What and How - Go Green?????

What is Go Green? 
Fundamentally, going green means to live life, (it may be as an individual or as a community) in a way that is friendly to the natural environmental and is sustainable for the earth. It does not mean that involvement is only in recycling or only on planting trees. Going green involves much more.

It means contributing towards maintaining the natural bio/eco-logical balance in the environment, and safeguarding the earth/planet and its natural systems and resources.

It also means taking steps (It may be big or small) to minimize the harm you do to the environment, as a result of inhabiting this planet.

In practice, going green means accepting simple 6 fundamental rules in our day to day life: 
1^st rule: reduce pollution….. How? Minimal utilization of gas emitting vehicles, Better usage of bi-cycles or slow walk to the near by places where we want to go. It also make us healthier. Another classic example is walking in steps instead of lift in the office premises and in malls.

2^nd rule: conserve resources….. How? A simple example, always we bring our own hand kerchief in our pockets but what is the use? Still we use tissue’s in the wash rooms and in lunch rooms after finishing the food. Do any one aware that we have to destroy 17 trees to manufacture 1 ton of tissue. Now tell me what is the use of planting the trees on one end and using the papers on other end for everything and talking about Go Green?

3^rd rule: conserve energy….. How? Good example, there are natural ways that you can keep your house cooler on reducing the workload of your air conditioner and conserving the energy. Still you raise your eye brows?  Read this; by planting trees, by changing the paint color of your home and by placing the cooler glass windows we can significantly control the inside temperature of a home. Some other cool examples are switch off the computer monitors when not in use, also turn off the lights or fan switches when not in use.

4^th rule: reduce consumption and waste….. How? This can be done only by reducing the waste particles. Wastages thrown by industries/factories should be re-used or should be destroyed properly. Why do we need to talk about industries/factories, take an example of self. What most of the peoples do at home or in the restaurants? Cooking or ordering excess food and throwing it away, this is also called as pollution and this is one of the reasons for digging hole in the “Ozone”

5^th rule: protect the earth’s ecological balance….. How? Step 1: Plant some trees. What next? Step 2: Don’t think digging hole and putting a plant inside will be sufficient, we have to maintain it. What next? Step 3: Don’t destroy it. What next? Continue from Step 1

6^th rule: Follow…..? Follow all the above 5 rules. I am not saying everything should be followed on immediate effect. Slowly try to adopt yourself to the above rule.

All the above rules are essential in caring the environment from harm, as well as helping to ensure that living (for humans and other creatures) on earth is sustainable.