Go Green

These days environment is the most talked about topic. Everyone wants to do something good about Environment or at least pretend to do good(Hollywood stars driving Prius!!). It’s the coolest thing you can do. Corporates are now regulated to act Green. My company has pro-actively taken several initiatives in this regard. There is a Green Policy as well. Plastic (Polyethylene) bags are banned within the company premises. We are required to shut down the monitor, so on and so forth. So many policies that joke of employees not finding toilet rolls are doing rounds. I pray that does not happen.

So, with so much happening what can YOU do? Change the incandescent bulbs in your home to CFL. Yes, that is a good idea. Plant a sapling. Yeah, but that requires a lot of work and dude it is such a pain to find place to do that. I have a better one. Don’t BATHE one day in a week. Yes you read it right. Don’t BATHE! Before you start che..che ing me, let me justify my idea.

On an average we use 150 litres of water to bathe. (Don’t ask me how I arrived at that figure; you will then miss the point.) India has a population of more than a billion. Since I am poor in maths let us consider it to be billion. Every Indian not bathing for a day i.e 150 billion litres of water saved! Isn’t that an easier way to save water by jus not doing something! It is so easy; I wonder why no one thought of this before.

Now for the che che ing part. You may say it is un-hygienic to not bathe a day. I would like to ask, have you ever heard/read someone falling sick because he/she didn’t bathe for one day. In fact you would probably have not bathed when you were sick or admitted to the hospital. If bathing would help you avoid falling sick, shouldn’t you bath more frequently when you are sick? And be honest, how many days did you go without bathing during you hostel days?

Girls I have something to say to you. Not bathing is one field where each of you will contribute more than any boy. Yes you will beat all the boys by not doing something.

I conclude by asking you to put some environment friendly acts like this in the comments, where you don’t have to do anything to go GREEN; “NO flushing” is ruled out :)

Go Green.