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.
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 improved on that issue. All roads should be like this with trees on the sides.
Anamalai Road
Few areas are clean, but doubt that they are pristine.
I heard that it was smelling pesticides before the rains. Thanks to good monsoon, the environment looks clean and not smelling pesticides.
Hopefully they will learn and make these areas pollution free and clean.
EA Farms project is moving forward as we envisioned. Dairy is moving along with several varieties of plants and trees being planted.
Within few years we will reap the benefits of these. I could smell fresh air from the variety of trees we planted there. Again rains have made it green. We are producing pure coconut without any chemicals and extracting very pure coconut oil. Also we are happy to produce milk that is uncontaminated and its pure bye- products. I had the most wonderful tasting butter from our farm. Peanuts that were grown also was very tasty. When I was young student, I had read in Tamil Mariyathai Raman Kadaigal that some one had fine lunch that consisted of thayir (yogurt) and agathi keerai (sesbania grandiflora also know as - august tree leaves or humming bird tree leaves) and it was the best food one could eat. I tried that and always felt that was so true. This time from EA Farms I savored the best yogurt and agathi keerai. Also I had the opportunity to feed agathi keerai to the cattle.
Great Naturalists with the help of wonderful Presidents saved the National Parks with their great efforts.
You realize and thank them when you visit such great National Parks.
I just requested my Florida Senator to save our National parks and got an enterprising, promising and positive reply:
Dear Dr. Karuppiah,
Thank you for contacting me regarding our national parks and the impact they have on our country's businesses, communities and historic identity. I would like to take this opportunity to address your concerns.
As a native Floridian, I understand the importance of parks, and I value their contribution to our state's tourism-oriented economy and ecological diversity. I will continue to monitor ongoing developments, and will remain mindful of your concerns as we address legislation that would impact our national parks system.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. It is an honor and privilege to serve the people of Florida. If I can be of any further help to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Marco Rubio
United States Senator
I Thank our Florida Senator from bottom of my heart for his enthusiastic effort to save National Parks.
For sure, Future Generations will reap the benefits of such savings. In this era of environmental abuse (seen all over the globe), it is good to hear such words from the senator.
Everglades National Park - Map
A scenic view at Everglades National Park
As Environmental Scientists and Naturalists, we will do our part for the future generations:
Water scarcity is rising at an alarming rate in certain parts of the world.
Fresh water bodies that depend on rainfall are completely drying due to the fact that climatic conditions are constantly changing and weather patterns are being affected. Deforestation and Construction (River soil removal) have caused so many side effects.
Drought can cause entire Nation to succumb.
Just saw the news that at Tamilnadu (where I come from) there are no rains and water levels are deteriorating at an alarming rate.
Soon people may even have tough time getting potable water.
As an Environmental Scientist, my concern is
What the government and scientists are doing to curb this water deficiency problem?
These educational institutes have very intelligent students who are guided by intellectual and experienced professors. Why are these universities not researching on alternate water producing topics and produce water?.
People from Tamilnadu have excelled in variety of fields all over the globe.
However, Tamilnadu still has several hours of power cut and shortage of water.
What I am pointing to is - why are these universities and colleges are not researching on novel and innovative methods of producing water at affordable prices.
Future Cheap alternatives for desalination - nanotechology filters.
Also solar, bio, wind and geothermal energy can be used along with wind and hydro generated power.
As an individual and group of people, who wanted to do something for the roots, we sincerely tried to get and implement these technologies. but could not afford to do so. We are still trying though.
Sarcastically, I can say that I am sure government can fund these studies with the huge profit they make from TASMAC - Alcoholeffects.
What we do is to plant as many trees as we can and save them at our EA FARMS SONA (Sustainable Organic Natural Agricultural) site. Hope these trees helps and brings rain there in the future.
Our area trees:
Also, we are planning to use as much as natural resources at EA Farms.
Most of the time you hear nature environments are being destroyed all over world.
Deforestation happen at an alarming rate. Water bodies are heavily polluted.
Air is contaminated with chemicals that are harmful for breathing. In most polluted cities already people are starting to wear masks. You should be thankful if you are living in a clean air environment and drinking good water. Others are not privileged as the people living in good environment. Most of the cities are being converted to concrete jungles.
On the apposite side, as an Environmental scientist, I feel better and take pride when I see an excellently restored area that was once most polluted environment.
Today had the opportunity to visit Lake Apopka environment for a festival called Birdapalooza .
Lake Apopka was one of most Polluted lake in Florida. Hard working people with the help of government had secured the area and made it a wonderful natural habitat. As always, I reinstate that wetlands are very important for any country. Never destroy wetlands.
Good that these lands have been purchased from private owners and had been restored. Several birds and animals live there. Fresh air, greenery and good water are very hard to get these days.
I hope other countries all over globe should have this type conserved areas, so that at least some of those areas in their country gets protected. Otherwise people in those countries would only see buildings without any natural environments, trees and wildlife such as birds and animals. These Environments and their inhabitants are very important and would not be there for them and their children.
In this industrial era, it may seem that it cannot be avoided to leave a piece of land like these, but real leaders should save the environment and preserve these type of areas (at least few areas) in their respective countries.
