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Celebrate Gently
Last year, on the sixth day of Ganapati Mahotsav, a truck carrying an idol was proceeding towards immersion. The reveling children and adults were dancing to loud music and throwing gulal (red colour) on passers-by. As this writer overtook the truck in his car, some of the ecstatic celebrators tossed some colour, which landed on his windshield, blocking the view partially. Fortunately, it covered only the passenger side of the windshield. If the colour would’ve landed on the driver’s side, …
The variety of Life
Biodiversity, or the variety of life that exists, is fundamental to the existence of life on Earth. The 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro defined biodiversity as “the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems”. Biodiversity is an extremely important part of life on Earth because it is not only the …
Height of Teaching
Madame Montessori, whose name is synonymous with child education, was a tall woman. No, I am not referring to her height, but her social stature. Born on August 31, 1870, Montessori became Italy’s first woman doctor. Initially, she took care of children’s physical ailments and diseases. Eventually, her curiosity led her to explore the minds of children and how they learn. By the early twentieth century, Dr Maria Montessori’s mission was to propagate radically different methods of teaching young children. …
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Fruits of Education
It is well-documented that students understand concepts and ideas better when hands-on involvement accompanies theory. Saraswati Mandir Trust’s Pre-primary section adopts this approach in their day-to-day teaching. Like last week, when they organised a "Vruksha Dindi", a procession of saplings. The idea of the procession was to educate the pre-primary kids about how trees are planted, how they grow and also to make them appreciate the importance of trees in the ecology. The preparation began on July 18 when the …
Value in Waste
Thane city generates 800 tons of waste everyday, of which about 150 tons is non-biodegradable. A non-biodegradable substance is unable to break down, and retains its form for an extended period of time. For example, when buried, some kinds of plastic can last without decomposition for 700 years. According to Robert Edwards, Toxics Campaigner in India for Greenpeace International, "Plastics are choking the life out of India. Over 50 per cent of all plastic produced in India is used for …
Eco Designs on Ganesha
In Maharashtra, creative expression is at its peak during Ganpati festival. Such is the enthusiasm that surrounds the Big G’s arrival that year after year, devotees get transformed into artists as they decorate Ganpati’s ten-day habitat in the most beautiful and innovative manner with socially relevant themes. So we have had themes like modern medicine and AIDS awareness, evolution of humankind and the beginning of the Universe and evolution of religion. Pokhran Blasts, Kargil War, KBC, cricket match-fixing and 9/11 …
Envirovigil: A Green Organisation
Thane-based Enviro-Vigil, also known in Marathi as Pariyavaran Dakshta Manch, is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the cause of environment protection. They have initiated various innovative projects since it was informally set up about five years ago, when a few good men from Thane decided to come together to do something about the increasing threat to our environment. Today, Enviro-vision (E-V) works in the areas of environmental education, water management, rain water harvesting, recycling, forest conservation, bio-medical waste, waste management, …
We are all environorganisms
In his book, "Manifest your Destiny", bestselling author Dr Wayne Dyer, has a coined a new word: environorganism. Fondly called the father of motivation, Dyer believes that we are not organisms in an environment. We are environorganisms. What he means by this is that our environment and we are one. We cannot define ourselves in isolation from the environment. This implies that if we abuse our environment, we are actually abusing a part of ourselves. This was also the message …
Heal the World
05 June 2004 is World Environment Day. World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of United Nations Environment Programme. Accoirding to UNEP, you can celebrate world environment day in many ways: Street rallies, bicycles parades, green concerts, essay/poster competitions in schools, tree planting, recycling efforts, clean-up campaigns and …
Humane Project
Money donation for good causes is a great thing to do. But donating blood to save precious lives is perhaps the noblest of all donations. For those who are wary of blood donation for the fear of contracting undesirable diseases, please note that improvements to the blood collection process have made giving blood today safer than ever. In addition to the mini medical examination, which makes sure donors are healthy, a new needle is used for each blood donation, and …
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