I am Bernard D'Lima, 71, a biologist (postgraduate of Mysore University, India, 1975), and a freelancer most of my career.
I was born and educated in Southern India, spent 40 years of career in Gulf countries, mainly in Dubai, UAE. Currently I am based in McKinney, TX, USA, planning to promote manufacturing technologies which benefit the planet.

My last employment, in early 1980s, was as biologist, for then the world's leading environmental consultancy, Los Angeles based DAMES & MOORE, on their environmental baseline studies projects in Kuwait and UAE. This opportunity led me to be a keen observer of unfavorable environmental changes occurred in my lifetime, like - my favorite childhood Sunday evening spot, a pristine estuary turning insanely polluted by fish-oil industry waste discharge; my school summer holidays destination in the Western Ghats dotted with coffee plantations, losing most of their ground flora and fauna due to excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides; my favorite school excursions destination, a popular hill station in Nilgiris, with its famous British-made lake turning into a pool polluted by human waste. Numerous such avoidable nature deteriorations around me, together with thousands of man-made disasters globally, like the deforestation of tropical forests for agriculture, timber, mining, etc.; the disappearance of Ural Sea by water overuse and rising temperatures; the drying of Great Euphrates River due to water overuse, rising temperatures and declining rains; the massive rise in global greenhouse gas emissions, due to increased use of fossil resources especially in developed countries, for energy, agriculture, transportation, housing, lifestyle, chemicals, plastics, etc., has led to the proven climate change, threatening our future generations and all life in general. The alarming occurrences of life-threatening calamities like - rising global temperature, melting polars, frequent forest fires, flash floods, etc., indicates that climate change is manmade and is irreversible, and the only option we have is to delay it, by elimination of all waste, pollutions, gas emissions and simultaneous revival of all forests and freshwater bodies. We should also strictly adhere to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by United Nations in 2015, for peace and prosperity of all the people and the planet by 2030.

As a prying freelancer, during last 35 years, involved in projects related to food, cosmetics, packaging, waste, renewables, etc., in UAE, fortunately provided me regular opportunities to promote environmentally friendly technologies like – introducing of solar energy systems (ARCO USA solar panels + GNB USA batteries) for marine navigational buoys, in as early as 1985; introducing of recyclable PET bottle technology (NISSEI ASB Japan) to replace non-recyclable PVC bottles, in 1990. Further exposure to multidisciplinary projects and hundreds of trade fairs in Europe, USA and Dubai (the world's current trade fairs capital) enabled me to connect with hundreds of European technological experts in diverse fields.

Now, at the fag end of my dash, I desire to pass the little nature friendly awareness I had gained on technologies, related to food and environment, to a few of younger generations, through PLANET@PEACE.