family owns the oldest liquor store in Madrid, Mariano Madrueño.
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