Code Green Celebrates International Earth Day 2010, 22nd April

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day. Join the CODE…………Save The Planet…….Go Green !!!

Code Green - Activities

Since its emergence the code green community is continuously organizing various activities for students to make them familiar with its motive.

Community regularly calls the members for the meetings and discussions on the various issues. Community is looking ahead to promote the paper saving methods in the college and in the city as well. The efforts of code green are resulting in ideas and these ideas turn into reality. At present the community is focusing on the promotion of paper recycling in the college. They have placed recycle bins in the various departments in the college. The community always welcomes new ideas to help this world make a better place to live.

With these words…….we are leaving you till the next post.

The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene.

Earth Hour 2010 on March 27 - Let us make the Difference!

To make a stand against the climate change, 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off in Sydney, Australia in 2007. This is where the Earth Hour originated from. Earth Hour 2010 is organized by World Wide Fund for Nature, (WWFN) and this is one of the world’s largest mass participation event.
The second Earth Hour in 2008 witnessed more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. 88 countries participated in the third Earth Hour and over 4000 cities officially switched off to pledge their support for the planet. This made Earth Hour 2009 the world’s biggest global climate change initiative.
To raise cognizance of climate change, Earth Hour 2010 is going to take place on 27th March, 2010, Saturday. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to Asia to the Americas will stand in darkness.
To save our Planet, people from all parts will turn off their lights for one hour and join together to save the Planet.

The Code Green Seminar - 27-03-2010

Code green came into existence one year ago, it was nowhere in the picture
before a few Students took the initiative along with Ms. Annette West, Manager for Corporate Relations, CSE, Ambabai, Jhansi.
Since then The community is regularly working to save trees, promote paper recycling weather inside or outside the college campus and as the result of this we have organized the code green seminar.
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WE, THE inhabitants of earth, have reached that stage where we need to redesign and reconsider our lifestyles for further survival on this planet. We are concerned about trees, who give us something without which we can't even think about living on this planet yes we are talking about OXYGEN.

That's why we have taken this initiative to fight for our planet for our existence on this planet, to make this world a better place to live.

Plant a Tree, Plant a Hope!

Join the CODE !

Code Green welcomes all the followers, Go Green!
Guys we are on a mission......our mission is to make this planet green as it used to be....!
So we invite all of you with your ideas to save trees, paper recycling or any other suggestion that can help us in our mission......remember even a small contribution of yours can make a huge difference, who knows!
Till then it's bbye from our side.....GO GREEN !!!

Code Green takes a step ahead towards GO Green !!!

Today is 20-02-2010, Udai and I went to Taragram to meet Mr. Pramod Sahni, he is taking care of all the activities that are going on over there.
We have planned to recycle the wasted papers at our college under the supervision of Ms. Annette West(MCR, CSE, JHANSI). At taragram we discussed a lot with Mr. Sahni about how we can recycle papers. We also visited the handmade paper processing unit.
Mr. Sahni is an old man and carries ample amount of experience, he told us about paper recycling and its procedure, he was very kind to us. At last we took some handmade paper samples from the processing unit and paid thanks to Mr. Sahni for being so kind to us !!!
Go Green !

How effective is saving paper?

Yesterday i was discussing with my friends, I got numerous suggestions about saving paper by re-using papers printed on one-side for "personal" print-outs.

Though I don't oppose these ideas, I have my reservations about their efficacy. Following are the questions that have surfaced to my mind repeatedly.

- Trees cut for making papers have to be replanted because, we will run out of papers otherwise. We have no idea about the number of trees we are losing because of making papers. We also don't seem to be running out of papers. So, in the end we don't know if we are really causing a significant depletion of trees. May be we are, but is there data?

- The only way to cut lesser trees without compromising the supply of paper is to recycle paper. India seems to have a defunct system of recycling wastes. If we are indeed degrading environment by cutting a lot of trees, it is possible that this trend can be more significantly minimized by putting a system in place that recycles most of the paper wastes when compared to small initiatives in individual companies to save papers.

Of course we are better off taking these small initiatives irrespective of the status of recycling, but my concern is, we have no way to measure how many trees we end up saving. What if the contribution of 100 companies with an average of 100 employees actually comes to saving 5% of trees, while setting up a recycling plant that can recycle paper in the neighborhood (companies, homes, schools any and building where paper is used) can reduce the number of trees cut of paper by 50%?

Simply put, how can one make this initiative measurable? Is there a comprehensive and accepted research that can answer my questions?

I am just thinking aloud. I may have been a bit hazy in putting my points with correct information. Experts comments are invited