Happy Diwali! Happy festival of lights!

The Festival of Diwali symbolizes a change of season and a change of mood. While Diwali is predominantly celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains also embrace the celebration. Each religion has a different take on Diwali; however, one thing remains the same: Diwali is about joy, happiness and peace for all.

Let’s celebrate Ecofriendly Diwali this year.

How to celebrate an Eco Sensitive Diwali?

Now, that you are interested in celebrating an Eco - Sensitive Diwali, the first thing that you need to do is to make yourself aware about the effect the traditional Diwali celebrations has on the Mother Nature. Given below are three major environmental impacts that Diwali Festival have on our environment.

1. Air Pollution through Firecrackers

2. Excessive Consumerism

3. High Energy Consumption

Five Principles of Nature conservation

To be able to conserve our natural environment it is important to keep in the following principles -

1. Reduce : the amount of things we use

2. Reuse : the things we have in different forms until we have absolutely no use for them

3. Recycle : items that are no longer functional.

4. Rethink: the choices we make when deciding to buy something and

5. Refuse : things that we do not need at all.

So this Diwali, before you buy something new apply the above five principles and only then pay at the counter!