The • Urge: I Be the CHANGE
Many birds die in summer without water. Please save them. Keep water pots for thirsty birds at balcony, window, tarrace.
Also please suggest other ways if you have any in your mind.
contributed by : Aayushi Aggarwal…(an sms campaign)
McGuinty Government’s Proposed Act Will Deliver Results For Business. As part of Open Ontario, the province is taking steps to support economic growth and foster simpler, better and faster interaction between government and business.
Today the province introduced the Open for Business Act that would, if passed, create a more competitive business climate, while protecting the environment and public interest. Among the over 100 proposed amendments, the Act would:
We hear about it, we see about it, we speak about it…it’s all around us but,
Are we actually making a conscious effort to mitigate it?
Yes you guessed it right; I am speaking about global warming and climate change which is happening across the Globe. We all are aware of this phenomenon but not doing our bit to prevent it.
Some very small steps and preventive measures can make a big difference…
Here at “THE URGE”, I urge you to do your bit and keep the world as beautiful as we perceive it for our children.
I would like to make you aware some of the heart rendering facts about Global warming.
Some facts which will shake your soul to actually take a step ahead…
As we all know that global warming is occurring because of the increase in green house gases concentration in our atmosphere, but what are the consequences of this increase?
Food Supply: Guys every time we pass by a good restaurant or food plaza we quite often stop to satisfy our temptations and end up ordering our favourite pizza, burger or some other meal but I fear that the continuous global warming is eating into that food of ours.
Yes!!!
With the rise in ambience temperature the productivity of crops go down drastically. It has been estimated that a 2˚C rise in temperature decreases the productivity of wheat by 25-30% and likewise is the case with rice.
In a gist, Global warming is threatening our food supply big time.
Weather Patterns: Our climate is very vulnerable to any kind of change in the composition in atmosphere and with the continuous pumping of CO₂ into the atmosphere we are paving a way for our climate conditions to change.
Only in the last decade we have pumped 700 billion tonnes of CO₂ into our atmosphere and today the concentration of CO₂ in our atmosphere has scaled up from 280ppm (1750) to 391ppm (2010).
Because of this increase in CO₂ and other green house gases concentration:
Health Problems: Climate change isn’t only affecting us externally but is going to threaten our health too big time.
Vanishing Species: Here I have a question to ask…
Do only we have the right to live in this beautiful world?
I suppose the answer to this question must be a BIG NO, yet we are creating situations like this only and we are not even aware that at the end of the day we will also vanish.
Just to fulfil our selfish desires we are subjecting the survival of other species of the Earth at risk.
As an effect of global warming species like golden toad, harlequin frog of Costa Rica has already become extinct.
A recent study of nearly 2,000 species of plants and animals discovered movement toward the poles at an average rate of 3.8 miles per decade.
These are just a few of the problems that our Mother Earth is facing today.
Global warming has done much more destruction than this and is still continuing…
The liability is ours to save our environment…
We should live and let others live….
It’s high time that we not only think but also take some action to prevent this phenomenon.
Our little contribution can make a huge difference…
Just a little change in our attitude can bring a revolution….it’s the time to wake up and act…
WAKE UP Mr and Miss sare pal kahein, WAKE UP Mr and Miss chalo kuch karein...
Contributed by Ankit Maheshwari, AIIMS
Moving the global economy towards environmentally-friendly, clean technologies will increasingly hinge on rapid improvements in the recycling rates of so called “high-tech” specialty metals like lithium, neodymium and gallium. Such metals, needed to make key components for wind turbines and photovoltaics to the battery packs of hybrid cars, fuel cells and energy efficient lighting systems, exist in nature in relatively small supplies or in discreet geographical locations.
Yet despite concern among the clean tech industry over scarcity and high prices, only around one per cent of these crucial high-tech metals are recycled, with the rest discarded and thrown away at the end of a product’s life. Unless future end-of-life recycling rates are dramatically stepped up these critical, specialty and rare earth metals could become “essentially unavailable for use in modern technology”, warn experts. These are among the preliminary findings of a new report entitled Metals Recycling Rates to be issued by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The report, the final version of which is to be published later in the year, also underlines the big energy and climate change gains that could be achieved if greater end-of-life recycling rates of more commonly known metals were achieved. Metals such as iron and steel, copper, aluminum, lead and tin enjoy recycling rates of between 25 per cent and 75 per cent globally, with much lower rates in some developing economies. More »
Here are some simple things to do:
Don’t take bags when making a small purchase
