3 super creative ways to fully get rid of harmful plastic bags

Plastic bags are used to carry small and big items while shopping. One can easily throw them after using once because of their low prices.

So a person needs not to take any reusable bag from home to shop and can get free with the items he buys. This is the only convenience of this item of carrying things.

Devastating harms of plastic bags

The harms of plastic bags are more than many.

First of all, it can never be destroyed and remains almost forever. If it is collected with garbage it is thrown into a landfill site with other garbage and keeps harming the feature of soil with its plastic material.

If no one collects it, then it keeps flying here and there and may harm more severely by sticking with open wire of electricity or telephone.

If it goes into any open stream of wastewater it ultimately chokes its flow and causes overflow of sewage.

Top 7 jaw-dropping reasons to go green easily for a longer life

Go green is one of the most popular phrases we use in our conversation. In newspapers, TV shows and general debate it is more widely used all over the world.

Rising level of environmental pollution and natural resources' depletion has compelled people to take this phrase seriously. Green global leaders also want each one of us go green to make planet Earth greener and safer place to live.

Unfortunately this term is mostly used just for the sake of showing how much aware we are. We simply condemn environmental degradation. We slam every act of polluting. But we mostly take pollution at macro level. We forget to admit how our little actions hit our natural environment and even we don’t know what we are doing against it.

So we need to bring smaller changes in our way of living and must go green now at individual level to keep our kids safe from all types of pollution hazards. After going green it seems nice to talk vehemently against giant polluters and lethargy of governments to control pollution.

What is greenwashing and how to be aware of it while shopping?

It might be a new term for you but unfortunately, the meaning of this word is being exercised since people started talking loudly about environmental care. It’s a combination of two words; green plus whitewash. It means duping people for the sake of portraying oneself as green. It is a practice followed by most of those companies that are not environmentally friendly. They don’t meet environmental standards in their operations but trickily follow them as if they are following green laws. They follow in a way that they don’t have to lose any benefit for the sake of the environment and they just pretend to be following all their environmental standards. They show themselves as green companies the most caring and environmentally responsible entity. In short, they portray themselves as environmentally friendly in all their workings but they are not green or environmentally friendly.

World Ozone Day 2013; let’s play our role to stop ozone depletion

World Ozone Day 2013 is being observed on 16^th September to invite the attention of global fraternity towards fast depleting ozone layer. It was decided by United Nations Environment Program in 1994 to observe this day to sensitise the world community on significance of this issue. Since then it is being observed every year  on 16^th September and different type of awareness activities are organised by governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, corporate and private organisations to mark this day. The theme of World Ozone Day 2013 is “A healthy atmosphere, the Future We Want”.

What is ozone layer?

Ozone is a layer in stratosphere (the middle level of Earth) that protect us from ultraviolet rays that otherwise directly fall on us causing skin cancer and damaging

How she made her boyfriend quit smoking forever? A True Story

She is still my friend (not girlfriend). The way she made her boyfriend quit smoking forever is amazing. When she revealed her plan to me I could not have controlled my huge laughter. I was just laughing loudly as if she told me a joke of the millennium. But after a few months when her boyfriend refused an offer of cigarette in a party that was unbelieving for me. But eventually I had to believe when on several occasions he refused to smoke. This she made with her love and care. It sounds so simple when we talk about using the feelings of love and care to make your loved ones quit any type of bad habit. But here we do a big mistake. We don’t make our loved ones believe how much loving and caring we are for them and just try to dictate them a list of dos and dons. Showing your love with words is damned easy but proving it with your action is hell of a task. My friend first proved how much loving and caring she is to her boyfriend and then made him quit smoking forever.

Eid Mubarak; here are 5 lovely tips to go green on Eidul Fitr

Muslims all over the world have been celebrating Eidul Fitr for the last fifteen hundred years to express their thankfulness to Allah after keeping 30 days fasting in the month of Ramadan. On this occasion they wear new clothes, they cook traditional dishes, offer special prayers, greet each other, pay money as Eidi to younger relatives and do party. According to their financial position they arrange dinner and lunch parties and also go for dining out. This is one of finest religious events in the world when nothing against environment happens like it happens in religious festivals of Holey and Diwali of Hindus and Eidul Adha of Muslims. But despite its being clean we must follow as much go green tips as possible to make it more environment friendly event.

Here are 5 lovely tips to go green on Eidul Fitr to avail it as big chance to be thankful to Allah and careful to Nature.

How to make environment friendly disposal of your old books?

