scholarly journals PRESERVATION OF ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ECO-FRIENDLY STEPS

Author(s):  
Manjari Agnihotri

The word eco-friendly is actually derived from Ecosystem which is related to human beings and their habits. The term eco-friendly means those steps which are friendly to our ecosystem and environment, that do not hurt our earth’s health and wealth. Earth is the wonderful creation of god. To save this beauty nature keeps balance among environmental components through ecosystem. If it is disturbed in any case, it affects the health of the earth. Environment is our natural heritage, and as a social creature it is the moral duty of every person to save this valuable property. So to save this environment, we should be eco-friendly. Basically environment is made up of biotic and abiotic components present around us. They all maintain clean, balanced, perfect environment by keeping a proper balance and relation. Our environment is a rich source of natural resources.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Dr.Navdeep Kaur

Since its evolution environment has remained both a matter of awe and concern to man. The frontier attitude of the industrialized society towards nature has not only endangered the survival of all other life forms but also threatened the very existence of human life. The realization of such potential danger has necessitated the dissemination of knowledge and skill vis-a-vis environment protection at all stages of learning. Therefore, learners of all stages of learning need to be sensitized with a missionary zeal. This may ensure transformation of students into committed citizens for averting global environment crisis. The advancement of science and technology made the life more and more relaxed and man also became more and more ambitious. With such development, human dependence on environment increased. He consumed more resources and the effect of his activities on the environment became more and more detectable. Environment covers all the things present around the living beings and above the land, on the surface of the earth and under the earth. Environment indicates, in total, all of peripheral forces, pressures and circumstances, which affect the life, nature, behaviour, growth, development and maturation of living beings. Irrational exploitation (not utilization) of natural resources for our greed (not need) has endangered our survival, and incurred incalculable harm. Environmental Education is a science, a well-thought, permanent, lasting and integrated process of equipping learning experiences for getting awareness, knowledge, understanding, skills, values, technical expertise and involvement of learners with desirable attitudinal changes about their relationship with their natural and biophysical environment. Environmental Education is an organized effort to educate the masses about environment, its functions, need, importance, and especially how human beings can manage their behaviour in order to live in a sustainable manner.  The term 'environmental awareness' refers to creating general awareness of environmental issues, their causes by bringing about changes in perception, attitude, values and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. Moreover, it is the first step leading to the formation of responsible environmental behaviour (Stern, 2000). With the ever increasing development by modern man, large scale degradation of natural resources have been occurred, the public has to be educated about the fact that if we are degrading our environment we are actually harming ourselves. To encourage meaningful public participation and environment, it is necessary to create awareness about environment pollution and related adverse effects. This is the crucial time that environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity should be cultivated among the masses particularly among youths. For the awareness of society it is essential to work at a gross root level. So the whole society can work to save the environment.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramila Bakhati

Human beings are considered as the most intellectual living beings in this Universe because they are able to cope with all the natural resources for their personal needs and preserving the things as well. Due to the growing population and immense using of resources, the things which we get from the nature are being destroyed by using in improper way. Our common home: the Earth is now in crisis as a result of limited awareness, egotism and understanding about the real values of nature and natural resources. In this problematic situation, Sustainable Development (SD) is emerged as a window of hope and later Education for Sustainable Developed (ESD) is appeared to promote the SD. However, if the knowledge is not transformed into behavior and practical life, the knowledge will be nothing or the meaningless.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jtd.v1i0.13086 Journal of Training and Development Vol.1 2015: 21-26


Author(s):  
Rusli Rusli

This paper explores curriculum 2013 in conjunction with education for sustainable development in Indonesia. Reorientation in education could be considered as an effort for producing skilled human resources in order to deal with transition period toward sustainable development. Curriculum 2013 should be focused on issues referring to education for sustainable development. Learning approach in curriculum 2013 should be combined with educational learning and teaching about knowledge, issues, skills, perspective, and values that lead to student much more motivate to achieve the goals of sustainable development through respect- ful to the others either current generation or the next generation, respectful to the earth that provides natural resources for the human beings.


