Venal Maram; The Summer Greens

" We should be responsible when it is something we loaned from future,

It is nothing but our mother nature "

Chlorophyll bringing you the Summer Greens

an environmental awareness camp by the banks of Nila

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Registration starts on Monday 8th March 2010

Mail us to ; chlorophyllhues@gmail.com

Nature is our Commonwealth: The Commonwealth games go green

'Organizing Committee of Commonwealth Games 2010 releases Ecological Code': News

The code outlines targets set by the organizers to cut down the levels of carbon emissions during the forthcoming multinational multi-sport event.

Delhi Government too is keen to display its commitment towards the conservation of environment to the world. It plans to introduce buses running on hybrid energy sources (electricity and CNG). They would serve the transportation needs of both athletes and spectators.

For the first time in India, facilities are being made for forecasting the air pollution levels for the next day of the games. This facility is being provided by Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

Below are the steps being taken for building a Green Village at the Venue

i) Yamuna is being cleaned with the project in mind. Project site shall be filled with sand from Yamuna bed instead of fly ash.

ii) The requirement of water shall be met from self-contained arrangement without placing strain on the supply system for the nearby area.

iii) No rain water will be discharged out of the project site into existing drains. The entire rain water would be utilised for recharging groundwater.

iv) To cut off noise, the green belt proposed a long the railway line shall have high trees growing fast.

v) All required sanitary and hygienic measures will be in place before starting construction activities and to be maintained throughout the construction.

vi) All the topsoil excavated during development / construction activities will be stored for use in horticultural / landscape development within the project site.

vii) Construction spoils, including bituminous material and other hazardous materials, will not be allowed to contaminate watercourses and the hours.

viii) Ambient noise levels will conform to the residential standards both during day and night. Incremental pollution loads on the ambient air and noise quality will be closely monitored during construction phase

ix) Separation of grey and black water will be done by the use of dual plumbing line for separation of grey and black water.

x) Treatment of 100% grey water by decentralized treatment will be done.

xi) Use of glass may be reduced by 40% to reduce the electricity consumption and load on air-conditioning. If necessary, use high quality double glass with special reflective coating in windows.

xii) Application of solar energy should be incorporated for illumination of common areas, lighting for gardens and street lighting in addition to provision for solar water heating. A hybrid system or fully solar system for a portion of the apartments will be provided.

So, Lets win with the Green resolutions. Support the movement. Support the Nation.

Avoiding the effects of deforestation can be more valuable than the lumber forests provide — a lesson many countries have learned the hard way

When forests disappear, they take animal populations, crop yields and flood protection with them.


In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo “ordered the military and police to crack down on illegal logging, after flash floods and landslides, triggered by rampant deforestation, killed nearly 340 people,” according to news reports. Fifteen years earlier, in 1989, the government of Thailand announced a nationwide ban on tree cutting following severe flooding and the heavy loss of life in landslides. And in August 1998, following several weeks of record flooding in the Yangtze River basin and a staggering $30 billion worth of damage, the Chinese government banned all tree cutting in the upper reaches of the basin.


Each of these governments had belatedly learned a costly lesson, namely that services provided by forests, such as flood control, may be far more valuable to society than the lumber in those forests.


At the beginning of the 20th century, the Earth’s forested area was estimated at 5 billion hectares. Since then, it has shrunk to just under 4 billion hectares, with the remaining forests rather evenly divided between tropical and subtropical forests in developing countries and temperate/boreal forests in industrial countries. Since 1990, the developing world has lost some 13 million hectares of forest a year. This loss of about 3 percent each decade is an area roughly the size of Greece. Meanwhile, the industrial world is actually gaining an estimated 5.6 million hectares of forestland each year, principally from abandoned cropland returning to forests on its own and from the spread of commercial forestry plantations. Thus, net forest loss worldwide exceeds 7 million hectares per year.


Unfortunately, even these official data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization do not reflect the gravity of the situation


Haiti, a country of 9.6 million people, was once largely covered with forests, but growing firewood demand and land clearing for farming have left forests standing on scarcely 4 percent of its land. First the trees go, then the soil. Once a tropical paradise, Haiti is a case study of a country caught in an ecological and economic downward spiral from which it has not been able to escape. It is a failed state, a country sustained by international life-support systems of food aid and economic assistance.


More and more countries are beginning to recognize the risks associated with deforestation. Among the countries that now have total or partial bans on logging in primary forests are China, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Unfortunately, all too often a ban in one country simply drives illegal logging or shifts the deforestation to other countries.

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Bio diversity and climate change

By Arun Mathew


Biodiversity and Climate Change from CBD on Vimeo.

go straight down the road and turn RIGHT!!

Author: Gilda Mary George


Today. I got out. And took the right turn. Felt good. So, I decided to take a right turn everyday from today. The right turn to everything that mattered. The right turn today is to a greener planet.
Turn right to more life in a green living.

Climate Change Creating More Refugees than War

Author: Diana Paul


The number of refugees worldwide grew from 9.9 million in 2007 to 11.4 million in 2008, according to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which identified climate change as one of the leading causes of the global rise in refugees, along with conflict and escalating food prices.

Climate Change Displaces More People Than War According to the International Red Cross, climate change disasters are now a bigger cause of population displacement than war and persecution.

The global impact of the environment on human livelihoods is creating a new kind of casualty: environmental refugees. Rising sea levels, increasing desertification, weather-induced flooding, and more frequent natural disasters have become a major cause of population displacement in several parts of the world—a trend that is very likely to continue.

Scientists Predict 50 Million Environment Refugees by 2010
According to a report published by the United Nations University, there are now about 19.2 million people officially recognized as "persons of concern," people who are likely to be displaced because of environmental disasters. This figure is predicted to grow to about 50 million by the end of the year 2010.

The UN points out that these forecasts are not inevitable. If the international community joins forces to create and carry out an effective strategy to curb global warming and manage Earth’s natural resources more efficiently, there still may be time to reverse population displacements and stem the rising tide of refugees.

Green Living Tips

Following are the Green Living Tips being published by Chlorophyll in Twitter 1) Repair leaked pipes. A dripping faucet can waste 20 gallons of water a day. 2) Always use both sides of a sheet of paper. 3) Lets avoid using our motorbike for travelling small distances. Lets walk. 4) Keep lids on pans when cooking to prevent your cooker having to work extra hard. 5) Purchase solar powered products. For regular tips, follow Chlorophyll on Twitter.