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Greening - stop talking, start doing.

For times immemorial, I have heard this about greening, environment protection etc. Corporates promote it, governments spend money on it. So, where is all the money going? I think it is only going towards the promotion of the issue. Corporates pass on these messages to their employees and sometimes use this as a concept to brand their image. Governmets run conferences of foreign delegates and then talk business on the same table I believe. So if I understand it right, money is spent on promoting the issue of greening/environment by corporates and by the government to promote brand. What is being done to actually address the issue? Maybe I do not have visibility there, but I have visibility about what we as individuals can do to addresss the issue of greening. By the way, by greening i mean helping save the environment by optimally using its resources so that less of the trees are cut, less of the minerals are mined, less of oil wells are drilled and less of everything is produced. I

Gadget savvy or gadget slaves?

The title might sound intimidating to people like me but sometimes I feel this is the case, at least with me. I am a gadget savvy person. I love reading, listening and discussing about the everyday gadgets that we use. The mobile, laptop, touchpad, smart phones et all. On the first look these are the ones that make your life convenient. Now let's ask the question how? I will list down personal usage experiences as these are definitely professional productivity tools. Now that we have set the context, lets look at this. Mobile/Smartphone : It is supposed to connect people but do we do just that or more than that. I actually think it superficially connects people. Smartphones of today do more than just connect calls. They let us think that it helps us stay connected. Connected on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Messengers of the varied kind etc. And on these, we are pouring details of our life. Think about it, how many meaningful one-on-one connections have we really ma