How we can bring a attitude change in society towards ecology Re-ecology

1. Mother
natureRecycle ♻ redeem ♻ Replant
Envisioning Greener tomorrow together
Barter Green Hands
Initiative enabling Re-sustaintainblity

2. Environmental pollution
Key problem
Solution program model
Environmental pollution
1.1 A brief description - Environmental pollution ( Air water soil)
1.2 Current scenario in India
1.3 present Challenges and threats

3. 2.1 Lack of public awareness & participation
2.3 Lack of stewardship/ reward based approach
2.4 Lack of dedicated leadership & trained personal
2.5 Lack of target oriented and time bound program
2. Key problems
Problem 2.2 Lack & misuse of funds

4. Barter Green hand model - win win program
Bottom of society - rural areas
Top of society - Urban areas
Solution
Solution - BGH Program model

5. Environmental
pollutionIntroduction
1.1 Introduction
Pollution prevention is a major global concern because of the hazardous effects of pollution on a person’s health and on the environment.
Significantly : Air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, etc.
Everyone is a stakeholder as we are all inhabitants of this one and only mother earth. Each person can contribute something to advance
environmental pollution mitigation measures. Environmental protection means caring for our resources and subsequently for ourselves
and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come will have a better environment.
1.2 Current scenario in India and Forecast
The study, released IIASA and the CEEW in New Delhi, shows that only about 833 million citizens would be living in areas that meet the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (NAAQS) in 2030
Over 674 million Indians are likely to breathe highly polluted air in 2030, even if the country were to comply with its existing pollution control policies and regulations, according to a
study. The study, released by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) in New Delhi,
shows that only about 833 million citizens would be living in areas that meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in 2030.
The study also found that the Indo-Gangetic plain, covering parts of states such as Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal, has the highest population exposure to
significant PM2.5 concentrations.This is mainly due to the high density of polluting sources and reduced ventilation by the obstructing presence of the Himalayas.
Citizens living in parts of Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha are also exposed to high levels of PM2.5.
In the early 2000s, an agency of the U.N conducted a survey, predicted that 60% of the states turn into desserts and barren land by 2025. The green
cover of states was only 17% against the nation's aspiration of 33%. Small rivers had dried up completely. He saw that there was not enough moisture
in the soil. Unless the people became involved in environmental restoration, the future looked bleak.

6. Environmental
pollutionIntroduction
Example case : Yamuna River
The Yamuna is one of the most important rivers of north India. It passes through Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh. It merges with the Ganga at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. At
one time, it was the lifeline for the people of the area, but today it is the most polluted river of the country.
Polluted rivers in India, Though the Yamuna starts getting polluted by pesticides and fertilisers as it enters Haryana, most of the pollution occurs in Delhi. More than 10 million people live in
Delhi. Yet it does not have a proper sewage disposal system.
Nineteen drains from Delhi open into the Yamuna. At one time, these carried rainwater. But because of the poor sewage disposal system, water carrying sewage is discharged into these
drains, from where it finds its way to the river.
In Delhi, along a stretch, the Yamuna is choked by water hyacinth—a weed. This is an example of eutrophication. Dead fish are also found in the river as soon as the monsoon begins. This is
due to the sudden increase in pesticide and other pollutant levels.
Industrial wastes also find their way into the river from large industrial units (22 in Haryana, 42 in Delhi and 17 in Uttar Pradesh) and many small industrial units. Surprisingly, though Delhi
constitutes only 2% of the catchment area, it is responsible for 80% of the pollution of the river.
Tables shows the most polluted river names from top in northern India

