Romance the Monsoons

Whoever thought monsoons were a time to stay laid back at home and enjoy the water being seeped into he thirty land, will feel a little jostling. Monsoons is more than just succumbing yourself to the dark clouds. Its more about chasing the clouds and enjoying with your beloved. Following out the list of some of the most exciting activities you can enjoy best in monsoons -

1.If you are a prude, then keep away – monsoons are not for you. It is the time to drop your inhibitions and let down your hair. Pleasures of monsoons are many and varied.

2.Splash through the water soaked field or dive into the freshly created puddles, the ways to enjoy monsoons is unlimited. Playing a game of football in an open field or strolling on a beach alongside your partner are some other activities to indulge during monsoons.

3.Marvelling at the sight of the glorious rainbow is an activity you would definitely not like to miss.

4.Plan a trek in the outdoors. This is the best way to get into the spirit of the monsoons. This is the best thing to do when you are in the Western ghats.

meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.3 (Linux)">5.Walk hand in hand with your beloved on the wet beaches. An ideal way to enjoy the monsoons.

The Owner of the White World

Everybody has dreams – to cherish, to act as motivating factors so that they can accomplish it some day. Like any other Human Being a too have loads of dreams to stalk them into reality. One of them was to touch a polar bear. Though from the very beginning I was aware that this was a distant dream – keeping the fact that they are carnivores, but the recent trend of the world, seems to be conspiring against my dreams. They will not even let me see my favorite bears from proximity.

Confused???I will tell you how and why. I am sure everybody must be aware of the term 'Global Warming'? Of Course, one hears it every other hour, and very casually distance ourself from it, thinking that its too far to reach us. But the fact is that NO, its very close to us, just here knocking at the door, taking my beloved Polar bears away, chasing them to extinction.

Due to climate change that is melting the snow of the North Pole, the ice is thinning. This is turn can cause an unfateful result for the polar bears. Bears are dependent on the sea ice for hunting the seals. These are the world's largest terrestrial carnivores, and until global warming slows or stops, we will not be able to save them from getting extinct. Global warming is not only a threat to these animals, they are becoming a challenge for humans as well. It seems the pre historian age is going to return. What are we going to leave for our children. Will they ever be able to know or see the Polar bears, except for their history books???

The Pitiful Condition of Goddess Ganga

All the people of India....Its time to wake up to a new dawn. With the coming of the report of Montana State University researchers that claim Ganga to be fast becoming of the most impure river in the country, Ganga is soon becoming a threat to the lives as well as health of the river and the people who depend on it. The river that since ages have been revered as a goddess is on the road to become mucked up.

The main reason behind this is the untreated sewage, cremated remains, chemicals and disease-causing microbes that live in this river. On the other hand, the cows wade in the river, people washing their laundry are also the reasons that add up to the trouble. According to researchers in US, “Ganges has become the kind of place where genetic material could transfer between pathogens and create new pathogens”. Humans today are dying from water borne diseases, more than ever. In the north and northern eastern reason, Ganga is the major cause of deaths. The reason being - enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria. Known as 0157:H7 bacteria, this was first found in United States where it infects 73,000 people and kills about 60 people in an year.

Though the government have claimed to spent almost five billion rupees by launching the Ganga Action Plan in 1986, the efforts have gone in vain. Domestic and industrial pollution, combined with deforestation, use of pesticides and fertilizers and other factors, have rendered the water of Ganga unfit for drinking or bathing.

It should be noted that the Ganga basin is the most important basin in the country, supporting 300 million people out of which 20 millions live in the densely populated cities. Due to the lack of proper sewage facilities 88%, the effects are hazardous. While the Ganges is in the upper Himalays it is clean, pollution fee and crystal clear. According to reports, Uttar Pradesh alone is responsible for 50% of the waste and pollutants in Ganges. This as the end is resulting in an array of diseases like cholera, hepatitis, typhoid and amoebic dysentery.

Ganga, which is the epitome of the Indian faith, is getting blemished in front of our eyes. Though government is trying its level best to keep situations under control, but it become inevitable that individuals should take the responsibility as well. We should endeavor to protect this river, otherwise our mother will be defiled by the names 'dirty', 'polluted' and so on. The government is trying its level best to keep the Ganges clean, but we too should joinn hands in making out sacred river, pollution free.

The Three R's For a Magical World

Moving towards destruction on a breakneck speed, our World deserves restoration. The best way that each person can aid the world is by religiously adopting the three R's in everyday life – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. These are the three mantras for a happy world. Adopt then and become a savior.

Reduce – The Initial Step in Saving the Environment

Take the initiative to reduce amount of toxins you dispose. This is an important step in waste prevention that involves rudiment actions. One should start purchasing durables that have a longer life span and avoid using energy and pollution causing cars. Try to reduce the waste of paper by preferring internet news over the paper versions. Saving electricity by switching it off when not is use and by saving water, you can reduce the exhaustion of these important sources of life. One way that you can really help the environment is by a compost bin. These compost bins can be put in the yard, so that the disposed food and plant materials can be broken down for decomposition by natural process. The best way to practice reduction is – Instead of buying thing that you do have have much use for, try to borrow those things from your kins.

Reuse – Address Waste Reduction

Instead of throwing things away, find out ways to reuse them, effectively. Some of the things we can reuse, instead of disposing are -

• One does not realise that one can save trees by buying a cloth sack instead of paper or plastic. Cloth sacks can be used again and again without getting torn or scratched.

