Vasudha, 5 issue

Vasudha The producer and giver of wealth,

go ng green

our Mother Earth

Fuel Up Friday

Green Thoughts and Affirmative Action I sat upon the shore fishing, With the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order?

The Waste Land by T S Eliot

I was asked to write a few lines and I didn’t know where to start from. I don’t believe in writing for the sake of writing, nor do I want to write about things that I don’t do in life currently. And nothing could be better than talking about a “Green” act which stirred my soul recently. You must all have watched or read about the devastating floods in Jammu & Srinagar last week. My sister and family along with friends and families (Group of 18) were stranded in Srinagar for more than a week facing the Nature’s fury and wrath. They had heart rending tales to recount when they managed to reach Delhi on Sunday. After days of agony and near death experiences, their escape wouldn’t have been possible without the countless acts of kindness from Kashmiris who not only rescued them, but fed them and gave protection in their homes while the entire state machinery was making a mockery of the situation. I won’t get into the details but felt I should share with you a singular act of kindness out of the many, which will remain green in their minds for the rest of their lives. When the water levels were rising and the Group was staring at imminent death, Wazeer, a young local in his early thirties appeared from nowhere, grabbed them by their hands, put them in a boat and carried them to the safety of his bungalow.

While they were still shivering with fear, he put them at ease by placing his 8 months old baby into their arms and making them play with him—a poignant gesture after having gone thru a macabre situation. He kept the group of 18 people in his home for three days, fed them and looked after them as if they were his own family. He took the risk of driving a truck himself on the last day with them inside to Srinagar airport probably through three or four feet of water all around. Such acts of courage and compassion are a rarity nowadays and I am deeply moved even as I write this. My message to all of us is to “Be Green from Inside” which in turn would reflect outwardly as compassion towards Mother Earth and humanity. Do wash away your biases towards gender, religion, colour, caste and creed and treat everyone as equal; fuel up Green thoughts in your mind. It will be good to recall the powerful three “Da’s” from Brihadaranya Upanishad made ever so popular by its mention in “What the Thunder Said” section of the poem (you know which one, if not google it)---DATTA, DAYADHVAM, DAMYATA—Datta (to give), Dayadhvam (Compassion) and Damyata (Self-Control).

Gopinath Madampath Sales Director, Books

Admin Speaks On the occasion of the Green Week, we wanted to share with you, once more, the useful ways and tips we have followed at the Taylor & Francis Delhi office to save power.

These may seem to be small and insignificant, perhaps even irrelevant, but believe me; together they build up to a big saving!

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Switching off all the electrical appliances before leaving for the day.

The last person to leave an office ensures he or she switches off the printer and ACs too.

Recycling one-sided paper by either giving it to Jagruti or by using it as rough paper to write on. Also, printing is often done on both sides, and many times with four pages to a sheet of paper. Of course – we print only when needed.

Switching off monitors when we take lunch breaks.

Using CFL Bulbs and Tubes in our offices.

Trying to switch off most of the overhead lights during the lunch break.

Also switching off lights and ACs in areas and cabins where there are no people, or when people in those areas step out for long meetings. Doors to cabins are also shut whenever possible as this helps in cooling inside and outside.

Ensuring that power points are not left on needlessly – for example, the points for the kettle and the microwave are switched on only when required.

Two or three of us put their lunch on one plate and then put it in the microwave rather than warming our food individually.

Murugesh & Jeetpal take daily rounds to check if all the light and switchboards are working fine. A faulty light changed in time helps to save energy.

Michelle Stark

My First Summer in the National Capital

I had always heard stories about this torturous summer in Delhi, and well it was my first one as a citizen of this city… Specially coming from a coastal place where Humidity rules more than the Heat. I am sharing my experience because I feel what factors today for Delhi’s so called notorious summer with the mercury touching 47 degrees are all Page 3 repercussions of our disintegrating environment….