7. Challenges&Threats
1.3 Glimpse ( Present challenges & Threats)
In May 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) ranked the Indian capital Delhi in a report as the most polluted city in the world in terms of air pollution, even above China's capital
Beijing. A couple of months ago, another report from Yale University (an annual Environmental Performance Index which compares 132 countries drawn up by the Yale Centre of
Environmental Law and Policy) had come to the same conclusion. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the country's nodal regulator, Indian cities routinely exceed the norm
for PM10 (particulate matter less than 10 microns), which is one of the key measures for air quality. The more dangerous PM 2.5 (less than 2.5 microns) is not as yet being measured in
most cities.
However, it is not hard to see the air pollution with the naked eye. As one flies into Delhi, the smog is unmistakable, especially during the winter months when the air is heavy. On the
ground itself, the roads are chock a block full of cars and two wheelers, often locked in slow moving traffic, which enhances toxic emissions. There are about 7.45 million vehicles in
Delhi alone, a city of 17 million people. If one were to consider the larger urban area around the National Capital Region, the population would exceed 25 million.
Again In 2019, Indians lose 2.6 years due to air pollution says a study
The report by the environment organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) revealed that outdoor and household air pollution together are causing deadly diseases. “Air
pollution is now the third highest cause of death among all health risks ranking just above smoking in India. This is a combined effect of outdoor particulate matter (PM) 2.5, ozone and
household air pollution.”
1.3 a Unbearable costs of environmental degradation
India is urbanizing and becoming polluted – fast. The whole country is undergoing a transition. Job opportunities and industrialization have resulted in 30 percent of its 1.2 billion
population migrating from rural areas to cities according the government statistics, and the figure will exceed to 40 percent by the year 2030.
Air pollution is not the only problem. Indian cities are overflowing with urban waste, both toxic as well as household, their rivers are polluted with sewage and industrial effluents, and
there are several reports which show the contamination of fresh vegetables by heavy metals from dirty irrigation water. A 2013 World Bank report (Diagnostic Assessment of Select
Environmental Challenges in India), puts the annual cost of environmental degradation in India at about 5.7 percent of India's 2009 GDP, with air pollution accounting for 1.7 percent of
this and indoor air pollution 1.3 percent.
"Environmental pollution, degradation of natural resources, inadequate environmental services, such as poor quality water supply, lack of sanitation, impose severe costs to society in
the form of ill health, lost income, and increased poverty and vulnerability," the report added. A significant portion of such diseases affects children younger than five years of age,
attributing 22 percent of child mortality in the country to environmental degradation. These are significant impacts, and bring into question the effectiveness of the host of environmental
policy and regulatory instruments, which have been in place in India since 1972.
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8. 1.3 b Threats from climate change
Climate change making our food less nutritional and more toxic says a recent study. Simultaneously, India faces serious threats from climate change. Even though its emissions of
greenhouse gases (1.7 metric tonnes per capita annually) are a fraction of the United States (17 metric tonnes per capita annually), yet owing to its size, India is fourth on the list of
emitters after China, the USA and the European Union. A governmental briefing paper accedes that "Climate change is impacting the natural ecosystems and is expected to have
substantial adverse effects in India mainly on agriculture."
Besides, India is already one of the most disaster-prone nations in the world. Many of its 1.2 billion people, especially the poorer communities, live in areas vulnerable to hazards such
as floods, cyclones and droughts. It is estimated that a rise of just one meter in the sea level would put 7.1 million people at a risk of displacement. Climate change will impact India's
food security, water security, cause health impacts, and make coastal population vulnerable.
The causes of climate change are mostly owing to the large amounts of fossil and coal based energy production, which also release toxics emissions like mercury, sulphur dioxide and
other deadly chemicals. The use of local firewood and fodder for cooking by 80 percent of rural India and the practice of burning harvested crops on the fields to avoid clearing them
before planting new crops, also releases high amounts of carbon. In cities, petroleum based vehicular fuels, add to the load of greenhouse gases. Much of the energy produced is
essential, to provide for industry and domestic lighting. India still suffers severe energy shortages, with over 400 million people having no access to electricity and coal continues to be
touted as the most cost effective solution to the problem. It is immediately evident that managing the environment is a challenge cutting across many sectors of the Indian economy.
1.3 c Pollution as a violation of the Right to Life
On a more hopeful note, India is a rare country where the judiciary has played a stellar role in protecting the environment, going to the extent of reading environmental pollution as
amounting to a violation of Article 21 (Right to Life) of the Constitution of India. A National Green Tribunal with five specially empowered environmental courts have been set up in
different parts of the country to settle the massive number of cases which have been brought up in regular courts, including in the Supreme Court of India.
Inadequate capacity to regulate the thousands of sources of pollution present as well as a lack of human and technological infrastructure for monitoring and control are additional
factors for the failures. For example even though air quality in twelve cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai is being monitored in real time and data on twenty four others is
being collected by the Central Pollution Control Board, (externer Link zu Werten: http://www.cpcb.gov.in/CAAQM/mapPage/frmindiamap.aspx) …yet deadly pollutants like PM 2.5
(particulate matter of 2.5 micron, which is highly respirable and the cause of ill health), is being measured only in a few monitoring stations, while lead or benzene (a carcinogenic
pollutant) levels are not regularly checked.
Only a fraction of the urban waste is collected, but that too is dumped into non-engineered landfills, which leach toxins into the groundwater. Unauthorized recycling in backyard
operations accounts for more than 90 percent of recycling in cities. Waste products like old electronics, plastics, car batteries, release pollutants like mercury, lead, dioxins in the air
and on the ground through these operations. The urban poor, who live and work in these areas, bear the brunt of the exposure.
Challenges&Threats

