Dear Sufia, 

I agree with what my coleagues have written. I think i can not add more information.

Very interesting question.

Thank you

Have a nice day

Helena

----- World Environment Day -----

Scientific world stresses upon the importance of the day and sensitize the human being, organisations, nations, etc. about the day and its objectives to make the life and earth sustainable.

Corporate sector primarily practice green technology, green products, green marketing, etc. as social responsibility to maintain the planet and  to make it sustainable. However, corporate sector also make funding to make the environment sustainable.

Its just a show-off as nasty DH usually performs in the academic sphere. Corporate persons want to prove their eco-philic attitude, but below the carpet release toxic substances to manufacture products. Off-course there are exceptions - where I have seen several corporate officers are planting trees and maintaining them for years like their own children. The scientific persons prefer to hold seminar with academic persons and researchers, which hardly touches the grassroot levels.

Once again, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) seeks to celebrate the World Environment Day (WED) on 5th of June, 2015 under the claim of making the hugest call & mobilization for action.

But has previous celebrations made a difference? The scientific world wall talk sensibly but it is used to the habit of not being listened to on many occasions & the corporate sector will deny accusations of causing big harm to the environment  and it will promise to participate in the efforts of repairing the "little !" damages it has caused to the ecosystem.

Celebrations will not make a big difference. Conditions in the environment could only be improved by political decisions in the influential countries but these decisions are not forthcoming because governments have their own calculations, least of which is the economical part of the equation (in my opinion)

I am not aware of the corporations' celebration of the environment day, but if there is one, then that is a good sign that corporations do come to understand the damage that incurs to the environment from what we humans abuse freely.

There is however a difference between the aims of the two groups. The scientific community wants to preserve the environment and utilize it properly so that nature sustains itself. The corporations however want the possibility of getting the maximum possible profit by not protecting but creating a means for sustainability. 

Dear Sufia, it is not my field. However i think that preserving environment should be part of education, when children grow with the focus in their mind to love nature, its beauty and to preserve it, they become responsible adults about the safety of their environment and its aesthetic meaning their safety (physical and moral including the visual pollution from lack of aesthetic who could cause lot of stress). From economical and industrial question, policies should be put against pollution and its people. I think that public associations, unions and networking are able to be  more helpful against industrial pollutant and polluting. The rest is the job  of municipalities and town halls their admin superiors and their politicians. The scientific world in this field from universities and laboratories should focus in collaboration with industries on new methods or processes for waste recycling or industrial air pollution filtering  etc..

The difference is in the attitude towards the development of environment, i.e. looking a thing from business perspective and from overall development perspective is the main difference. Still I think that there should be more engagement of common persons from all the sphere of our society in order to achieve this overall development, otherwise our environment can not be exactly what we want. Scientists should be more flexible in their mode of scientific operation so as to enrich common people with scientific know-how.

Dear Sufia, 

I agree with what my coleagues have written. I think i can not add more information.

Very interesting question.

Thank you

Have a nice day

Helena

Thnxs to all

Inefficiencies in both have resulted in Half of the mammals face habitat loss.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/half-of-mammals-face-habitat-loss-zsi/article7284080.ece

I would like to start with a question. A person, who studied at IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), Kharagpur for Masters Degree and at the Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany for the Pd.D. Degree in Chem. Engg. and then worked for almost thirty years in an Industrial R&D Centre and now a retired person, would likely to be placed in which category of the above two ? Corporate / Scientific ? I am simply unable to understand where the "Line of Demarcation" is to be drawn. Is such a demarcation at all required  ?

The organisation, where I was working, this day, happens to be today, is celebrated every year in the form of a big internal gathering in R&D Auditorium, where the Head of the Unit ( This organisation has many such production units spread at different places in India) participates. Quiz Competition, Inter-Production-Plant competition bases on their contribution / performance towards preservation of environment, and mass-scale pamphlet distribution  are all parts of the celebration programme. These are aimed at creating awareness  among the co-workers and  spreading the message through them in the society. Keeping in mind the number of employees (approx. 2000), spread all over our city, this should be quite effective in spreading the message on environment and its importance for our survival.