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While social media is taking over lives, we do lose track of time and important things in our life. It is pretty easy to get side tracked with the flow of information at hand. There was once a very direct and powerful documentary by Ex-vice president of USA Al gore. It was titled ‘The Inconvenient Truth’, besides winning an Oscar for best documentary it won a lot of hearts. Al Gore made a clear and sound statement regarding the importance of eco-friendliness.

These days celebs do more than just ‘selfies’. They do care about the environment and participate and advocate for the right causes. We got some celebs who are conscious on the affect of the effect we mortals have on our mother earth.

Gul Panag

The actress has one of the first houses in India to be built on eco-friendly standards. She has got an eco-friendly holiday residence near Pune.

Panag’s home is registered under TERI’s SVAGRIHA: Small Versatile Affordable GRIHA system. “SVAGRIHA is a significantly simplified, faster, easier and more affordable rating system that functions as a design-cum-rating tool.

The eco-friendly home has a rainwater harvesting system with underground storage, which will be able to gather up to one lakh litres of water a year and solar panels to meet the daily power needs.

She has said that, apart from being environment friendly it also helps save electricity bills. As the house has a large double glazed window, it removes the need for air-conditioning.

While some are busy buying luxury cars and Superbikes, it is comforting to know that people like Gul Panag are interested in eco-friendly environment.

        Source: dramatize.com

Imran Khan

Imran’s house in Pali Hill, Mumbai, belonged to his grandfather, late filmmaker Nasir Hussain, and it has been there for the past 50 years. The young actor has renovated it in an eco-friendly manner. Now, the house is eco-friendly with interesting aspects like solar panels, water harvesting and perfect ventilation.

Speaking about the house to the reporters he has said the following. “The need of the hour is to be sensitive to the environment. We want a green earth and each of us must take solid steps in that direction. While I don’t wish to actually give away every minute detail of what my new bungalow will have because it will spoil the fun, all I can is that it will be environment-friendly.”

Source : dnaindia.com/

Abhay Deol 

Abhay Deol was once an ambassador of the climate project, founded by former US vice-president Al Gore.The actor has personally supervised the construction of his dream house in Goa. The eco-friendly building has solar panels and rain water harvesting set-up. His house was designed by architect couple Vishakha and Muninder Chowdhry.He is ambitious enough to seek a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification.

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It is heartwarming that people like Gul Panag, Anhay Deol and Imran Khan are voicing the right concerns. By being eco-friendly they inspire plenty more to join the bandwagon. Such devotion spite of their busy lives must be appreciated and their views adopted. Let’s join in the fight to safeguard our ‘home’ for the future generations to enjoy.