Year: 2014
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Summer Fruit Bonanza
It is really not a debatable issue that in India the best things about summer include only a handful of things, our vacations and summer fruits being the race winners for favourite positions. Right from big, juicy watermelons (the colour itself calls out to you!) to oranges and grapes and cherries, plums, mangoes, lemon and…
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The Nature’s End: 2030
I hope I got enough attention towards this post. But yes it’s going to happen if we don’t revamp the current scenario or situation regarding the Environment. Environmental Education is must but before moving towards that direction, let’s concentrate on the meaning of the term. Education? A simple world of nine alphabets but has the…
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Five Things that Make you Connected to Nature
What is the need to connect to nature? Why spend time staring at the sky when you have more important work to do like tweeting about what you ate today? Why would one bother to sit under the shade of the tree when there is an important file to be submitted? The pace of the…
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Oxygen is life – Ways to Increase Atmospheric Oxygen
Oxygen is an essential part of our lives. One of the major gases in the atmosphere, oxygen accounts for 21% of the atmosphere. The other gases are carbon-dioxide, nitrogen, argon and others. There was a time when the earth’s atmosphere did not contain any oxygen. It was the great oxygenation event or GEO, which happened…
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UN and Green Ways – Efforts of United Nations
It is only April and it is ‘too hot’ to go outside. The gaseous fumes released by the vehicles and factories add to the blazing sun. Are there too many cars and factories and very few trees left? Has the competition of development distorted our vision to an extent that we are unable to observe…
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Organic vegetables and why they are Healthier Option
You might have come across the word ‘organic’ quite often in supermarket and departmental stores and wondered what it is all about. Organic foods are gradually gaining acceptance and popularity among consumers, mainly because of their health benefits. They are different from their conventional counterparts in more ways than one. They sometimes look a bit…
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Why are people all over the world moving to Vegan Diet?
A survey was conducted and the results showed that out of 10 people in the USA, 7 preferred Non-Veg diet and 3 preferred Veg diet. Now before hopping into the driver’s seat and start to know the reason that why this ratio is changing soon and why people are moving towards the horizon of Vegan…
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Organic Vegetables vs Non Organic: Whats the Difference?
A vegetable is an edible plant or its part, intended for cooking or eating raw. In daily life we are eating raw vegetables or we are cooking and eating with rice.so it became a part of our life in food. In the way of farming Vegetables they are classified in Organic Vegetables and Non organic…