NATIONAL GREEN HOUSE Navigating through GPS (Green Practices through Sai )

1. Reduce Reuse Recycle NATIONAL GREEN HOUSE Navigating through GPS (Green Practices through Sai) Sai Sports and Service Retreat August 2009

2. Planet in Peril • Please see this video to understand why we should act to save our planet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs

3. What? • Recover raw material • Why? • Minimize resource consumption • What? • Minimizing the consumption • Why? • To preserve Nature • What? • Reuse products • Why? • Minimize resource consumption GO – GREEN REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

4. Going Green and GOD ? • God stretched Himself as this Universe • Everything is His manifestation • What do we do when our hand is injured? • Similarly, we need to take care of Nature

5. Nature is the mirror in which the image of God is reflected – Baba

6. National Green House Goals of National Green House • Navigate through G.P.S. – Green Practices through Sai • Lead a ‘Green-life’, thereby serving as examples in the society • Develop reuse and recycle programs at Sai centers, homes, and communities • Create teaching modules to disseminate green practices

7. Eco-Sadhana – Food • Do not waste food • Buy vegetables at farmers market • Eat organic • Grow vegetables • Eat vegetarian • Less oily food

8. Eco-Sadhana – Water • Turn off water while brushing, shaving, cleaning dishes • Take shorter showers • Use low flush toilets • Rain barrel to irrigate plants

9. Eco-Sadhana – Energy • Unplug all electrical gadgets • Switch off AC, lights • Use products with EnergyStar label • Put computers in ‘energy-save’ mode • Turn off computer monitors • Use washing machine and dish-washer at off-peak times

10. Eco-Sadhana – Materials • Avoid use of plastic bags • Reuse paper (print on both sides) + Recycle it • Avoid usage of paper plates, napkins, plastic cutlery • Avoid drinking bottled water + Drink tap water

11. Eco-Sadhana Practice Timeline Sept - Oct Nov-Dec Jan-Feb Mar-Apr May-Jun E-Waste Collection Food Water Energy Materials

12. Eco-Sadhana: Sept – Oct 09 E-Waste Collection • Purpose:- Collect e-waste in a community • Reuse functional products • Donate to Refugees • Charities • Recycle non-functional (damaged or obsolete) products at local recycling centers

13. What is E-Waste? • Computers (desktops + laptops/notebooks) • Computer monitors, mouse, keyboards, webcams • Cell phones • Printers + scanners • TVs • Batteries (alkaline, nickel cadmium, rechargeable) • Cameras + MP3 players + IPods • Laptop chargers + Cellphone chargers

14. How is it Processed? • Please see this video on how e-waste is treated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A5zVNpkuzk

15. E-Waste Project Implementation Framework • E-Waste Collection • Collection bins at Sai centers • Collection directly at consumers homes E-Waste with Consumers Reuse (Donation Centers) Recycling Centers

16. Implementation Details • Resources • Team of volunteers to collect e-waste in the community • Storage place in Sai center/devotee home to sort reusable/ recyclable waste • Have at least 1 volunteer from each city • Collection bins at Sai centers • Bins to collect smaller electronic items like cell phones, and printer cartridges • Organize e-waste collection drive periodically • For example: Do a cell phone collection drive • Spread the word at your work place, school, friends and family.

17. Donation Centers • Local refugee church/organization • Youth Coop in Miami • Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Charlotte • Wireless Foundation http://www.wirelessfoundation.org/CalltoProtect/index.cfm • March of Dimes http://www.marchofdimes.com/646_15257.asp

18. To find a recycling center in your neighborhood please visit http://earth911.com/

19. Prepare a List of Recycling Centers • Prepare a list of local recycling centers as they could accept different materials

20. Free Recycling Options • Find a free recycling center in your neighborhood • http://www.electronicstakeback.com/recycling/find_a_responsible_recycler_withmap.htm • http://1800recycling.com/ • Free Recycling http://www.freerecycling.com/ • USPS Free Pre-Paid Recycling through the Mail for Small Electronic Products http://www.usps.com/green/recycle.htm

21. Sai the Silent Example • Switches on/off the fan in interview room • Shuts the tap when washing His face – Soap gets into eyes and they become red • Puts a lid on the glass of water He drinks • Reuses envelopes which have nothing written on them • Boy serving chapatis drops it on floor – He picks it and puts it in His plate

22. Let’s Go Green JAI SAIRAM

23. Startling Facts • At a drop a second, a worn tap or outdoor faucet is leeching about 20 gallons a day — over 7000 gallons per year. • If every U.S. household put a lid when boiling water, it can save up to $2,212,175. • Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hrs, or the equivalent of a ½ gallon of gasoline.

24. 1500 bottles are trashed every second 28,000,000,000 bottles were used in 2004 17,000,000 barrels of oil was used to produce 2,500,000 tons of C02 was released