Green Thinking – Page 2 – Mission Green Delhi

Top Environment Products, We Must Purchase This Festival Season

Don’t forget to buy these products during coming winters:

1. Compost Bin: It’s important to contribute towards environment by reducing garbage dumps on city borders. The only solution is to filter kitchen waste at home using this smart technology that converts wet kitchen waste into compost and help us maintain our terrace garden or plants in around 15 days.

TrustBin is an eco-friendly, indoor kitchen-waste composter. It uses Japanese technology for composting at the same time avoiding foul smell. It is hassle-free, portable and easy to set up and store.

Buy it now from Amazon using this link.

To learn how to use this product, watch this youtube video

2. Anti-Pollution Mask: The wind will turn this winter towards Delhi, producing massive air pollution effecting our health. To be in the safer side and protecting our family we definitely need this anti-pollution mask.

This product on Amazon comes with

3M mask
Self closing valve
Anti-pollution exhalation valve
Nose clip for sealed nose and mouth area
Light weight soft grey color

Buy it now from Amazon using this link.

3. Clay Lamps/Handmade Mitti Ke Diye: Every Diwali we contribute a huge profit to Chinese products. We buy Chinese crackers and lights. Let’s contribute towards environment and potters by purchasing Handmade Clay Lamps. This product on Amazon comes with

Set of 21 Diyas
100% Handmade by Indian Potters
Natural colours
100% Biodegradable, 100% Eco-friendly
100% Genuine Products by RK Store and Crafts

Buy it now from Amazon using this link.

4. 240 Litres Garbage Bucket Dust Bin

Material: Plastic, Color: Green
Volume: 240 Litres
Special Features: Specialty of this dustbin is wheel and Iron rod attached to wheels are detachable and can be purchased separately if damaged in future
Strong lid with smooth curved upper surface for perfect fit to ensure preventing unwanted smells to escape and rain water to seep through specially designed bottom for minimizing the breakage. It can easily move with wheels even with full of garbage
Package Content: 1 Dustbin

Buy it now from Amazon using this link.

5. Air Quality Monitoring Device

ACCURATE, REAL-TIME & PORTABLE: High quality laser sensor, calibrated for Indian conditions against BAM (Beta attenuation Monitor- most advanced system for measuring ambient air quality.) Airveda monitors measure your air quality PM2.5 and PM10 every second so you can understand the air quality where you are, in real-time. The small size and long battery life makes it extremely portable. Can be charged using any USB power outlet in your car, laptop or power bank.
MADE IN INDIA – LOCALLY MANUFACTURED & SERVICED Airveda monitors are completely manufactured in India. Sensors are also calibrated locally to suit Indian conditions. Sensors can be locally re-calibrated as well as replaced easily. Our manufacturing facility has been running for 30 years and is a trusted name in the local industry.
WI-FI & APP-ENABED WITH LOCAL MEMORY FOR INTERNET OUTAGES: Connect to your home, office or personal hotspot Wi-Fi and remotely monitor data and get alerts in Airveda app, available for free on iOS and Android. View current and historic data, understand your exposure over time, as well as compare with outdoor air quality in your city. Monitor stores data locally if no Wi-Fi is available for up-to two days and data is uploaded to server when Wi-Fi becomes available.
AIR QUALITY ALERTS – Allows you to configure two limits for PM2.5 and PM10 and will notify you when those limits are exceeded and when the air quality is back within limits, so you can make healthy choices.
EXTENDED LIFE OF SENSORS-The default life of sensors in 1 year. However, a special feature in Airveda monitor allows the sensor to switch on/off at regular intervals to increase the life of the sensor considerably. This interval is configurable and can be configured to once every minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes.

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Third Edition of Air-O-Thon in New Delhi Organized by VProspurs and IPCA

The wind will change again and bless Delhi with lung-killing toxic gases. News and media channels will again start blooming with AQI status updates. People will start blame game by passing on responsibility to vehicles on road, farmers in Punjab & Haryana and Polythene users. On the other hand the demon of pollution is going to penetrate in our bodies through soil, water and air, making our life worse than it is now.

Government, Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal(NGT) along with citizens of Delhi are devising policies and regulations to control air pollution, but impact is still invisible. Need of an hour is monitoring and evaluation of what had worked so far and what has not. With an objective of proving what is working to curb air pollution, i heard today that third edition of Air-O-Thon is arriving in New Delhi on 26th Oct 2018 organized by VProspurs and IPCA. The conference will focus on understanding effects of pollution on our health, and how to leverage technology to mitigate risks to human lives in the state.

Thanks VProspurs for inviting me for this wonderful initiative and providing us an opportunity to leverage ourselves from knowledge and expertise of great environment industry leaders.

Let’s see what experts are going to discuss in this New Delhi edition of Air-O-Thon:

Role of Business and Technology
Impact on health: Good Air, Good Health – For a cleaner Delhi
Technology Innovations: Electrostatic precipitation efficiency and ozone control technology, Use of low-cost sensors and IT
Research status and development trend of indoor air pm 2.5 contamination control
Road Traffic Emissions and Dispersion in the context of Delhi
Policy Measures: Trees for Air Pollution Tolerance/Developing Green Belts as an Ecological Mitigation

To have complete overview of agenda of this conference and exhibition at India International Centre (IIC), please visit http://airothon.prospurs.com

Bio-diversity Loss can be Controlled by Knowledge of Invasive Plants

Do you know why it is important to control expansion of non-native plant species in particular country. This is because most of the invasive plants leads to low down the growth of native plants due to which our ecosystem gets negatively affected. Let’s take example of United states, Lythrum salicaria, the plant they have imported from Europe and temperate Asia, dominates the growth of native plant species due to it’s intense speed of growth and expansion.

Most of such invasive plants disperse through wind and birds, crowding out the native species. The biggest danger is for human beings & wildlife who are dependent on native plants which are ultimately suppressed by these invasive species.

Many plants which foreign countries introduce as ornamental plants, spread extensively and inhibit growth of plants which farmers generate their livelihood from. Vilayati Keekar is one of such invasive species that was introduced to India due to it’s drought tolerance and fuel wood, but now has shown great expansion in all over India, transforming agricultural lands forcing people to seek new livelihood opportunities. There is loss of billions of dollars due to damages caused by invasive species to agriculture and forestry. And this is not only about invasive plants, but also include other species like snails, fishes and insects.

There should be holistic study done to understand the effect of these invasive species, to control their expansion. On the other hand, it become extremely important to grow native trees and plants around us. Prevention of the introduction of invasive species is of utter importance for us. To carry out preventive efforts is a big task but anyone who is doing mass plantation needs understanding about invasive and native plants.