Month: May 2014
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Development and Global warming
According to Malthusian theory, there exists a close relationship between population growth and the environment surrounding us. As population in an area increases, there will be more pressure on the resources available which ultimately leads to famine, hunger, environmental degradation and thereby, causes a great impact on the climate. More people means more demand for…
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Go Green, this summer save the earth
“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die” – Gil Stern Man, indeed is a very complex being. He works so hard earns all that money he does which is made of trees only to later spend it on conserving the same trees that were cut off to make his…
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Global warming: A rising fear
Rising sea levels .Growing wild fires. Unfortunate droughts .Radiating heat waves. All these are the horrifying results of a planet that suffers a quiet turbulence. When the temperature of the earth’s climate system accelerates above a certain average temperature , it results in a critical situation called the ‘global warming’. It mainly pertains to the…
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Tips For Energy Efficient Environment
Energy crisis. During a happier time, anyone you mention this phrase to would have laughed it off, not even knowing what it meant. Not realizing that one day, humans running out of energy to fuel their everyday needs could become a reality. But that time is long past now. Nowadays, every time a person hears…
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Have More Plants Around: Lead a Better Life
On my last summer getaway trip to Maldives, I was left speechless. Just as I entered my hotel, I could feel a wave of fresh air rushing through my nose. The feeling was breathtaking. It was providing instant serenity to the mind but more than that it fascinated me to find more about its existence.…
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Processed foods – Slow Poison for Humans
We need to care about the type of food we eat but often we don’t. There is a harsh but essential question that we should be asking ourself. Do our food choices slowly killing us? Food can be a boon or bane that is it can act as medicine or poison but the good point…
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Fast food taking a toll on your health? Make healtheir fast foods at home
What is the one type of food all of us survive on nowadays? It’s fast, easy to make, delicious and popularly called ‘fast food’. As the name suggests, this type of food can be made fast and easy without any hassle. In this fast moving life of ours, fast food fits in beautifully. It occupies…
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Green Techniques Every city can Learn From Vancouver, Canada
It’s not that every city is not having a green-ing and cleaning program on their portfolio, but it is how it is perfectly implemented. It’s how a vision of a green and clean city can be craved from a polluted city. With that in mind, the city of Vancouver from Canada has a successful greening…
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Go Green!
If skyrocketing oil prices, the booming world population and the threat of global warming hadn’t already grabbed people’s attention, last week’s record power demand and air-quality warnings certainly served as a reminder that the world faces pressing questions about its climate and energy use. While “doing something for the environment” once meant tossing a newspaper…
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Is Green Living actually Implemented?
So there is this one question which makes me curious . How many people know what is green living and are they aware of what are they doing to help improve it. Having the knowledge and implementing it are two different things. From my observation, I can tell that most of us have the knowledge…