• Using plastic containers and reusable lunch bags, one can avoid creating waste.

• One should use imagination to convert coffee cans, shoe boxes, margarine containers, and other types of containers, into fun and decorative items. These can be reused instead of being thrown away.

• Learn the art of donation. Give away your unused toys, furniture and clothes to the needful, instead of throwing them as waste.

• Write on both sides of the paper and use grocery bags to make book covers.

• Store eatables in reusable plastic containers and incorporate the use of dishes instead of disposable plastic utensils and plates.

Recycle – Prevent the Wastage of Useful Materials

Recycling is perhaps one of the most important step to save the environment from destruction. The core problem that we all come across while talking of recycling is the confusion regarding the products that can be recycled. There are varieties of products that can be recycled. All you have to take care of is to notice the labels that provide the instructions. Today, things like paper and plastic grocery bags, and plastic and aluminum cans and bottles can often be brought to the grocery store for recycling. Many brands of towels, garbage bags, greeting cards, paper bags, soda cans, and milk cartons, and toilet paper can also be recycled.

The world is passing through an alarming situation. Some 85% of our garbage is sent to dump where it take 400 years to decompose. It is estimated that in America alone 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar are thrown away. We are quickly running out of space and until and unless we integrated the three R's in practice, we will lead to nothing but trouble. We should preach as well as practice the valuable tips that can help us save the world, a step that can heal the world.

10 Green Ways To Refurnish Earth

To stop Mother Earth from hitting the point of no return, damn important decisions have to be taken and implemented sooner than later. Here are few ways that might help in retaining the lost balance in nature and avert a man made catastrophe.

1. Recycle Mantra
This is amongst the earliest of solutions thought and probably the most effective till date. Recycling of paper, plastic and aluminium has led to a revolution. Now most of the manufacturers boast of their products to be up there for C2C certification which is an indication of their total recyclability. Today, almost all home and office furnitures, carpets are recyclable. 40 other companies in different field are tapping into the green revolution of the second kind.

2. Energy Saving Bulbs
Aren't you proud that you just changed all light fittings in your home to compact fluorescent bulbs which are bright, low maintenance, durable and most of all, highly energy efficient. Well, as a considerate nature lover, you might soon have to get on the job again. Fluorescent bulbs will make way for far more technologically superior LED bulbs. They are known to burn just half the energy of that by fluorescent bulbs and last eight times longer with no traces of mercury.

3. Greener Fairways
Golf are not as bad as we think they are for the environment. Some fairways in US are turning into a potential wildlife reserves. A survey few years ago found that 82% of the sanctuary courses had reduced their pesticide use and whenever the spraying was done, 92% of them used lighter chemicals. So if you planning to spend your weekend teeing off, don't forget to carry your bird watching kit along with your clubs.

4. Kite Sails
Test run of a ten thousand ton ship from Germany to Venezuela by a German company SkySails, saved approximately 20% on engine power. What was different about this ship voyage? The liner was powered by a giant kite attached to the nose of the ship, tapping the wind energy for pulling the vessel. This experiment has paved way for further researches that will prove to be beneficial in this matter.

5. Plastic Solar Cells
Soon you might be carrying shopping bags that will recharge your cell phones on the walk. Alan Heegar, professor of Physics in University of California, is developing plastic solar cells that can be coated anywhere you want them to. So there is no more, the need to carry candles and flashlights on your next camping trip. Just have to carry tents painted with solar cells for electricity for you nightout.

6. Support Green Companies
Many of the upcoming industries make sure that the functioning of the company is completely on the green way. And well established firms are changing their production methods to cut down drastically on the emission and recycle the waste for better purposes. Leading the way are the firms like Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company that uses no toxic chemicals, has the largest solar array in New Hampshire and converts the yogurt waste into a biogas that can be burned.

7. Wonder Car
Hybrid cars could be the answer to the most prominent reason for pollution and global warming. A car like Aptera which is a hybrid electric car can give up to 128 km per litre. It is manufactured under the most technologically advanced systems and put through the most stringent tests to determine its road viability. The voguish shaped car that looks like a cross between an insect and a flying saucer, is built out of ultra light composites and has only three wheels to reduce the overall weight. And the emission are near to nil.

8. Stoves That Save
A good and efficient stove can make a huge difference in our day to day lives. It could save us a huge quantity of fuel, decreasing the emissions and deforestation and increasing an individual's financial savings. But such stoves have to be cheap and durable to attract people to buy it. A Colorado company has three new stoves that are exactly what the masses want. The Shell foundation is investing $25 million to help send 10 million such stoves to India, Africa and Latin America.

9. Grow Perennials
Growing perennials crops instead of annuals seems to the solution found to reduce the loss of topsoil. Agricultural chemicals are contaminating groundwater, and with each plowing and reaping, the world losses millions of tonnes of topsoil. An international institute is cross breeding important crops like wheat, corn sorghum and sunflowers with wild relatives to create perennial crops.

10. Democratise Green
CEO of known Saatchi & Saatchi S has joined hands with leading corporations to green their major brands. Take tide cold water which is formulated to wash clothes best in cold water. They say if everyone in United States starts using cold water instead of hot water to wash their clothes, the country would meet nearly 8% of Kyoto targets.