LifeStyle & Sustainable Living

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 require...

  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-...