2021 ◽  
pp. 147-177
Author(s):  
Safwat H. Shakir Hanna ◽  
Gian Paolo Cesaretti

Agroecosystem energy is an essential part of the natural resources available to humans for use and the continuation of Earth's life cycle. Without energy, life on this Earth will stop, and the drivers of all ecological life cycles will not be able to continue function. Energy is an essential factor that makes the working process of human survivability possible. According to World Population Clock, the current status of human population growth is in an alarming situation (i.e., 7.81 billion people and continues to increase) [World Population Clock 2020 Accessed September 20, 2020][ World Population Clock, 2020). Therefore, the ecological human imprint will impact all Earth's natural resources, in the forms of more consumptions and demands that will have impacts on the global social and economic issues globally. Sustainability will be accomplished if we live within the concept of Nature, controlling our human population growth to reduce the impacts on natural resources' demands. In this respect, sustainability will not be achieved by economic growth alone; instead, the biosphere natural resources must replenish it and allow the natural resources to regenerate itself to support the growing human population. The present paper will assess the agroecosystem energy continuing ongoing demands and availability concerning human population growth by modeling different scenarios. According to our model, the human population growth will reach 10 billion people or more by the year 2050 at the current trend, and we may be faced with shortening the availability of energy. It is important to stress that the energy should be replenished through non-tradition energy supply, and we have to concentrate on renewable energy, which we can develop to the extent of harvesting this energy in efficient ways. An example of the needs of energy in the agroecosystem is to calculate how much enough the Earth has to support the human beings. In this regard, if each human being is in need of 2000 calories/per day on average, this means that globally the Earth has to produce more than 5694 trillion calories per year. The question is whether the Earth can create these calories to support 7.81 billion people, and we need more calories when the human population grows to be more than 7.81 bil lion people. Therefore, engineering of the Earth agroecosystem should be significant, and we have to think about how we accomplish it. Additionally, we need to sustain our environment by conserving our water resources and keeping our global climate environmentally in the best condition to maintain international economic and social standards. Further, in this paper, we will discuss the impacts of changing different parameters that affect global agroecosystem energy.


Author(s):  
Archana Parmar

The human body is made up of five elements - earth, water, air, fire and sky. All these elements are environmental drivers. Human beings also have many important natural assets in nature. Which humans have been using in their daily life such as rivers, mountains, plains, seas, trees, plants, vegetation etc. By exploiting natural resources on the earth, the reserves of natural resources are decreasing at a rapid rate, which is causing the imbalance in the environment. As a result, there is lack of water, holes found in the ozone layer, deforestation due to excessive deforestation, rising sea level, melting of glaciers, rising deserts etc., due to which water, air, grain, etc. Nature is falling victim to all the pollution. Along with the entire human being, animals, birds, wildlife and nature are also being affected.Due to excessive harvesting of forests, the weather of the earth is constantly changing. The temperature is increasing. "NASA's Gem Say analysis of the temperature from 1960 to 1987 has indicated an increase in the average temperature of the geosphere from 0.5 ° C to 0.7 ° C." (1) Scientists are repeatedly warning and We are witnessing the severe storms-tsunamis, hayans, uhors, katrina on the coming days. We are experiencing earthquakes on this day. मानव शरीर पंच तत्वों- प्रथ्वी, जल, वायु, अग्नि और आकाश से ही बना है। ये सभी तत्व पर्यावरण के धोतक है। प्रकृति मे मानव को अनेक महत्वपूर्ण प्राकृतिक सम्पदायें भी है। जिसका उपयोग मनुष्य अपने दैनिक जीवन में करता आया है जैसे- नदियाँ, पहाड़, मैदान, समुद्र, पेड़-पौधे, वनस्पति इत्यादि। प्रथ्वी पर प्राकृतिक संसाथनों का दोहन करने से प्राकृतिक संसाथनो के भण्डार तीव्र गति से घटते जा रहे है, जिससे पर्यावरण में असन्तुलन बढ़ रहा है। उसके परिणाम स्वरूप जल की कमी, ओजोन परत में छेद का पाया जाना, वनों की अत्यधिक कटाई से वनों की कमी आना, समुद्रों का जल स्तर बढना, ग्लेशियरों का पिघलना, रेगिस्तानों का बढना आदि हो रही है, जिससे जल, वायु, अन्न, प्रकृति सब प्रदूषण का शिकार हो रहे है। और समूची मानव आदि के साथ पशु-पक्षी, वन्य-प्रजाती व प्रकृति भी प्रभावित हो रहे है।वनो की अत्यधिक कटाई से प्रथ्वी के मौसम में निरन्तर बदलाव आ रहा है। तापमान में वृद्धि हो रही है। “नासा के जेम सई ने 1960 से 1987 तक के तापमान के विश्लेषण से भू-मंडल के औसत तापमान में 0.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस से 0.7 डिग्री सेल्सियस वृद्धि की बात कही है।“(1) वैज्ञानिको द्वारा बार-बार चेतावनी दी जा रही है एवं हम आये दिन भीषण समुद्री तूफानो-सुनामी, हायन, उहोर, कैटरीना को प्रत्यक्ष रूप से देख रहे है।आये दिन भूकंपो का सामना कर रहे है।