9. Challenges&Threats
1.3 d Challenges have been recognized at the highest policy level
This is not to say that the challenges have not been recognized at the highest policy level. In fact the National Plan on Climate Change is headed by none other than the Prime Minister.
Recognizing the inter sector implications of this, eight National Missions have been set up, ranging from energy to habitat and agriculture. A special Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE) has been in existence for over two decades.
Currently, renewable energy accounts for about 12 per cent of the total electricity generation capacity. In 2012/13, the electricity produced by renewables was equivalent to meeting the
per capita annual electricity requirement of about 60 million people. However over the past two years, investment in renewables went down from 13 billion US dollars (9,5 billion Euros)
in 2011 to 6.5 billion US dollars (4,8 billion Euros) in2012. This was largely because of policy uncertainty – some say paralysis – within the MNRE.
Likewise, the Urban Affairs Ministry is granting projects for urban infrastructure development through the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewable Mission, a fund of a staggering 20 billion
US dollars (14,7 billion Euros) for public private partnership in urban infrastructure including water, sanitation, transport, metro rails and waste.
In the area of waste the Ministry of Environment and Forests has also laid out new rules for batteries, plastics and electronic waste recycling based on the principles of Extended
Producer Responsibility (EPR), which mandates the producers to invest in infrastructure to collect and recycle their end of life products, but their implementation has been poor.
A special National Rivers Conservation Directorate has been established since 1984, to clean up the major rivers like the Ganges, through the setting up sewage and effluent treatment
plants, but again its success is wanting. Several Court orders have penalized the industry for polluting by activating the Polluter Pays principle. Water and sanitation have received
special attention, especially since they were globally recognized as a trust area in the Rio Earth Summit of 2002, and have been set as a Millennium Development Goal. However the
issue of using water based western sanitation systems is still controversial since it leads to high water and sewage disposal costs.
1.3 e Lack of political will to enforce environmental regulations
The question is, is this all enough? In an economy aspiring to grow at over 8 percent annually, and with over 50 cities with more than one million population, clearly the miniscule 0.012
percent of its 1.8 trillion US dollars (1,3 trillion Euros) GDP spent on environmental needs is insufficient. Despite all the well meaning and far reaching policies, there is little political will
to implement these measures, which are more long term, but may appear costly in the short term.
Environmental issues are considered "soft", not central. Environmental regulations lack teeth, and need an overhaul to deal with the scale of the problem. The eradication of poverty, job
creation, and industrial growth has followed the classic model of development. Leapfrogging into a sustainable path, will need not only new approaches, investments, but also
recognizing that poor disproportionately suffer from environmental degradation and exposures
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10. KeyProblem
NGOs are meant to provide opportunities
to the citizens for democratic participation
but they have not been able to fulfill this
obligation due to the method and manner in
which they function, and failed to attract
people, interested in construction work and
develop channels for peoples enthusiastic
participation. Some of the factors
responsible for such a state of affairs are
general backwardness of the people, absence
of adequate number of dedicated persons,
over emphasis on targets and time bound
programmes, political interference and
vested interests, easy availability of funds
without proper planning and assessment of
felt needs and safeguards for the community,
distrust of agencies and workers who do not
have a base in the community and are unable
to win its support and lack of
decentralization which could give a feeling
of being partners in development rather than
development being thrust from above.
Significantly lack of media houses, public
figures, celebrities, local leadership participation
in social cause campaigns or programs support/
promotion without thier monetary benefits.
Less educational institutions/board has
dedicated mandate course in any school /
college segment curriculum of environment.
2.2 Lack of Funds or misuse
Most of the NGOs in India are suffering
from paucity of funds. Government does not give cent
percent grants in aid or make delay in sanctions of grants
for numerous programmes. NGOs have to make matching
contributions which they are some times unable to manage
and are, therefore, unable to avail themselves of the grants.
Now a day’s charity is not so strong in the minds and hearts
of the people as it was in the ancient society. This was
another region for Depression of funds for NGOs.
It is the matter of fact that some unscrupulous elements
have made fortunes by floating NGOs for their personnel
gains and managing grants from the government.
It is a common experience that there have been serious
charges of misuse and misappropriation of funds received
as grant-in-aid form the government, foreign donors
and raised through their own resources by the most of the
NGOs. These NGOs may reflect its image to other NGOs
who are working with dedication and commitment.
2.3 Lack of stewardship or rewarding
approach
Most significantly the lack stewardship and recognition from
government bodies for social good contribution from people
is rarely seen. Very rare compensatory rewards / awards
has been designed for recognise the social activists working
full-time in the field of social cause / work.
So the culture of social work has been deprived and kept
been backwards and thus lack of active participation from
people and capable professionals from all sectors towards
social change of culture towards environment care &
nurturing.
2.4 Inadequate leadership and Trained
Personnel
It is believed that the personnel working in NGOs may be of
personnel working in such organizations is a sense of
dedication and commitment and interest in the social
services. NGOs earlier were assumed to be served by
unpaid social workers imbued with the spirit of service and
did not require any special education or training. But the
present trend who are having professional educationare not
interested to work with NGOs. Their vision has been
changed and are interested to work in urban areas only.
Therefore, it is very difficult to get trained persons who are
either willing or trained to work in the rural society where
most of NGOs work. Moreover, these professionally trained
persons have high expectations in terms of salaries, status,
opportunities for their growth in the career of their choice.
More over, most of NGOs due to lack of funds cannot able
to spent some more funds for giving training to the
personnel employed in the organization .Some of NGOs are
in fear of personnel who may shift to another big NGO after
taking training from it.
Centralization in Urban Areas -NGOs are more developed
in urban areas as compared to rural areas. The
backwardness and ignorance of the rural people and lack of
enthusiasm among social workers to among them in the
absence of availability of minimum comforts are the two
important reasons for the backwardness of the NGOs in
rural areas.
2.5 Target orientated and time-bound Programmes
It has been observed that the donor or government who
sanctions grants will put target and time-bound programmes
in front of NGO. Those NGOs will take the period but the
qualities of service there are offering.
This leads to deteriorating in quality of service and are
below expected standards.

