Sreemoyee Chakraborty's Blog (5)

Though I intended to write this to commemorate the WED 2013 theme, ‘Think.Eat.Save’, it took me a while to think how much I practice what I believe in…..

Shall try to pour out those ‘beliefs’ to you…and to what extent they can be practiced….

I was listening to a TED talk by Simon Sinek the other day on ‘inspiration’. The speaker was just too good while explaining the Golden Circle that governs human actions – ‘What, How, and Why’. Consider any human action and you would find…

You may recall the Eko-Calendar that was brought out in 2012. It contained important environmental days with notes and tips - put thematically for each month – making it unique in the market.



The calendar had received immense appreciation from eco-conscious corporates who believe in the ‘sustainability space’.



This year's further improved version of the Eko-Calendar is being produced by Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation, a section 25 (not for profit) company that Dr. Prasad…

Have you heard this line from John Donne’s poem, “No man is an island unto himself”…..

Few words but with a real heavy meaning!

My logic deciphers the inner meaning of the above line as follows: We all belong to nature and our daily activities are tuned to the rhythms of the ecological system that we find ourselves in…Hence, a distortion in this system caused by our activities today, might act as a boomerang for us in the near future. For example, the impounding…

From the time we are born, we take up an aim...an ambition....a goal in life. These aims keep changing with age and situations. The higher we go up the ladder of life....the less chances prevail for those aims to come true...

I was thinking of some tool by which I could sensitize that 'child' in each one of us again....the child who was born to Mother Earth. If we were to take up an aim(lakhsya) to protect our Mother who gave birth to us and nurtured us to make us reach where…

With an aim to increase awareness of environmental issues which need urgent solutions this Eco-Calendar 2012 has been specially developed to be used as a simple and easy tool for the cause of our natural environment. Every month of this calendar represents a particular theme addressing either the global environmental components or environmental issues or some measures that can be adopted. Each theme has a quote and a symbolic image. The calendar showcases themes like green office, energy,…