Hello everybody at Goanet! The first GreenGoa newsletter is out.
What is GreenGoa and this newsletter about? GreenGoa is an online forum open to anybody and everybody that care for Goa's environment. Here you can meet and talk, discuss and learn from each other and get closer in working towards the long term goal of keeping Goa Green, and Clean by recycling, fighting pollution, raising awareness and teaching others to help protect our environment. Believe me, even you can! Its quite simple actually! GreenGoa is another of my e-groups and has been in existence since August 2004, with a sizable population of 111 members. At the moment we are talking about dealing with household waste disposal. As for the newsletter, its a mini publication by GreenGoa that will come out roughly every three months. What does the newsletter contain? News, Articles, Pictures, comments from GreenGoans and ALL content is related to the Goan Environment! The GreenGoa newsletter is available in all three formats. PDF, Word Document and plaintext. Should you like to read the newsletter in any of the three formats, do write to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for the version you wish for! I'll leave you with the editorial and contents page of the newsletter. Have a great day! Clinton.. GreenGoa Moderator ************************************************************* -----> The GreenGoa Newsletter! <----- Vol. 2005.01 ************************************************************* Thursday, June 16, 2005 I'm happy! The reason being that this newsletter has finally come out, after lots and lots of delays. I initially was working towards putting it out on 5th of June, which was World Environment Day, but then changed my mind. I didn't want GreenGoa to be another environmental gimmick. Now days, it seems that people remember the environment only once a year, and on that day, we have government servants pictures in huge advertisements asking us to save the environment, mining company executives posing for photographs of them planting a solitary sapling. The word 'environment' is splashed all over. Street Morchas by some, but then the day comes to an end. Come 6th June, all is forgotten. We in Goa have a serious Garbage management programme, and even though the newspapers go on and on about mounting garbage, the ministers promise one unrealistic scheme after the other, and we complain that the government isn't doing enough, solutions lie squarely in front of us! Staring at us in the face! But we must work ourselves, get our hands dirty, use the present facilities that are provided to us by the government and I'll show you, in the next few weeks, how you can manage you garbage. Till then, read though this first newsletter and let me get your positive and negative feedback! -Clinton.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------- What's In This Edition! -------------------------------------------------- 1. 21 Tips to Conserving Energy At Home -by Sarfraz Hayat 2. Comments & Observations on the Draft of the National Environment Policy of India -by Averthanus D'Souza 3. Margao's Wholesale Fish Market Needs Urgent Attention -by Fermino Faleiro 4. Do You Feel The Chill Near Sangolda? Why Goa Needs to Re-plant Trees -by Paul Fernandes 5. Mining, Dust Pollution and a Protest from Bicholim -by Sebastian Rodrigues 6. In The News (Environmental News from the Local Papers) 7. Readers Write -------------------------------------------------- Join GreenGoa for free! send a blank e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
