October 16 is celebrated as World Food Day across 150 countries to recognize basic human right: “Right to have food.” The aim is to heighten awareness about hunger around the world. It is an initiative from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Statistics say that Approximately 1.5 billion people live on less than US$1 a day and every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.
Take this World Food Day quiz. There are just 1o questions, and I bet you learn 10 astonishing facts about about hunger. I got only 2 right!
Click here at Hunger Site to give a free cup of food to hungry.
Everyone I talk to seems to know that we should not use incandescent bulbs. Rather, we should use CFL bulbs that save money and help in energy conservation. Yet we have not been able to either ban or phase out incandescent bulbs. Forget rural areas, you will be appalled at the bulb and electricity statistics in the Capital city, New Delhi.
As per statistics, the peak energy demand of Delhi is 3600 mega watt but its supply is falling short by 750MW. This leads to long lasting power cuts. In the 2007 budget, the state government decided to hike its power budget almost five fold to Rs 1285 crores to fight the energy crisis to invest in building of thermal power plants. Thermal power plants will only increase Delhi’s CO2 emissions fostering climate change, resulting in even hotter summers in the capital.
An estimated 12.5 crores of ordinary light bulbs are still wasting electricity in the state! Surya, Philips and Bajaj, the three largest bulb manufacturers in India are still churning out those criminal bulbs. Changing these 12.5 crore light bulbs to efficient fluorescent lamps could reduce energy consumption by roughly 450 MW, reducing the present power shortage by 60%. Message is clear, some of us know it yet do not fail to use those “zero power” night bulbs and more.
Sign this ban the bulbpetitionhere. I just did. Can you believe it in a country where we have Internet reach of 99 million, not even one million have signed for the campaign?
Here is another creative video from my favorite Common Craft on why you should use CFLs.
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