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Go Green. Contribute in small ways in everyday life.
Posted on April 20th, 2009 2 comments
Provided below are some ways that all of us can contribute to a greener environment in our everyday lives.
1. All the green waste from kitchen can be collected and used as excellent fertilizer for pots or kitchen garden.
2. Envelopes from post : After opening and reading the letter, the envelop can be cut open fully; made to smaller sizes to write todo list or kids can practice tables, spellings etc. This is surely a way to teach kids about re-cycling, instead of giving to raddiwala. Sure we save 1 tree per year by doing this.
3. Do not wash Jeans so often.
4. Use Solar cooker - it’s excellent! By doing this the production, packing, transportation, storage etc of a cylinder is saved to a good extent.
5. Do not leave tap running while brushing your teeth.
6. Switch of all the unnecessary lights.
7. Use Solar energy for water heating.
8. Rain water harvesting - another GO GREEN idea. In India, this has been made mandatory now.
9. It is a pity that TONS and TONS of garbage gets collected each day and just taken to outskirts of the city and burnt. This has a serious impact to the environment. Instead of just burning, same can be used to generate energy.
10. Unplug Microwave, TV (not standby), TapeRecorders, VCR etc at the end of the day
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2 responses to “Go Green. Contribute in small ways in everyday life.”
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Following is an article that I received from one of my friends regading the Power Saving speech given by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. I am reproducing that as it is.
A Think Green Initiative
Be the Change you want to see!
To all those who do not TURN OFF their PCs, ACs & Lights before leaving the office….
Most of use from the IT field do one thing before leaving for the day from office, Press CTRL+AL+DEL and leave happily. That means your PC is still ON.
One Normal PC in Sleep Mode (Hibernation) will consume 35Watts/hour. Based on this let’s do a small calculation.
For One week, 24*7=168 Hours. Of this if we consider that we are working for 68 hours, then the PC is in Sleep Mode for 100 hours a week.
For one month, 4*100=400 hours. In a normal IT office, if we assume approximately 250 PCs are there, 250*400=1,00,000 hours (Sleep Mode), So power wasted in an office in a month is 1,00,000*35=3500KWH or units. If the charge per unit is Indian Rs 6, then totally the wastage value is approximately Indian Rs 21,000.
Here the sad thing is not the money loss to the company but the power loss to the country. (Hope no company bothered about this procedure of keeping the system in sleep mode)
Apart from the loss to the country, we need to think of the efforts people are putting for producing the power in Mines, Thermal Stations, Hydro Electric Stations etc. If this is to continue, the cost of unit will go up, at one stage, we will not get power even if we are ready to pay any cost.
So, before leaving office, take some time to shut down the PC and do some favour to the COUNTRY amd the organisation.
And, do spread the word around.
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Swaminathan April 28th, 2009 at 05:36
This is a good book to look at more ways to go green
http://www.morganstanley.com/about/community/littlegreenebook/
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