Environment's Mania!

Like every year, your FaceBook news-feed would be flooded with Happy Environment day's messages - cool status from everyone showing how caring they are for the environment, how they wore green today, special senti messages about the environment. They are good to cause awareness, but, in reality, how much do we actually do for our environment -NOTHING!

 

 

 

There isn't much of work if you really try to do something -your little bit - for the planet. There are simple things which don't even interfere with your comfort. I have given a short list of 10 points only to help you get ideas:

1. Don't waste water in your home - like while shaving, brushing , turn the tap off when you don't need water.
2. In office and colleges, use both sides of paper when taking a printout. In case of official used papers which are printed only on one side, you can use the back side for some rough work.
3. Start taking your own mug with you for tea, coffee.
4. Disconnect your phone charger when not using it. If it seems more convenient to let it be plugged in, then at least switch off the plug.The same goes for appliances like microwave oven, hair straightener, etc.
5. Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.
6. Try to use recyclable materials rather than disposables as much as possible.
7. If not a tree, then may be a few plants at home would be a great idea for decor as well as the pollution control.
8. Carry a cloth bag/jute bag for grocery shopping instead of getting things in a plastic bag or paper bag! (Paper bag is as harmful as plastic ones as for making paper bags you still need to cut tress, and after one use it becomes crumbled or torn)
9. Installing CFLs instead of tube lights saves on energy as well as reduce your electricity bill.
10. Check energy rating when buying new appliances.

The best policy as one of my professors taught me is , "3 'R's - Reduce, Recycle, Reuse".

 

Here's a list of 50 ways to help the planet in simple ways - http://www.50waystohelp.com/

 

Leaving you with an CNN-IBN initiative to save the Western Ghats!