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ENVIRONMENT
now or never....
Earth
is fast getting abused by Man
and his growth. THREE FOURTH OF IT IS GONE. and nobody is
responsible for it, so it seems.
All of us individually are responsible for it.
If we do not do anything about it conscientiously, NOW and concertedly we
will leave a terrible future for our children. Whether we love our
children truly or not, is to be doubted, in this context.
PROTECT YOUR PUBLIC PROPERTY
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A presentation of ideas for Non violent Prevention of
Places
Getting abused ..
Public properties in your area wherever you are, are fast
getting abused by conversion to private properties. In the next decade
there will not be healthy environment for human habitation, at all.
You can form associations in public interest and take fotos of public
places and put them on the web. When they are converted you will know what
it looked like before. Take preventive measures to acquire such places in
your city, protect them, and form them into parks in public interest. Get
the help of MNCs to sponsor for their maintenance.
Discuss in groups and get ideas with brainstorming sessions.
Write to us your further ideas for immediate prevention of abuse.
LACK OF WATER CONSERVATION CONSCIOUSNESS:
The loss of water while using it for even such a small event as
brushing teeth is condemnable. When we look at it at a macrolevel, the
loss of water may amount to several gallons of water per day in the
morning hours alone, when all the house hold water losses are added in a
state. How? People carelessly keep the tap open and flowing, while
brushing teetch, once in a while showing their brush under the tap for
wetting it, for brushing.
Same way, the way people use water for washing vessels or cloth
is also requiring more of loss of water entirely due to careless usage of
water, without any foresight or forethought.
In Rajasthan where deserts are larger and water is a scarce commodity,
they use the bathed water for washing clothes, may be for a first round,
using lather of soap etc.
It is a common sight on the roadside to see open taps pouring out water
without proper effective taps on them. I have seen such a tap pouring out
for the last 15 yrs. It is in a place where water was in plenty. Yet, the
water which has flown out can be effectively used atleast for bringing up
vegetables.
Even bath room water without soap content can be safely used for
a house kitchen garden in every house. It can give vegetables, and greens
in an emergency. The earth is willing to give more, but we are lazy and
our habits are faulty.
If people are taught to conserve water it can help save water to
an extent of 30 % atleast. When totalled for Entire India, or the World ,
it may amount to a big sizable amount of water.
Western closets take more water than the eastern ones. And open
toilets are more healthy, provided farm lands are available suitably.
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO YOUR CHILDREN !
Day after day, with the bloating of human ego, earths' resources
are plundered and wasted without leaving any concern for future and for
the future of our children.
You may not live longer into the future, but your children have to live
to survive into the bleak future that you have created.
millions of dollars are spent around the world to protect the environ.
Most are wasted in research and discussion. Action is less. This is the
way of the west. To find whether a cat can sneeze or slouch they spend
years and money and men. They have no regard for time, work, ormoney or
men.
the rules of the earth are stiff they will not bend or twist to the
presidens or politicians or ego nosed scientists.
"unless the entire earth surface is made by man and his efforts surrounded
thickly with vegtetation like that of amazon, the earth's bio spehere to
support life will vanish.The seas will bulge overflow and the land to live
will be little everywhere. Man and his civilisation are on a suicidal
mission for the past 100 years of cutting of trees for housing commercial
motives. To concrete the face of the earth one should have sufficient
reason. one should be able to afford it. None can easily it is against bio
laws"
Earth has been abused beyond repair by his cultivation of cereals for
food, which came about in the past 5000 yrs only.
The pattern of agriculture for food has been devastatingly against the
ineterest of nature and conservation, due to use of more chemicals.
Govts all over the world, have worked name sake for the protection of
nature and participated and promoted in the plundering of the resources
for private use. They could have atleast made laws for the
protection, they did not.
Giving housing approvals in low lying water catchment areas was going on
in the last 100 yrs all over the world. No body bothered about it.
There are umpteen number of things that man can do to save the earth
atleast whatever is left of it.
these are very ordinary fotos taken with mobile nokia camera vga 4.0mm
mar 2008
scenes of india -- looking thru a train window =march 08
If capital inflow were more, 75% of indian agri lands would
have disappeared.
Better we go
slow !
After another 5 yrs, you would not see half of the above greenery.
Some of the Indian Eco
social scientists and groups for your information : -
Kalpavriksh, an environmental group based in India and
has been working full time with TILCEPA since mid 2003.
Kalpavriksh, Apt 5, Shree Dutta Krupa, 908 Deccan
Gymkhana, Pune 411004 Tel: (020)25654239 / 25675450 AND 134, Tower
10,Supreme Enclave, Mayur Vihar Phase I,Delhi-110091 Tel: (011)22753714
http://www.kalpavriksh.org
Tasneem Balasinorwala is a member of Kalpavriksh,
Ashish Kothari is one of the founding members of the Indian environmental
action group Kalpavriksh, started in 1979
the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada River Movement -The writer of
this site is known to Baba Aampte who was behind this movement for ecology
Neema Pathak is a member of Kalpavriksh and has studied
Environmental Sciences
Manju Menon
Manju has been a member of Kalpavriksh since 2000.
Tejaswini Apte joined Kalpavriksh in 2000
Kanchi is a graduate of Social Work and has been working
on environment and forest clearance issues for the last 8 years.
Seema Bhatt holds a Masters degree in Environmental
Studies from Yale University, USA. She has served as Senior Programme
Officer, Biodiversity 'Hotspots' Conservation Programme WWF- India and
as Coordinator (South Asia) for the USAID funded Biodiversity
Conservation Network. She is a Consultant on the Environment and
Development Book Series Project at the Centre for Environment Education.