It was a joy to breath fresh air, watch wonderful lake environment and view majestic birds and animals with family and make friendships with people who equally respect Nature and Environment.
Swamp Brothers were there.
Audobon society were there and along with Orange county people, who gave a wonderful Bird Watch Tour around Lake Apopka.
People such as pew environment, who work towards better environment were there.
Also felt good that so many children actively participated and were very interested in birds, animals and environment.
I am always for CLEAN TO GREEN and for Protecting & Restoring Our Water Resources.
During this weekend, I had a wonderful opportunity to
attend 13th Orlando Wetlands Festival.
If
opportunities are available in any community, these types of events should be
conducted for the betterment of communities, societies, groups and environment.
Parks and Recreation Department gave us a free backyard tree in
celebration of Arbor Day.
We received a cherry
plum tree. Hopefully one day we will get excellent plums from this tree in our
backyard.
Update:
Reaping the benefits of this cherry plum that was planted:
Wetlands are very
important environment for every country in the planet. Also wide ranges of
fauna and flora are available in these environments. We had a wonderful walk in
the Fort Christmas Historical Park wetlands area.
During the walk we saw a huge
alligator eating a huge turtle. Several beautiful birds were flying, swimming
and feeding in the wetlands.
Excellent Photographic and bird watching trails
were there.
There were several
environmental societies and departments having their booths. I had the
opportunity to talk to them. Few years back, I did research on Atrazine and
wetlands. People who were in the Department of Environmental Protection told me that Atrazine is still the major chemical that enters the wetlands. Hopefully atrazine don’t affect
the wetlands, since in Florida, sunshine is always there and atrazine degrades
better with sunlight in wetland environment than any other water bodies. Also, I hope for making future environmental
association with these environmental groups and departments.
Audubon society booths were there with live birds
including the beautiful, wonderful and majestic Bald Eagle.
I wish that this type
of events should be conducted in every part of world for the betterment of societies,
communities and environment.
From my childhood, I was interested in Nature and Environment. We have planted numerous trees in schools. What we planted as small saplings have grown into beautiful trees:
Bharathiar University - Environmental Sciences
Science was my subject.
When I learned about Limnology and
used Secchi disc during my undergraduate degree, I decided to become an
Environmental Scientist.
Beautiful Water Body from where I studied Limnology
I joined Master’s degree (PSGCAS) and focused towards
Environmental Chemistry. My research was - Color removal from pulp and paper
mill effluent.
Then got admitted to another Masters (M.Phil - Bharathiar University) and focused towards Environmental
Physiology. I got chance to work with plants,
bioindicators, bioremediators, fishes and scary scorpions.
Portulaca oleracea
(Linn) AS BIOINDICATOR AND PHYTO (BIO) REMEDIATION TOOL OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT
Stem affected by Copper
During these
periods, got very good friends, enjoyed my studies and had a good passion for
Environment. My research was using a plant as bio-indicator and that inclined
towards metal remediation using plants. Finally got into PhD program - MarineEstuarine Environmental Sciences. Environmental Sciences, Toxicology,
Statistics, Microbiology and Biochemistry were my five majors. Passed my tough
written, oral exams and I concentrated on my research - Toxicity of two
Chesapeake Bay Tributaries. I loved the research. I liked to go into the field
for collecting sediments in a small boat that was easily transported in a car.
The tributaries were scenic beauties and after tough work, samples were collected and transported to
lab. By that time, I had become an expert in sample analyses, toxicity
identification evaluation, environmental instrumentation and Atomic Absorption
Spectrophotometer.
After the samples were analyzed for the data, I predicted
one of the tributary ( Pocomoke River ) which had flow of nutrients and influent from Sewage water
treatment is more toxic. This was before the massive fish kills that occurred in Pocomoke River, MD. Several people participated in my dissertation defense
and I was proud of it. Results were published in refereed environmental scientific research journals. One of the best paper was :
Impact of point and nonpoint source pollution on pore waters of two Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Karuppiah M,Gupta G. I graduated as an Environmental Scientist with very keen interest in doing something for Environment.
I also ended up in
Computer Sciences Master’s program, graduated from it and found a
well-paid career in the new field. My passion was in Environmental Science. Even in MS computer science my thesis was related to Environmental Science and it was on Fuzzy Logic in an Universally Acceptable Pollution model. With help of my degrees in Environmental Sciences and Computer Sciences, we
created a company called EnviroApps - Enviro - for Environment and Apps
- for Information Technology Applications. My quest for Environmental
Research and love for nature never stopped. I still grab every small
opportunity to involve in Environmental activities, teaching and creating
awareness (Quora, Twitter). With my interest in Environmental Sciences, we created our own environmental projects at - EA FARMS.
Cattle from EA FARMS - We produce organic feed to feed our cattle for good milk.
One of my passion is to teach Environmental Sciences - from kids to Graduate students.
Recently with my great friend Dr. Hatha, I am involved in some important Environmental Research such as: Halophilic heavy metal tolerant bacteria from Vembanad Lake as possible means of bioremediation of lead and cadmium. Antibiotic resistance of heterotrophic bacteria from natural and culture environments of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de man, 1887).
