World Environment Day 5 June 2008

Sharing My 10 Incentives to Going Green

Issue We All Face

I have heard my mother said that. Now that I have a family of my own, I am saying the same thing too!

Incentive No 1: Reduce Cost of Living

"It is getting more and more costly to raise a family!"

How can doing 3Rs help?

I can create with scraps for o my children o their school concertso teachers’ dayo their friends

For My Children

For School Concert

For Teachers’ Day

For Their Friends

Incentive 2: My Personal Development

Reduce the cost of picking up newhobbies. Improvise tools for

hobbies. Innovate with

scrap material to learn.

Incentive 3: Prevent "Treasured Discards" from becoming "Discarded Treasure"

Find ideas to keep things that are of sentimental value for me from being discarded.

Example: Transform a favourite t-shirt into a bag.

Incentive 4: Raise Funds

The best way to show appreciation for non profit projects that you support is to donate money to help them run.

The easiest and best way to raise funds isthrough recycling.

Incentive 5: Protect the Environment

Do you know that the production of one gold ring generates 20 TONS of mine waste?

I am using stainless steel, which is 100% recyclable, in my creations.

Incentive 6: Resolve Problems

In the Neighbourhood and other areas of my life. Dog poo in the park

concerns me as my son plays football there.

It is health hazardous and unpleasant to step on.

It can affect community spirit when one is against neighbours rearing dogs or taking them for walks in the park.

The solution? Creation of dog poo scoop.

Incentive 7: Spiritual Wellbeing

Hindu spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, lovingly called 'Amma' or the "hugging saint" wrote:

"Religion Is a Bond Between Man and Nature"

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IS

ABOUT LOVING NATURE

Incentive 8: Enhancing the Memory

Incentive 9: Fruitful Influence

Doing what I say and doing what I do; my children has gone green with their idea to collect bathwater to wash their shoes.

Way to go children!

Incentive 10: Just the way I like to be remembered.

You don’t have to kill or rob

the bank to be in the news.

Just try reducing, reusing, recycling waste.

That’s how I make it to “The Star” on 3rd June 2008.

“Homemaker shares recycling tips through the Internet” - By NASA MARIA ENTABAN - Star Metro.

What did my kids have to say about this?

“Mom, you are famous. Maybe the US President will invite you to the White House”.

Yes, they have watched the movie, “National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets”

“I save discarded treasure, kids. Not the National Treasure”.