Every house has old books either general or related to school and college. Some people dispose of the books of their kids as soon as they are promoted to next grade. Many other simply keep them in store hoping to give them to some needy relatives or they just put them without any plan. Similarly if there is a book lover in the family he keeps buying books and makes a huge collection. When he gets busy in any business or job he has not time to enjoy his book and simply lock them in shelf and after his death family members just discard them without any objectivity.

If old books become older and lost their worth they also become part of the garbage. So before letting they turn into garbage we need to make their reuse as much as possible. For this purpose the following three approaches are the best one.

Top 10 holy tips to go green in Ramadan

Ramadan is the holy month for Muslims of the whole world. They keep fasting in thirty days of this month and don’t eat anything nor drink water or any other liquid from dawn to dusk. Not only that but they are strictly forbidden to commit any type of sin more particularly when they are fasting. They keep their fast early morning before the sun rises with nutritious food and break their fast at the time of sun set with lot of delicious eatable items. Between this time periods they worship more and more.

In religion of Islam there is much stress on cleanliness of self, home, surrounding and everything else. The pioneers of Islam were clean in their sole and deeds. That is why their successors still remember them and try to be like them. Therefore, it is necessary to tell Muslims they can go green in Ramadan and reflect the spirit of cleanliness and purity that is the basic lesson of their religion.

30 practical tips to plant a tree - the complete guide

It is so easy to ask someone plant a tree but putting sapling into the soil and then grow it as full tree is not an easy task. It needs your resolve, your care and your sense of going green because it takes time for a sapling to be fully grown. That is why more than half of the saplings planted all over the world could not have reached to the level of full tree because of its lack of care. Most people just plant a tree and then care it very casually to grow it full.

Here are 30 practical tips to plant a tree and make it fully grown with your continuous care to enjoy its benefits of fresh air, shadow and its fruits and flowers.

1. Make a pledge

For every good action you need to make a resolve first. Your resolve to plant a sapling is actually a booster for you to keep taking care of it and take it to the level of fully grown tree. You can also tell others about your pledge. In this way you will be bound to uphold your pledge till the end of your good action.

The single most successful tip for green living

Green living style is getting popular in advance countries. But it is getting so a little slowly. In developing and least developed countries it is still a strange way of living that what people say it demands a lot to do. Most people think that a lengthy list is required to adopt green living. Yes, a list of dos and dons can work well but life is not a thing you spend following a list of things. You just have to set your priorities and then follow them during your whole life.

What are green priorities?

Your way of living should have well-defined green priorities. You must follow them during your both professional and person life. For this purpose you need not to write a lengthy discourse

Here is the most vital tip to quit smoking forever

Smoking is injurious to health. Isn’t it a red alert for us? On every packet we see such warning with different phrases and even with images of a dying statue. But do we worry to read it. Did we ever think about its literal meaning? We damned care about it because it warns about our health not of our loved ones.

We care our loved ones more than us

This is the secret very few anti-smoking campaigners rarely apply to convince people quit smoking. They think it simply an emotional appeal that hardly works to hit the mind of smokers. But just think what we do if we listen about the occurrence of any havoc or tragic incident in our area. We waste no time to phone our family to ask about their safety. We want safety of our family first. We earn not

4 easy tips to play your role to stop an act of polluting

Environmental violations cannot be stopped unless we raise voice against them. It is not so easy to standagainst any act of polluting in your area. Most of the time such polluters are most powerful or they have backing of a few powerful people or they themselves are rogue by nature. That is why they openly hit the nature just to serve their own interest. To stop crime against nature you need to act as an environmental activist of your area. Don’t worry you need not get any special skill for this purpose. Nor you have to spend much time. You just have to record you protest against polluters and their heinous act of polluting.

Write a letter in newspaper

This is the most simply way to try to stop environmental violation in your area. If you see any act of polluting around you just write a letter to editor of the newspaper of your area. If there is no newspaper publishes

Recycling begins at home so just do it

The best solution of garbage pollution is “reduce, reuse and recycle”. But environmentalists stress upon more on recycling because reduce means a little demand for deferment of your need or it means you reduce your all those needs that may create garbage. Reuse means you use a thing to its maximum level till it completely becomes rubbish. It also means you have to spend your life like a green mission. It is not possible for the people of the whole world because they have different level of environmental awareness. If we try to bring all of them on same level it may take several years. So we should keep on doing raising public awareness but simultaneously we should promote recycling that actually puts a new worth in your used things and you can also get monetary benefits from it. Moreover, it avoids adding pollution load and you contribute in mitigation of garbage pollution.

