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
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MOEF Defination of Waste, Material etc. Skewed
The terms ‘waste‘ and ‘material‘ are synonymous in the draft hazardous material rules of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef). The rules have been criticized for violating norms of the Basel Convention - an international treaty on cleaner production, minimization of hazardous waste and control on its movement—to which India is a signatory.
“The rather unusual use of two similar meaning yet different terms—waste and material—is bound to lead to enormous confusion,’ note D B Boralkar and Claude Alvares, members of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes and say that the state pollution control boards won’t be able to deal with the confusion. Continue reading »
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