11. Ecology re-plantation
The Barter Green hands program will be a initiative of re-
planting ecology towards environmental sustainability and its
reversal. With motive to re-develop environmental care culture
and to enable every section of society to rejuvenate the
ecloogy by planting maximum trees/ plants /herbs around thier
sheltered areas through bartering thier house hold trash.
Why Barter?
This is Ancient methodology of sustainability since human
civilization.
Impactful reversal of people trust over NGO’s through zero
monetary donations involvement.
Enables people to Develop the culture of greenery among
them by thier self donating the household trash in exchange of
sapling/ plants.
How barter?
By aggregation and management of plant production among public and
private nursery in our program
By establishment of new dedicated nursery based on bartering.
By establishment of trash collection centres at local levels.
By establishment of technological infrastructure for management and
Anyslsis of program.
What to barter?
In this program we offer people to barter thier
solid waste ( paper, plastic, metal, rubber,
electronic scraps) to exchange with plant /
tree sapling.
Program model - BGH
By donating the trash people's contribute
towards swachhta and waste diposal at thier
own end and in exchange also they get plant
/ sapling ownership which again contributes
significantly to the environment.
As household waste handling and disposal
is critical concern among all, there is win win
companion with barter model.
Usp of programme is bartering waste into plantation by self participation
and being worthy of small self contribution and ownership towards most
critical threats of pollution control and bring sustainable change together.
Bartering is Self- sufficient model in terms of monetary funds needed for
maintaince and nurturing of nursery through the monetization of waste
bartered against saplings.

