Handmade Chistmas tree decorations

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How to decorate your Christmas tree

Simple steps to make Christmas decorations 

1.On a card/chart paper draw the shape you like to do.

2.Choose a fabric/glitter paper/decorative paper and cut out in the same shape,

stick this on to the card.(fabrics can be bordered

by button hole stitch)

                                     3.Provide loops of your choice for the shapes.

The simple decorations are ready for the tree.

Merry Chistmas

The Compost Unit For Home

So we've got the compost unit ,and have been composting all the wet waste from our home since 3 months in this unit.Soon the last stage will be ready and our potted plants can enjoy our home made compost.

For details:www.dailydump.org

Green laundry soap

Good old laundry soap

My husband a total environmental enthusiast today asked me to look for ‘daily dump’ composters (it’s a company promoting and selling beautiful compost units for home) (http://www.dailydump.org), for the organic waste from our kitchen. I was apprehensive because we live in an apartment and if the composter gives out any foul smell, then we will have to abandon the idea, not to say the pots and equipments.

But what caught my wits was the green laundry soap they sell. It has taken my thoughts back 25 years. The days we used to go to pond for a bath at my mothers house. Grand mother would ask us to take a few soap nuts(‘urruvanchikkayya’ we call in north kerala),so that we could wash our clothes from the pond.

Each time I get my bout of eczema, I think of those nuts, if I could have some of those then it would be less painful. And as I write this I have both my hands skin peeled, cause of eczema and the pril,surf … I use.So this weekend I have to get hold of the precious ‘soap nuts’ ,which the company is marketing even for washing machine. So it’s going to be less painful for the clothes as well. And not say about the water I will save for the ‘extra rinse’ I use…

So now I surely will have to buy that compost unit!!!

More info: http://www.dailydump.org

LPG stations in Pune

LPG stations in Pune

HPCL, Dealer: Shivaji Service Station Manjari, Pune Phone:020-26993479

IOCL, Dealer: D' Mello S/Stn. 46, Nagar Road, Pune- 14

Phone:020-27031728

IOCL, Dealer: Ganga Auto Hadapsar

Dealer: Choudhari's Auto LPG Gas Station S.No. 130/4/1/1, on Mumbai-Bangalore By-pass service Road, Warje, Pune - 411 058 Phone:9371124136

BPCL, Dealer: BP-Pune 1 Near RTO Office, Wellsely Road, Pune-1

Phone:020-26059756

HPCL, Dealer: A.J. Modi & Sons 206, Wellesly Rd., Mangalwar Peth, Pune - 411 011 Phone:020-26054020

HPCL, Dealer: Swami Samarth Enterprises Pune Nasik Road, Bhosari, Pune

HPCL, Dealer: Bhosale Petroleum Chikhali, Near Tata Indica Plant, Pune

BPCL, Dealer: Saraswati Auto Shankarshet Road, Pune - 1 Phone:020- 24441238

HPCL, Dealer: Sangoi Service Station 1160, Ganeshkind Road, Opp, Rahul Theatre, Shivaji Nagar, Pune- 411 005

Phone:020-25535651

BPCL, Dealer: Mitali Service Station Pune

HPCL, Dealer: Chakan Fuel Depot Chakan , Pune

IOCL, Dealer: Sukhwani Petroleum S No. 1/1, At / Post Wakad, Near Wakad-Hinjawadi Overfly, Mulshi, Pune-411057 Phone:020-27260077

Bt contaminating organic cotton

Bt contaminating organic cotton

Cotton exports from India might suffer as there are wide spread reports in Europe of Bt traces in 30% of cotton garments and the source of the cotton is supposed to be India.

India accounts for half the global supply of organic cotton, so this can be a real set back for farmers. Even A category (certified for 3 continuous years) farmers from district of Yavatmal, Maharashtra have lost their organic certification this year, reason their crops tested positive for Bt contamination. Now the farmers are worried because they fear their seeds which have been used since 1990's might have been contaminated.

The cotton industry of India was in the grip of westerners once before ie. British. History is repeating, now the farmers are at the mercy of MNC's from far west the US.

Cotton was first cultivated seven thousand years ago (5th millennium BC-4th millennium BC), by the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization, a civilization that covered a huge swath of the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising today of parts of Eastern Pakistan and Northwestern India. The Indus cotton industry was well developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the modern Industrialization of India, well before the Common Era the use of cotton textiles had spread from India to the Mediterranean and beyond.

So with such a long and sustained tradition in cotton farming, why do the scientists from India have their hopes tied to American seed companies?

If this is the fate of cotton, without real intervention we will not be able to preserve our local Brinjal varieties.

Gods Own Country-Kerala

LED the best option

LED

A light-emitting diode (LED) electronic light source. The first LED was built in the 1920s by a Russian radio technicia Oleg Vladimirovich Losev, who noticed that diodes used in radio receivers emitted light when current was passed through them. The LED was introduced as a practical electronic component in 1962.

LEDs are based on the semiconductor diode. When the diode is forward biased (switched on), electrons are able to recombine with holes and energy is released in the form of light. This effect is called electroluminescence and the color of the light is determined by the energy gap of the semiconductor. The LED is usually small in area (less than 1 mm²) with integrated optical components to shape its radiation pattern and assist in reflection.

LEDs present many advantages over traditional light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size and faster switching. However, they are relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than traditional light sources.

Applications of LEDs are diverse. They are used as low-energy indicators but also for replacements for traditional light sources in general lighting and automotive lighting. The compact size of LEDs has allowed new text and video displays and sensors to be developed, while their high switching rates are useful in communications technology.

Sustainable Lighting

Where incandescent bulb has an expected lifespan of 1,000 hours while an LED can continue to operate with reduced efficiency for more than 50,000 hours, 50 times longer than the incandescent bulb.

An Environmentally Friendly Option

A single kilowatt-hour of electricity will generate 610 g of CO₂ emissions. Assuming the average light bulb is on for 10 hours a day, a single 40-watt incandescent bulb will generate 89 kg of CO₂ every year. The 13-watt LED equivalent will only be responsible for 29 kg of CO₂ over the same time span. A building’s carbon footprint from lighting can be reduced by 68% by exchanging all incandescent bulbs for new LEDs.