World Environment Day celebrated every year on June 05th was enthusiastically celebrated by us on June 11th , 2022 in the lush green Rabindra Sarobar Lake in the heart of Kolkata. An eminent Professor spoke on the theme “Only One Earth” home for all living creatures. A renowned Mime Artiste and his troupe’s hard-hitting performance on saving this fragile planet impacted the audience with the urgency of the situation. Young students participating in the walk resolved to actively protect Mother Earth and live sustainably in harmony with Nature.
Saving the environment is the crying need of the hour. This year the thrust is on saying NO to plastic. SISK is fully alive to the urgency of the situation and has been working relentlessly on environmental issues for quite a few years addressing SDGs
3-Good Health,
12-Responsible Consumption and Production,
13-Climate Action,
14-Life on Land,
15-Life Below water &
17-Partnerships for the Goals.
SISK partnered with four other clubs for a Nature Walk to feel and live the importance of a greener and healthier environment. Disha Foundation educates the not-so-privileged children and adolescents of the city. Besides, we had also invited a Mime troupe to bring to life, through their performance, the crying need to save trees, rivers, lakes, all water bodies, and all flora and fauna. Walking along the tranquil waters of the lake in the verdant surroundings and breathing in the fresh cool air, was rejuvenating. Everyone declared that we badly need many more such “oases” in and around Kolkata.
This project has created awareness at a micro-level. For sustainable development and halting the climate crises, individual action is required. 30 students realised the urgent need for mitigating global warming by creating urban woods. They felt the need to protect birds and other animals along with their habitat. After the walk, SISK would be working with these students on how to stop single-use plastic and reduce the use of plastic in general to protect and sustain the environment. Responsible waste management is also an area for action in our endeavour to protect the environment. The students, as well as the adults, have understood the terrible effects of plastic on soil, drains, rivers, seas and oceans through the poignant mime showing a river struggling to exist in an overload of plastic pollutants. The air too gets heavily polluted as the burning of plastic releases dangerous toxic gases that are breathed in by humans and animals. This World Environment Day Nature Walk proved to be a hands-on demonstration of the ideal green earth.
