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Tag: Environment

  • Biodiversity: Time to act

    Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on Earth, including humans. All species are interconnected. They depend on one another. Forests provide homes for animals. Animals eat plants. The plants need healthy soil to grow. Fungi help decompose organisms to fertilize the soil. Bees and other insects carry pollen from one plant to another, which enables the plants to reproduce. Nothing is useless in nature .every factor is playing an important role.

    Biodiversity is important to people in many ways. Plants, for instance, help humans by giving off oxygen. They also provide food, shade, construction material, medicines, and fiber for clothing and paper. The root system of plants helps prevent flooding. Plants, fungi, and animals such as worms keep soil fertile and water clean. As biodiversity decreases, these systems break down.

    Promoting biodiversity at schools provides students with educational hands-on opportunities to make positive environmental impacts. Hanging birdhouses, planting wildflower gardens, and expanding recycling programs can each benefit your school’s local ecosystem.

    Students can create awareness about biodiversity in their neighbourhood, societies, and their relatives. Before the rainy season, students can prepare seed balls with the help of their friends and can through them on barren land.

    Kitchen waste can be recycled in the basket and we can obtain vermicompost which can be used in the terrace garden.

    Liquid nutrients can be provided to the plants by putting banana peels, potato peels, onion peels, and discarded parts of vegetables in water overnight. Strained water can be given to potted plants. Aloe vera leaves can be cut into pieces and similarly kept overnight in water and strained water can be given to the plants. It will work as a good growth hormone.

    It will be very delightful to observe how plants flourish.

    Through these small activities, you can contribute to the conservation of biodiversity.

    Biodiversity is love. Biodiversity is life.

    Be responsible for a better world, Work to sustain biodiversity.

    Dr. Afsana Tamboli

    (The author is an Assistant Professor working at Abeda Inamdar College, Pune.)

  • Educate the future generation

    In this digitalized global age, the next generation of young citizens will create jobs, not seek them, and collaborate to advance an increasingly complex world. That will require imagination, empathy, resilience, and entrepreneurship, the ability to fail forward. The most obvious implication of a world that requires learners to constantly adapt and grow is the need to build the capacity and motivation for lifelong learning. People used to learn to do the work; now learning is the work, and the post-industrial era will require coaching, mentoring, teaching, and evaluating that can build passion for learning.

    There must be an appreciation for the value of learning well beyond high school, beyond college graduation. People need to take ownership over what they learn, how they learn, where they learn, and when they learn. And lifelong learning requires people not only to constantly learn new things but also to unlearn and relearn as the world changes.

    Dr. Sanjay Swami

    (The author is an Associate Professor at Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, and is also a Secretary of BioVision Charitable Trust)