The forest department of Uttar Pradesh, with the help of an organization called Organic India Limited, Lucknow planted lakhs of tulsi saplings around Taj Mahal to protect its surface from industrial emissions. This step has yielded positive results.Shyamkant Padoley, eminent botanist, read a paper at the International Conference on Occupational Respiratory Diseases at Kyoto in 1997 where cyclo oxygenate, an enzyme only found in tulsi was labelled for the first time. This enzyme regulates the entire mechanism of oxygen evolution. "Tulsi gives out oxygen for 20 hours and ozone for four hours a day along with the formation of nascent oxygen which absorbs harmful gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide from the environment."
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Tulsi around Taj Mahal
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Very interesting. There are certain plants or trees that just seem naturally to suck-up large amounts of CO2. Bamboo is another one - it literally vacuums up CO2 from the atmosphere. I've always wondered why governments don't this type of strategy more often to combat global warming. No huge expenditure is involved, as planting trees and plants can be done at a fraction of the cost of complex renewable energy projects. Seems like an idea that should be considered more often?
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