Singing competition on environment; entertain and make aware

Singing competition on environment is an impressive way to raise environmental awareness of communities. It is an effective tool to make aware younger generation on green care. Usually teens take awareness activities of routine type as boring and avoid participating in them. But a lively and colorful competition with green songs among various amateur singers creates their interest for a green cause. Being an NGO, green community group, government department, social forum, private company or an environmentally responsible group of people you need to arrange it in an organized way to achieve your objectives of raising green awareness of your target audience.

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 to hold a painting competition on a green theme?

Pictures speak louder than words. This is an age of images and infographics. You can communicate pictorially better than you do verbally. So to increase environmental awareness, any type of pictorial message can bring the results more effectively. That is why painting competition is treated one of the best sources to raise environmental awareness. As an NGO, community group, educational institution, professional club or a government department, you can arrange it in a school, college, university or at city or state level to invite amateur or professional painters to reflect their thoughts about a green issue through their paintings.

A clear topic

The topic of the painting competition should be clear enough to help painters make a painting without any ambiguity. Simultaneously those who watch the painting need not get any briefing over it and understand by

How to stay safe from harms of pollution for a longer life?

All types of pollution are equally harmful. Most of them cause several serious and lethal diseases. Millions of people die all over the world because of one form of pollution or the other. Their count is rising. Obviously, it has to because pollution level is also on upward track owing to the absence of its extensive control. 

The major part of the pollution could be controlled at the regulatory level with the enforcement of green laws and the promotion of an eco-friendly way of living. But at the government level efforts are not bringing desired results because of weaker enforcement mechanisms of green laws or meddling of polluters at the decision-making level. This dismal state of affairs is going on in almost all countries of the world.

Higher the pollution, shorter the life

Did you ever notice that now people die quite earlier than their forefathers? Now people hardly survive above the age of 60. In older times surviving till the age of 80 was quite common. By and by the limit of average

How to organize a speech competition on a green topic?

In speech competition number of speakers deliver speech on a topic and top of them receive awards by the jury. Mostly such competitions are organized in educational institutions. Their primary objective is to improve the speaking skills of students to make them good speaker when they enter in practical life. Simultaneously another objective is to know about topic of the competition in detail as every speaker cover it with a different aspect. In this way audience of the event get to know about the topic from every aspect in detail.

Speech competition on a green topic

If speech competition on a green topic is organized it not only enhances the skills of participants to speak on an environmental topic but it also lets the audience know all about that topic. In this way

How to control light pollution and save money?

Light pollution means excessive light in your surrounding environment. It may be because of our frenzy of over illuminating your environment or advertisers’ enthusiasm to make their products’ signboards as much glaring as possible. In any of the ways excessive light is not only harmful for our eyesight but also it equally creates global warming and also a source of energy wastage. Usually we don’t take light pollution seriously and take it as source of joy when we see lot of lights are being illuminated in a party and our eyes are getting affected by their glaring effects. Who has ever felt the harmful effects of flood lights in soccer ground that totally disturb the ideal balance of lights in the environment and cause global warming as well?

I can’t marry you because you are from a polluted area. A True Story

Babu, a resident of village Devdi of Vatva GIDC area of Ahmedabad first time saw her in a marriage party. She was a pretty and confident girl. She noted his first look and replied him with a covert smile. She was not allowed to respond more than this while being a member of a conservative society of countryside of India. But her message was quite clear. Village girls simply give their consent with their slight smile and leave the rest to boy folks. After that boy has to send marriage proposal to her parents. If the boy is not so poor and almost equal to the status of the girl's family, parents of girl accept the proposal. If a boy belongs to a lower cast, earns less or not up to the status of girl’s family then girl’s parents politely refuse to accept the proposal. Most of the marriages are planned and done with the consent of

How to organize a tableau show to raise environmental awareness?

Tableau show is a short-time dramatic performance in which any issue of important nature is highlighted. Various artists perform in it and usually act on a song or poem to convey the message without delivering dialogues. Their dresses, body movements, getup and makeup play key role to disseminate information on an important issue. A tableau show is generally organized on issues of public interest like on patriotism, family values, green care, lawfulness, social welfare, service to humanity etc.

Nowadays various art forms are used to raise environmental awareness of general public. Earlier only print material was the main source to do this job and after that electronic media took