High time to take action...

Hi friends, this is especially for students, schools, colleges, parents( who want to see their children responsible/active/sensitive and not just worthless book worms) i just want to share my opinion on saving our environment on environment day. Today morning while returning from Ernakulathappan temple i saw school students marching on the road with placards appealing to save environment. Nice to see activity happening around and i do appreciate the effort but is this the most effective way? why don't we just rethink on this age old ways of marches and whatever. Is this really what we need?
1. In this morning hour you create blocks and slow down the traffic which wastes a lot of petrol and also the air pollution created with it.
2. You use up a lot of paper. im not sure what you do with it. even if it is sent for recycling we still waste  a lot of energy.
3. Walking on the busy road at this hour makes you breathe a lot of polluted air coming fresh out of the vehicles which needless to say is not good for you.
4. You waste a lot of productive hour walking on the road and get tired unnecessarily( atleast according to me)... and of course a lot of other issues, let me not get into it . the point is why are we doing this? to create awareness right. but everyone today is aware of all these issues but no one is doing anything to make things better. So i believe what we need to do is to take action and not waste our time on all these ways like marching with placards and blah blah which i believe is expired and useless (sorry my opinion).

          Ok now coming to what can we do and what did i mean by action to be taken.

1. Every activity should start from us and own house and family. Please think how we are contributing in destroying the environment around us and start working on reducing that first. For example instead of throwing garbage on the road, work on recycling it inside our own house itself. There are many many things like reducing unnecessary travel in our cars. we can either walk or use public transport, save electricity ...etc
2. Plant trees, plants( flowering plants, ornamental plants, vegetables and fruits bearing plants and trees)in our own school/college/organisation/home premises and vow to maintain them by creating an accountable method. Imagine every school, college, house does something on this day. this itself will change a lot. As on 2014 kochi city has a population of 2.278 million and if everyone plants a tree or any small plant today what a huge difference it would make. I know thats not going to happen just a wish and a thought.
3. Spend the whole day studying on our present environmental challenges and discussing on what best can be done.
4. Organise speeches/seminars with eminent personalities on environment.
5. Interact with various NGO's who are working very hard to save our environment. understand what they are doing. if you agree with their works you can join hands with them.
6. There is a lot of environmental issues happening around us like the soil being affected because of extensive usage of pesticides and insecticides, pollution in our backwaters and its effect on the marine life( we can take samples of the water and test it with the help of your chemistry teacher or in some lab with experts)...etc.. today i read in the newspaper that the mangrove forest is reducing in kochi and some people are working on destroying it for their vested interest... there are many things we can research on and create a report. We can meet the concerned authorities and complain the same and follow up on what action is being taken. publish your report on social media, blog etc.. get more people to know about it..
7. Start a club on nature /environment in schools/colleges/organisation/residents associations
8. Schools and colleges can distribute saplings to students to plant in their houses according to their interest and needs.
9. So much of terrace space is going waste in our cities. imagine every terrace goes green in our cities, it will contribute so much on improving the environment we live in. there are many things that you can grow in your terrace and trust me its a wonderful hobby which will energise your body and mind which in turn will boost your performance at work and thus your career... think about it..don't waste money on some stupid gym.( working out in an air conditioned gym is very very harmful, mind u)

    I can just go on and on about what all we can do but i guess i will leave it at just invoking a thought process and leave it to your imagination to take action on the same.. please don't tell me where do we have time to do this. Everyone has time to do everything in this world. we just need to manage and prioritise and we better prioritise environment now before it becomes too late...
    please we need some positive action... thanks for reading this and tolerating me..