Saving is a good habit, lets start with PAPER.

Hello, this is a short composition about the ‘PAPER’. Made of wood simply formed out of a tree cut in some corner of the world. What is the first thought come to your mind when you hold a piece of paper in your hand? A very fresh, bright white piece of paper and nothing more. Next thing you get tempt either to write on it or to sketch on it for no reason sometimes and then throw it in a bin. Most of the people know that paper is made out of trees and we should save trees to protect the environment. But have you ever thought of the extent the woods are cut to form a virgin paper? And what quantity of paper an average person consumes per year or so? Some may think of only printing papers when one say ‘Paper’, but there are number of applications of the paper which can be taken into focus and thousands and millions of trees can be unshackled. You would be surprised (like I got) to know some far-fetched but true facts about paper.

Some statistics on paper consumption:
- The average per capita paper use worldwide is 110 pounds (50 kg).
- It is estimated that 95% of business information is still stored on paper. [Source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Discussion Paper (IIED, London, September 1996)]
- Recycling 1 short ton (0.91 t) of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7 thousand US gallons (26 m3) of water, 3 cubic yards (2.3 m3) of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil (84 US gal or 320 l), and 4,100 kilowatt-hours (15 GJ) of electricity — enough energy to power the average American home for six months.
- Although paper is traditionally identified with reading and writing, communications has now been replaced by packaging as the single largest category of paper use at 41% of all paper used.
- 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers. The average web user prints 28 pages daily. (Unbelievable - but true)
- Most corrugated fiberboard boxes have over 25% recycled fibers. Some are 100% recycled fiber.

Little acts of prudence, which can make a big difference in paper saving are as follows. (Applies to all level of people)
1. Less use / Don’t use Post It paper tags. Use misprint or waste papers instead.
2. Use old diaries or notebooks, which are already formed into paper out of wood, reducing purchase of fresh paper and thus less wood chopping. Buy only recycled notebooks.
3. Make maximum usage of e-tools / Mobile etc. for information transfer and communication. Avoid paper usage as far as possible. This is quite possible and have maximum impact on paper saving. An estimated 940 million people worldwide have access to the Internet, which is almost a sixth of the world’s population.
4. Apply 3R Concept – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. All you have to do is to just think for a while about 3R before using any kind of paper. I mean any kind.
5. Replace paper napkins with cloth napkins, and paper plates with regular dishes.
6. Sign up for e-statement wherever possible and avoid printed bills. Pay online wherever possible.
7. Sign up for online publications of your magazines instead of printed copy.
8. Prevent undue usage of the packaging and reuse packing material wherever possible.
9. Think before you print. Try printing double-sided and also try to print multiple pages on one to save even more paper.
10. Use scanner in office as far as possible, instead of taking print-outs.
11. Do not allow unneccessary papers to stack near you, clear them soon and send it to the proper recycling channel.

World No Tobacco Day 31st May (Every Year)

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. The day is further intended to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to 5.4 million deaths worldwide annually. The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) in 1987. In the past twenty years, the day has been met with both enthusiasm and resistance across the globe from governments, public health organizations, smokers, growers, and the tobacco industry.

WHO has kicked off the 'World No Tobacco Day' today on 31st May targetting heavily on the Women Smokers as long as the theme for this year was 'Gender and Tobacco'. Some surprising and interesting fact have come out when they declared that 'It is estimated that more than 8% of girls between 13 and 15, or around 47 crore girls, are using tobacco products in the Asia-Pacific region'. Indian doctors said there had been a considerable increase in women smoking, especially among young college girls, attributing the rise to stress, peer pressure and high disposable incomes. WHO also added that heavily invested alluring marketing campaigns are performed by Tobacco Manufacturers to attract the young women targeting their early earning powers and so called independence in the Asia's largest growing economies.

Looking at the facts and the side (worst) effects of tobacco, I would like to strongly recommend to the youth not only the women (but especially the women) to please slowly reduce and then quite smoking soon. My suggestion to them is do not smoke while you are stressed but only when you are happy, because there are less chances of being happy then stressed. And thus less smoking.

Urgent need to switch to alternate transport

Increasing traffic in the big cities of India like metro and semi metro cities needs to introduce extensive use of bicycle as an alternate transport. The turn around in traffic sollution is really needed. We can take an example of various cities which have made it possible to resolve the traffic. New york and Amsterdam has taken this on high priority and achieved success at so much extent. The join efforts by these two cities have started a mission called "New Amsterdam bike slam" is touching the sky and getting overwhelming response.These Cities are changing, and safe and abundant cycling is part of the new face of these cities.The New Amsterdam Bike Slam is a high-profile, positive public event which offers an open collaborative way for helping New York and anybody else who is ready to learn from their experience to move together from old to new sustainable mobility i.e. Bicycle.

The seperate bicycle tracks withing the city just besides the main roads can be constructed to allow the bicyclists for the safe and hassle free bicycle riding like they are in various cities of Europe. Its not too difficult for the Indian government to construct such kind of roads. Its a fact that everywhere separate roads are not possible but some area can be clubbed for bicycles and vehicles, some only for vehicles and some only for bicycles. Government can ask for the donations for such a noble cause from big industries.

Bicycle- An Alternate Transport-More Fun Green Future

BICYCLE PROMOTION KICK-OFF:

The word we all are aware of, "Global warming"-The ghost slowly slowly swallowing our only planet with life, and the effects of it, worsening day by day. But still let me remind you the severe effects of it in detail as follows:
1. Increase in global temperature will cause see level to rise.
2. Expansion of subtropical deserts.
3. Increase in the intensity of extreme weather events like flood, draught, earthquake etc.
4. Spieces extinctions
5. Agricultural yields.
6. Lots of unexpected events that may destroy the earth completely.

The whole world has started the movement of going Eco-friendly with some good measures like Reduction in greenhouse gas emission, Tree plantations, Bicycle as an alternate transport option, etc. Why should we stay behind and be only viewers? The time has come to be on the changer's side not only to be on viewer's side.

I would like to discuss here in detail about my prefered option of using Bicycle as an alternate transport option as long as the benefits are tremendous. Global and personal. The modern city is confronted with many challenges concurrently: air pollution, noise, spatial segregation, congestion and a lack of accessibility. Compared to these current situations look at the promising benefits of Bicycle use as below.
1. Less pollution due to less fuel consumption by millions of people everyday using bicycles.
2. Enhanced health of the people and communities using bicycles.
3. Less traffic on roads as less people will be seen with motorcycles and cars.
4. Less space requirements for bicycles compared to motorcycles and cars.
5. World class bicycles with better designs and safety standards will be produced because of the increase in demand.

I would like to volunteer myself for this noble cause of "Bicycle Promotion" through this blog and would like to encourage everbody to join with me in this mission. Just think over it guys..If everyone of us try to reduce fuel consumption just by avoiding few trips by "Motorcycle" or "Car" every week and opt for a "Bicycle" instead what a big difference we can make for our mother nature...

Through my upcoming blogs I will be communicating to the tremendous possibilities of bicycle usage and the world wide movements going on for Bicycle Promotion.Please add this weblink to your favourites..Lets club our hands in this very important mission just by doing a very simple act i.e. Riding a bicycle- More Fun More Future.

Very well said "If not Earth then where. If not now then when. If not us then who"

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