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3 Things that will change the future of sustainability.

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In the simplest terms, sustainability can be defined as developing without harming the resources to transfer them to future generations while using today’s resources. It is to continue to exist today without using the future. Economic growth leads to waste generation and increased consumption, which has a devastating impact on the environment.

In this article, we will talk about three things that will change the future of sustainability that one should know.

Buying from sustainable brands

Sustainable fashion is the new future, as it has already become a go-to choice among the tiny fragment of people who deeply understand its meaning and impact. We’re sure this will take some time, but sooner or later, we all have to know that the vast majority of fashion is not sustainable, and our resources on this planet are finite.

If we are concerned about this beautiful planet, we need to think out of the box and leave the comfort zone of readily available clothes in the market as there are few brands producing sustainable fashion; finding them can be a hefty task too.

The more deeply we understand the importance of our limited resources on our mother earth, the easier it will be to come up with an excellent sustainable brand, and also we, as a customer, would be able to buy and wear clothes which can have a positive impact on our environment too.

Support green initiatives

For example, we can take here switching to electric cars.

The environmental benefits of a transition to electric vehicles would be enormous. Emissions from road transportation account for roughly 20% of greenhouse gases. It’s probably the easiest part of the puzzle. Aviation and shipping will be more challenging, along with agriculture. Electricity generation differs wildly from country to country.

The economic benefits of EV ownership for private individuals in terms of significantly reduced running costs (energy and maintenance) will be considered in developed nations. These benefits are further enhanced by home solar and batteries.

The geopolitical benefits of dodgy petro-states no longer holding the rest of the world hostage would be fantastic.

Recycle more

Recycling refers to collecting and recycling used materials, generally considered “waste”. The materials are sorted and recycled in this process to be used as “raw materials” for producing new products. Recycling plays a crucial role in modern waste management and waste spills.

Importance of recycling:

Reduces energy waste: It is more energy efficient to use recycled products rather than producing new goods.
Saves Natural Resources: E-Waste Recycling aids the environment by reducing the energy required to create new goods, diverting waste from landfills, and efficiently utilizing goods and products for their entire lifespan.
Reduces the need for clearance: When you recycle the products you use, you will ultimately reduce the need to clear out items you do not need. That is why recycling in the form of donating or selling so that other people can use some of your belongings are two good options for you to consider.

Last words

Sustainability is only possible if we are careful about the ecological boundaries of our planet. Our planet can’t sustain our way of living now. We are diminishing the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs.

Caring for Natural Resources…!

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“If conservation of natural resources goes wrong, nothing else will go right” – M.S. Swaminathan.

Humans rely on natural resources for their day-to-day lives. However, unlike renewable resources like water and air, some are non-replenishable. Unfortunately, non-renewable natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate.

After ages of depleting them, we have no other alternative than to raise a proactive awareness among the masses and save them from extinction.

So, reducing our collective carbon footprint to fight climate change and preserve our natural resources will help us make the planet livable for our future generations. Luckily, we can transform the present scenario by massively considering the following measures:

Small Steps Matter!
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh.

It can be a simple step like turning off your appliances when they are not in use. Turning off your lights, fans, and air conditioners when leaving the room is one of the most promising steps towards preserving our natural resources. Besides, you can switch to LED bulbs that consume less wattage and save sufficient electricity.

Also, you can stop your vehicle’s engine when waiting at the road signals. It will help everyone save enough fuel for our future generations to enjoy. Simple steps matter a lot, after all.

2. Choosing Reusability
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production” – Pete Seeger.

As the quotation implies, it’s high time to refuse products that we cannot reuse. Producing new products consumes energy driven by natural resources.

Avoiding plastic bottles and bags and choosing glassware or cloth bags can be another way of conserving natural resources. Saying yes to reusable goods can be the best way to combat resource exhaustion.

3. Promoting Recycling
“When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do” – Pam Shoemaker.

When it comes to saving our natural resources, recycling takes center stage. You can find every environmentalist speaking about recycling. Why so? It’s because we can reduce the carbon footprint and cut down energy consumption by recycling products.

4. Managing Energy Consumption
Reducing the heater temperature to two degrees during winters and raising the one for air conditioners by two degrees during summers can greatly relieve our non-renewable resources.

To sum up!
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” – Robert Swan.

The initiative of saving natural resources should begin from your home. It means we must step forward to conserve them at the earliest. It’s never too late!

Women – Men Thing to Respect…!

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The ancient history has several brutal incidents where men tortured and disrespected women. Although humanity has walked miles over such a shameful past, situations don’t seem to improve much. Even now, women face humiliation and disrespect in all dimensions from inequality to materialism.