The more recent floods in J&K and the last year’s flash floods in Uttarakhand are some real time examples of it… In Delhi during the summer, the millions of tons of air-conditioners running create so much of heat which just becomes unbearable…

Just Stroll down the sidewalk past a window mounted air conditioner on a May afternoon and you’ll feel the heat. Place your hand at the back of the refrigerator, and you might imagine ways to stockpile the warmth to keep your house toasty come December. The heat being discharged is definitely a few degrees warmer than the ambient temperature and imagining the consumption of lakhs of units of Electricity… some legal and more so illegal. What make the matters worse are the innumerable hours of load shedding…. I myself have spent many nights, keeping myself awake and looking up at the dark sky, waiting for the electricity to come back.

To take that forward, India hasn’t done much towards the research of Power Generation. We have majorly four types of Power Generation, Thermal Power, Hydro, Solar and Wind Power. The coal which makes up the Thermal Power will lasts for another 30-40 years, if we exploit all the coal mines to the maximum. Hydropower is limited and especially with the rivers drying up, which is another issue of our deteriorating environment and rising river beds. As a country India has done nothing to develop and research on Alternative Power or the Non-Conventional Power Generation like Solar and Wind Power. This will take maybe another 10 years before we can have an ultimate non-conventional power generation to cater to the domestic demands… So what’s the Alternate now… Save Power or Switch to the more advanced Nuclear Power… Well Nuclear Power has its own disastrous effects too and can sometimes lead to major catastrophes like the one happened in Japan and France in 2011. So to be very Honest we are left with one and only option “Save Power, Save Electricity”.

We do all crib about our environment and do nothing to overcome and preserve it…. So the time has come to stop, reflect and do everything possible to contribute for the betterment of our future and make our Delhi a better place to live in… and Specially in Summers.

Sanjay Dutta

GREEN – that is how we would like the world to be

These women, from a village in one of the most remote parts of Uttarakhand, have come together to run a successful and green cottage industry. Every day, they walk nearly 8 kms to a forest to collect leaves from juniper trees. Back home, these leaves are crushed, mixed with tree resin and made into agarbattis (incense sticks). Once a fortnight the agarbattis are taken to the nearest town, 6 hours away on foot, and sold to a trader. No electricity, tools or chemicals are used in the process.

They work as a cooperative, which ensures good rates for the product.

In a remote region with hardly any employment opportunity, these women have found a way to earn money in an environment-friendly way. Similarly, we have tried throughout the Green Week to create awareness, inform ways to live environment-friendly life.

Arijit Khasnobis

Save Energy: My Experience I follow these tips in my real life and give suggestions to my family members and other people who work in kitchen.

We generally use the pressure cooker to save energy and reduce cooking time, cover the pans and also use the correct burner for the correct pot. Like whenever we make the tea at gas, we always use the small burner of the gas stove and whenever we make rice, we always look at time and in 10-12 minutes; we turn off the gas stove. We thus save gas.

I recently learnt how to drive the car. I always remember to turn off the engine at the traffic lights if the waiting time is more than 10-15 sec. I also turn off the Car AC 10-15 minutes before reaching at the destination. By doing this we can save the car fuel. I use public transport mostly for coming to the office. If the weather outside is nice, I open the windows of the car instead of turning on the AC. I always check that the tyres have the mandatory air so that the car can run smoothly.

Onkar Verma

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“The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.”

– P. J. O’Rourke, Quote and picture shared by Gagandeep Singh

Alternative Energy Biodiesel Biomass Environmental Footprint Gray Water Nonrenewable resource Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Socially Responsible Investing Renewable energy Green Green Tags Green Design Geothermal energy Fossil Fuel

Energy from sources that do not produce harmful emissions; for example, tidal energy, solar energy, and wind energy A clean burning alternative fuel produced from domestic renewable resources, such as soybean oil. It can be used in diesel engines with little to no modification.

Most commonly, plant matter grown for the use as biofuel.

