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Our Path to thinking Nature
One thing is great, that we are living in an age where thinking individualistic is promoted. At least we can find our path. Data is missing on how many are finding that path actually. After so much of formal education it should have become easier to know reality about our environment, but yet the youth is confused. Our environment, yes it is changing. In fact, we have achieved 10/10 in Environmental Sciences. Yet this over costly education is not helping us to actually act. (Why? Is a subject for another day). It is the need for every person to do something today, every day, positive, impactful for the environment. If…
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Let the Nature be as it is?
Humans have progressed till now with the help of Nature. Every product which we use has some natural ingredient at its base. Products are packaged in a marketable way and hence we don’t understand this. This shows us how dependent we are on the nature not just for our basic needs but also for leisure. The age in which we live is called as Anthropocentric by Scientists. Anthro means Human and Centric means centered. Meaning, we have made ourselves the centre of this existence. We have assumed that everything is for us and if something is useless to us, it doesn’t have any value. Hence this has given rise to…
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HIBERNATION WITH OPEN EYES?
पर्यावरण समस्यांच्या बाबतीत माणूस निद्रिस्तावस्थेत…!!?? जागतिक पर्यावरण दिनानिमित्त गल्लीपासून UN पर्यंतच्या विविध समस्या-उपाययोजनांचा धावता आढावा व संवर्धनाच्या कामात आपला वैयक्तिक सहभाग. दरवर्षी ५ जून हा जागतिक पर्यावरण दिन (World Environment Day) साजरा केला जातो हे आपल्या सर्वांना माहीत आहेच. यंदाची ‘थीम’ आहे ‘वायू प्रदूषण’. दरवर्षी जगात दुषित हवेमुळे जवळपास ७० लाख लोकांचा मृत्यू होतो. त्यात ४० लाख लोकं ही फक्त आशिया-पॅसिफिक भागातील आहेत. जगातील ९२ टक्के लोकांना श्वसनासाठी शुध्द हवा मिळत नाही तसेच वायुप्रदुषणामुळे जागतिक अर्थव्यवस्थेस दरवर्षी जवळपास ५ ट्रिलियन डॉलर्सचा फटका बसतो. सध्या पर्यावरण हा गल्लीपासून जागतिक पातळीवर अति महत्वाचा मुद्दा ठरत आहे. अर्थात त्याला कारणेही तशीच आहेत. जागतिक तापमानवाढ, त्यामुळे दोन्ही ध्रुवांवरील वितळणारा बर्फ, जंगलतोड, वन्य प्राणी-पक्ष्यांची घटती संख्या, प्लास्टिक कचऱ्याचा प्रश्न अशा असंख्य गोष्टींमुळे पर्यावरणाचा…
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51A- TO MAKE VETAL HILL CLEAN & GREEN
We conducted our first cleanliness drive on 1st January 2017 at Vetal Hill, Pune. After our first activity we realized that such one time activities are not enough. So we decided to conduct at least one activity per month. With the help of social media we shared message about activity & appealed to the people to participate in our activity. We got very good response for activity. Until now more than 150 people have participated in activity & gave their contribution in conservation of Mother Earth. We have collected around 2200 Kg garbage from Vetal Hill in 2 years. It consist 791 kg of liquor bottles. While collecting garbage we…
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#TREENURTURING
As IMD had predicted, monsoon has arrived in Maharashtra and covered the whole state. Government authorities, Local bodies, various NGOs will conduct tree plantation drives this year too. Many enthusiastic people like us would participate in tree plantation activities. We go for a plantation drive, We take our friends along, We take selfies, have a gala time, and feel really good about ourselves that day. We post our photos all over the social media with #treeplantation, #saveenvironment and gain the appreciation of our peers and family. But what next? Is it sufficient? Does our responsibility end here? Definitely not. How many of us will nurture the saplings planted by us this year?…
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THE LAW OF ‘NATURE’!
Environment needs to seep into our thought process. We may be following the societal norms, the national laws, the religious norms but it is high time we hear the ‘Laws of Nature’ We hear demands of a strong nation, development, Reservations, a Mandir, secular University campuses; not that they are right or wrong but that we need to add to the list – Our right to Environment irrespective of nationality, religion, caste, creed. The Capital is facing a Health Emergency. The water crisis has always been there. Droughts, heavy rainfalls have been there too. But the ones facing these problems were farmers, not us. Today we have started taking these…