Different countries have passed various laws to make the world a better place for women. However, it’s criminalizing disrespecting women cannot teach men how to respect the opposite gender.

Every family should inculcate such values among male children once they grow up to understand that women deserve to be respected. They contribute so much to society and we should bow our heads to them

They raise new lives within their bodies
All of us begin our lives from women – our mothers. They reared us for nine months inside their bodies before we breathed for the first time on the planet. Women are built strong. They bear immense pain, discomfort, and uneasiness to raise a child in her womb. So, they deserve all our respect and it’s our duty to teach the value of females to the sons from their childhood.

They have already suffered too much
Society has tortured women for ages. They have been objectified and sexualized in a highly disrespectful manner by all men worldwide. It’s time for us to give it all to our women and bring justice to their selfless contribution towards our benefits.

The modern world must behave like one
Long ago, when revolutionists imagined a modern planet, gender equality was a mainframe concept. Now that the imaginary planet has become a reality, we need to behave like new-age inhabitants. And respecting women is a significant part of today.

Their opinions were suppressed
What can be worse than someone suppressing your opinions and denying their value? Women have been facing it for an eternity. That doesn’t mean to pity them. However, it’s high time that we understand how revolutionary a woman’s opinions can be for a community.

Here’s something that men can do to show respect to women:

Let the women speak. Interfering when they talk is highly disrespectful.
Accept their opinions and believe that women are equally capable of making crucial decisions.
Stop mansplaining. It happens when men explain to women regarding their expertise considering them to be inefficient.
Men should learn to accept women having more education or working at a better job position.

Small changes matter. As men, we can bring the above changes in our attitude to show more respect to our empowered women.

Children for Good Communities…!

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Rearing children is challenging, especially when parents want them to become the pillars of a good community. They need to become more responsible and teach the correct values to their children to help them foster a healthy environment wherever they go.

What can parents do to mold their children according to an excellent community? It’s simple! Staying with the children at every life phase and helping them become good citizens will make them ideal for futuristic healthy communities.

1. Give them learning beyond the classroom
Your children cannot build fascinating communities from academic education gained in a classroom. The learning should extend to your home through the parents.

So, holding your kid’s hands at every life phase will help them become highly responsible from a community perspective.

2. Create an environment for learning
Parents who stay with their children and support them throughout life help build a positive learning environment in a home. Their kids realize the importance of education and are eager to know more.

Thus, these kids help establish educated communities in the future. So, your consistency and support will yield significant returns for society in the long haul.

3. Social advantages
Parents who make bonds with their children and maintain a good rapport with other people can transfer communication and harmonizing skills to future generations.

Your kid would watch you behave properly with your neighbors. It helps your child build high-quality communities when they grow up.

4. What if parents do not stay with their children at all life phases?
The repercussions of parents leaving their children’s hands at an early stage can be extremely harmful to a community.

Your kids might become directionless or start walking on the wrong path if you leave them on their own. Thus, your kids might get completely deviated from the idea of developing healthy communities.

Here’s what can happen with your kids if you do not support them continuously.

Children become vulnerable to substance abuse
Kids becoming drug addicts and alcoholics are highly common in families of non-supportive parents. Understandably, such children cannot build excellent societies.

5. Detached from education
A child has a larger tendency of getting detached from education if his parents become non-supportive. They engage in unhealthy activities and might turn highly unmotivated.

6. Adolescent delinquency
Without responsible and supportive parents, no one would guide children against adolescent delinquency. The tender age would fall harsh on them, becoming unhealthy elements in a community.

Parenting is a responsible task. You ought to stay there with your children at all stages of their life to support the growth of a healthy, educated, and responsible community in the future.

Let’s Dream for Respected & Expected India

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The land of growing possibilities – India is standing on the brink of becoming a global leader. The world has numerous expectations from Indians, and the nation is rapidly fulfilling them. Expected India will soon become the Golden Bird it was before the British Invasion.

For a long time, the nation had the tag of undeveloped country. However, it’s recovering from the status with wide-angle development across verticals. Although we have achieved many feats, we need to speed up the construction process to keep up with the race.

It’s high time for India to look beyond caste and religious discrimination as the upcoming ten years are crucial for the entire nation.

Now, every citizen should focus on repairing India’s image, transitioning it to becoming a respected India. They need to address the following issues to bridge the gap of becoming a Global Capital.

Widening the Roads to Success!
India is soon to become a superpower. What if the roads to success are narrowed and congestion-building? Indians cannot speed up and achieve their goals due to an unavoidable deviation from their motives.

