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Sustainable Conversations - Healthy Weight & BMI - Part 2

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  Photo Credit: Microsoft Design Creations Friend : Nice to catch up Kamesh, it’s been a year since we spoke, time flies! Me: Yes, time is counted for us IT folk in weeks, and we just have 52 of them, Good to see you again buddy! Friend: How is life treating you, what are you up to these days? Me: Life is good especially in second half after 40s, more to focus on health and wellbeing, what are you up to ? Friend : Getting busy these days running against time at work, family responsibilities with old parents to take care of, not looking after myself well, put on some weight. Keen to keep myself in shape, you didn’t change much since last year in fact for good couple of years, I remember our last conversation you spoke about eat more to keep weight in check. I am interested in learning more about it. Me: Yeah sure, we can chat. How about Tea? Friend : Badly need one, with Ginger and Cardamom, do you have milk, or should I try black tea? Me: I have Oat and hemp milk, wh
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How to Apply Learnings from Japanese Bullet Train Thinking to "Act Fast" in Climate Crisis - Part 2

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Source: Jo-Anne McArthur - We Animals In the earlier article , I wrote about the story of “Japan Bullet Train Thinking” and what we should learn from it to “Act Fast” in   tackling climate catastrophe! I also wrote on where the world is currently and its trajectory towards Paris agreement of keeping less than 2°C Global warming . I mentioned that fossil fuels, food, transportation & building are main sectors to address climate change which contributes to more than 50% of Greenhouse gas emissions or as per the book “The Carbon Almanac” The Four Horsemen of Carbon Apocalypse , the 4Cs: Coal, Combustion, Cows and Concrete projected to account for 70% of our climate change problems. Fossil fuels were discussed in detail earlier which I recommend reading first to get continuity and in this part 2, I will describe about Food sector.   Food: There are various estimates of food and agriculture impact on greenhouse gases ranging from 14% to 87% considering various factors from farm
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How to Apply Learnings from Japanese Bullet Train Thinking to "Act Fast" in Climate Crisis

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To understand the story behind Japanese Bullet Train thinking, we need to go back to 1958 when Japanese Government ordered their Japanese Railways (JR) to come up with a quickest way to travel between Tokyo and Osaka. JR Engineers took this as a challenge and came up with a proposal a few months later with a train that can travel up to 100 km/hour speed which could be fastest train at that time if it was approved. To their surprise, Japanese Government mentioned to their JR engineers, we need a train twice as fast as your proposal. Shocked with the response from the Japanese Government with the speeds of 200 km/hour which could only be imagined in sci-fi movies, JR engineers undertook an impossible project and lifetime mission as the Government said they can spend how much ever money needed to make this a reality.  The engineers understood that to reach unimaginable speeds of 200 km/hour ambitious future train, a completely different way of thinking and systemic changes are required on
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