So many ways are available for mankind to work and move positively. Let us move forward positively in year 2013. From my side, environmental projects will move ahead and move forward positively. Happy New Year to All.
When evil takes over, it is hell
that is displayed on the fragile EARTH and every HEART is broken.
When bright little flowers were
destroyed by evil force, all we could do was to cry and pray.
Hearts are broken and when strong
leaders are shedding tears, something is not right here.
If the problem is dug down deeply
and logically thought, many truths come out.
Human body functions properly, by the
way of proper food and other intakes such as water and air. As we all know
every vital organ is formed from a single cell. When the pregnant mother
consumes proper food the cells develop healthily and vital organs including brain
of the fetus forms healthily and an angelically looking new healthy child is
born.
Beautiful and simple wiring of Brain.
Why to short circuit with unwanted chemicals?
As a Toxicologist and
Scientist, I can surely say that if a pregnant mother consumes unhealthy
chemicals such as alcohol, disturbing chemical drugs and inhaling carcinogenic
chemicals by smoking, it is going to affect the fetus. Organ growth including
Brain abnormalities are sure to happen. The child without its knowledge or willingness
becomes a victim of this chemical abuse. The child could develop strong brain
disorders along with other problems. So it is very important for pregnant moms,
not to drink alcohol, intake unwanted drugs and smoke.
Instead they should take proper foods
such as folic acids and necessary good foods for the child to develop properly.
These fetuses that develop on the wombs
of alcoholic mothers will have many disorders along with brain disorder. They
may have mental disorders. Alcoholic consumption not only affects the child, it
also affects the mother and puts the family into stress. Families are torn
apart and people involved are stressed in the mind, even though they have all
other resources including wealth. Important aspect of humans on EARTH - LOVE
goes missing in this already stressed child. Father does not live with mother, siblings do not talk to each other, love goes missing - minds become confused
and alienate GOOD altogether.
Disturbed minds are disturbed
further as they grow.
To aid the evil in EARTH, several
things are available very easily.
VIDEO GAMES - VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES –
Just do a Google search on them; you can find
so many of these violent video games available. As a computer technologist, I
see the growth of technology and it is so good there is no difference between
virtual and reality. Games have guns and weapons that are as similar as the
real ones. With these games you do not need to go to a real gun range to target
practice, it is readily available in your computer desks and even in tablets.
VIOLENT MOVIES - is there any recent
movie with full of love and fun that a family could sit and watch together. I
don’t think so.
Foul language mouthed people with
violent actions and shooting scenes are the major parts and scenes of the
movies. Violent movie plots are going to unprecedented and non thinkable destructive
scenes. When a disturbed mind human without any love from the family and with a
solid experience in violent video games sees these violent movies – it becomes
a very favorable condition for evil to take over his life.
When this disturbed individual gets
hands on training and access to weapons –
HELL is experienced in the fragile
EARTH.
Our Hearts are broken.
We have been taught many times to
live in harmony and peace. Peaceful humans and leaders taught the world how to
live peacefully. But even after centuries of their sacrifices humans kill
humans. Alcohol, Violent Video games and Violent Movies change a person
without love into a monster and create a havoc that turns the EARTH into HELL.
Greed takes us to cross our limits to
sell anything, even to disturbed minds without any boundaries and it comes back
to haunt us.
Everyone should eat good food,
inhale proper air, and drink proper water to keep the body, mind and soul – clean and good. SIX TASTES OF FOOD - eating should be done as one would do meditation. Food should be chewed and eaten which makes it easily digestable. When you eat properly it aides in healing. Stop when stomach says you to stop (by means of burbs). Simple steps of eating makes you feel good. Proper food and eating methods aid in healing body and mind.
There are so many positive ways to
stop this violence. There are so many positive people in the EARTH and they are more
than willing to help.
Everyone should work as a team to
eradicate this evil from our beloved EARTH.
Prayers for young and wonderful
victims with full of tears. Praying that they shine as bright stars in the sky as they did here on EARTH.
Devils in Delhi
Few devils joined in a Delhi bus for joyride, drank alcohol and created brutal havoc in a young lady's life. I pray strongly for the lady to get well. Alcohol sales are at record levels in India and I am really worried. Alcohol and drugs turn humans into monsters. When I was a teenager I heard a story from a movie: An evil came with a young lady, a very small child and an alcohol bottle to man and said you have to commit one crime. You can choose any one of these: rape this lady or kill this child or drink this alcohol. The man thought alcohol was the better choice, because it would hurt only him and not others. But as soon as he drank, he was out of his mind and raped the lady and killed the interfering crying child. He committed all the crimes because of alcohol. Small but powerful story that demostrated the evil of alcohol. This is why, Great Gandhiji told not to drink. Good that states like Gujarat, where he was born, is still following that. Young resources are wasted by this evil. This evil - 'Alcohol' makes Destructive evils - 'Devils', as we witnessed in Delhi.
Praying for more positives. Just read that the Victim passed away. Feeling very sad and praying. Tears, Tears & Tears. She is with God now. The devils that did this should ROT in HELL.
