Power Dressing for the Planet: CSIR's 'WAH Mondays' Initiative
New Delhi Until today several corporates have adopted the Thank God It s Friday or Casual Friday dress code Employees skip formal clothing on Fridays and instead dress in semiformal informal attire The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR India s biggest civilian network of research institutes has launched the WAH Mondays campaign with WAH enlarged to Wrinkles Acche Hai wrinkles are nice The concept is to encourage individuals to wear unironed clothes to work every Monday as a symbolic protest against climate change Dr N Kalaiselvi secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the first woman director general of CSIR describes WAH Mondays as part of a bigger energy literacy effort CSIR decided to contribute by wearing non-ironed clothes on Mondays Ironing each set of clothes amounts to the emission of g of carbon dioxide So by wearing non-ironed clothes one can prevent the emission