Sustainability gives Life a meaning
We all come across terms like sustainable development, sustainable living and sustainability in various forms in our daily lives. But how often do we give a deep thought about what actually is the meaning of sustainable living. Sustainable living revolves around a solicitous living satisfying our basic needs of food, water and shelter, while saving a worthwhile for the future generations, all of this with keeping in mind the environmental balance. The recent disastrous floods, earthquakes and droughts leading to Day Zero in most parts of the world, over the past few years are a direct indication of ‘Why is Eco – Friendly living Important?’
The nature has a complex yet a delicate balance to strive life inspired by equity among all of its inhabitants. It is interweaved to form a complete system with each one of our role clearly defined and kept simple. As the famous saying by Mahatma Gandhi stands, “The Earth has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed”, we need to look closely into our actions whether they are a necessity or a luxury. When we try to restrict to the levels of necessary things, we can be sure of staying within the boundaries set by the laws of co-living with the innumerous life forms on Earth.
The Nature Doesn’t Change, We Force It To
When we do opt for eco-friendly products and the ones processed with due respect to the balance of the ecosystem, we don’t favor thee Earth, rather we do more of a favor to our future generations. The human life on earth can only survive by counting on the actions to be taken to save Nature. There are many examples of landslides, floods and drought that have been a long term effect of deforestation in all forms. We depend on our basic needs like food and water from the ultimate soul of nature. Rains were considered one of the purest form of water, but acid rains contradict the long known fact of the past. The soil had the magic of producing nutritious food, which made us hale and healthy. Now, ecologists call the soil dead, thereby requiring artificial fertilizers and pesticides to make way to produce highly adulterated food, right from the seed. These have been severe consequences of our selfish lifestyles. Each individual house has a bore well to suck out the underground water channels, and we waste out the rain water. The concrete roads and tiled floors, make it very difficult for rain water to replenish the underground water channels. Even the little places with open soil, is covered with a layer of plastics underneath, which now the world is terming to be ‘Plastisphere’.
These have cumulatively killed the water life, and finally knocking our throats. Cape Town was struck with Day Zero, the day we humans fight with each other for water. The day each person’s water use is going to be cut down to maybe a bucket of water for weeks. Cape Town is now finding out new strategies, to fix the daily usage and encourages water to be recycled from the seas.
This is just a warning to every other nation that defines economy to the bidding coin. The basic respect to nature is what we all humans need to pay by changing your lifestyle, not drastically but minor changes in each one of us can impact the world on the whole.
Learn Green, Live Green, Let Green
To get eco-friendly is very simple. All that has to change is the way you look at things that we routinely do and the ones you desire for. A simple consideration towards the impact on earth for every deed, will help the compassion in human conscience to pop up and follow a lifestyle, helping the environment.
Easy ways to become Eco-friendly
1. Try to open up the windows rather than using lights and fans during the day.
2. Go for an extra cover or clothing, instead of turning On the heater or the radiator. Wearing two pairs of socks is cool as well.
3. Opt for paperless transactions and avoid taking printouts unnecessarily. Use technology to save up the use of papers.
4. Reuse your clothes like the jeans, jackets, sweaters, until they really need any washing. Try to hand wash clothes often, it’s a non-boring yet great exercise too.
5. Choose durability over style when it comes to any kinds of goods.
6. Avoid showers and go for water buckets, it saves your water bills drastically.
Tips for Eco – Friendly living
1. On weekends, carry your screen out to the balcony or garden, to enjoy sunshine and avoid wastage of electricity.
2. Plant a few herbs and some small ones like tomatoes, chilies, corianders, peppermint, along with a few trees such as Custard apple, Guava, Papaya and jackfruit. These ensure a good supply of oxygen and help you get fresh fruits and vegetables, reducing your grocery bills.
3. You can turn your kitchen wastes into useful manure.
4. Use organic detergents to wash dishes and clothes. To get to the next step of innovation, direct your kitchen sink pipe and the water exhaust of washing machines/ dish washer to the gardens.
5. Go for nature walks and spend time in the ark rather than malls or at the movies. It helps you relieve from stress positively and saves some money too.
6. Turn your old clothes into little carry bags. Avoid single use plastics.
7. Opt for wooden based and biodegradable products right from your toothbrush.
Small Actions Lead to Big Differences
Practicing sustainable living comes with the perks of gratification. When you decide of adopting sustainable lifestyle, you tend to feel happier for you are saving the present state of earth and piling up happiness for the next generations, a little my little. This might sound ridiculous about how only you can help a change. Your attitude towards a sustainable living inspires everyone around you, because a sustainable living comes with reduced costs and the ‘Cool’ tag.
No matter how far we get with technological improvements, only if it can help us restore the blissful life the nature gave us initially, that is when we are truly technologically advanced species.
A world with every human inculcating the values of sustainable living with a successful implementation, leads to a better world, for us, for the Earth, for the equally righteous living organisms and the future generations we owe to.
Also read:
Climate Change: Causes and Effects on Everyone
Effect of Chemical Waste on Environment and Human Health