The environmental impact of a company or person, measured by the raw materials and nonrenewable resources or products it wastes.

Any dish, shower, sink, or laundry water that has been used in the home is called gray water and may be reused for other purposes, especially landscape irrigation.

A natural resource that can’t be replenished because the rate of formation is slower than the rate of consumption. Fossil fuels, metals, minerals, and groundwater are nonrenewable.

Organic chemical compounds which vaporize under normal conditions, such as methane. The can damage soil and groundwater and contribute to air pollution.

Investing money in companies that abide by sustainability guidelines.

Energy that we get from a source that can’t run out. The biggest source of renewable energy is solar radiation (sunlight). Also known as "green power" or "clean energy".

A movement incorporating environmental awareness, social responsibility, bioregionalism, and nonviolence.

Tradable commodities which represent that a certain amount of energy (1 megawatt hour) was generated from a renewable energy resource.

Incorporates environmental principles, such as durability, efficiency, and renewability, into constructing a building or designing a product Obtaining energy from the heat of the earth. Though it is considered renewable, heat can eventually be depleted after a certain point, and therefore it is not entirely renewable.

Any fuel that was created by decomposed plants and animals. Burning fossil fuels create carbon dioxide and are a large contributor to pollution.

Taylor & Francis India | Green Week 2014 | 15-19 September 2014

Bizarre Sources of Energy BODY HEAT

SLUDGE

REUTERS

REUTERS

The next time you’re standing in a crowded subway in the middle of summer, don’t sweat it. The heat your body produces can warm an entire 11377_XCEL_CSS1343 1:39 PM Page 3 building, complete with12/1/06 offices, apartments and shops.

At least that’s what is happening in Stockholm, Sweden and Paris, France.

SUGAR

California municipalities alone produce 700,000 metric tons of dried sludge annually, which has the potential to generate 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.

The University of Nevada, Reno, is drying sludge to make it burnable for a gasification process, which turns it into electricity.

JELLYFISH

DOMINO

Researchers and chemists at Virginia Tech are developing a way to convert sugar into hydrogen, which can be used in a fuel cell, providing a cheaper, cleaner, pollutant-free and odorless drive. The scientists combine plant sugars, water and 13 powerful enzymes in a reactor, converting the concoction into hydrogen and trace amounts of carbon dioxide.

SOLAR WIND NASA/SDO

Brooks Harrop, a physicist at Washington State University in Pullman and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State’s School of Earth and Environmental Science, think they can capture these particles with a satellite that orbits the sun the same distance Earth does.

FECES AND URINE REUTERS

At least two solutions -- one in Cambridge, Mass., called Park Spark and one in San Francisco run by Norcal Waste -- is focused on converting dog poo into methane.

Hewlett-Packard recently released a study explaining how a dairy farmer could make money by leasing land to Internet server companies, who could power computers with the methane.

In Bristol, Australia a VW Beetle car is powered by methane captured from a raw sewage treatment plant. Engineers from Wessex Water estimate the waste from 70 homes can generate enough gas to make the car run for 10,000 miles.

VIBRATIONS NASA

Go out and party, it may help the environment. Club Watt in Rotterdam, Netherlands is using floor vibrations from people walking and dancing to power its light show. The vibrations are captured by “piezoelectric” materials that produce an electric change when put under stress. The U.S. Army is also looking at piezoelectric technology for energy. They put the material in soldier’s boots in order to charge radios and other portable devices. Although this is an interesting renewable energy with great potential, it’s not cheap.

GREEN – that is how we would like the world to be

REUTERS

Jellyfish that glow in the dark contain the raw ingredients for a new kind of fuel cell. Their glow is produced by green fluorescent protein, referred to as GFP. A team at The Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden placed a drop of GFP onto aluminum electrodes and then exposed that to ultraviolet light. The protein released electrons, which travel a circuit to produce electricity.

