Category: DIY Green
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Water conservation at home: some simple strategies
About seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered in water. We think that the abundance of water on the planet gives us free reign to use as much water as we like. But that is not true at all. Out of the seventy percent only a small percent is suitable for our consumption. Wastage…
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Forests- Reason for our Survival!
Alex said to his father, “Dad by cutting forest we are destroying and devastating homes of animals and birds!” his dad smiles and very prudently explains, “Yeah, its truth that we are destroying their shelter but more than that we are destroying our home! Our planet! Where we too live along with them…we won’t survive…
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Leather-making: The horrifying facts and green solutions
Modern or retro. Plain or gaudy. Whatever the combination may be, leather always goes un-missed. It’s always been a fashion statement over the years. Who doesn’t own leather bags, belts, shoes or even watches? There is not a single fashionable product where you wouldn’t find them. People in a trance buy leather goodies and become…
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Green appliances: A new technology for the old planet
With the Eco-friendly demands creeping into our societies, we are all alerted about why and how we need to change our technology to fulfill the needs of Mother Nature. With this, we strive to basically entwine all our daily activities with the green-living strategies. The Eco friendly awareness has attained so much hype that we…
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Green Mantra 2014: Infect the ‘Go Green Fever’
This is a thought that stroke my nervous bags while I was sitting in the metro, hearing a couple of ladies, talking about the daily water consumption at their respective homes and was I then shocked and disheartened at their ideology of “why to go green? How is it going to affect us if we…
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Top 10 indoor plants!
Now as we know, indoor plants are a big contributory factor to our health not only in terms of providing fresh air but also soothing us and distressing us. Not only in our houses, we can have one of them in our office space or car too. So here’s a list of the top 10…
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Cleaning up the planet with Bioremediation
The rate at which we are polluting the environment or rather destroying it is quite alarming. From oil spills in the oceans to dumping of radioactive waste on fertile lands, we are polluting the planet we live, in every single possible way. Though we are well aware that such activities are only going to destroy…
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A Garden to make your House look Perfect
Gardens, on the periphery of the households, are one of the most beautiful parts of your house. These green and lush gardens, though small in size, have the capacity to add to the well maintained house of yours. Large bunglows always have some front area for grass and shrubs, with trees on the boundaries. Being…
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A Typical Day in the life of an Eco-Conscious Individual
This is a story about Roger. Roger is an average man living an average life. He gets up in the morning, has breakfast, goes to office, comes back and has dinner, reads and finally retires for the night. Despite this apparently ordinary existence, Roger is not really ordinary. He is an environment conscious individual. In…
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How to have a Green Vacation?
An upcoming and increasingly popular phenomenon in the world of travel and tourism is ecotourism. Ecotourism refers to travelling to the remote undisturbed, sometimes rural underdeveloped areas of the world to increase one’s knowledge, provide financial aid, generate awareness and foster respect for other communities. Visiting remote places with natural flora and fauna may not…