Waste Not, Want Not
Minimize waste, especially with regard to food and household items. If we can reduce the food wastage, the hunger problem can be solved easily ! #WasteNotWantNot
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Garbage Molehills become Mountains !
In October I had a speaking session in Sarita Vihar and took the Gurgaon-Faridabad Pahadi road that connects to Delhi near the Manav Rachna University. I didn’t notice anything very different on the road that we have cycled several times during 2009-10. I fondly recollected our first ride with the PedalYatri group to Mangar and … Read more
Heat, Dust, an early Monsoon and the Earth
For the past five to six days, it has been raining every night. Its raining right now … What a welcome relief from the dust, because just a week back, the terrible dust storms were back. We have been in Delhi NCR for 21 years now and if anyone wants proof of climate change, they … Read more
Living without plastic bags …. Plastic anything
Bottom Line On Top – IT’s POSSIBLE. So save your arguments :). For 40 days in Himachal we managed to live, buy things and store them without plastic bags because they are banned in Himachal. I always carry cloth bags with me so it was easy to manage. The only challenge we had was getting … Read more
Repair and Re-use
This is the bread toaster at home and as you can see the clip that pulls it shut broke :). I tried getting it to a repair shop and the guy said that the clip cannot be replaced so either the option was to replace the entire toaster or try and stick the … Read more
Compost – the first ever batch
Today, my first batch of homemade compost is ready and has been used for the potted plants !! Am so thrilled and also a little sad that I didn’t start it sooner. I just used an empty terracotta pot, the kind you use for putting plants in, with a hole at the bottom and started … Read more
Followup – the biggest NVA in life
Two days back I was reviewing the quality projects in flight and for one particular project, I commented to Allwyn, “please followup on that one” and then it dawned on me ….. “Follow-up is the single largest non-value added work”. I told Allwyn, followup must be 70% of all the work we do and he … Read more