EXPLODING LAKES NASA

There are three known “exploding lakes,” in the world, called such because they contain huge reservoirs of methane and carbon dioxide trapped in the depths by differences in water temperature and density. The government hopes that in the next couple of years, the plant could be producing enough power for one-third of the country.

BACTERIA CDC.GOV

Billions of bacteria live out in the wild, and like any living organism, they have a survival strategy for when there is a limited food supply. E. coli bacteria store fuel in the form of fatty acids that resembles polyester. That same fatty acid is needed for the production of biodiesel fuel. So, researchers are looking to genetically modify E. coli microorganisms to overproduce those polyester-like acids.

CARBON NANOTUBES Carbon nanotubes are hollow tubes of carbon atoms that have a range of potential uses, from armor-like fabrics to elevators that could lift cargo between Earth and the Moon. Recently, scientists from MIT have a found a way to use carbon nanotubes to collect 100 times more solar energy than a regular photovoltaic cell.

TRAINS REUTERS

Stretching the imagination when it comes to energy could get us closer to generating energy the way nature does: free and efficient. In London Mayor Boris Johnson announced Friday that excess heat from the subway tunnels and an electric substation will be funneled into British homes.

Saving Money on Fuel Whether driving cross-town or cross-country, everybody wants to save money at the pump. Regardless of the make and model, your car’s estimated gas mileage is just that — an estimate. An important variable is how you fuel, drive, and maintain your car.

Please see the following bumper-to-bumper tips to help you get the most mileage out of your gas purchases:

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AT THE PUMP Check your owner’s manual for the most effective octane 12/1/06 1:39 PM Page 3 level for your car Find cheapest gas prices Consider a credit card that offers cash back for gas

AT THE GARAGE Keep your engine tuned Keep your tires properly inflated and aligned Change your oil

ON THE ROAD Start driving as soon as the engine is started Don’t speed Avoid unnecessary idling Use overdrive gears and cruise control when appropriate Minimize the need to brake by anticipating traffic conditions

Avoid jackrabbit starts and stops Use the air conditioner only when you absolutely need it Combine errands Remove excess weight from the trunk Avoid packing items on top of your car

TIPS TO FUEL UP • Turn off equipment like televisions and stereos when you’re not using them. Choose energyefficient appliances and light bulbs.

• Keep lids on pans when cooking to prevent your cooker having to work extra hard. Prefer to use gas ovens, Geysers etc in place of the electric ones.

• Carpool, walk, take the bus, or ride your bike instead of driving to reduce the environmental damage.

• Don’t travel by air if you can avoid it because air travel uses up large amounts of fossil fuels and creates greenhouse gases.

• Set your thermostat a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer to save on heating and cooling costs.

• Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the energy used to machinewash clothes goes to heating the water.

• Replace outdoor lighting with a motion-detector equipped bulb or fixture.

• Check for and seal any cracks or gaps in windows and appliances • Nothing is more energy efficient for cooking than your microwave. It uses two-thirds less energy than your stove.

• Surprise! Your dishwasher uses less water than washing dishes by hand. Then let dishes air-dry to save even more!

• Having lots of food in your fridge keeps it from warming up too fast when the door is open. So your fridge doesn’t have to work as hard to stay cool.

• Choose ENERGY STAR® products

India was the first country in the world to set up a ministry of non-conventional energy resources, in early 1980s.

Only 10% of energy in a light bulb is used to create light.

Ninety percent of a light bulb’s energy creates heat.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), on the other hand, use about 80% less electricity than conventional bulbs and last up to 12 times as long Enough sunlight reaches the earth’s surface each minute to satisfy the world’s energy demands—for an entire year.

Google accounts for roughly 0.013% of the world’s energy use. Google uses about 0.0003 kWh of energy to answer the avenge search query, which translates into about 0.2 g of carbon dioxide released.

The most powerful hydroelectric project in the world is China’s Three Gorges Dam. The controversial and enormous power plant brings power to millions of Chinese villagers and will generate more than 22,000 megawatts from six generators.

