Author: Green Blogger
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What Exactly is Coral Bleaching?
Coral bleaching is a process in which reef corals, soft corals, giant clams, some sponges, etc. lose their colour and become white due to expulsion of algae zooxanthellae from their tissues. This results in the corals turning completely white. Zooxanthellae are unicellular algae that live in the tissues of corals. They have a symbiotic relationship…
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Make your home more eco-friendly
With the burgeoning environmental crisis threatening to reach alarming levels, adoption of environment-friendly practices is the need of the hour. You can integrate simple eco- conservation measures in your daily lifestyle which will not only be a boon for the environment but can be cost effective as well. The question is where do you start?…
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Why do we Need Environmental laws?
You may be aware of being born into a family, a system, a social and political order but have you ever given a serious thought to how you are born into an environment? Yes, we all inherit an environment by virtue of our life on the planet and the state in which it is available…
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All for Convenience’s Sake
Every Mumbaikar has a friend who is never far away. He has a way of greeting you the moment you step out onto the streets. At times his presence is very strong. At other times he’s a passive companion. He is a friend we affectionately call garbage. We are all well aware of terms like…
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Carbon Credits, Hoax or Hope?
What our environment craves for is to curtail the amounts of carbon emissions. Heeding to its carbon-less call, Carbon credits were developed by neo-liberal economists to shake hands with the environmentalists swapping environmental policies with economic incentives to battle against pollution. What are carbon credits? A grant or sanction certifying a particular company, individual or…
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Green Cleaning Products to keep your Home Safe
How we live determines how we feel. Therefore, we all want to be living in an attractive setting and for that cleanliness is a necessity. We may have a clean house but the various cleaning products that we use every day without putting much thought into how we are choosing them are very much responsible…
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Paint your walls green – with milk!
When we think of painting our home or work space, we think of blue, pink, cream, red… they look so beautiful on the walls, right? The prospect of getting our rooms painted a new colour is so exciting; getting to choose the colours and imagine them all around us! However, we do not think of…
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Hybrid Vehicles! Drive Eco-Friendly
Whenever any person come across the word, ‘Nature’ or ‘Environment’, the most common and unanimous imagination is of Greenery, Trees and Plants. Well, but what if the word would appear more in textbooks and less in reality. Yes, there is a possibility, actually reality as with the decreasing rate of trees and greenery, there is…
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Robots that are Green: New World Robotics
Metal hands and metal legs and everything else covered in mental – that’s the first thing that we think of when someone says Robot. Obviously, to us it is an abiotic force that doesn’t have any feelings or emotions whatsoever and sometimes we also go as far as considering them as our personalized maids. If…
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Sewage water to potable water: Wonders of Singapore
Singapore has a booming economy with one of the world’s best health and education systems. It’s also reputed as being one of the world’s cleanest and safest cities. Despite all the prosperity the city-state does not have enough water to meet the needs of its 5.3 million citizens. Singapore thus, imports fresh water from Malaysia…