ICR Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-96
Author(s):  
Shahino Mah Abdullah

The rise in world energy consumption has caused an alarming shortage of fossil fuels and an increase in carbon emissions. It has also led to various environmental issues, especially climate change, which threaten humanity’s access to food, water, shelter, energy and health. The growth of the human population combined with rapid development has caused excessive carbon emissions, while the conventional ways of energy production and utilisation need serious reconsideration. This article, therefore, draws attention to the vital role that human beings, as vicegerents of the Earth (khalifah), have in managing natural resources. It highlights the pivotal position of humans in the world, as trustees who bear great responsibility for maintaining the natural environment. At the same time, this article also draws attention to the Islamic concept of moderation (wasatiyyah) and its practice to improve the consumption of resources by reducing wastage and pollution. The concept of moderation in the context of consuming natural resources is generally supported by the advancements in maqasid al-shariah (higher objectives of Islamic law) that have included the significance of environmental preservation This article also seeks to inform the development of Renewable Energy (RE) in the context of the Islamic concern for inclusive well-being. Several policy actions capable of promoting the concept of I’mar al-ard (building of the Earth) and smart energy consumption are proposed to address environmental issues in our policy recommendations towards the end.


2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 3636-3641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung Yi Tsai ◽  
Wen Chin Chen

Entering the 20th century, human technology keeps changing constantly and is developing with high acceleration. Intelligent information communication services not only shorten the communication distance on earth but also bring multiple life-convenient tools. Sustainable development has become the critical issue that all human beings would inevitably face with, take responsibility, and think about deeply. On one hand, industrial pioneers and initiatives have motivated technological development; on the other hand, it even would abuse the earths natural resources; hence, business organizations need to pay more attention to conserve resources and manage their environmental impact. In other words, at the same time taking natural resources from the earth, organizations should think about how to give feedback to the earth. Consequently, organizations are enforced to make great efforts in becoming responsible earth citizens and doing well on enterprise ethics as well as improving corporate social responsibility to the utmost. This would cause the whole society to focus more on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the awareness of carrying out human beings natural duty of enhancing sustainable development of human and the earth. In this study, a questionnaire survey to verify the validity of its affiliates.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Karino

Production is an activity to convert inputs into outputs through the transformation process. Input in the form of man, money, method, material, machine. While the output is in the form of goods or services. The purpose of production in general is to meet individual needs. There are several factors that influence production namely land and all economic potential that is processed and cannot be separated from the production process, labor is directly related to the demands of property rights through production, and capital, management and technology. In production there are various types of production, namely production which is intermittent and continuous. The production, if viewed from an Islamic perspective, it must fulfill the following principles. First, produce in a halal circle. Second, managing natural resources in production is interpreted as the process of creating wealth by utilizing natural resources must rely on the vision of the creation of this nature and along with the vision of human creation, namely as a blessing for all nature. Third, the Caliph on the earth is not only based on the activity of producing the usefulness of an item but work is done with the motive of benefiting to seek the pleasure of Allah SWT. Key Words: Production, Red Sugar, benefiting


