Lets Save our Earth for future

Let me start congratulating Tavant Green team effort to make all of us to spend few hours towards a world cause. I believe in words “Small spark can fire a forest”. I should not have used this proverb as it is against to the forestation.

I hope we don’t let things which does damage to our home. If that’s true why don’t we care of our earth? It is our home and our duty to save them.

Let us try to come out from our routine life and think a bit what goes around us and how we could contribute to save this planet. I am not asking all of us to pull a rock with rope just very simple things which result in to great benefits.

Let me put up my thoughts, How we could contribute a bit as an Individual on this World Environment Day to save this planet.

1. Let us switch off the unused lights whenever we see.
Let us not use the lifts unless it is necessary.
Let spend less time at TV and switch to some other mode of entertainment.
Let us not leave any electronic devices in stand by

I hope if we follow at least any one of the above said points, we could save the considerable amount of power and no need of any N-Deal with other countries.


2. Let us carry our own bag to buy the groceries
Let us go for a single packing which tremendously reduces the number of plastic bags during unpacked

Please read the following facts about plastic. Then we will realize how important we should be very cautious before getting cheaper and free plastic bags.

• Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle

• They take around 300 years to photo degrade.

• They break down into tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil and waterways and enter the food chain when animals accidentally ingest them.

• Mistaking plastic bags for food is commonplace amongst marine animals.

• Add to that the enormous amounts of energy that's used every year in order to manufacture these bags

• “At least 1,300 tons of oil would be consumed daily to produce the shopping bags for supermarkets alone”.

• Environmentally friendly plastic bags" those are biodegradable. These bags take about three years to break down

• The process of breaking down these petrol based bags causes carbon to become methane which is a greenhouse gas.

3. Let us not use tissue papers unless it is required
Let us switch to e-statements for all our bank statements
Let us not exploit by printing some junk documents at our office printer, though it is free of cost. Be cautious about (Ctrl+P)

• Few facts are following how important to reduce the usage of papers

• In 1999, 14 million trees were cut to produce the 10 billion paper grocery bags used by Americans that year alone.

• Paper sacks generate 70% more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.

• It takes 91% less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper. But recycling rates of either type of disposable bag are extremely low, with only 10 to 15% of paper bags and 1 to 3% of plastic bags being recycled, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Current research demonstrates that paper in today's landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic does.


4. Switch to Fluorescent bulbs over Incandescent bulbs which consume more power than the prior and few points about Incandescent bulbs

• Edison’s Incandescent bulb works by passing the current through a thin filament, heating it until it produces light.
• Approximately 90% of the power consumed by an incandescent light bulb is emitted as heat, rather than as visible light.
• Brazil and Venezuela started to phase them out in 2005, and other nations are planning scheduled phase-outs: Ireland in 2009, Australia in 2010, Canada in 2012, and the U.S. between 2012 and 2014 due to their higher energy usage.
• CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamps) can save over 30 USD in electricity costs over the lamp's lifetime compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2000 times its own weight in greenhouse gases.
I hear your words “No more Incandescent bulbs”.
5. Lets us pool our vehicle which reduces Co2 also the congestion in roads


6. Let’s try to use public Transport System as much as we can

7. Let’s take a pledge to create awareness of how important saving the earth for our future from green house gas.

8. Lets do emission checking for our vehicle regularly

I end this blog with the hope that at least few of the above mentioned points would be followed by all the readers and make this earth safer and better.