Environment

Now, this is turn of fuel to go green, this is the major green initiative taken by govt. the introduction of the Euro IV or Bharat Stage IV - the country's most environment friendly fuel yet.India will switch over to Euro-III petrol and diesel on October 1, with the petroleum ministry issuing a fresh deadline for oil companies to sell cleaner fuels. Consumers across the country will pay about Rs 0.20-0 .40 a litre more for Euro-III fuel.

Tata Power, India's largest private sector power company, is considering several low-cost solutions to the severe power shortage experienced across the country. Now the Tata group is planning to repeat the success in the power sector.
The company is set to test a2 kwh (kilowatt per hour) micro wind turbine that is one of the smallest in the world. A 60 watt light bulb for one hour consumes 0.06 kilowatt hours (kwh) of electricity and the wind turbine will have the capacity to power a small home for the entire day. To top it, the turbine can be mounted on rooftops.

Delhi, the capital city of India is getting beautified like a bride for the upcoming mega-sporting event, Commonwealth Games 2010 in October. The 12 day event from 3rd to 14th October 2010 will involve 71 participants (Commonwealth Games Associations) and will host 17 sports across 23 sporting venues in and around the city. This is the XIXth Commonwealth Games, where the best of athletes (about 8000) will come from 71 Commonwealth Nations to showcase their mettle

Thyagaraj Stadium, India's first eco-friendly stadium has been reconstructed and was inaugurated in April 2010 which will be the venue for the Netball competition in the upcoming Commonwealth Games. Covering an area of 16,000 square metres, it is built on the principles of "green building technologies".

Even Commonwealth Game (CWG) 2010 is being touched with fragance of nature.The latest buzz is Himachal Pradesh will supply its exotic flowers to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games. The state has secured an order worth Rs 31 crore for the purpose.The estimated 1.53 lakh flower pots across the five stadium and beautiful décor at all important venues will have predominantly Himachali flowers.

The Going Green concept is reaching every where, its only a matter of really caring about the climate, and the environment.
The latest news around the country is that India's richest temple -Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), at Tirumala is turning to to green in it's opertions from gardening to cooking, only non-conventional sources of energy are now being used in the temples of Tirupati.
As per this report,  is relying entirely on clean energy to feed over 70,000 people everyday. The temple has installed solar powered lights, solar cooking system, windmills and a water recycling station.

The Ganges River Dolphin is found mainly in the Ganges and Brahmaputra River systems in India and Bangladesh. There existance is concentrated on the 1,044km stretch of dolphin-inhabited Brahmaputra River system & Ganges River System.
The Ganges Dolphin is found in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. They prefer deep waters and generally share their habitat with crocodiles, fresh water turtles and wetland birds. In Ganges region, these aquatic mammals are known by the name of ‘Susuk’ whereas in the Brahmaputra region they are called ‘Hihu’.There are roughly about 2,000 river dolphins left in India today (of which 240-300 are found in the Brahmaputra river). In the 1980s, there were about 3,500 dolphins.

This would be the another drastic change in the scenerio of environment of India.Since 26 January this year the farmers have been carrying out their peaceful protest against fresh attempts by the Naveen Patnaik regime to acquire their land on behalf of the South Korean steel corporation (POSCO- India). Exactly five years back the two had entered into an agreement for setting up of a steel plant, captive port, mining and all related infrastructure facilities, and that had stirred up a huge controversy.

The conservation of nature has reached to new level,as the new methods are applied to the every possible field where science can step to,such new researches are also helping the barren lands of Himalayan state to turn into fertile region.
Tucked away from the the public gaze the Defence Research and Development Organisation's with the help of local units and women's self help group are working for the project.

Under this project, the bright red berries of the seabuckthorn plant,which are popularly known as Leh Berries.This berry that grows wild in the high valleys of the Ladakh region. Seabuckthorn, also called the “Wonder plant” and “Ladakh gold” has multi-purpose medicinal and nutritional properties, and also helps in soil conservation and nitrogen fixation.

                                  


In today's new era, people are running before fashion which is nothing but an induced epidemic.The fashion guru's are now turning there head toward the Green clothing which is now turning hot topic around the world.
        So,the new initiate's in this way is "bamboo fabric" which are largely used for making green clothes.Since, bamboo fabric is durable and breathable. It's incredible softness and natural lustre are exceptional, similar to fine cashmere.

It is amazing that after so much hype that Go Green initiatives in their various forms and avatars have got,

      The most hilighted product is LED light  is user friendly and elegant with attractive features such as saturated colors, digital control and energy efficiency. The advantage of LEDs include longer lifetime, Compact size and flexibility in design, Digital Control programmability, light output with no Ultra Violet and Infra Red radiation and Safety of usage because of low voltage and low heat operation. These will expand applications of lighting in homes in ways one could only dream of a few years back. 
The major advantage is it do not include mercury contents in it which is save for nature.In india the large number of LED light are being used  for decorative purpose. For instance Howrah Bridge uses this light for its gloryfication,and heritage monuments like Kesgarh Sahib,Punjab using this LED technology.

Every year, major health problems result from hazardous waste.  Increasing amounts of hazardous waste have caused increasing health problems.                                                                                                                                                                                                             There are over 80,000 chemicals in existence, and many are used commonly in industrial processes.  Often, these chemicals find themselves ain places where they are able to harm human health.                                                                                                                                               Insufficient research has been done to provide data on the effects of every chemical.  Because waste chemicals often mix together, it will also be necessary to learn how combinations of these chemicals affect human health. To compound the problem created by a lack of knowledge, 1,500 new chemicals are invented every year and many are introduced into industrial processes.

A hazardous waste in today’s world are little known to world and its drawbacks. This waste can be defined as the waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment.
Presence of various chemicals in these waste makes them toxic, poisonous, corrosive, flammable, explosive and infectious in nature and also these waste are not subject to natural biodegradation process.
The levels of toxic wastes continue to grow. Industries and world are continue to be largely unaware of this major environmental problem.As a result, many people and industries are not bother and failing to prevent the creation of hazardous waste or to limit the negative effects it produces.
I we do not stand today for the cause it may prove very difficult to reduce hazardous waste in the future. Unlike many other environmental problems, waste creation is something people do not often think about.
Now, we have to prevent to plastics disposal to waste, toxic water based waste to water bodies, proper dumpsites for heavy chemical and producing alternate to prevent this.

Media,today are trying much for Green Change initiative like after huge success of Greenathon 1st edition Green NDTV has launched Greenathon 2 for the cause of solar powering of village across india through TERI's lighting initiative.
And also another initiate which digital media has in this is Film like “Zor Lagaa Ke Haiya” is coming up where Mithun Chakraborty is playing a role of a vagabond. This film is also based on the theme of saving trees.Media NGO’s activity for plantation of trees will be seen boosting on its way and this concern for environment also invites marketing initiatives like the concept of having eco-friendly homes with greenery in lawns which was never heard before.

“Everybody likes the colour green as long as it resembles money. We need to fall in love with the green that gives us life, the most natural green” and also believes that one should not go green with envy but should go green to protect this world. In fact, we need to save this world and henceforth we can also expect world coming up with some activity to go green on the World Environment Day.