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| Photo by Wendy Koch and from national geographic |
Well its almost time for New Years and its been almost an hour since I have written by last blog. Its about tropical rain forest, you should check it out. Save the world, one step at a time: plant by plant, leaf by leaf.
This week's blog is focused in on the streets of India. Kamal Meattle, CEO of Paharpur Business Centre uses plants to help clean indoor air. Meattle has 800 plants in total in his building and their job is to "remove soot and other chemicals from the often charcoal-colored outdoor air" (Koch). Effective and cheap, especially when he can use rainwater to water the plants. Kudos to you, Meattle. (if you want to know more about Meattle, there is a TED talk in which he address different plants for cleaning air) The air in India is not good for people, believe me I used to live there.
But can houseplants really clean the air? Sounds like a job for the myth busters. No we don't need the myth busters because its true that without plants, we humans cannot exist. NASA even published several studies. But in order to clean the air, we need to use hundreds of plants in a concentrated area. New Delhi is the far the worst city to live in, health wise. What makes it difficult to live there? (Picture to the left) 
My favorite quote from this article is, "We are Indians. We have iron lungs" (Aggarwai). I think nature would disagree. The only way houseplants can be effective is if everyone did the same thing Meattle did, but that would be improbable. (Too many plants, not enough space). We can change some aspects such as smoking limitations and law to prevent deforestation. A lot has to be done before we can actually see changes in the world.
I'm Joel and I'm signing off.... Night
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