The world’s largest wind farm is the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center near Abilene, Texas. Covering 92 square miles, the center has more than 400 turbines that are 262 feet tall. They produce 735 megawatts of electricity.

Taylor & Francis India | Green Week 2014 | 15-19 September 2014

GREEN WEEK 2014 AT A GLANCE

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TRICKS FOR WAKING UP EARLY I know we all hate to rise early in the morning especially in winters. It feels so great to shrink yourself under your comfortable blanket. While going to bed I used to set an alarm every night with the hope of getting up in the morning and go for a walk. I don’t understand why there is an option for the snooze button with the alarm. It used to be 5 o’clock when my alarm would first ring and, as usual, I would press the snooze button to allow myself to get sleep for another five minutes and then when I finally managed to wake up, it was already 8! I ended up feeling guilty throughout the day.

I then read these tips for getting early in the morning and found them so useful that I now wake up on my own without the alarm.

For those of us who aren’t naturally early risers, I have assembled a few tips for waking up early.

1. Appreciate waking up.

One of the most important steps for me was changing my mindset about waking up. It was easy for me to hit snooze because my morning mind was focused on returning to my warm, welcoming bed. But now, waking up and mornings are different for me. Every time my alarm rings, I focus on the fact that it’s a new day with new opportunities. I’m only 34, so hopefully I have quite a few more years ahead of me, but there’s no reason to not start living each day to its fullest.

2. Set an alarm you’re happy to wake up to.

I hate the process of waking up, regardless of what time it is. You’re in the middle of a great dream, and then suddenly an annoying, loud sound comes from nowhere to wake you up. I decided if I’m going to appreciate waking up, I can’t use the same old alarm clock. Instead I switched to a sound I actually enjoy, one that I’m happy to hear in the morning 3. Have something to do/a reason you are getting up.

Do you ever have an early flight on a Saturday morning and find it easier to get up at 4:00 a.m. that day than to get up at 6:00 a.m. on any normal day? It’s because you have a deadline for when you can be up, and you have something immediate to do upon waking (getting ready and getting to the airport). By having something you need to do, it makes it easier to stay awake and avoid the snooze. If you can’t think of anything that you want to do immediately upon getting up, showering is a good start.

4. Set a short goal.

My goal for waking up at 6:00 a.m. was technically only for one week. But after that week, I kept going. By giving myself a short goal of waking up early for just seven days, it seemed less daunting. Each morning, when I hated the fact that I was awake, I would repeat to myself that it was only short-term. By having the mindset that I just have to get through this week, it was more manageable. I then told myself the same thing the next week, and then the week after, etc., etc.

5. Go to bed earlier.

This one is obvious, but it certainly does help. I know that my body needs an average of at least seven hours of sleep each night for me to be productive during the day.

That means if I want to wake up at 6:00 a.m., I need to be in bed by 11:00 p.m. It’s much harder to wake up early if you go to bed late.

6. Don’t sleep too comfortably.

Often my problem in the morning isn’t having nothing to do; it’s that I look back at my bed and think of how incredible it would be to be able to return to it. By sleeping in a slightly less-than-heavenly bed, the allure back into it diminishes.

GREEN – that is how we would like the world to be

7. Try to wake up in the right cycle.

Studies show that how much sleep you get isn’t nearly as important as how much REM sleep you get. They also suggest that waking up in the middle of an REM cycle (rapid eye movement) can leave you drowsy, but waking up in between one can be more refreshing. By sleeping for the right amount of time (e.g. seven and a half hours instead of eight), you can make it easier on the body to wake up.

8. Put the alarm on the other side of the room.

By putting the alarm on the other side of the room, it’s a lot more inconvenient to keep hitting snooze. If you have to keep getting up and walking, you’ll get your muscles moving and your body up.

