Parents' Write

Waste management is followed in our house as well as in our apartment in the following way and the process & guidelines are as follows:


We segregate the waste as Food, Medical, Recycled & Electronic.

All the waste material should be segregated in a separate thrash bag as per the category mentioned above

The same will be collected door to door by the house keeping staff daily basis, however Recyclable & Medical wastes are collected weekly & monthly respectively.

We have got an effective waste management process implemented in the entire apartment and also strictly followed by all the residents

-Padma Nagendran, mother of Hariprasad N. of class 7th C.

  This is in brief about the waste management done at our house. A systematic pattern is followed to ensure that waste is segragated at SOURCE, so that it becomes easy to dispose waste at the end point.Training is given by block and floor representatives about waste segration at source.
   A lot a waste is generated every day and they are basically separated in different bins as organic waste, glass ware, paperand plastic waste, e-waste, tetra packs and medical wastes.
  The organic waste is converted into compost at ORGANIC WASTE CONVERTER which is used to maintain the garden. The mantra IS TO REDUCE, RECYCLE AND REUSE.Since it is practiced at home children and even maids are aware of waste management .
 - Savitha Arun
Nidhi.A. Bharadwaj's mother





What does sustainable development mean? How do we decide what are the current needs? What will be the needs of the future?

Our needs can conflict with each other. For example, we need paper – text books and note books for the current generation for which we need to cut down trees. This conflicts with the need to stop deforestation and soil erosion. What will you choose, current generation or future generation? How do we balance this? We plant new saplings in the areas that we cut trees or wherever possible for re-forestation for the future generation. Also Reuse, Reduce and Recycle paper. This is how we sustain our development in long term.

Saving paper in school is a good way to help save the environment. Be a Go Green Student to make a Go Green School!!

Think of the ways that you can save paper in School! This can just be the positive beginning for the current generation to move towards sustainable development.

- Usha Ganesan

Mother of Arya Ganesan

Sustainable Development is the the use of resources so that there is something left for the future generations.

It is very simple if we just follow some basic rules but sadly due to the large uneducated population of our country India is is heading towards a dark future. To know better about this there are some videos by "Defra" a company working toward making the world a better place. A link for one such video is "http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=keZmg56ahdM"

It takes only about seven minutes to watch the video. I hope everyone can take out eight minutes from their schedule to save the future generations. 

-Veda Adrakatti 
Mother of Vivek Adrakatti

 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Mother Earth is in dire need of the help of mankind as she does not seem to know how to cope with the rate at which she is being spoiled to meet the greed of an elite segment of human beings. We are part of problem and we could also be the solution, though Mother Nature is quite capable of taking care of herself. But for that she needs time and that is something which is not affordable now.

The rate of development between the Industrial Revolution and late 1920 was somewhat moderate as compared to the last 70-80 years. What we are seeing now is an exponential spike in four major areas, viz. (a) Human population (b) consumption of goods and resources, (c) emission of carbon and other gases and (d) extinction of species of animals and plants.

All the above has happened because we did not allow the natural process of rejuvenation and reproduction by Nature. The rapid growth of human beings combined with better control of diseases has put pressure on resources available to other living beings (like plants and animals). Faster industrialization and mass manufacturing requiring fossil fuels has led to higher pollution levels which in turn has led to climate changes of the unwanted kind. We are wasting limited resources without taking measures to conserve them or recharge them. While modernization has benefited many, the question is whether some of it was really essential.

Governments and people in general have learnt that we are facing severe problems due to unsustainable practices adopted in usage of natural resources. Conservation of the finite resources requires immense sacrifice on our part if our children are to live in a safe and sustainable world. As Gandhiji said, Nature can meet our needs but ot our wants (greed). It is now up to the younger generation to unite and innovate methods with which to sustain Mother Earth.

Govindan Iyer

-Father of Abhinav Govindan

 

All definitions of sustainable development require that we see the world as a system—a system that connects space; and a system that connects time.

When you think of the world as a system over space, you grow to understand that air pollution from North America affects air quality in Asia, and that pesticides sprayed in Argentina could harm fish stocks off the coast of Australia.

And when you think of the world as a system over time, you start to realize that the decisions our grandparents made about how to farm the land continue to affect agricultural practice today; and the economic policies we endorse today will have an impact on urban poverty when our children are adults.

We also understand that quality of life is a system, too. It's good to be physically healthy, but what if you are poor and don't have access to education? It's good to have a secure income, but what if the air in your part of the world is unclean? And it's good to have freedom of religious expression, but what if you can't feed your family?

The concept of sustainable development is rooted in this sort of systems thinking. It helps us understand ourselves and our world. The problems we face are complex and serious—and we can't address them in the same way we created them. But we can address them. How?

Reduce lunch waste. Bring your food and drink in reusable containers, and don't pack excess food that you will throw away. Avoid per-packaged items. Use both sides of a sheet of paper. If you do this consistently, it will cut the school's paper usage by half.

Print only what you must. Do you really need to print that email or report?

Set up an exchange sale where you trade books and other items with your classmates. This reduces the garbage stream.

Turn off the lights and the fans when you're the last one leaving a room.

Conduct a waste audit. How much trash does your class or school produce in a day? Ask your custodian how much electricity and water the school consumes daily. Weigh the paper tossed vs. recycled. Find out from the cafeteria how many pounds of food are discarded every day. Ask your teacher if you can do this as a class project.

-Meera and Raj

Parents of Aishwarya R