First things first! We need to widen our roads and more lanes to contain traffic jams and enable every citizen to reach their destination quickly.

Planned Cities Goes Long Way
Success cannot develop within a chaotic city. Taking a closer glimpse at the history of developed countries, we realize that the foundation of such prosperous nations lies in well-planned towns.

We need efficient resource allocation, the ability to stay connected with each other at all times, and future-ready locations to manifest success for India.

Becoming Self Sufficient for Food Grain Production
“Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry” – Norman Borlaug.

A country with hungry citizens cannot think of success clear-mindedly. So, satiating their hunger and producing surplus food grains is essential to building a growing economy. Despite the Indian Green Revolution, many families strive hard to collect their daily bread. Consequently, they cannot focus on pushing the nation towards massive success.

It will be best to focus on growing sufficient food grains on our land. We will be able to feed every Indian and ensure prosperity.

Seeding Patriotism Among Citizens
Patriotism is an integral part of developed countries. We need to kindle die-hard patriotism among Indians and help them dream of India soaring heights of success.

India is marching on the path to becoming a respected nation. It’s our crucial period, and we need to dodge the challenges, stay united, and do whatever we can to bring multifold success to the nation.

Are We Responsible..?

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A citizen of a country is recognized as one of the dominant pillars of the nation. They are allowed to enjoy all the legal rights and privileges granted by the state to the people. Also, they need to abide by the laws and attain their duties as called upon.

The question that arises,

“Are you a responsible parent? Are you giving our country a responsible citizen?”

Every citizen, including parents, has a responsibility to make their community a decent place to inhabit. When you are a responsible citizen, you know your responsibilities and take necessary actions whenever required.

Being a parent of a young kid, you may encounter several issues where you need to take necessary actions. These actions will lead you to be a responsible citizen and train your young child to remain accountable.

What are the burning issues faced by Youth today?

Excessive usage of social media

Firstly, you need to walk hand-in-hand with the latest technology. Being a parent, you need to know how social media works.

Secondly, you are not setting a good example for our young children if you use social media excessively.

Lastly, being a parent, you must ensure that your child is not deprived of knowing/learning new technology. But, you need to ensure that its excessive exposure is also problematic. Hence, drive your child in the right direction whenever required.

Consumption of drugs

We have been lately listening to enormous news regarding drugs usage. One of the possible reasons why your kids are entering into drug consumption is their social circle. No doubt your kids require friends in their lives, but you need to ensure that their friends come from a decent family background with no such addictions.
Smoking/Drinking

Whenever we ask any young kid why they started smoking or drinking, most of the time, it is family distancing. Being a parent, it is your moral responsibility to spend some time with your young kid. This support will boost their positive thoughts, and they will never end up smoking or drinking in their lives.

These are the top 3 burning issues youngsters face, and their parents must create a plan to help their children.

Final Thoughts

If you being a parent, face the same issues, you are not setting an excellent example for your child. As rightly said by the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi,

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Additionally, your child must never be deprived of motivation to come out strongly and face these burning issues. On top of it, if they are out of these issues, you can teach them how to become good citizens of the country.

And yes, you can then call yourself a responsible citizen of our country.

Tarak Doddala

Farming a divine thing. Save Food..! Support Farmers..!

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Do you still remember our school prayers? Have you ever thought about why we were taught this as a child?

The human tendency of asking for more and more throughout life is primordial. But did you ever ponder over the bare necessity without which we cannot survive? Well, it’s our meal that keeps us going in all circumstances. We struggle and make efforts to win our daily bread and satiate our appetite.

Long ago, I realized our quintessential necessity and inculcated immense respect for harvest and cultivation. I feel rejoiced in spending days in my native place and feeling the pious aroma of the fertile soil. The serene greenery is forever close to my soul, and I feel an irresistible urge to spend the rest of my life cultivating crops and contributing to feeding the masses as a responsibility.

Unfortunately, the lack of awareness among people regarding harvest and the need to save food upsets me to the core. Watching people dumping meals and disrespecting the grains is something that our culture didn’t teach us. Coming from a farming background and nature admirer, I feel the calling to spread awareness regarding the importance of crops and save food for thousands of hungry and helpless souls in our nation.

Our nation is a green economy and relies on agriculture and farming. Here is a glimpse of how cultivation looks like for us.

Cultivation – What’s the Need?
Cultivation is an essential component of our national economy. But why do we need to cultivate? Or, more precisely, why agriculture holds a center stage in our lives? Here are the primary reasons making cultivation an essential part of our context.

Mode of Substantial Income
Agriculture is one of the most prominent modes of income for many people. They grow crops as a source of livelihood and win their daily bread through the margins obtained. Indeed, cultivation is an asset to the economically weaker and stronger farmers.

