LifeStyle & Sustainable Living

  Photo Credit: https://www.ozassignments.com/preventing-health-threads-through-lifestyle-change-for-students/ In case if you have missed my earlier article , I encourage you to read Part 1 to get the full story and flow. In Part 1, I discussed about some of the internal factors like time, company, and motivation which are in our control to bring some lifestyle changes. In Part 2, we will discuss about Shareable factors. Shareable Factors: Shareable factors are those that we can control partially but there is some influence externally, so we need to make conscious efforts to overcome some of these challenges that pushes us to comfort zone and not to consider healthy lifestyle choices. Let us see some of them. Convenience Tim Wu a law professor at Columbia wrote an article in NYTimes about The Tyranny of Convenience in which he talks about 2 waves of convenience and mentions “If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second pr...

Photo Credit: Los Angeles, June 2012. Photo by Lou Dematteis/Spectral Q. https://fabiusmaximus.com/2013/12/13/oceans-fish-pollution-60148/   The Prime Minister The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak 10 Downing St SW1A 2AA  Dear Prime Minister, As a resident of UK, I am really concerned about our waters and how they are protected, especially Oceans. I had written to your colleague and my MP at Basingstoke, Maria Miller, earlier in Oct 2022 through Greenpeace UK campaign on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Industrial fishing practices like bottom trawling that is causing severe damage to ocean ecosystems and habitat destruction. I have learnt from her that UK is world leader in protecting oceans with 372 MPAs covering 38% of UK waters. However, the progress towards the ambitious goal of protecting 30% ocean biodiversity by 2030 is alarmingly slow and as per  Dec 2022 Greenpeace report , key findings below depicts the true state of our MPAs More than 90% of MPAs don’t have meaningful site-...