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Event Name:  This Day - That Year Motive: Historical and inspirational environmentalist stories throughout the world Mode of event:  Virtual

Here's presenting you the story of Swati Chinnadurai who grows organic and medicinal plants. Here's a list of plants grown by her. 1.)Add a spice to your meals and a glow to your face with turmeric, known to be medicinal and antiseptic and heal wound immediately. Turmeric plant 2.)Keep your respiratory track clear by taking ajwain + hot water steam daily! Ajwain plant 3.)One of my favourite fruits!! Jamun plant 4.)Divine blessing! Brahma Kamal, named after Brahma, the God of Creation, probably blooms only for one night in the entire year. - The flower starts blooming after sunset from 7 p m onwards and takes about two hours to full bloom, about 8 inches. - It is believed to bring in loads of good luck and prosperity and a home, very auspicious and lucky. Brahma kamalam 5.)Veld grape is very useful for stomach as well as heart. It will set right gastric disorder and protect the heart. - The crushed paste form this is very useful in treating swelling due to injury, pain, catch

Here's presenting you Uttiya Sarkar's Cern scientist waste story. There's a list of things made out of scrap by him. 1.) Biplane: You can also make a biplane model by yourself using old deo cans/shampoo containers. I used a deo can for the body, cork cap cutouts for wheels and earbuds to make the linings. The wings are made of used cudboards. 2.) Coke can nightbulb: This is simpler than the first one. Take any used can of coke and cut one of it's sides using some sharp tool e.g. paper cutter. Take a paper clip and use it's end to make holes. BE VERY CAREFUL WHILE DOING THIS AND DON'T HURT YOURSELF. Then just place a small LED inside and cover the top. 3.) comic cutouts: I take great interest in doing this specific art. Gather all scrap of cardboards and paint your favourite characters and cut them out. Make a scenery and you can also use a torch to project your picture on a wall. It's a lot of fun! Story posted on 19 July 2020

Here’s presenting you the story of Ankita Poddar who is living a sustainable and eco-friendly life. There is a list of steps taken by her on conscious and plastic free living: - 1.) Switched to "neem wood hair comb" from plastic comb. 2.) Using "bamboo toothbrush" from plastic toothbrush. 3.) Making my own "bathing powder" instead of scented and chemically loaded soap bars. 4.) Made my own "herbal hair oil". 5.) Using homemade "coconut oil body moisturizer" than chemical ones. 6.) Trying to be "paper less & recycling paper" 7.) Homemade herbal tea concoction. 8.) Refusing rough papers, making own notebook. 9.) Homemade Kajal - using oil lamp. 10.) Drying leafy veggies naturally, sun drying and on placing it cotton cloth. Switched to gifts such as:- 1. Handmade diary, seed pens, seed pencils, jute pouch. 2. Bamboo toothbrush, bamboo tongue cleaner, bamboo straw, cotton bud, straw cleaner. 3. Clutter free gifts,

Have you ever heard of sapling trees with only 1 litre of water? Yes, you read it right. This unrealistic idea has been brought to reality by Mr. Sundaram Verma who lives in Danta village, 50 km from Sikar district in Rajasthan which has extreme climatic conditions and depleted rainfall pattern (25 to 50cm per year). He has always been inclined towards science and systematic agriculture practices. He used to attend various training programs at agriculture universities and research stations to learn about the new processes and practices in agriculture. In a training program at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Delhi), he learnt about the role of the capillary movement of water in causing loss of subsurface water through evaporation and the effect of weeds in loss of soil moisture. Results from experiments (that he performed on his farm) made him realize that below a depth of 30cm, the soil has sufficient moisture for the survival of the plants provided there is breaking up of the

Here's presenting you the story of Shanti R I have a small terrace garden, where I grow few vegetables in organic way. It is really challenging as I need the soil to be nutritious. I have few trees in my compound that shed a lot of leaves. These leaves are a great source of carbon and other nutrients. You can see people burning the leaves and twigs in the name of cleaning. If you burn one 1kg of leaves, maybe 50gm ash is the residue, or the matter that does not get oxidized. Some even claim the ash can be used in farms as manure and in pest control. But in fact, these carbon which gets oxidized due to burning cause severe air pollution. I use these leaves and garden waste as manure. As my garden is in the terrace, I use these dried leaves right from filling my grow bags as it reduces the uses of soil and in turn reduces the weight the terrace holds. I also cover my plant at the top of the growbag, with these dried leaves so that the root of the plant is not exposed to sun an

Here's presenting you the story of Mrs. Bhavya Kiran from Kerala who recycles some of the waste materials at her home. Tons of kitchen utensils are thrown away every year. These include utensils made of steel, plastic, and other natural as well as synthetic materials, many of which take several years for their degradation. Most of these go to landfills, water bodies and even are attempted to burn or bury. We see them around us as piles, floating in water bodies, and so on. This is a crucial issue that needs to be seriously taken care of because of its hazardous impacts on the environment and living beings. Solid wastes like this are being fed upon by animals including marine creatures which may even lead to their death. Among various ways of solid waste management, I would like to bring to your kind attention to recycling. Apart from large scale recycling, we can be a part of the recycling process by just sitting in our homes and experimenting with our skills on some of the waste

Hello everyone! My name is Shaurya Mishra. I am 10 years old, studying in 7th standard. I am a nature lover and always keen to save the environment. I developed the hobby of gardening from my late grandmother and now I am growing plants in my house by myself. I grew plants including mango, aloe vera, tulsi, chili, bitter gourd, heart-leaved moonseed (giloy). Sometimes my plants grew and sometimes they didn't, therefore, I asked my sister how to solve this problem. Then, she suggested me to use compost instead of normal soil as it is rich in nutrients and plants need nutrients to grow. After this, I learned to compost from her and now I am doing it for three months. I have made compost by two different methods and used it in growing three more plants. My mother doesn't usually segregate the waste and mix everything. I also made my mother aware of not mixing everything and segregating the food waste for my composting process. This is my story of environmental conservation. Thank

Team Zero Waste By Nandini Dixit on July 23, 2020 The transient outer beauty rejuvenates ourselves, makes a person attractive and gives confidence. It gives a new level of comfortableness, brings social recognition and increases social status of a person. Beauty business is one of the leading businesses in the world with around 532 billion dollars . A theory was proposed by Professor Juliet Shor back in the 1990s named as the “ Lipstick effect ” which explains how during the economic recession, sales of beauty products had increased. At the time of distressing environment, people try to indulge themselves in purchasing little luxuries for emotional lift up and one of them includes cosmetics and beauty products. Cosmetics play an integral role in human life. Most cabinets inside a female domain are filled up with such items. An average woman uses 16 beauty products everyday which adds up to a phenomenal amount of its consumption on a global level. Despite the harmful effects of it,

Team Zero Waste   By Ankush Kumar on July 15, 2020 Waste management is one of the pressi ng issues, and this pandemic increases its seriousness to the next level. To understand this, we need to know several critical aspects of waste management, especially in the current COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we are mainly discussing plastics and biomedical waste (BMW) management. We focused on, the composition of waste generated during COVID-19, challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the type of plastics produced in a pandemic, questioning of the waste management potential of India, basics question which may have in everyone's minds and few Do' s/Don't for general people/sanitation staff/waste processors.   Introduction: Solid waste may consist of domestic waste, sanitary waste, commercial waste, institutional waste, catering market waste, street sweep waste, BMW, non-residential waste. Biodegradable waste, non-biodegradable waste, and household hazardous waste come into t