World Environment Day

World Environment Day.

This day makes more and more sense with each passing year that we humans are successful in abusing Mother Earth beyond acceptable limits.

For someone like me who is passionate about Nature and the Environment, I was all participative in the Environment week celebrations at work.

A part of it was to come up with innovative ideas for saving the environment. And came in some really good ideas! While I cannot take any ideas from office contributions to put it up under my name - I am putting up ideas suggested by one of my dearest friend. I had asked him for his inputs on saving the Environment and I was Surpocked [Surprise + Shock] with his long email of ideas. With his permission, this goes on my blog page - as my acknowledgement for his contribution as well as for the good ideas presented.

1.  The Traffic police should start charging fines which should include planting of trees according to the severity of offense committed. [Loved this one]
2.  There should be 1Re. donation towards the "cause green" on every online purchase made (as we see a boom in Online shopping ) [Absolutely!]
3. New societies which are coming up should be made compulsory to leave SEZ land alone. [NOT at all sure if the selfish Govt. can leave the profit calculations out of this]
4. Car pooling should be implemented forcefully with strict laws. [Hmmm...]
5. Schools should mandatorily teach children how to recycle/reuse newspapers as they are the next generation. [Should start rightaway!]
6. We should discourage brouchers and pamphlets distribution, which would decrease usage of unwanted paper. [AGREE]
7.  New building constructions should include solar paneling.
8. Every house should have a rain harvesting plant/ plan.
9. Use of bio-fuel should be encouraged.(For the unawares - it is condensation of natural waste like animal excreta, fruit residual like sugar cane, coconuts, hay etc.. are made in a block for usage in household and also in industries ) [Good idea]
10. Every society should be taught to make bio gas.
11. Purchase only after clearing your stock of food , to prevent overstocking and wastage.
12. Use of solar cookers by families to be encouraged.
13. Individual houses should be encouraged for natural fencing between two houses - by planting trees rather than Cutting trees and fixing fences for separation.
14. Water usage should be calibrated as per family members and there usage.
15. Use of bicycles should be encouraged for short distances.

These were some of the bright and quite a few very implementable ideas. Each idea even if followed partially till we make a habit of it, would make a difference. Let's take a pledge to ourselves to try and minimise our carbon footprint as much as possible. Happy Environment day.

....& not forgetting - Thank you Dr. Joshi for your contribution! :) .. & Congratulations for earning a place on my blog! ;)