Source of Meal and Fodder
Cultivation determines the fate of citizens in a country. Besides feeding humans, it generates enough fodder to satiate the hunger of animals.

Contribution to Economy
Apart from feeding the living beings in a nation, cultivation and agriculture contribute to the economy. The agriculture-driven countries generate huge margins to propel the GDP to skyrocketing heights.

What is the Need to Save Food?
We always listen to everyone pleading to save food and avoid wasting it, don’t we? But why should we save food? What’s the importance of respecting our meals?

Here are some of the must-know reasons:

People Sleep with Empty Stomachs
Indeed, you are blessed to have surplus meals to satiate the hunger of your family. Let’s face it that numerous souls do not get enough food for days. The inflated food prices due to immense waste of food limit them from purchasing meals. So, we need to stop wasting food and save it for numerous helpless and hungry beings.

Environment and Climate Variations
The food we waste generates carbon dioxide and other hazardous gases, depleting the non-consumed food sources in the environment. Yet another reason to save food is saving the climate from destruction.

Value of Harvest – What is It?
Saving food and cultivating crops are essential for all of us. Thanks to farmers who grow crops and produce harvest to generate revenues and feed the nation. However, a farmer does not gain 100% returns on their investment. After removing the damaged crops, the leftover harvest determines the final income earned by a farmer. This is called the value of harvest, an essential factor in agriculture.

What are the Marketing Difficulties of Farm Produce?
Marketing crops is the leading problem that farmers face after making huge investments. So, what are the difficulties faced by farmers when marketing their produce? Here are the most common issues.

Farmers Do Not Fix Price
Although farmers produce crops, they do not determine their price. Unfortunately, such a factor might not bring justice to the farmers every time. So, this can be one of the top factors affecting product marketing.

Immense Competition in the Market
The market has numerous farmers, big and small. Consequently, the business competition is higher, and farmers might get swayed by inflation at times. So, yet another factor that hinders favorable marketing outcomes is the cut-throat competition in the agricultural industry.

Agriculture and harvesting lie at our foundation. We cannot overlook the impacts they cause and require propelling the nation for agricultural comfort.

Respect Farmers..!

-Tarak Doddala

How Five Hours Sleep Can Help You Advocate Your Thoughts For A Better Society

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Swollen eyes, dark circles, dull skin on your face are not the only outcomes of sleep deprivation. Research over the years has linked sleep or the lack of it to your social life, your success, and how you treat people around you.

Research by Rachel Salas, MD from Johns Hopkins University says that a good night’s sleep can rejuvenate you to make you willing to give back to society. A sleep of fewer than five hours per night for adults can make them irritable, annoying, and even reveal negative emotions in them. Your mental health is a function of the hormones that are secreted by your brains, and optimal balance in them can be achieved by proper sleep.

How much sleep do you need?

The requirements of sleep time and the circadian cycle of every individual are unique, and depended on their gender, age, working conditions, and physical exercise. Some studies have shown that for adults between the ages of 20 to 55 years, it requires eight hours of sleep. They also recommend that it must be a minimum of five hours to help the brain and body to heal and nourish itself.

If your sleep cycle is irregular or is disturbed by distractions, sounds, or light, then even lying down for more hours would not help you. With a little practice, preparation and scheduling, you can make your body go to sleep instantly when you are ready for it. Soldiers, surgeons, firefighters and many other people are taught how to catch quality sleep with minimal effort.

Five-hour sleep for a better society!

Sleep deprivation interferes with your brain’s ability to filter and create long-term memories and enhance your productivity. A study, in the journal Nature Communications, found that sleep deprivation causes people to feel lonely, introvert, and uncomfortable in the company of others.

Sleep-deprived people are also more likely to be affected by depression, anxiety, anger issues, and alcohol & substance abuse. Such people become more inward-looking and self-centered, affecting their family and work lives. It can cause increased separations, domestic violence, divorces, and severe strain on the children in such environments.

Final Note

Sleep-deprived loneliness and social isolation significantly increase community health problems, mortality risk, many mental and physical comorbidities, social unease, and domestic and other kinds of violence. Therefore, when you get at least a five-hour sound sleep, you are helping build a sound and calming family, workplace and society.

Why Need of Global Presence – For Better Sustainability

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Climate change is a real and present danger and is not some distant, utopian nightmare. The coastal communities are already feeling the burnt with more cyclones, submerging shores, and reduced aquatic life around coasts. Climate change will continue to adversely affect our planet, our lives, and our livelihoods in more direct than indirect ways.