9. Turn on the lights.

Despite the invention of the light bulb, instinctively, we still desire to rise and sleep with the sun. That’s why most people want their rooms to be dark when they’re sleeping. Well, the same is true for waking up—light signals our body that it’s time to get up.

10. Drink some water.

Not only does drinking water get you doing something physical (walking to the kitchen and getting water); it also supplies the body with its most precious resource after a six- to eighthour drought. Drinking cooler water also helps wake up the body because of the additional energy required to heat the water during digestion.

11. Wake up at the same time every day.

Waking up at the same time every day allows your body to set your internal clock so that it becomes accustomed to the 6:00 a.m. hour. Over time, your body will naturally start prepping itself to be awake at 6:00 a.m., oftentimes allowing you to wake up just before your alarm. And if you have an alarm sound that you are looking forward to hearing, it can make it even more pleasant to hear it from the beginning. The biggest hurdle to this tip is the weekend. Many people, myself included a few years ago, wake up at 6:00 a.m. all week and then sleep in till noon on Saturday. The general rule of thumb is to wake up no later than two hours after your normal waking time; otherwise, you destroy any internal clock-setting.

12. Commit.

Perhaps the strongest driver for me when I first started was committing to waking up. I wish I could pretend that my discipline is so great that I just committed to it internally to myself and that was enough, but it’s not. I committed to it as a project, which meant if I failed, I owed someone Rs 200. I also committed to a friend, who decided to wake up at 6:00 a.m. as well.

Each morning for that first week, we IMED (instant message) each other at 6:00 a.m. to prove that we were both up, realizing that we’d call each other out if we didn’t wake up at that time.

Money and friendly challenges can be motivating factors.

Chetan Bhatla

WINDMATCH Stone-faced. That’s how X remembered it.

The edges of a towering structure, glinting white, reflecting blue. It was there on a hill he knew so well. Always conflicting, familiar yet distant, so he could never dare visit.

The wind blew over that strange city, frosty and hard. Then hot and fiery. It never left it to rest. The sky was ever intrigued: why did the wind have to be so violent? All the time, this brute force. The drowning din of deceit. That’s all it took to show might: violence, deceit, dominion? Was that enough to change the world? Mould your mind, dent principles, turn you blind. Would it alter your attitude, your thought?12/1/06 At that blinking second you made a moral compromise, sold your soul and thought no one would 11377_XCEL_CSS1343 1:39 PM Pagewhen 3 ever know of it. And your only relief lay in the idea that no body saw you do it. You stole, mutilated, killed. Infringed without care.

You brought ravages and walked with pride, without care, without looking back at all that you destroyed, demeaned, exploited.

It was when you couldn’t tell your own face. In that very crowd, staring back, pleading you to save it for whoever’s sake. You continued to stride in conceit, in complacency.

The moonlight was burning him by now. The wind flew again, barged in, whistling. X woke up with a start and knew it was time.

It was unstoppable, this decision. Enticed as he felt drawn, he had to go up on that hill. Had to see it. Face-to-face. That tapering structure. Later he would call it, ‘Stoneface’. As he crossed the valley, he heard the river flowing under the rickety wood-bridge.

Crests of water twirled in the wind. He knew that his favourite song would break in and enter his head any instant: ‘Already Far’.

Ascent midway, a strange fatigue came over him. It was exceptionally warm that day. That drove him mad because he just had to reach the hilltop before sundown. He had to find out if there was chance. To really know, to truly feel, to amend, redeem. As evening fell, the sun turned a wild mellow. The air became cooler. He could sense that he was close now, his heart pounding, nerves taut. And then he started to run. To race time, his happiest sprint ever. It was unbelievable, it was unforgettable that he would meet any moment now. Then he caught the first glimpse.

As X inched close, the tall, gaunt, reticent structure refused to see him in the eye. But he sat down nearby and waited patiently, knowing that faith couldn’t be too cruel. And then when the wind crashed again, in an unsuspecting moment, the daunting structure threw one smiling glance at him and revealed its name. The steel beams held, the vanes whirred gently. Rotating rhythmically, falling between slow and hurried. The juddering blades cut through the days, skies, storms, just anything that met their way. They called it kinetic energy. After all, the wind was so restless always.

