Drive by Solar Power

A Story to Learn!!!!

Three gals in their early 20s , who came from very conservative family of Rajasthan came to Delhi to participate in Green Job Fair of Delhi. They proved that education is not about studying in expensive college, its about learning from your surroundings. They proved that constraints are not barriers for anyone.

Shama, Sita and Shehnaz they attended the primary level school and learnt the parabolic solar cooker making from a German expert, who visited his village for some purpose. Now they have been the part of WOMAN BAREFOOT SOLAR ENGINEER SOCIETY, their village save about 10 kg of woods daily by their invention of solar cookers for their village. They train 100 people to make such kind of cookers in their village.

These girls know the real taste of success because it comes from lack of resources. They explained how their family resisted to learn and make such things. Initially they found so difficult to understand the German expert who came to village to taught them. It took them more than a year to learn this thing and meanwhile some time they ended up by burning their hands and poking themselves with wires but now they are experts in making solar cookers.

The cooker which they made was built in spring that rotated every three minutes and 23 seconds to change the direction of the solar reflector so as to receive the direct rays of the sun. The entire set uses 2.5 sq m and it takes a month to build one.
There were more than 5 villages in Rajasthan who who took cooker made by them.


Ref "TOI"

We Educated Humans

We belong to the so called Metro cities of India and studing in one of the best and expensive colleges of India. We call ourselves an educated person who Learn from their mistakes, who teach others, who are educated enough to take care of his/her belongings but we hardly think about our nature, about our society, about next generation. We complaint that we do not have resources to sustain in future, we do not have energy to enlighten our next generation but we hardly implement any solution.

We call our self as an educated person but do we know;

# For every ton of paper that recycled, it can save: 7000 gallons of water, 380 Gallons of oil, and enough electricity to power an average house for six month.

"Educated persons thorugh such an expensive resource in munipality dustbin"

# WE can run a TV for six hrs on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminium can.

"We drink bear and watch TV then through the CAN to the next door"

#By Recycling just one glass bottle, we can save enough electricity to power a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
"But we through the bottle as well as we power the bulb for more than 4 hrs unnecessarily "

Municipal Solid Waste Generation

Yard trimmings Wood Rubber, leather, and textiles Plastics Metals Glass Paper Other Food Scrap12.1 5.8 7.4 11.3 8 5.3 35.2 3.4 11.7

Beware!!! The Doom Awaits

Capitalization in world,

fueled the economic development.

Fools stuck to farms,

Smartasses went for Industrial Investment.

Necessity gave birth to invention,

while luxury was born of leisure.

Metal crowded the earth of dirt and stone,

while stress mounted instead of peace and pleasure.

Gas, Coal and Oil pumped out,

rendering Earth a hollow globe.

Farms, fields and forests wiped out,

turning the green planet to color of barren brown slope.

Business growing with,

new inventions being developed.

Sensex rising,

fueled by Earth's bones and blood.

Mother Earth, harbinger of all life,

sustains all damages and still smiles.

Year after year, grows the strain,

Yet she smiles, yet she smiles, yet she smiles.

The day is not far,

when mother looses her power.

The day of end of this boon,

The day of all life's DOOM!!!

By: Mickey's Hunt

Campus Waste Survey Analysis.

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Save water to save money.

Save water to save money.

Take shorter showers to reduce water use. This will lower your water and heating bills too.

Install a low-flow showerhead. They don't cost much, and the water and energy savings can quickly pay back your investment.

Make sure you have a faucet aerator on each faucet. These inexpensive appliances conserve heat and water, while keeping water pressure high.

Plant drought-tolerant native plants in your garden. Many plants need minimal watering. Find out which occur naturally in your area.

Save energy to save money

Save energy to save money.

Set your thermostat a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer to save on heating and cooling costs.

Install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) when your older incandescent bulbs burn out.

Unplug appliances when you're not using them. Or, use a "smart" power strip that senses when appliances are off and cuts "phantom" or "vampire" energy use.

Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the energy used to machine-wash clothes goes to heating the water.

