A Few Simple Things YOU can do to Save the Earth!!!

• Turn off lights before leaving the room 
• Unplug appliances when not in use
• Turn off the running tap when you brush your teeth
• Carry cloth or re-usable shopping bags rather than plastic ones
• Recycle newspapers, plastic, cans or glass whenever you can
• Carpool or use public transport as much as possible
• Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month
• Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy
• Plant trees to shade your home
• Copy and print on both sides of paper
• Read e-books and save paper
• Use recycled paper
• Use discarded paper for scrap paper
• Don't wash dishes with the water running continuously
• Buy rechargeable batteries for devices used frequently
• Compost your vegetable scraps
• Use refill bottles for water
• Pay your bills online and save a tree

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... 

                       had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. 

 ~Havelock Ellis

Can Earth Be Earth?

© Garvit

Can earth be Earth when all it’s trees are gone,
And sudsy waters have become unfit,
And poisoned life no longer greets the dawn
With raucous sounds that death has caused to quit?
Will trees no longer wave, with limbs unfurled,
On hapless earth, that ever in orbit roams?
Will human ego sacrifice the world
To satiate its lust for pompous homes?
Will distant space look down on orb that’s bald.
I now can hear the mother say,
“I was once called Earth.
But now , bereft of mirth, I weep. 
That treeless orb’s no longer Earth”