Your Planet needs you — UNite to combat Climate Change
Wondering what it is ?? — It is the theme for WED – 2009 ….. Read the rest HERE
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June in more than 100 countries. The theme for 2009 is climate change and the broader consequences of environmental change, and what societies can do in response.
Combating climate change and preserving ecosystems services that underpin our economies is an issue for everyone.
Every individual’s efforts, no matter how small, can contribute to the sustainable development of our economies and communities around the world.
On this day, individuals, non-governmental organizations, community and youth groups, business, industry and the media organize activities such as clean-up campaigns, tree planting, colorful street rallies, green concerts, essay and photo competitions in schools, and recycling efforts to renew their commitments to protect and develop the environment.
Being a ‘Namma Bengaluru’ person it aches me to be a witness to the disaster Bengaluru has plunged into. Once known as Garden City, Bengaluru has seen rampant loss of greenery in the name of development.
In recent times, India’s tech hub has lost around 50,000 trees, which were felled to widen roads choked with traffic, build flyovers at busy road intersections, road underpasses and now metro rail, states a report Environmental NGO
According to another report, During the early 1990s, the city had less than 700,000 public vehicles plying on its roads daily.
By the end of 2004, the number had crossed 2.1 million and in the last four years two million more cars, three-wheelers and two wheelers have been added to the city roads.
On an average, around 1,500 new vehicles come on to the city roads daily.
The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) carries three million people – 48 percent of the city’s population – in its 5,000 buses every day. The BMTC buses constitute only one percent of the total vehicles in bengaluru
Oh well ….. I am not sitting here writing the reports … It’s really pathetic … I need change …. Only thing I keep wondering is ” Can I be the change I want “
Guys keep asking yourselves the same thing……. May be we can Save “Namma Bengaluru” & any other city like this to ” Namma – Next generation ”
SEEK the Change & BE the Change ….
Cheeriooo…….
