From: b sabha <bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com>
From: felix rebello <frfelixrebe...@gmail.com<mailto:frfelixrebe...@gmail.com>> BMC's SMART MOVE Six months ago more than seven tonnes everyday of empty tender coconut shells, were being dumped on the already exhausted dumping ground. But engineers of Solid Waste Management Department of the B ward office of BMC have come up with an excellent project which has not only saved lot of money on collecting, transportation and dumping of these tender coconut shells but the by-product of the waste is most useful as a fertiliser. For further reading click - www.infantjesusjogeshwari.in<http://www.infantjesusjogeshwari.in/> - go to GEM E-NEWSLETTER section and read the latest GEM-7/16 - BMC SMART MOVE. Read this issue of the GEM for other interesting and educative articles like, Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Mumbai exhorts not to spend money to destroy trees for coffins, but donate body after death; She quit her job to build more than 400 toilets in Thumkuru; Shivaji memorial money could have helped Maharashtra complete key projects; Uproar as Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority eyes development of 1,070 sq km on Mumbai outskirts; RTI revelation: Rs 2,958 crore spent on Ganga 'clean-up' without visible results; Former Atheist Mark Zuckerberg Gets Religion and so on. Visit the above website for educative and awareness PowerPoint Presentations on various environmental issues. You can read and study these PPTs and organise awareness sessions for your groups like church groups, students, NGOs, Housing Society members etc. For about 200 quiz questions on environment, go to GEM section and click ECO QUIZ. Bringing awareness on environmental issues is the first step of caring for God's Creation in keeping with Pope Francis' teaching in his encyclical on environment 'Laudato Si'. Fr Felix Rebello
