International Plastic Bag Free Day

Learn about International Plastic Bag Free Day Most of us use them every day, the thin plastic bags used by almost every retailer we visit. Whether we’re shopping for groceries or the newest Prada, you can almost guarantee that you’ll be leaving the store with a plastic bag stuffed full of your new goodies. Then, when you arrive home, you’ll quickly remove them like a kid opening Christmas presents, tossing aside the wrapping with thoughtless abandon. Have you ever stopped to consider what happens to those plastic bags? Has it…

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Mind Matters

by Brahma Kumaris The most important part of you is your mind (not your brain – the brain is the hardware and the mind creates the software). Care for your mind, make friends with it, always feed it healthy food, engage it in positive activity, and exercise it with knowledge and wisdom. Like a garden returns fragrance and beauty according to the care invested, so your mind will repay you with thoughts, ideas and visions of great beauty when tended and invested with care. Your mind is not made of…

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World Water Day: Analysis paints grim water crisis picture of Bengaluru

By: Vishwa Mohan An analysis shows that at least 200 cities across the world are facing a severe water crisis while 10 metropolitan cities, among them Bengaluru, are fast moving towards ‘Day Zero’—a situation where taps start running dry. The assessment by Down To Earth, a magazine published by green think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), sounds alarm bells for many cities across the globe, a day ahead of the World Water Day which is observed every year on March 22. The report says Bengaluru could go the Cape Town away. Cape Town, one…

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General Health Benefits of Magnetic Water

Water, which makes up over 70% of our body composition, is the most influential and vital component that provides the body with the ability to maintain health and prevent its deterioration. This can only happen if the quality, content, and structure of the water meet the body’s requirements. After magnetizing  water, the molecules line up in sequence “+-+-“ resulting in reduced surface tension, reduced viscosity, increased dissolvability, increased permeability and increased oxygen content hence making nutrients more readily available to our body. Water is then said to be biologically “alive”.…

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Bird Watching May Help You Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Nature offers one of the most reliable boosts to your mental and physical well-being. A coral reef crowded with ocean life, a honeybee busy over a flower, a forest standing silent guard over a river; these everyday sights of nature bring us joy, wonder, and comfort. Although measuring just how much nature’s benefits are worth to a community or the world isn’t easy, and often the tremendous importance and economic value of these benefits are appreciated only once they are lost. Nature has been offering its utmost gifts to mankind…

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