Status of recycling in the world

Advance countries: In advanced countries recycling is a separate industry that is doing huge business in terms of revenue and profit. When economic incentives work you need not to motivate

Three lovely ways to express your love with nature

No one forgets his/her first love. Its worth can never be replaced with the subsequent romantic incidents of your life. If you already have a first love it’s fine but add another with it that is your love with nature. Do you yet to have your first love? Pick the nature for this priceless feeling.

How do you take care of your love?

You take care of your loved one. You make every effort to make him/her happy. You remain alert about either she/he is happy or sad right now. In the same way you must take care of nature by asking before your each act:

• Is my act may hit the nature or its any part
• Am I adding pollution load on nature
• Am I promoting the culture to harm the nature

10 simple tips for noise pollution control

Noise pollution is equally harmful like other types of pollution. In our daily life we ignore so many people having visible impact on their health and attitude of this menace. Even we don’t notice how our own health is being affected because of it. We just express our concern about it and drive away our car honking to get the passage. Here are ten simple tips for noise pollution control.

Noise pollution control at home

1) Noise-free electronic appliances: Such appliances are easily available in market. You just need to pay a few bucks extra but if you don’t do this you have to pay more than this eventually to your doctor for the treatment of your weakening nerves and hearing.

2) Use of head phone for TV and Music: It may seem a little extra sophistication but if someone in family wants to listen music in loud voice others should not pay its price. That is why more than one head phone

Let’s go green in our every moment of joy

It is so simple to go green in moments of joy and pleasure. In times of sorrow we cannot manage our green pledge because of our sad mood. But in happiness we can spare some love for our mother Nature. Out little care can make our environment little safe from pollution load. But first we have to see when we rejoice.

• On Christmas
• On Happy New Year
• On Diwali (religious rejoicing of Hindus)
• On Eid (religious rejoicing of Muslims)
• On our and our loved ones’ birthday
• On our and our loved ones’ marriage

Apart from above there may be several other occasions when you and I get happy but by and large these are our main events of happiness. I am not giving a lengthy list of dos and dons here because this I can do in any other post. Here we can just make one pledge, we all, to follow it forever. It will not cost a single penny to us. Even it will make us save some money.

5 tips to adopt green living forever

Whenever we hear the term green living, many of us might think it's a way of hi-tech living where a lot of gadgets and greenery is must to make your life environment friendly. It is absolutely a misconception about it. You don't need any kind of extra thing to make your living least harmful to the environment. You just need to remain careful during your whole life to avoid hitting environment and keep taking simple steps to take care of mother Nature. Here are five tips to adopt green living forever.

Simple food to eat

There is no restriction on you to eat for green living. You just need to eat more vegetables and pulses. If you are fond of eating meat then first move to fish and sea food. After that broiler

How to establish school environment clubs in Pakistan?

To raise environmental awareness at grassroots level, student community is one of the most vital segments of society. It is not only our future but students can also prevail upon their elders to follow environmental standards. Therefore, for the broader coverage of various strata of our society and to make them aware on environment and its related issues it is very important to take student community on board for the mass level awareness on environment.

What is school environment club?

School Environmental Club is not new phenomena in developed world, even in developing world of
Asia and South Asia many schools have such clubs and their members usually work under the patronage of a teacher or a group of teachers.

Top 5 ideas to celebrate Earth Day 2013

Every year Earth Day is celebrated all over the world on 22nd April to resolve together for the protection and conservation of planet Earth that is being harmed by the various types of pollution. It was first time observed in 1970 when aware communities of America realized the growing threats to our planet and they gathered to show their unity to protect it from all types of hazards. The theme for Earth Day 2013 is "Face of Climate Change" that stresses upon the need of working together to address the issue of global warming. 

Every year various awareness programs are arranged on this occasion at global and national level to bring people together for the cause of a safer and greener planet Earth for the better living conditions of ours and our coming

How to hire green volunteers?

In environment sector of Pakistan whether it is government or private one grievance is very common that is usually called lack of staff. It may be an excuse just to shield their lack of will for the protection of environment but this problem can also be solved if they really want to do something for the cause of green. They may hire volunteer without paying a single penny to them. In this way such departments would not only be able to work for the environmental care but they would also overcome the issue of outreach. By hiring the green volunteers from each nook and corner of the country they can get them do any type of green activity in the remotest area of their jurisdiction.

Here are tips to hire green volunteers to work for the cause of environmental care and protection without facing any burden of finances or management.