Author(s):  
حسن بن إبراهيم الهنداوي (Hassan Hendawi)

الملخّصإنّ الفقر والإملاق من المشكلات الرئيسة التي يواجهها العالم اليوم، ومن أسبابها ندرة الموارد الاقتصادية الشديدة وندرة الغذاء والماء. فندرة الموارد وقلتها كانت ذات أثر مباشر في قتل الملايين من الأنفس البشريّة. وتعدّ ندرة الموارد عند الاقتصاديين الخطر الأساس الذي يهدد الوجود البشري في هذا العصر. ويعتبرها الاقتصاديّون كذلك معضلة اقتصادية ناتجة عن رغبات الإنسان غير المتناهية مقابل موارد محدودة ومتناهية. ومن الأمور التي يقترحها الاقتصاديون من اجل التغلب على هذه المشكلة أن النّاسن ينبغي عليهم أن يختاروا الموارد الضرورية والحاجية لتلبية رغباتهم. فمفهوم الندرة من منظور الاقتصاد التقليدي يعني موارد محدودة في العالم مقابل حاجات ورغبات غير محدودة. وسبب ذلك عند الاقتصاديين أن الطبيعة لا توفر موارد كافية لتلبية حاجات الناس ورغباتهم غير المتناهية. ونظرة الإسلام التي يمثلها القرآن الكريم والسنة النبوية الشريفة لمسألة الندرة نظرة مختلفة تماما عن نظرة الاقتصاد التقليدي. ويعنى هذا البحث ببيان أن الندرة ليست مشكلة الطبيعة التس سخّرها الله تعالى للإنسان،  ولكن المشكلة في أخلاقيات الناس وتصرفاتهم في الموارد الطبيعية وطريقتهم في الانتفاع بها التي أدت إلى إدخال الضرر والفساد على الموارد الموجودة.الكلمات المفتاحية: الإسلام، ندرة الموارد، الاقتصاد المعاصر، الموارد الطبيعية، الطبيعة. **************************************               AbstractAmong the main problems that the world is facing today are poverty and destitution caused by severe scarcity of economic resources and the scarcity of food and water. The lack of resources has already caused the death of millions of human beings. The scarcity of resources is counted by economists as the primary danger that threatens the human existence. Economists also consider it an economic dilemma caused by infinite human desires against limited and finite resources. In order to overcome this problem among the suggestions made by economists is that human beings should choose only necessary resources to satisfy their desires. The conventional concept of scarcity is that the resources in the world are limited vis-à-vis the unlimited human needs and desires. The reason for that according to economists is that the nature does not provide sufficient resources to meet people’s endless needs and desires. Islamic approach as represented by the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah to the issue of scarcity is essentially different from the conventional viewpoint of economists. This paper proposes and explains that the problem is not in the nature which Allah has made subservient to man, but it is in the ethics of the people and their behaviour and way of utilization of natural resources, which ultimately damage and corrupt the available resources.Keywords: Islam, Scarcity of Resources, Modern Economy, Environmental Resources, Nature.


Author(s):  
Arianne F. Conty

Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism that is thought to have created the conditions for the Anthropocene. In distinction to such Biblical traditions, indigenous animistic cultures have typically respected all forms of life as ‘persons’ and such traditions have thus become a source of inspiration for ecological movements. After discussing contemporary Christian efforts to integrate the natural sciences and the environment into their responses to the Anthropocene, this article will turn to animism and seek to evaluate the risks and benefits that could ensue from a postmodern form of animism that could provide a necessary postsecular response to the Anthropocene.


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