Category: Going Green
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What are the features that make electronic gadgets eco-friendly?
We are all love gadgets. Be it a tablet, mobile phone or mp3- we all own at least one expensive gadget. This tech-savvy generation cannot survive without gadgets. They have become a very important part of our life. To keep ourselves up-to-date with market trends, we keep changing and improving upon our gadgets, not even…
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Sustainable practices in agriculture
Agriculture which has the various principles of ecology interspersed within it is called sustainable agriculture. Ecology is nothing but a study pertaining to a relationship of organisms with the surrounding environment. The various goals of sustainable agriculture are: * To augment the quality of the environmental natural resources and thus provide a boost to the…
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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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Chlorophyll : A disguised elixir!
It’s a well known fact that the green colour of the plants is due to the presence of a green pigment called as chlorophyll. It is this chemoprotein that mainly stands responsible for the process of photosynthesis. This is generally found in chloroplasts of green leafy vegetables like lettuces , spinach,broccoli,Chard,Kuka leaves, Taro leaves,Sprouts etc…
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Eliminating the Concept of Waste- Germany’s First Waste-free Market
While talking about the issues of environment, management of resources, the concept of waste appears as one of the most important ones. A large part of our resources goes into waste, and these products become completely useless. Many of these waste produces harm the environment, because they are non-biodegradable. Even if they are bio-degradable, their…
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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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Nuclear energy a boon!
We have been well acquainted with various eco friendly sources of energy for instances, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal, etc we are have certain kind of perception for them. And likewise we have also a perception for Nuclear Energy; there are a number of alternative sources of energy and environmentally friendly fuels available to combat…
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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…
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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…