Eco Centric

  World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on June 5 to encourage environmental awareness and environmental protection.  According to the United Nations, "the celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises, and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment." This Year's Theme Theme for 2021 is 'ecosystem restoration' and tthis year's WED will be hosted by Pakistan. This World Environment Day will kick off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a global mission to revive billions of hectares, from forests to farmlands, from the top of mountains to the depth of the sea. So what we can do to celebrate this day and do our part ? although there are many ways by which we can celebrate this day varying from planting trees to employing Green Energy technology.  some of the ways have short term advantages and some do have a lon...

Tackling Indoor Air Pollution through Phytoremidiation (plants)🎋🌴 We usually hear a lot about pollution precisely air pollution in the months of october - december, and people in Delhi do crib a lot about this matter, why won't they crib as air pollution is a big source of many respiratory diseases to heart diseases, cancer, etc. Some stats related to the fatalities because of poor Indoor Air Quality It sounds scary when you get to know that around 4.3 million people die worldwide due to poor air quality prevailing inside the houses, a round 3.8 million premature deaths occur annually from non-communicable diseases including ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are all attributed to exposure to household air pollution, as per reports from WHO. So now you might have understood the severeness of the problem which don't get highlighted enough because of the more worsened AQI levels outside in some parts of the World.  What are the...