2018
Newsletters

Aerosol Loading

Dear Friends,
Let me begin this note wishing you all a very happy New Year and Happy Pongal. This is the last on the series dealing with Planetary Boundaries: atmospheric aerosol loading. We would try to understand:
- What are Aerosols and Aerosol Loading?
- Why should this be considered as a Planetary Boundary?
- What can we do to reduce Aerosol Loading?


Solid Waste Management

Regular MSWM and Behavioral Change Communication (BCC)activities were conducted during the month:
Door-to-door awareness campaign was conducted in the Municipality on 28th December at Visvasu Nagar – Ward no: 13, wherein 106 households were sensitized on MSWM.


Nakshatra Vanam

Hastha Indian Wild Mango
Botanical Name: Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz L.
Tamil Name: Pulima
Sanskrit Name: Amraatakah
English Name:Indian Hog Plum or Indian Wild Mango
M. Subramanian
Project Officer
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
Chennai
Habitat
Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 15-25 mm thick, surface grey to pale brown, smooth, vertically striated; outer bark 1 mm thick, dead, corky; inner bark semi fibrous, pink, streaked with white; blaze pink; exudation colour less, gummy. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branches, estipulate; rachis 25-45 cm, slender, glabrous, swollen at base; leaflets 5-21, opposite or sub-opposite; petiolule 2-8 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 4-23 x 2.5-10 cm, oblong, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base obtuse, sub-acute, oblique or round, apex acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous or membranous; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, slender, prominent, connected by an intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate.


Revival and Renovation of Water Bodies Story of AngathaTeertham

Location and Form
On the way to Mount Gandhamadhana Parvatham. Approximately 2.5 KMs from Sri Ramanathasamy Temple.
Mythological Story
It is created by Angatha, Son of Vali who has the unique power of mind to treat both good and bad equally. Angatha after Sugriva ruled the Vanara country for several years but renounced his life in search of want of peace, did his Tapas at Gandhamadhana Parvatham and attained several sidhis and when he understood his Tapas is going to lead to Indira position he wanted his powers to be useful for the common people hence he created this Teertham and installed Shivalinga in the middle of the Teertha. It is also believed that Indira head of Devars regained his powers after bathing in this Teertham.


Livelihood Opportunities

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Novel Entities

Dear Friends,
This month, we shall discuss the 8th Planetary Boundary: Novel Entities. In common parlance, we may call them chemical pollution caused by the release of man-made toxic substances into our environment, but it is not only toxicity but something more that cannot be captured by the term ‘chemical pollution’. This is why scientists decided to use the term ‘novel entities’. Essentially, we are dealing with the release of these toxic substances into the environment. But one may ask, “So what? There are so many toxic substances that occur naturally like salt, kerosene, snake venom etc. Why should we worry?” Let us see why?


Solid Waste Management

Mr. K. Veera Raghava Rao, District Collector of Ramanathapuram along with Ms. Janaki, Regional Director of Municipal Administration visited Market Street, Jetty Street and Agni Theertham on 16th November to monitor the SWM activity. The Collector interacted with the Green Friends on the general working of the project.The visit started around 10 am and ended at 12 pm.
