15 Rules Of Life In Delhi
Today I got this interesting mail from one of my friends with 15 Rules about Living Life in Delhi.
Delhi is known for its multi-ethnic culture. Anyone can survive in Delhi by hard or easy way.
- The Other Side Law:
If my side of the road has a traffic jam, then I can start driving on
the wrong side of the road, and all incoming cars will be rerouted via
Meerut. - The Queue Nahin Rule:
If there is a queue of many people, no one will notice me sneaking
into the front as long as I am looking the other way. - The Mind Over Matter Law:
If a red light is not working, four cars from different directions can
easily pass through one another. - The Auto Axiom:
If I indicate which way I am going to turn my auto rickshaw, it is an
information security leak. - The In Spit Of Thing:
The more I lean out of my car or
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Videos showing Small Scale Production of Biodiesel
Here is a good video showing you how you can make or Produce your own Bio-Diesel on a small scale if you have a small space or a garage at you disposal.These type of videos are a huge hit and in great demand at times of soaring oil and gas prices at 140$/barrel for crude.
People in India and world should learn these tricks and ways as it is very likely that oil prices will touch the skyscrapers in the times to come.
This is only a part of shows that tell you how to make Bio-Diesel .You can watch full series
here.
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Ten Difficult Ways to Save the Environment
So here is a list of 10 difficult (easy with practice) steps that you could learn and follow to make the environment green and friendly.
- Take a bus and leave your car home. Don’t ever drive an SUV (sports utility vehicle). Say no to diesel cars.
- Junk bottled water. Demand clean water for all.
Insist water-free and as a right which is entitled to everyone but be ready to pay more if you use more. - Use less water, to discharge sewage.Think of the poluted river,every time you flush.
Insist your colony recycles its waste-water, even reuses it after treatment. - Demand justice for both tiger and poor tribal people who coexist in the habitat
- To make your beautiful home green, harvest rain, use water saving toilets, segregate garbage and compost kitchen waste.
Use CFL bulbs and solar hot water heaters. - Impose economic sanctions against US for rogue climate behaviour .
- Do not use any product which uses plastic to pack food or other stuff. This will put pressure on manufacturers to make recyclable packaging.
- Levy a global “greenwash service” tax on Corporates. Make them fully liable for products that damage the environment today or tomorrow.
- Do not first adopt wasteful and environmentally bad habits and then become GREEN. Think of the last parson. Do not first buy processed food and then ask for organic and home made food. Do not firs eat junk food and then go on a diet. Enjoy biodiversity in food and lifestyle. Boo MCDonalds.
- Use less of everything that you use in your daily life.Not greed of some, but need of all is the only way ahead.
This post is dedicated to world environment day 2008
Download the copy of this article in pdf here.
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RTI (Right To Information) Assessment
An 85-year-old lady was having problems getting her passport. She needed it to go and live with her children abroad. The status, the website showed, was delivered. Visits to the passport office yielded little results. “We helped her draft a right to information (RTI) application. When the department concerned was informed of the application, she got the passport immediately,’ says Shekhar Singh of National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (ncpri), Delhi. But not all RTI applications are as smooth and appeals against disclosures are common. The RTI Act, which came into existence three years ago, is now undergoing a review of its performance. Here too, the issue has triggered a debate on the agency conducting the appraisal.
The department of personnel and training (DOPT) under the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has commissioned international accounting firm PriceWaterhouse Coopers the responsibility to review the RTI Act 2005. Activists say the study may end up protecting government officials. They are conducting a parallel study on how far the RTI has been able to keep up its mandate of providing timely response to “citizens requests for government information’. Continue reading »
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Double Standards
While the Agarias wage a constant struggle with the forest department, the government has allegedly turned a blind eye to pollution by two soda ash-making units run by major industrial groups. At Mithapur in Jamnagar district’s Okha taluka there are charges of pollution against a salt-and-soda ash unit run by Tata Chemicals Limited (tcl).
The Dalmiya group-operated Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Limited (ghcl) unit in Junagadh district’s Sutrapada taluka faces more serious allegations: it has refused to comply with a high court order for more than a year, after violating salt lease conditions for about 20 years.
This is the cover story on salt in Down to Earth magazine that I talked about.
Here is the link to it.
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/
Its about how Conservation has become a ruse to evict Agarias, but so far as allegations of widespread pollution and environment destruction against big companies is concerned, authorities have chosen not to be strict. Local communities face a dual threat: they are dispossessed in the name of conservation and then large companies destroy farms forcing them to migrate.
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