Category: DIY Green
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Urban Heat Island: What Are They?
Firstly, to begin with let us define what urban heat islands are. Urban heat islands are metropolitan areas of land that are warmer or higher in temperature than their surrounding rural areas due to human activities. According to the US environmental protection agency “The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people…
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SOLAR ENERGY: The Birth of a New Source
We often hear the words: the resources of our nation, rather, of the entire world are depleting. What is meant by this? It means that resources are being exhausted at a rate faster than they can be replenished. Resources are classified into two types: 1) Renewable resources: As the name suggests, these are resources which…
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Green Kitchens: The Modern Amenity
The kitchen is one site we use the most- after all, we eat three scrumplicious meals in a day! It is also the place which inevitably ends up being the most expensive to handle and maintain, not to mention using up a lot of precious energy and it is pretty hard on the environment, considering…
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Green Gadgets for your Daily use
As far as the definition of green gadgets is concerned, there isn’t a clear one. Different labels have chose to term their gadgets ‘green’ on the basis of various criteria for which there is no acceptable standard. Some gadgets which use lesser energy to operate than most other gadgets in the market have sometimes been…
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Make your skin glow- naturally!
Due to life shifting to the cities from the suburbs and villages and tremendous amounts of pollution thereafter, taking care of our skin has become a pretty important issue, with tonnes of cosmetic companies making gazillions of dollars on women worried about getting wrinkled faster. And why not- after all, our skin is the basic…
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Drop Dead – Save Every Drop
Have you ever tried to something to save the environment? Do you wish to save your planet, and find ways to do so? Did you ever believe that your attempt will be too small, and thus would not count? Here is the tale of a man, who believes nothing is small. Who understands the essence…
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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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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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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…