Use a drying rack or clothesline to save the energy otherwise used during machine drying. If you must use a dryer, consider adding dryer balls to cut drying time.

Some of the gretatest threat of future resource come from the things that we throw everyday. Household batteries, and electronics oftem contains dangerous chemicals that may cause problem. If sent to local landfill, leak through bottom barrier and pollute the ground water. his can contaminate everything from the soil in which our food grows, to the water which will eventually come out of aquifers and into our tap water. Many of these chemicals cannot be removed from the drinking water supply, nor from the crops that are harvested from contaminated fields. The risks to human health are tremendous.

Throwing away items that could be recycled diminishes energy, water and natural resources that could be saved by recycling.

DID YOU KNOW ?

The more we throw away, the more space we take up in landfills. When a landfill becomes a “landfull”, taxpayers have to build a new one. The less we throw away, the longer our landfills will last. The amount of taxpayer money we save by extending the longevity of our landfills is an important community benefit.

The average global temperature has already risen by 0.74 degree centigrade in 2005

an air conditioner of 2.5 tonne emits 3 kilogram of Carbon Dioxide, microwave

generates 1.3kg of CO2, a Geyser emits 3.3 kg of CO2 an hour. A car that gives mileage of 10

kilometres per litre of petrol leaves 232 grams of CO2 per kilometer.

The list goes on... our

computers, music system, TV, Radio Set, IPod, Hair Dryers, Washing Machines, electric stoves,

electric shavers etc.

DO YOU KNOW

For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months.

You can run a TV for six hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can.

By recycling just one glass bottle, you save enough electricity to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

THINK

236 million tons of MSW generated annually

2.1 million tons from consumer electronics industry – but part of this volume is double-counted in other sectors

15% of waste incinerated

2003 Municipal Solid Waste Generation

• According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate.
• The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000.
• It is estimated that the population will swell to over 9 billion by 2050.
• World’s natural resources were evenly distributed, people in 2050 will only have 25% of the resources per capita that people in 1950 had.

COLORS

Imidiate Activities

Imidiate activities that has to be done:

• Survey of entire campus to find the existing waste management technique of the campus, amount of waste generated.
• Cleaniliness of the campus to be monitored by the members.
• Plantation to be done.
• Promotion of eco-friendly products and recyclable products.
• Water and energy conservation techniques to be used.

All the members are welcome to give their suggestions and feedback for the betterment of the club and society.

Student/staff/faculty members who are interested to take a step ahead to help themselves are welcome to join this club.

Email at neerajkushwaha29@gmail.com

Objective of CIG

The objective of the club is:

• To create the marketable product by the use of top level methodologies for waste management and recycling of waste products.
• To generate livelihood for the underprivileged sector.
• To promote social and eco-friendly products and services.
• To make the society nature and club self sustainable.
• To create aware about waste management and segregation in university and society.

To become a member of this club mail @ neerajkushwaha@gmail.com

COLOR IT GREEN

Lets Regain The Color of Nature

Do you think you can make a difference to the world? Do you think you can take an initiative for the betterment of your surroundings? Can you strive hard to show others the right path to improvement? Can you find the radical solutions to these day-to-day problems?

If you say “YES” to any of these questions...then you are welcome to the “Colour It Green Club”...

It’s an initiative for the promotion of an eco-friendly environment in Sharda University campus so that people living here share a symbiotic relationship with nature. This club would take measures to ensure proper cleanliness, hygiene & sanitation in the campus. And would work on a project using top level methodologies to find an effective solution for the proper collection and segregation of wastes in the university campus. The recycling of wastes would also be emphasised on. Apart from these things this club would also contribute in making the premises green and rich by adopting different measures of forestry. Even activities such as clean up events and other awareness raising events would be conducted in Sharda University. The club members would together help this club to reach its goals and make a difference to our surroundings by spreading this word to all.

Above all, the motto of this club would be ” Lets Regain The Colours Of Nature”, so that people understand the real essence of living close to nature.

Live Green...Live Longer...

From the Founder’s Desk

(Colour It Green Club)