the world environment day..

The morning newspaper did a couple of columns about "World Environment Day" and "global warming". I keep tracing these articles in general as I have concern and interest about these topics. As an after thought I just thought about creating a list of things that one can do in every day life to keep reducing ones baggage and wrong doing in the direction... quite a few are simple and straight forward ones..


save electricity, battery and energy

• no brainer - switch off lights / music / fans / ac when not needed. Do it and encourage kids/others around to follow.
• switch off the car engine while waiting at the signals.
• service your car regularly and get a emission check done..
• walk when possible or use public transport / car pools can make a lots of difference.
• when you have to go upstairs on floors not too high - say 2nd floor.. and have option of stairs vs elevator.. use stairs particularly when you are going to be only one in the elevator.
• use natural lights for reading/illumination when possible
• Avoid using electric bulbs made of filaments, instead use CFL tubelights.. Its proven that they save electricity and are more economical than bulbs.

Save water

• fix the leaking taps otherwise place an empty bucket under the drip and use the accumalated water.
• do not leave the tap running while washing face/teeth etc.. while you are actually not consuming the water.
• water evaporates during the daytime hence water the plans in the evening.

Save Paper

• Avoid prining - if you print ensure you use papers on both sides.
• Re-use the consumed / wasted printouts from the unused side

Hate Plastic

• Carry used plastic bags - prferably cloth bags to retail and grocery stores

Save / Re-use to the extent you can

• In general use, re-use, repair and use whatever you can in your everyday life. There is a good reason to do so - by not consuming the new product (which you have'nt bought to replace the old) you save your money and need to manufacture a new product and ship it to the locaiton near to you.. it saves the energy and fuel and so on. A very noble thought and difficult to follow but worth considering..

In summary there are many things you could do and they may sound very little/small but if many of us start getting aware and adopt some of these it can make a lots of difference.