We have the world’s largest livestock population of 250 million, which produces close to 125 million tonnes of cowdung.
1 cow = o.5 tons of cowdung
The gobar gas research station in Uttar Pradesh has established that one cow gives enough cowdung in a year to produce methane gas equivalent to 225 litres of petrol in energy terms.
0.5 tons of cowdung = 225 litres of petrol
source: The Times Of India
17 trees
6953 gallons of water
463 gallons of oil
587 pounds of air pollution
3.06 cubic yards of landfill space
4077 Kilowatt hours of energy
(Source: Weyerhaueser Info)
Many commercial fertilizers on the market today contain ingredients that may harm or burn plants. The solution? Go organic. Think of the things you use every day.. specifically food items, such as eggs. A very beneficial fertilizer can be made using eggshells. Eggshells contain a high level of nitrogen and protein which are important to a plant’s nutrition and can help your plants grow and prosper. After cooking breakfast, save your eggshells and put them in a blender or food processor and grind them down to a powder. To this powder you can also add coffee grounds, tea grounds, and even vitamin and mineral tablets. Add bottled water to the mixture, since some water supplies contain too much chlorine that can be harmful to plants. If you see yellow leaves or burned edges on the leaves of your plants, it could be due to the chlorine content of the water you are administering to the plants.
Another method of feeding plants is to mix a teaspoon of sugar to a pitcher of bottled water and add a pinch of crushed aspirin to the mixture. The sugar feeds the plant and the aspirin serves to keep the plant’s capillaries open in order to deliver water and nutrients to all parts of the plant.
You could also feed and water your plants with freshly brewed tea or coffee (let it cool first, of course) and you can also add a few teaspoons of sugar.
Try filling a pitcher with bottled water and adding some nails (rusted or not)dried leaves, dried manure, and bread crumbs. Set the container in the sun where it will be undisturbed for three days, strain the liquid and water your plants.
Create a portable compost heap using a medium sized plastic garbage can and use it only for discarded foodstuffs from your kitchen. It can be kept in your garage or you could leave it in your back yard and the sunlight can slowly “cook” the ingredients. Periodically add bottled water to help mix the nutrients. Using a large cooking spoon, scoop out a bit of the compost and add it to a pitcher of bottled water and let it sit for a few hours, then water your plants.
“Where do we start, how do we start…” We checked what we already had. We had enough hands and INOX (Pune) was willing to be a part of this. That left us with sourcing the plants and pot. Chetan was ready with a list of numbers and addressess. The four of us, Siddhu, Nikhil, Chetan and me divided the work amongst us. Siddhu and Nikhil looked into one half of the city while Chetan and me looked into the other half which also included meeting the GM of INOX.
The INOX deal was a huge thrust of encouragement. We were given far more than we expected. Apart from space at the parking lot and opposite the box office we were given places to put up posters.
It’s said that good always happens when good is being done. In a short while we had finalized our pots and plants and also thought of concepts for our posters.
On D-day responsibilities were shared. The girls headed by Aditi took care of operations at INOX, Vinay, our creative guy, took care of putting the concepts on paper, while the rest, the guys, had to fill the pots with mud and carefully place the plant in them.
By 3 pm we were all set. Everyone was briefed on the importance of the activity and on ek titli.
We were all spirited people having a common goal and with immense enthusiasm we distributed a total of 102 plants in just about 3 hours. A feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction prevailed amongst us, the magnitude we had not expected. With the encouraging and overwhelming response received, we knew, ‘this was just a small step for the titli‘.
Our sincerest gratitude goes out to all those people who directly/indirectly helped us make this happen.
for more pictures on the event, please click here
A few calls, a handful of exuberant friends and a lot of determination to set up this drive…. a drive where we will distribute 100 ‘Potted Plants’ (yes, Free!) at INOX, Pune. So if you would like to be one of the lucky ones, catch us LIVE on our endeavour to help the ‘titli‘ survive.
Date: 1st March, 2pm onwards
Venue:
INOX Leisure Ltd.,
Plot No. D, Bund Garden Road
Pune
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