Category: Environment
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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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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…
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Why Climatic Change Is a Concern?
Changing Climatic Conditions: Not all Change is good. Changing Climatic Conditions arising primarily due to Global Warming has proven to be more than just a threat to our environment and us. We human beings are very much dependant on mother earth and all it has to offer. The air, water, trees, etc., in many ways…
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Urban Heat Islands. What are they?
Globalization facilitates many social and economic process, one of the major being migration. Rural population migrates to urban areas in search for employment. About half the world’s population lives in these urban areas. With the ever increasing cluster of the masses, it is no surprise of how it is affecting the environment, making it more…
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Field Sketching: Everything you need to know
Many of us might have indulged in field sketching in our lives but may not be exactly familiar with this term. It was new to me at least and so I would like to define it first. A field sketch is a free-hand drawing of a map or a picture of a landscape, a house,…
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The Greenest Countries of the World
Towards ‘Following Green Living’, a lot of countries have started to bring in various methods and technologies which can protect the environment. The basic idea is to ensure decrease in the emission of carbon, more and more use of renewable energy and promoting the use of green products. Every year, Environmental Performative Index (EPI) takes…
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Do it yourself : Make litter bags and avoid plastic
One thing that is seriously harming our environment is the waste generated by humans . A majority of this waste is composed of plastics . Plastic is a polymer which is used in most of our day to day usable items , whether in home , office or outside . Plastic does not decompose easily…