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What are you doing year-round to reduce pollution? Like every year, we have activists/media highlighting Deepavali crackers as an avoidable nuisance and they might have good reasons to do so. And I am not going to get into that debate of a 3-day event being a major polluting experience or not. What probably matters a lot more is what we all are doing for 365 days of the year! Did my family add to the pollution during Deepavali? A little bit! While I stopped bursting crackers a few years ago, my son does want to have that experience of bursting crackers just like most kids of his age and we did get a few sparklers, flowerpots and zameen chakkars (ground spinners) for him. What have we been doing for the rest of the year to reduce pollution? Will state a few here that we have been doing forever. 1)    Using Public Transport: We could have afforded a car even 30 years ago, but we have never owned one. Having lived most of our life in Mumbai, we are used to Public Transport (which has become more convenient over the years with introduction of Metro, AC Buses, AC Locals and AC Cabs in Mumbai). When we moved to Bengaluru, both me and my wife decided to have our residence/offices adjacent to metro stations. Even during weekends, we try to cover as much distance as possible by Metro. And use auto/cabs generally only for last mile connectivity. 2)    Minimal use of AC earlier and now no ACs at home: Our house at Mumbai was on the top floor and had an east facing bedroom. Still, we used to use AC only during the summer months and October and that too just for a few hours before going to bed to have a comfortable sleep as temperatures would soar beyond 32-33 degrees during those months. When we moved to Bengaluru, we sold off the AC as most of the times we don’t even need a fan at our house here.  3)    Trains instead of Planes: Wherever and whenever possible, we prefer to take trains instead of flights, especially if it’s a short 4 to 5-hour train journey or an overnight train is available to the destination 4)    Repair, reuse and recycle: With the advent of consumerism in India, people are forgetting this. However, at our household, we endeavour to follow it to the extent possible   Isn’t this inconvenient? It sometimes is. Namma Metro (Bengaluru Metro) does get a bit crowded during peak office hours, but we have figured out a few hacks to manage that. This summer, Bengaluru was a bit too warm and particularly one week was a bit difficult to manage but we were able to somehow keep the craving for an AC at bay. Getting confirmed train tickets is often difficult and needs a bit of early planning but we don’t mind putting in that extra effort. While we still do face some inconvenience sometimes, I think it’s a small price to pay for having a cleaner environment for us and more importantly for our future generations too! Pls share in the comments what have you been doing to reduce pollution year-round.