Month: June 2014
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Green gardening : Tips to make your own kitchen garden
Gardening is a beautiful way to communicate with nature. Gardening can be purely a tradition at one’s home or otherwise an incredible soul-satisfying hobby. Planting varieties of trees and useful vegetation can indeed serve to be a boon to all the veggies. Nowadays, gardening without using pesticides and chemical agents is barely found. But, trying…
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Strategies for Energy Efficient Design
Some of the most important strategies for energy efficient design take the climate, open spaces, natural features, street and building orientations into consideration. There is a definitive relation between built forms and open spaces. This affects the climatic response of a building. One must keep the following points mind at the preliminary stage itself to…
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Cut your preferences not Trees
Today all of us are talking about the threat to our home planet i.e, Earth. There are debates, meetings, conferences, global summits and many more to safeguard our environment. But do we care that much only to just talk about it. Its high time now to get up and just do it for the…
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Deforestation : The effects and prevention
The oxygen that we breathe. The vegetation that we consume. Where does all this come from? Yes, the trees!! Or in general, the flora. The trees are not only helpful to us, but the birds and animals as well. They provide shelter to almost everybody and through photosynthesis, provide us with oxygen to breathe. But,…
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Trees: our benefactors in so many ways
That trees are beneficial for our well being is no secret but do you really have an idea of how much we depend on them almost every day? Almost unconsciously trees have become a huge part of our lives. Life as we know would cease to exist without trees. Trees are always surrounding us- nature…
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Steps to build a greener home-
Most of you are proud owners of impressive, luxurious and comfortable homes that have cost you a lot of money to build. You take great care to make your house stand out from the rest. Beautiful home décor, sprawling garden and expensive fittings make your home worth living. But is that all you think when…
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Go green on your wedding day
The wedding day is the most important day of our lives. We get to share the day not only with our partner but also our family and friends. It is a day of pure unadulterated happiness and togetherness- ushering a new chapter in our lives. We create many fond memories at our weddings that we…
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Eco-friendly schools: towards a greener planet
As eco-conscious individuals we exercise green living in many spheres of life- while travelling, sitting at home or working in the office. Then why not let your kids practice them at school? To make your children environmentally aware it is not enough to just teach them at home. Children spend most of their day in…
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Stop Thinking – Start Acting!
Having just knowledge of conserving environment is not sufficient, but using right knowledge on right time is! Just reading about conserving environment won’t work. Your actions are required to change the present scenario of our globe. We are living in society where we get all sources to get well acquainted with the knowledge of conserving…
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Let us make summers healthy
Summer is the warmest of the four temperature seasons, falling between spring and autumn. when earth revolves around sun the part of earth that is facing sun experiences summer when there is summer in northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere experiences winters and vice versa. According to meteorologists, summer extends for the whole months of June, July,…