Category: Environment
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Effective Waste Segregation and Management- a Dire Necessity
Can you imagine a world where the quantities of wastes have expanded to such extents that people are living amidst overflowing landfills, breathing in air laden with pollutants and toxic gases and drinking contaminated water? It’s a terrifying image, isn’t it? Then it’s time to pause and think upon our actions because we are not…
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What Rubbish!
Around 2 years ago, I visited Germany. It was a short trip; I spent just a little over a week there. But that little outside excursion, out of our beloved country, told me a lot! Of course, travelling will open your eyes to the vast differences that arise between cultures. But that is not what…
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Save Food, Save the Planet
‘That’s not food’ , groaned Mike, pushing away a plate of lentils, lean meat and broccoli. ‘That’s healthy. You have to eat’, replied his mother, back turned to him, washing dishes. Mike slowly gulps down the chicken, makes a sniper-like stealthy dash towards the garbage bin and shoves his plateful of food into it. There.…
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Decoding Sustainable Development
According to Our Common Future (Brundtland Report) sustainable development can be defined as: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor,…
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Eco-Friendly Gadgets
ECO-FRIENDLY GADGETS Eco-Friendly and Gadgets? Can they ever be together? Can there be any possibility of two poles being together? Yes, they are. Eco-Friendly Gadgets are not new to the society. The technology used would be ‘Eco technology’. As Wikipedia would define it, ‘Eco technology is the applied science that seeks to fulfil human needs…
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Say No to Air Conditioners- Beat the Heat with Environment-Friendly Alternatives
Only a decade ago, air conditioners were a luxury which not many could afford. But now it is frightening to see how dependent we are on it. From homes to offices, public transport to shopping malls, air conditioners surround us wherever we go. Its growing demand in the past few years cannot be ignored, especially…
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How to Paint Your House Naturally
Crores and crores of money is being spent on building a dream house and lakhs and lakhs of money is spent in order to bring colour to the dream house, this proves that painting a house can be really a great task. Now in modern times, when everything around us is fast forwarding, building a…
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Make the Best of Your Money: What to Do Of Shopper Bags
Do you know that every year, around 720-1200 crore litres of oil is used in the production of plastic bags? And that each person uses about 1200 plastic bags a year? Phew! Talk about the oil crisis in countries!! Everywhere you turn, you see plastic bags strewn carelessly on the roads, just like that! As…
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Sustainable Urbanization: A Matter of Desire or Desperation?
In very simple words, urbanization is what happens as a result of industrialization, modernization and socio-economic and cultural growth. It is like as more people leave villages and farming and come to settle in cities, urbanization happens. People come and settle down around places where money, wealth, services and opportunities are centralized. Though this process…
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Indian Festivals – Go Greener and Cleaner!
In our country, festivals are a huge part of our tradition and thanks to these, we end up getting so many extra holidays in the year too! The celebration of these festivals, be it Diwali or Holi or Ganesh Chaturthi or Eid or Christmas or Janamasthami, has been going on since time immemorial and are…