She now works as an independent consultant mainly looking at
biodiversity issues
TOPICS OF INTEREST UNDER THE
SUBJECT FOR FURTHER STUDIES
AND RESEARCH :
Water & Waste Water Studies
Characterization of water to assess its suitability for specific uses
viz.
Human Consumption
Irrigation Purpose
Building Construction
Recreational Purpose
Industrial Applications
Evaluation Studies
The performance evaluation studies include
Water treatment plants
Effluent treatment process
Water purification equipment
Storage vessels
Water testing kits
Corrosion Inhibitors
Special Studies in Water
Characterization of Bottled Mineral Water
Sea & Coastal Waters
Base -line Data for Desalination Plants
Wastewater Streams - Total Pollution Load Survey
Base-line data for Common Effluent Treatment Plants for Industrial
Estates.
Prediction of Corrosive & Scaling Tendencies of Waters
Evaluation of Corrosive Rates of Waters on Metals Under Static & Dynamic
Conditions.
Setting-Up of Captive Water Laboratory
Wide Experience in Setting-up of Captive Laboratories & Captive Building
for Effective Quality Control of Water & Wastewaters.
AIR & EMISSION STUDIES
Ambient Air Quality
Stack Emissions
Fugitive Emissions
Testing of Industrial Gases
Performance Evaluation of Pollution Control Systems
Certification of Pollution Load
Indoor Air Quality
Incineration performance Evaluations
Toxicity index of combustible materials
SOIL CHARACTERIZATION
Physical tests - Bearing capacity; Shear Strength; Standard penetration
tests etc.
Soil reclamation, Salinity studies & remedial measures.
Heavy metals, pesticides & soil microbes.
Soil fertility & micro-nutrients suitability for different types of
crops.
SOLID WASTE CHARACTERIZATION
Categorisation of wastes
Leechability behaviour
Recycling & reuse options
Suitability for landfills & composting
Incineration studies of wastes.
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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
UNIT - I
Multidisciplinary nature of Environmental Studies: Definition, Scope and
Importance Need for Public Awareness.
UNIT - II
Natural Resources : Renewable and non-renewable resources β Natural
resources and associated problems β Forest resources β Use and over
β exploitation, deforestation, case studies β Timber extraction β
Mining, dams and other effects on forest and tribal people β Water
resources β Use and over utilization of surface and ground water β
Floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams β benefits and problems -
Mineral resources: Use and exploitation, environmental effects of
extracting and using mineral resources, case studies. - Food resources:
World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and overgrazing,
effects of modern agriculture, fertilizer-pesticide problems, water
logging, salinity, case studies. - Energy resources: Growing energy
needs, renewable and non-renewable energy sources use of alternate
energy sources. Case studies. Land resources: Land as a resource, land
degradation, man induced landslides, soil erosion and desertification.
Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources. Equitable
use of resources for sustainable lifestyles.
UNIT - III
Ecosystems : Concept of an ecosystem. - Structure and function of an
ecosystem. - Producers, consumers and decomposers. - Energy flow in the
ecosystem - Ecological succession. - Food chains, food webs and
ecological pyramids. - Introduction, types, characteristic features,
structure and function of the following ecosystem:
a. Forest ecosystem
b. Grassland ecosystem
c. Desert ecosystem
d. Aquatic ecosystems (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, estuaries)
UNIT - IV
Biodiversity and its conservation : Introduction - Definition: genetic,
species and ecosystem diversity. - Bio-geographical classification of
India - Value of biodiversity: consumptive use, productive use, social,
ethical, aesthetic and option values - . Biodiversity at global,
National and local levels. - . India as a mega-diversity nation -
Hot-sports of biodiversity - Threats to biodiversity: habitat loss,
poaching of wildlife, man-wildlife conflicts. - Endangered and endemic
species of India - Conservation of biodiversity: In-situ and Ex-situ
conservation of biodiversity.
UNIT - V
Environmental Pollution : Definition, Cause, effects and control
measures of :
a. Air pollution
b. Water pollution
c. Soil pollution
d. Marine pollution
e. Noise pollution
f. Thermal pollution
g. Nuclear hazards
Solid waste Management : Causes, effects and control measures of urban
and industrial wastes. - Role of an individual in prevention of
pollution. - Pollution case studies. - Disaster management: floods,
earthquake, cyclone and landslides.
UNIT - VI
Social Issues and the Environment : From Unsustainable to Sustainable
development -Urban problems related to energy -Water conservation, rain
water harvesting, watershed management -Resettlement and rehabilitation
of people; its problems and concerns. Case Studies -Environmental
ethics: Issues and possible solutions. -Climate change, global warming,
acid rain, ozone layer depletion, nuclear accidents and holocaust. Case
Studies. -Wasteland reclamation. βConsumerism and waste products.
-Environment Protection Act. -Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution)
Act. -Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act -Wildlife
Protection Act -Forest Conservation Act -Issues involved in enforcement
of environmental legislation. -Public awareness.
UNIT - VII
Human Population and the Environment : Population growth, variation
among nations. Population explosion - Family Welfare Programme.
-Environment and human health. -Human Rights. -Value Education.
-HIV/AIDS. -Women and Child Welfare. - Role of information Technology in
Environment and human health. -Case Studies.
UNIT - VIII
Field work : Visit to a local area to document environmental assets
River /forest grassland/hill/mountain -Visit to a local polluted
site-Urban/Rural/industrial/ Agricultural Study of common plants,
insects, birds. -Study of simple ecosystemspond, river, hill slopes,
etc.
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