BY PANDIT GOBAR GANESH

Dear Pandit ji,

Can you tell me the amount of I have brains. I think you have too..
If you have any questions on the environment...
Carbon dioxide exhaled by
kutta, billi aud air, water.. '! will really wreck my
people in each breath7 Please
brai.n~ for answers. You also wreck-yours.
give me the deta ils. And send more questions, Anything on environment.
Write to me in GobarTimes, Impatiently waiting for
M P Yadav an envirorunental que.sUon. Okay, no?
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Dear M P Yadav ji, My email:·panditji@cseindia.org

A person at rest inhales and exhales
about 500 ml of air with each breath
(Biology by Claude A. Villee). This air
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() '''\.1 consists of 150 ml of recently inhaled advocates moving back to eco­ ! am eager to know about
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[ air that is in the larger air passages villages because it emphasises the as our cou ntry is no v" •
CO ~ and 350 ml of air that has been in the experience of domination and serious energy crisis. j be/ie
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..;: alveoli of the lungs. The recently exploitation shared by women and biogas plants a re most su -­
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.j ~. inhaled air (or atmospheric air) has the natural world. g ene rate power a nd the
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~ approximately 0.04% carbon dioxide However, because of the fine not ca use any harm. i kno
R by volume, and the alveolar air has line distinguishing real and imagined t here are two types of
~ approximately 5.3% carbon dioxide historical village societies, eco­ plants: fixed dome typ
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r .S by volume. Thus, the average carbon feminist ideals and pagan practices, Floating gas~holder type. Ca
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vJ dioxide content of the 500 ml of eco-villages are sometimes seen as a please explain them to me
~.:: 2 exhaled air is: form of primitivism. But many
feminists see a substantial role for Jov it ha Preethi
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'0' [(150 mt)J(500 mt) x 0.04% CO} +
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'i] 12) 3.7% CO by volume, or 5.7% 2CO welcome as inventors, engineers, Dear Preethi ji,
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by weight. traders, 'and also sperm contributors) You are right. These
in the creation and operation of such types of bio gas plan ts s "=I ~­
Dear Pandit ji,
villages . India.
Can you please explain 'eeo
Slurry is made fro m (~i~ l-=
villages' mentioned in the EEK
Dear Pandit ji, and water, which is
term Ecofeminism?
! am PreethL a class tenth student. material for the plants.

Abdullah
Via e-mail

Dear Abdullah ji,

Eco-villages are small villages of 100
to 140 people. In both the traditional
and modern feminist ideal of such
villages, women .function as the only
landlords or the only landowners.
Property can be inherited only Dung and water mixture~~~
maternally or in a matriarchy . These
eco-villages, according to studies in
Underground digester tank -
anthropology, historically formed the T
most stable and prevalent type
of human society. Ecofeminism

60 Gobar Times December 31, 2006 Down To Earth supplement