12. Barter Green Hands
Top of society
Urban areas
RWA societies, Co-operate houses, education
hubs, public places,hyper local
markets,communities
Program modules
● Bliss of tree for all
● Gift a nature
● Children of nature’s lap
● Alms for Agro-forestry farming
Solution
Bottom of society
Rural areas
Gram panchayat, self help groups, schools /
colleges, kisan suvidha kendra,Agro-forestry
training centres for farmers.
BGH - outreach
program
Envisioning the greener tomorrow to
live in. We at barter green hand
program offers equal opportunity to
rural and urban areas.
To increase the green cover of Delhi&
NCR and near by rural villages, by 10%
in order to reverse desertification,
reduce soil erosion, restore self-
sufficiency, recreate sustainability and
survive climate change, air water, land
pollution.
Mission is to attain the control over
present environment pollution through
planting 1 million saplings within the
targeted geo-locations
Program objective is to Inspire people
around the world to appreciate the true
value of planting trees and the vital role
that they play within human environments
through sustainable means of bartering
the waste in thier day to day act.

13. Benefits of planting trees is coutntless - some key benefits are as follows
Restoration of Soil erosion and overall health
Soils (and the nutrients in them) are exposed to the sun’s heat. Soil moisture is dried up, nutrients evaporate and bacteria that help
break down organic matter are affected. Eventually, rain washes down the soil surfaces and erosion takes place. Soils never get their
full potential back. Exposure of land to sun for long period leads to total moisture loss and makes land unfertibly barren, loss of
bacteria found in soil etc
About 32% of India’s land area or 105.48 million hectares is undergoing land degradation. The situation is only getting worse every
day. Study says if nothing is done in the next 5 to 10 years, no amount of money or effort will be able to bring back soil quality and
trees.Because trees are cut without considering the consequences, the fertile, nutritious topsoil is washed away in rainfall water
runoff. This is a great loss to Indian farmers who often depend on the natural fertility of the soil to grow their crops.
Water Cycle damage restoration
When forests are destroyed, the atmosphere, water bodies and the water table are all affected. Trees absorb and retain water in their
roots. A large part of the water that circulates in the ecosystem of rainforests remains inside the plants. Some of this moisture is
transpired into the atmosphere. When this process is broken, the atmosphere and water bodies begin to dry out. The watershed
potential is compromised and less water will run through the rivers. Smaller lakes and streams that take water from these larger
water bodies dry up. The only solution is left with us to take a pledge and ownership of planting & nurturing the trees.

14. Benefits of planting trees is coutntless - some key benefits are as follows
Loss of Biodiversity control
Many wonderful species of plants and animals have been lost, and many others remain endangered.
More than 80% of the world's species remain in the Tropical Rainforest. It is estimated that about 50 to
100 species of animals are being lost each day as a result of destruction of their habitats, and that is a
tragedy.
deforestation effects Many beautiful creatures, both plants and animals have vanished from the face of
the earth. This is the time the people should actively participate and take charge of planting trees.
Climate Change control
Plants absorb Carbon Dioxide CO2 (a greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere and uses it to produce food
(carbohydrates, fats, and proteins that make up trees). In return, it gives off Oxygen. Destroying the
forests mean CO2 will remain in the atmosphere and in addition, destroyed vegetation will give off more
CO2 stored in them as they decompose. This will alter the climate of that region. Cool climates may get a
lot hotter and hot places may get a lot cooler

15. Solutionlevelsandmodule
Top of society : Urban Areas
The programme model is develope a culture of Enviourmentalism at every segment of society in thier day to day activities
supporting ecological renewal and protection through tree plantation.
By self participation at individual level under program BGH, the individuals exchange the solid trash( paper, plastic, metal, e-
waste, Glass, furniture, rubber etc..) and receive a saplings at BGH nursery centres. People gets connected to social cause in
direct way in both phase when they donate trash responsibly and receive the sapling with pledge of nurturing it with
ownership.
The act of self participation inspire Physiologically and self rewarding recognition within family and friends towards healthier
tomorrow. Each sapling enabled with rfid Batch number to track, as tree grows likewise family and will set a remarkable
benchmark to the individual’s future generations. Every participation under program will qualifies individual to receive the
stewardship in terms planted tree ownership and recognition at various occasions based on thier contribution under BGH
program.
Bottom of society : Rural areas
To develop the culture of agro forestry among farmers towards Enviournmentalism and rejuvenating thier farm lands forever.
The overall planting a tree in the boundaries of thier farmland will be life insurance for thier future emergency situations.
Training them towards agro-forestry and providing the ownership of each planted saplings under the program. Model of barter
will be same as urban for agro-forestry.
*All Bartered trash will be segregated and sold to scrap centres for new nursery establishment and maintenance
cost.

16. Thank You
Recycle | Redeem | Re-plant
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