The importance of Park, its flaura and fauna, how human activity of encroachment, cutting trees etc is affecting the ecosystem which inturn will affect us one day was explained. How we could help save the environment and do our bit to save the Earth , how we could sensitize ourselves towards this cause and motivate others to join our movement was the motive behind this event. The success of this event was not the number of participants but beyond that. We got mails by a few post the event saying how this event sensitized them and how they have thought consciously to leave the unwanted luxuries they have had so far and lead a life by example for protecting the environment.
The event called for associates, his/her family and friends. Three important activities that happened were check dam building, cleanliness drive and 350 formation.
Check dams are small man made reservoirs made with big/small boulders to store the rain water during monsoons. It acts as water holes for animals to drink water and also helps recharge the water table. This activity is normally carried out by forest department before monsoon. Our participants helped the forest department by building 5 checkdams.
Participants also participated into cleanliness drive and collected 20 big gunny bags of plastic and other waste from the Park!! See the damage we are creating to environment. With this pace we may not even leave a clean earth for our future generation.
Another big activity was 350 formation.
350 is a symbolic number. It indicates the safer upper limit of CO2 ( carbon dioxide - the most dangerous green house gas) in Parts per million in our atmosphere.
The present carbon dioxide concentration in our atmosphere is 385 ppm. This is appalling, considering the fact that it was under 275 ppm since the past 6,00,000 years! This increase in Co2 level is largely due to man-made factors and is without doubt coinciding with the industrial revolution era which sparked off since last 200 years.
Snippets from the 350 website:
"350.org was founded by U.S. author Bill McKibben. Its an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that justice demand.
Our focus is on the number 350--as in parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. But 350 is more than a number--it's a symbol of where we need to head as a planet.
common call to action: cutting carbon 80% by 2050."
Click on 350 for more information.
Lets do out bit the keep a Clean and Green Earth. !! Let us Live and Let Live.!!
4 comments:
didnt know abt 350... good to know that... and impressed, as always, by such initiatives and realize that i do so little good for the society..
keep up the good work... cheers :)
wow nice...
Thanks for educatg me abt 350..
Good work done!
If not for people and activities like this, maybe this just-thought just-a-thought viscious circle will come true:
CO2 concentrations will rise so much above 350, that oxygen starved brains of humans will no longer be able to think straight enough to realise that its got to be reduced.
So it will go on increasing and they all fall down!
Hmm science fiction plot.
Maybe when such crisis arises, there will be a freak 'human' with photosynthesis ability, who will not only utilise the the excess CO2 directly and thus reduce it concentractions, but will also thrive on it and use his CO2 supported green brain to think of ways to save humanity from the crisis.
But then for things to work out (and to have the usual love angle), he must find the love of his life, so that by probability of genetics, half his kids will be green. After all, survival of humanity will depend upon the survival of that clan.
Or maybe if you are a feminist, or if you find it more interesting, replace green hero with green heroine above.
BTW one day our canteen chalk written menu read Green Peace Pulao
@all: thanks..
@saur : y dont u try story telling.. ;) :P
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