Promotion of Sustainable Living
Sustainable living involves a lifestyle that has a little positive impact on the environment. Sustainable living attempts to reduce environmental harm and promote happy, healthy, and integrated livelihood. It is our responsibility to make the world beautiful for generations to come; this is why every nation, city, village, and household should promote sustainability. We can say we are developed when we develop sustainably! We believe that significant changes happen from small things. So before thinking about how India can develop sustainably, here we have some ideas for our city; Nagpur, to grow sustainably.
Sustainable Living
The first step to understanding the project’s scope is to make people aware of the need for a sustainable lifestyle and care for Mother Earth. Making sure that the World’s Largest Populous Country adapts to sustainable lifestyles and practices which can be an example for the rest of the world to follow.
Our objective under this project is to promote sustainable living and undertake grass-level activities to encourage people to adopt Shri Hari Gaushala Research and Social Foundation’s
Our Purpose
The foremost purpose of this foundation is to create a dialogue on sustainability and to spread awareness on how each of us, in our everyday lives, can contribute towards improving it. Whether it be environmental, human, social, or economic, we aim to make individuals and communities consciously aware of these crucial aspects of sustainability especially keeping in mind high school students as they are going to be the leaders and change-makers of the future.
The core values of our foundation revolve around the belief that it is each and everyone’s responsibility to be a part of the solution that contributes to improved sustainability – today, tomorrow, and for years to come. We can find unending examples of sustainability in our daily living that point to the fact that if we live just a bit more consciously, we can truly make a difference, and together, that can lead to massive change. The simple acts of preserving electricity by utilizing daylight, saving water by taking shorter showers, reducing, reusing, and recycling our everyday products, or adopting a better diet, are some of the foremost examples that can aid the promotion of sustainability ultimately leading to pervasive change in attitudes.
Our Goals
We should reduce the traffic and pollution.
Pollution is a grave problem in Nagpur. The city roads are crammed with vehicles, and hazy air all around. The mounting amount of pollution is not just harmful to the citizens but is also undoubtedly hazardous for the entire environment of the city. For lessening this, we can take a few small yet significant steps:
1. Bicycling, walking, or using public transport are the best ways to commute sustainably.
2. Driving slower, switching off the cars/bikes at red lights can help you save petrol/diesel and reduce pollution.
We should use organic products in our daily lives.
Say no to the chemical products and bring home the eco-friendly alternatives. Nowadays, the market is full of eco-friendly products, so there is a variety available for making a choice. Right from the organic chemical free food & skin and home care products like soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, kitchenware, furnishing, decor to toiletries and disposables, everything has an eco-friendly alternative; opt for them and go green!
We should conserve water.
An estimated 50% of household water in Nagpur goes into the drainage. This is a high time when we start conserving the most crucial element; water. Water wastage and the shortage is the issue which is widely spoken and written about. Now is the time that people in the Nagpur city should collectively try and act towards water conservation in residential and industrial areas. This is a massive step towards sustainable development.
We should reduce our wastage.
Reducing wastage is the best way towards achieving a sustainable lifestyle. We should reduce the wastage of food, avoid filling the trash with plastic, and non-degradable products and try to take collective steps for recycling the garbage. Several societies in Nagpur have brought this thought into reality.
