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Teach In Environmental Sciences Green House Gases to Kids: Last Year's Teach In This year again, I had the opportunity to teach environmental sciences and information technology to fourth graders. My topic was Green House Gases. I started with the atmospheric layers and talked about the lower layers:                         Stratosphere: 12 to 50 km (7 to 31 miles),                         Troposphere: 0 to 12 km (0 to 7 miles). Took a small car and globe model and compared them to explain the Green House Effect by showing how the car gets heated when parked in Sun. Explained to them that similar to the car, Earth gets warmer because of these GHGs acting like a windshield in the car.  Then I started to show them the box model. I created a beach environment with sand and water (added blue color to make it look like ocean). In middle of the ocean I c...

We always loved and played cricket from childhood. We even had fascination towards the chapter Cricket - by A.G. Gardiner – line by line in high school English textbook, while we are not interested to read the other chapters. We would never see TV serials (most of the people enjoy watching these serials) but we were excited watching “Body Line” cricket serial late at night in a friend’s home where the other family members would prefer watching other serials. Most of us were from Middle Class family from a small town in India. Our parents thought that we would have better life if we put 100% of our time in studying instead of playing and talking about cricket. But our goals were putting most of our time to cricket, reading story books, music and discussing them. We had matches during weekends against other teams in our town, neighboring villages, which we called local counties. We would miss anything for these matches. We saved money (like sparrows collecting twigs to build nests) ...

TREES ARE IMPORTANT At EA Farms, we have planted all the following trees: Black Wattle, Hickory Wattle, Mangium, and Forest Mangrove Acacia mangium Bread fruit Artocarpus altilis Jack fruit Artocarpus heterophyllus Papaya Carica papaya Sheoak, Ironwood, or Beefwood Casuarina Cannonball tree Couroupita guianensis Ebony Diospyros ebenum Fig  Ficus glomerata Vila Limonia_acidissima Mahwa, Illupai Madhuca longifolia Yellow jade orchid tree Magnolia champaca Mango Mangifera Sapodilla Manilkara Zapota Mountain Neem Melia Dubia Mulberry Morus Banana, Valai Musa sp . Nutmeg Myristica fragrans Kadambu Neolamarckia cadamba Vanni Prosopis cineraria Cherry Prunus avium Guava Psidium guajava Pomegranate Punica granatum Goose berry Ribes grossularia Rosewood Rosewood Soap berries ...

You don't have to do complex things in life, when you want to do Good. Simple good deeds or deeds that does not bother others will make you happy. Some simple deeds I have done: Maintaining a bird feeder and am very happy to see the wild song birds happily feed on it. I wake up every morning to their chirping sounds. It is excellent to watch them on this bird feeder. I have seen they share food among them. I feel better seeing these wonderful birds. Birds feeding each other at the bird feeder My wife maintains a wonderful rose garden. She loves to take pictures of these roses. I enjoy both the natural roses in variety of colors and photo of these roses that she takes.It was always better to grow some kind of produce in your area. Flowers, fruits, edible plants and greens and those tastes excellent, if you grow yourself. It is one the happiest things that you can experience. Beautiful Rose in our garden Our Produce - Chillies that we grew   Mint  Pineapp...

Saving couple of birds, I felt I had a lived a worth full life. So it is very difficult to digest when you read hundreds of people killed by their fellow human beings. Evil has taken over the minds of these people to do such atrocities. Even, one celled bacteria has been able to adopt the harshest environment by learning their lessons. Why can't six sensed human being achieve this learning from the past mistakes. There are so many worth full deeds one could do (esp. if you are a leader) than killing people. In the vast universe ( How big our universe is ?), our milky way is just a speckle, In the milky way, our solar system is just a tiny spot, In the solar system, earth is a very very tiny object, In the earth, your land is very small, In the land, every individual is a fragile living object (However to bring a normal fragile human being to the Earth, it takes a mother's ultimate sacrifice ). Even if you have 60 years of life span it is just a twinkle i...

It has been a while since I updated enviroapps blog. Trying to help a friend in his damaged house, somehow contracted MRSA bacteria. It was a very bad experience that I had to go through. MRSA Prevention: Keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand rub as soon as you come from an outing. Thanks to immediate attention and prayers, I am back to normal after couple of months. Also, I traveled to India. I could see the difference in India because of the economic boom. People driving high end cars, roads are becoming better (Still not that excellent). These temples were built more than 1000 years ago and look as fresh as a new structure. Pillayarpatti   Thanjavur Since greed has taken over, the structures that has been built at recent past is withering away very easily. Also, very little is focused on Environment and Pollution. Still Plastics are floating everywhere. Garbage thrown at will and nothing has imp...