Category: Environment
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Small steps make a Big Difference
There are tons of small things that we can do at home to help in reducing landfill waste, cleaning the air, preserving our natural landscape and help in reducing carbon footprint, creating a healthier home and lowering monthly bills to boot. Let’s fasten our seat – belts and go on a ‘Green Adventure’ and take…
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Who causes Forest Fire – Nature or Human Beings?
One of the most harmful natural disasters to the environment is the Forest Fire. A forest fire or a wild fire, as the name suggests, is combustion of a large area covered with trees or other vegetation. Wildfires mostly occur in the regions of hot and dry climate, like Australia. The wet or cold climate…
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A greener way to make cheese
We often don’t realize the amount of environmental damage that we are causing whenever we place a fresh cut of cheddar on the plate or wedge a slice of cheese in between our sandwich. Cheese though vegetarian in nature and seemingly harmless to the environment is actually causing severe pollution to the land and the…
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Honda Growing Green
The alarmingly high rate of global warming and declining earth sustainability has certainly left the so called “sane” humans scratching their heads for developing such a piece of creativity that might save their lives from going into the approaching black hole What we as citizens believe is that are leaders- the societal political, and economic…
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The Holiday Homework Mantra
In the myriad of articles on green living, science and its boon and bane, waste management, oh wait wait wait! What did I say, waste management? Ohh! Waste management seems interesting for the mantra edition today. But yes, we will go out of the way, our green way in managing waste and not the conventional…
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Marine threats and the Green solutions
Man has not only conquered the vast land areas, but also the oceans. The growing repercussions of marine problems due to excessive pollution also raise an equally acute concern like the pollution on the land. It is estimated that most of the wastes or debris that is normally found in the oceans is a result…
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The World of Chemicals !!!
The journey of development from the early man to the twenty first century has been a very happening one. The advancements in Science and Technology have changed our life style completely. The focus from physical work has shifted to mental work. The large investments done by the nations in technological researches speak of their motives…
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Environment friendly plastics
What material causes most harm to the environment? What material is such that nothing short of a blanket ban on it is sufficient for ensuring environmental safety? What material clogs up huge portions of the underside of the Earth’s surface and can lie there for millions of years, literally, forever? Well, if a survey was…
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The Need for Change !
Have you been reading about environmental problems and are concerned about the climatic change? Do the decreasing monsoon in India and the uneven temperature affect you? Do you want to contribute to the environmental conservation but do not get time to do so? Does your fast and materialistic lifestyle have taken up your space with…
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Eco Friendly Fiber – Bamboo
As a follow up to my previous article on an overview on eco-friendly fibers, this one would give an insight into how exactly the natural fibers are useful and how beneficial they to a person. Many of these effects are dismissed as superficial, but in actuality, they have verifiable proof. Though natural fabrics are generally…