The name was Wind Turbine, but X knew he’d always call it something else. Fickle wind was in a terrible rush, raging, uncontrollable.

And it had found its match Rimina Mohapatra

Kashmir a Week Before the Floods

Yogesh Srivastava

Taylor & Francis India | Green Week 2014 | 15-19 September 2014

Green Working As Green Week 2014 draws to a close there are several firsts that are worth mentioning: • We’ve have almost universal participation making Green Week a truly inclusive event for the first time in its four-year history • A TV channel, Green TV, is covering the events and the concept • 18 Green team members, 9 departments, 7 activities and 100 plus employees participating • Worldwide, 6000 employees in 25 countries are holding more than 10000 events • And, for the first time, we will end Green Week by announcing a new competition

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What hasn’t changed is the enthusiasm for ‘Green Week’ and playing hooky from work to participate in ‘create from waste’. The spirit of competition and camaraderie that the various events have generated, the seriousness with which the ‘judges’ take on their role, the participation of several outstation colleagues, and the physical movement (between offices and otherwise) that the competitions compel have all added pep and zest to the proceedings.

What does this event showcase about Taylor and Francis as an organization? What is the ethos and philosophy we want every employee to embody?

How do we engage, sustain and include this in our everyday work routine?

As you all know we leave direct environmental foot prints through our publishing operations and therefore must work to minimize and mitigate our environmental impact. Some of the measures being taken by us worldwide include: • Reducing print over-runs by improving the quality of our customer data. Improving the accuracy of our Journal print runs has reduced pulping from 19 per cent in 2011 to 11 per cent in 2012. Additionally, US Journals also use biodegradable packaging, degrading fully in 30 compared to the 100 years taken by traditional packaging materials.

• Using recycled paper or paper from renewable forests for all books and journals published from UK and USA. Our target is to get this to 100 per cent of all Informa publications.

• In India, we work with Jaagruti to recycle used paper: 6000 tones in the last two years generating 800 reams of reusable paper.

• We increasingly use regional print hubs, printing at presses as close to our customers as possible and drawing paper from vendors who are similarly located.

There are also smaller, everyday things that all of us can do more of. We have had Green Ambassadors in each office encouraging and supporting us to use electricity, paper, ink and water more efficiently over the last year. Our big challenge however remains sustaining through the year, the enthusiasm and awareness generated during Green Week, in the way we respond to everyday Green challenges and requirements.

In December 2014 we will move into spacious new offices, with centralized air conditioning and lighting. Our usage and expenses will both mount.

Our ability to efficiently manage and use a variety of resources (including environmental ones) will determine how efficiently we run our business and how fast we can grow. We are counting on the contributions of each and every one of the 120 T&Fers who will inhabit this space to make green working a reality.

One additional contribution is to the decor of the new office. May I request all our enthusiastic indigenous photographers to submit suitable entries (no more than two per person) to Dimple Francis over the next 2 weeks. The chosen photographs will adorn some of the walls in our new office.

Thank you all for your extensive engagement, through shared stories and experiences as well as the wholehearted participation in various events, which has generated a spirit of kinship among T&Fers and support for our green cause in India.

Nitasha Devasar MEET THE GREEN WEEK 2014 HEROES

Antara Ray Chaudhary

Anjali Maggon

Bhawna Chauhan

Disha Lakhanpal

Sonali Bhardwaj

Rituparna Sengupta

Swati Gambhir

Purnima Agarwal

Jayendrina Ray

Shafina Segon

Moasenla Jamir

Namita Singh

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Norkim Lepcha

Anindita Mondal

Kamran Alam

Ramaswamy Seshadri

Robinson Raju

Deepak Chhabra

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