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August 2008

Citings

By Raman Jokhakar, Tarunkumar Singhal, Chartered Accountants
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Go green, live rich

If I have learned one thing in my nearly twenty years as a
financial advisor, it is this : it’s not what you earn that makes you rich or
poor; it is what you spend. We burn up money every day while squandering the
planet’s non-renewable resources and polluting the environment in ways that lead
to global warning and climate change. We buy a car because we like the way it
looks and handles. We build a house with as many square feet as the bank’s
mortgage officer will allow.

When you change your mindset to a green way of thinking, you
will change your actions, and those actions will put money back in your pocket.
And over time, the money you save will make your rich — while helping to protect
the Earth. Go Green, Just Do One “Green Thing Today.’ It will lead to more. See
how it all adds up. Calculate your savings from breaking the bottled water
habit. The best solution is to carry your own water in a reusable container.
Small changes such as not buying coffee in a disposable cup or water in a
plastic bottle not only are good for your wallet, they actually better the
planet in the same way that ‘little things’ add up to drain your wealth, ‘small
changes’ add up to make a big difference for the Earth.

(Source : The Economic Times, 4-7-2008)

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