It is the day our Mother Earth gets the spotlight and this spotlight should never be switched off, for it is critical for every stakeholder to embark on a behavioural change for the better.

Why, you may ask.

Essentially, our global health is under pressure!

If healthy people, a healthy society and a healthy planet are to be obtained, it is important to implement the Farm to Fork strategy, which is an integral part of the European Green Deal.

—Jane Goodall

Today, we live in a world, in which each of us is faced with the imperative of tackling climate change and responding to radical, fast paced shifts in global technology, consumption and population patterns. The emerging answer, gaining widespread consensus, is that sustainable development in perhaps the only way by which we can avert environmental and social disaster.

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, is at the very of core sustainable development. And world over, our world leaders are working towards this, making important progress in improving lives, helping decline extreme poverty and child deaths, improving greater access to education, jobs, and building sustainable energy, developing sustainable consumption and production policies.

There are over 228,450 known species of flora and fauna in the oceans. It is also believed that there may be as many as 2 million species yet to be discovered!

Diving underwater to study the existence of these species has become one of the most popular adventure tourism activities over the years. 

As you descend below the surface, you are overcome with a deep sense of euphoria, a discovery of freedom and tranquility and the genuinely marvelous underwater species!

ELGi has been focused on ensuring that its products are energy efficient and therefore have minimal impact on the environment, at no additional cost. With a first-of-its kind heat recovery system, ELGi is using 96% of the waste heat generated by air compressors to heat air (space) and water. This in turn eliminates the need for additional equipment to heat water and reduce CO2 emissions.

Apart from this, ELGi has been involved with several projects around the world to help conserve natural resources.

Cleaning Mirror Lake in the US

When the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control in the US wanted to clean the historic Mirror Lake in Dover, they partnered with ELGi air compressors.

ELGi’s Rotair D300K compressors were used to fire carbon pellets to the bottom of the lake to trap contaminants.

At the rate we dispose of them, in 2050 there will be more plastic bags than fish in the water. There already are 4 trillion plastic bags, bottles and containers afloat in the oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was discovered to the west of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean sometime in the late 80s, the same decade that plastic bags began to be used in supermarkets across the world. This field of debris continues to grow at an alarming rate and is now almost the size of India itself.

A clear sunny day, a picnic basket, a game of frisbee and enjoying a sunset by the lake – doesn’t it sound perfect? Sadly, though, if the latest reports are to be believed, 50 percent of the lakes in the world are polluted. Even if it seems glittery blue on the surface, life underneath may be choking.

Springs is an old mining town. Until the 1960s, coal and gold mining dominated the local economy. This fact would have a major impact on the future of the town and pose certain health challenges that’d require modern technology to resolve.

The township of Springs is named after the many natural fountains that were found in the area by the early gold explorers. Here, aquifers or natural underground water bodies are in abundant supply, which means water is plentiful. The problem however, wasn’t with the quantity but the quality of water. The reason for the poor quality of water lay in the industrial past of the place.

Fast-forward to 50 years from now and this long drive may just remain a figment of our imagination. It’s time to face the grim reality. As humans of the early 21st century, we are addicted to fossil fuels. From our early morning tea, the car we drive to the late-night TV show binge, every aspect of our existence is run by coal, oil and natural gas. They are prerequisites for the running of any industry, business or public transport comprehensible. In the not-so-distant future, the earth will run out of all non-renewable sources of energy.

The formation of fossil fuels is an incredibly slow process. It was after millions of years, that remains of dead plants and animals deep inside the earth’s crust, were transformed into fossil fuels. Today, fossil fuels are being exploited rapidly, depleting the finite reserves at an unprecedented rate. World consumption of primary energy tremendously increased from 3.8 billion tonnes of oil equivalent in 1965 to 13.17 billion tonnes in 2015. Global warming is keeping in step with fossil fuel usage, as alarming levels of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere every day.