Scientists claim that human activities have contributed to global temperature rise after the Industrial Revolution, depletion in forest cover, and species extinction to an unprecedented scale.

Sustainability in business needs running the business processes with minimal to no impact on the environment. Green business operations support and maintain the local ecology, reduce their global environmental impact, and keep the community’s best long-term interests, ecology, and the planet at their core.

Sustainability in Business

Sustainability in everyday business operations is a vital concern for many. Many consumer groups demand that products clearly label their carbon footprint and environmental impact.

For investors, sustainable businesses are a lucrative investment opportunity, while for promoters and managements, it means more sales, reduction in costs, tax savings, and enhanced brand.

Sustainability is not only about 3 Rs (Reduce, reuse, recycle) by the consumer; it also needs active intervention from governments and managers to adopt green best-practices in mining, production, service, storage, and transportation.

Running an environmentally friendly business has more than profits as its mission— consideration for the environment, ecosystem, and health of the surrounding people. Impact green-practices is increased profitability for companies, a healthy society, and restoring the environmental balance. By John Elkington, Triple Bottom Line suggests the planet, people, and profits are all important.

Startling Climate Impact Statistics

● The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of plastic garbage twice the size of Texas, is floating in the Pacific Ocean and harming its marine life and people consuming the microplastics found in seafood.

● If left alone, the total annual concrete waste production will touch 27 billion tons by 2050.

● Greenhouse gases and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) are reasons for a temperature increase ofover 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2020, causing rising sea levels and extreme variations in weather patterns.

● Greenhouse gases, particulate matter, contamination of soil and groundwater are directly causing more than 450,000 deaths worldwide, and millions are falling sick because of them.

● Only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of all global emissions, and among them, only 20 are responsible for over 30% of emissions.

● Over three-fourths of consumers have stopped purchasing anything from companies that do not care about the planet.

Final Word

The time to act is now. A concerted effort from management, employees, suppliers, customers, society, and governments is needed for developing sustainable business practices.

Everyone must cut down industrial and auto emissions, safely reuse or recycle industrial waste, increase forest covers, dispose of unusable waste safely, and contribute towards a breathing and living planet.

We are not too late, and the Paris Climate Accord can help businesses reduce their emission by up to 60% by 2030. Companies stand to benefit directly in cost savings, increased revenues, and more significant market share by adopting green policies, technologies, and processes. It is estimated that green business operations can cause $26 trillion in economic benefits by 2030.

Step-up Your Health Goals – Practicing 30 Mins Active for 21 Days will Bring a Lot of Benefits

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~ Will Durant

Changing any set pattern of daily lifestyle is challenging. But that can be achieved with goal setting, planning, following that plan regularly, and monitoring and recording the progress. Motivation erodes if the brain does not receive frequent doses of boosting in the form of tangible outcomes. That is why recording and acknowledging, if not celebrating, even small milestones & successes is necessary.

Adopting a healthy lifestyle with proper sleep, exercise, and nutritious eating habits is one of the most challenging goals to achieve. The senses of smell, sight, and taste betray us, and our laziness takes over our better judgment. Becoming more physically active needs operational planning, practice, and follow-through.

It is said that if you can continue the practice for at least three weeks, or twenty-one days, it starts becoming your “muscle memory,” or better known as a habit. Once you have the habit of waking up early and running, walking, or practicing Yoga for 30 minutes daily, it is not easy to change that routine either.

Good and healthy habits, just like the bad and unhealthy ones, are addictive because the body and mind always find their comfort zone in doing something repeatedly. The real challenge is in breaking the current cycle of unhealthy habits and adopting a new healthy routine.

Goal Setting

Set S.M.A.R.T. goals – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Result-oriented, and Time-bound. The following seven-step process will help you in goal setting:

  1. Identify a goal.
  2. Learn how to achieve it
  3. Divide the goal into small and specific mini-objective
  4. Prepare a monitoring chart with the current state
  5. Monitor and record your progress regularly
  6. Adapt to changing environment
  7. Enjoy the process – do not punish yourself

In the end, when you achieve your mini-goals, allow for a small celebration, and when you accomplish a bigger goal, give yourself credit, and celebrate.

Final Words

Being active and achieving a higher state of a healthy body is necessary to ward off lifestyle diseases, boost your immunity, and stay fit. A healthy body is also the vessel for a healthy mind, a healthy mindset, and a cheerful person.

People are more attracted to healthy and fit people. These individuals also tend to command more authority and usually have a great sense of humor. They motivate themselves and their family, friends, and co-workers to set small health goals and achieve them with the 30-minute for 21-day practice rule.

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