Why It's Cool & Green to Go for Green Plates

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

Its volunteering based choice for "Green Plates" i.e to go for veggie, but important and essential for continued survival of life on the planet or even the life of planet itself. Some good facts to consider in order to make your wish and will even more strong in case if you have been thinking of going this way since long..

Lessen global warming

• The single most important step an individual can take to reduce global warming [faster than any other means] is to adopt a vegetarian diet.¹ Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. 
• As per UN reports raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.

Avoid excessive CO₂ production

• According to the UN Report, when emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases.³

Reduce methane/nitrous oxide production

Animal farms are responsible for 37% of the total methane (23 times as warming as CO2) generated by human activity. With methane emissions causing nearly half of the planet’s human-induced warming, methane reduction must be a priority.

Save large amounts of water

• Estimates of the water required to produce a kilo of beef vary, from 13,000 liters up to 100,000 liters. now can understand better..

Avoid further pollution of our rivers/oceans

• Pollution of our waterways is caused by animal waste, antibiotics and hormones entering the water cycle alongside chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers, and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.

Help ensure environmental sustainability

• There were approximately 6.5 billion people living on earth in 2005, and as the world’s population continues to grow, our requirement for food will also increase. Worldwide food production requires 30% of the total soil available, 20% of fossil fuel energy and a major part of the fresh water flow. Raising cattle is one of the most damaging.

Reduce destruction of topsoil & tropical rainforest

• Thirty percent of the earth’s entire land surface—a massive 70% of all agricultural land—is used for rearing farmed animals. Much of this is grazing land that otherwise would host natural habitats such as valuable rainforests. And, of the entire world’s land suitable for growing crops that would otherwise directly feed humans, a third of it is used to produce feed for farmed animals.

Reduce destruction of wildlife habitats & endangered species

• The livestock industry is responsible for widespread deforestation and cultivation of vast tracks of land. Wide-spread cultivation of the land ruins animals’ natural habitat and forces millions of them to be evicted from their homes each year, causing long-term harm to our wildlife.

Now does any of the fact above appeal well and firms your belief anymore to go veggies. Reveal below in comments.Don't worry nobody is staring you !
and no one is gonna know that you no longer remains __?__ anymore. Please fill in the blanks.

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Who Plants a Tree Plants a Hope...!

..Are you Thinking..!

Green Tree Quotes

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau

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India’s Environmental Challenges and Hopes

India so called growing economic power house of the world, which is in its full speed on development track. Entire world is recognizing it‘s all round developments activities, economic potentials, global economic driver capabilities and very key influences on global economy in future. A country with numerous missions & visions like 2020, 2050…. so on. Why not..? Every country should have one for growth and development, but at what cost.?

India is also member or leader of various groups of underdeveloped or developing nations on numerous issues (economy, environment and sustainable growth etc). On environment front most of the members of such groups blame, on various occasions, to developed countries for not giving sufficient subsidies and helps to implement the measures for the sustainable growth along with rapid economic developments, but actually they hide their own incation. There are points, negotiations and disagreements on these issues.

Most of the environmental summits go in waste only in blaming each other and discussing who has done more harm to environment and who has less ... and time up. Is there going to be a way out by such attitude? Is there should be one as an eye opener to tell you how dirty, polluted and filthy your house is? If you clean your house, is it the developed nations are going to make it dirty or pollute it or its advantage will be going to them. Growth is must and should be on priority but providing clean, green, safe, healthy and hygienic ambience, environment and nature to your citizens is also must.

Solutions are not far away. What are your issues with other developed nations do ask and fight for the same but that is not only option one should wait for to resolve and in fact it’s not going to do any magic to ameliorate the situation. Solution lies in the way  you handle your local natural resources, how you implement and guide industrial activities, infrastructure & development courses, plans and regulations for wild lives, rivers, biodiversities conservations, forests and agriculture and planning for cities & towns.

Take a case of India with so much cultural, social and natural diversities, has started its economic growth race blindly. It has gain enough so far but lost also equally if not more. With uneven industrial distributions and lack of proper planning has given it population congestion at industrial areas, overcrowded cities causing more pressure on natural recourses of one particular place, pressure on infrastructure, pollution and many more uncountable unwanted things.

Indian cities are extremely ill prepared to address the environmental fallouts of the aggressive building construction that is underway, according to Centre for Science and Environment. A statement issued by the centre said that 70% of the building stock that will be there in 2030 is yet to be built in India but without resource efficiency measures this will severely affect liveability of cities.

Since 1991, Indian policies on economic reforms have sidelined environmental concerns. The hard fought gains of the 1970s and 1980s (including new policies and laws on forests, wildlife, environment protection, water and air pollution, and the creation of a dedicated ministry) have been increasingly diluted, or sidestepped, in the blind pursuit of economic growth.

The 2010 McKinsey estimates confirm that the national power demand can be reduced by as much as 25% in 2030 by improving energy efficiency of buildings and operations. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency has also stated that even existing buildings have the potential to save 30-50% of energy. Similarly, substantial water savings is possible. Only by improving the water efficiency of the water fixtures the water demand can be reduced by more than 30% , said the statement by CSE.

Is There Hope?

With a dedicated ministry (MoFE) and continuous active pressure from civil societies and NGOs govt has drafted and implemented many policies and acts.

A few proposals in the 11th five-year plan, a committee to recommend a low carbon economy, state governments declaring a move towards organic production, rights-based laws. These are a few such signs. But lost, nonetheless, in the bigger picture of ‘growth at all costs’. Much more hopeful are the thousands of grassroots initiatives in sustainable agriculture, rural and urban renewal, decentralized water harvesting and energy production, meaningful community-based education and health, empowerment of the poorest that dot the country. Learning from them, helping them scale up and spread out, would be the single-most important step for the government.

Hopes lies with many civil and NGOs societies working at the grassroots level like CSE(Centre for Science and Environment) and Kalpavriksh .

--“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”     - Henry David Thoreau

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An Amazing Eco Park Over Garbage

Tirupati Nature Park on Vijapur Road at Derol, around 15 km from Himmatnagar (Gujrat), has become Eco fun place to those who want to enjoy a pleasant time when the district is recording over 41.8 degrees celsius temperature in the summer months. The park is unique for it landscaping, nursery fencing and reservoirs and sits over one-metre deep garbage fill and has been reclaimed from a creek.

It has been developed by a well-known environment activist of Mehsana Jitendra Patel. It is spread over 128 acres and has 45 check dams on Sabarmati river, which flows through the park. "I am planning to grow as many as 10 lakh trees of different species," said Patel, a recipient of Priyadarshini Indira Gandhi Vruksha (Tree) Mitra(Friend) national award. He added that over 4.50 lakh trees have already been planted in the park.

  The park is lighted from the solar energy system installed on the top of a mound on the side of the river. The park's main attraction is an 80-feet high Vruksha Narayan Mandir. The 'aarti' of the trees is performed both in the evenings and mornings.

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