climate emergency is the buzzword this year and people across the world are doing their bit to address this global issue when we caught up with singercomposersongwriter arjun kanungo who was in the city recently he told us that he has been doing his bit to contribute for a healthy environment i keep telling people that the amount of global warming caused by us is alarming personally i try to live sustainably my house is solarpowered i carpool and i also try to plant at least one plant every month says arjun the 29yearold who jumped from playing nationallevel basketball winning medals in centrefire pistol shooting to a music career about a decade ago reveals that he was using the carpool system until recently i used to carpool a lot in mumbai be it going to the studio or to work taking a share ride was always my go to option but it was getting a little difficult when people started recognizing me but even then i try to carpool whenever possible because its one of the simplest and yet very effective ways of commuting says the aya na tusinger apart from carpooling the singer has also built a home which is completely solar powered and houses more than 200 indoor and outdoor plants its not easy to plant trees in mumbai because theres hardly any space in fact theres hardly any space for people to walk but i have a lot of indoor plants and keep adding more to my home right now i have 200 of them and my girlfriend also names them one of them is called sandeep laughs arjun because of the scarcity of space in the city arjun makes sure to visit his farmhouse occasionally and plant trees there too right now the farmhouse is home to over 2000 plants and he plans to take the number to 5000 by 2020 it becomes very difficult for me personally to maintain them all be it my house plants or the ones at my farmhouse so i have a gardener who takes care of it but the planting responsibility is mine so with every visit i plant one