Saturday, June 16, 2012

9:30 PM - No comments

Nokia Sustainability Challenge Day #6

Summary:
In the previous day, I have got the Incandescent light bulbs in my apartments replaced with CFL ones and also insisted on installation of solar panel to power the water pump to draw water. I went to the sub-urban regions of my city to do something good for our Environment.

Day #6 Going to the green side



If you are living in Chennai, you can hardly find any trees inside the city. I traveled to the sub-urban regions of my city Chennai where you can breathe fresh air and find people living in harmony with the Environment. But the condition has changed now as Urbanization has begun in those regions. The people sell their lands for money and the buyer just cuts away all the trees and projects a multi-storey building.  


It would be effective if I could talk with the people of those region on their issues and why to stop cutting of trees. I jumped in to a train to go there. Below is a video I recorded during the journey. As you can see below, the place is so green. However you can also find uprising of new buildings and many trees disappeared.



This is heaven. One of the Eco destinations which is pollution free and you can breathe fresh air and feel the cool sea breeze.




I called the people over there and explained the need for trees to maintain our Environment sustainable. A few people understood my speech while many just left away. However I was satisfied that I made atleast around 10 people to realize the consequences of deforestation and also to protect the Environment. 

Monsoon is coming :-) I got the rain water storage tank fixed before that. It is our sole duty to maintain the balance in our ecosystem and not to disturb it. A single plastic bottle can remain inside the soil for years and is non-degradable. Instead, one can recycle them for reuse or stop using them and go with eco-friendly ways.

The day went so fast as most of the time was spent in the journey itself. While I'm performing these tasks, the "Nokia Sustainability Project" I was creating is getting rendered in my laptop. I think I am almost going to kill  my laptop by giving it a massive task. Here is a image I have rendered for Nokia Sustainability Week :)

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Tomorrow will the final day of Nokia Sustainability Challenge and I am hoping to do more better tomorrow. Stay tuned for Day #7








3:45 AM - No comments

Nokia Sustainability Challenge Day #5

Summary: 
Yesterday, Its one man show of me cleaning up a waste land into beautiful place. If you have missed it, you can check it out here. Today I raised up my voice in my apartments meeting to make it one of the best meets by giving my ideas on reducing the power usage.


Day #5 Raise your voice



In my apartment meeting today, I have given my opinions and ideas to reduce the power usage by a wide range of methods. There are 24 homes in our apartments and I raised up my voice against their acts and finally made it to save the energy usage and also did something green today.

First of all, I asked the secretary of our apartment to replace the Incandescent light bulbs with CFL ones. Though it is a bit costly compared to the Incandescent bulbs, the CFL reduces the power usage to a greater extent. He had agreed to do this and I replaced them immediately with the CFL :)




Say Hello to the new CFLs 



I have found in Wikipedia that CFL consumes a power of 9-13 watts whereas Incandescent bulb consumes 40 watts for the same light output. There are totally 20 light mountings in our apartment. By replacing the incandescent ones with CFL, our apartment can save hundreds of watts of power.

I have also asked the secretary to install solar panels in the roof to power the water pump. Its green and also saves energy. 

Day #5 has been short as I was preparing to get ready for tomorrow's adventure. Tomorrow I will be going off to the sub-urban part of Chennai creating awareness. So stay tuned for Day #6. 

Here is an image that I found in a website which was really innovative and awesome:





Friday, June 15, 2012

2:55 AM - No comments

Nokia Sustainability Challenge Day #4

Summary: 
The previous day, I did my best part to make our Environment more sustainable by creating awareness through digital means by starting a new video project and also preferred eco-friendly cards and carried the ticket in my smartphone rather than taking print out. This is day #4 of Nokia Sustainability Challenge and this day was truly adventurous.

Day #4 Get into action 



After the long journey that I have mentioned yesterday, I went to my cousin's home today. I never thought that this would be the beginning of today's sustainability challenge. There was an abandoned ground just at the back of his apartment and when I first saw that my face was *_* You will have the same expression when you see the below pics I took there. 

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It was full of litter. The apartments had almost 25 individual families and none of them came forward before to clean this. This place had a few trees including a mango tree and many flower plants. I can just enjoy inside the home as I am anyway going back to my home the next day. Instead I can utilize this day to take up the challenge to make this place beautiful and plastics free. I cannot nudge my cousin as he was busy at this work. Hence, its one man army to clean up this place and its up to me. 

While cleaning up the thrown away plastic bottles and dried leaves, I don't know its co-incidence but I found this smiley :| in a tree branch showing its expression on its current condition. 


I hope this will change into :) in a few days after I clean up this place. Hours passed by as I got into this task. I collected the dried leaves and other degradable wastes and kept at one corner of the ground wall. Meanwhile, I deposited the plastic wastes into the garbage truck. 


After hours of cleaning up, this place looked fabulous. 




I think the birds were happy to see their home clean. They circled this place and finally stayed up in the tress after I completed this task.


Thus I have successfully managed to turn a garbage land into a beautiful place in Day #4. Many adventures are coming by in the upcoming days.

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