Category: Going Green
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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…
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Save Your Money By Saving Resources!
Saving the environment might not be our primary concern – but saving the cash in our pockets might be. In this age, where one stingers over paying even the smallest amounts, can eco-friendly technology actually be of any help to save our bank accounts? Here are 6 ways that might help you reconsider. Save Water!…
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Urban Heat Island: What Are They?
Firstly, to begin with let us define what urban heat islands are. Urban heat islands are metropolitan areas of land that are warmer or higher in temperature than their surrounding rural areas due to human activities. According to the US environmental protection agency “The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people…
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SOLAR ENERGY: The Birth of a New Source
We often hear the words: the resources of our nation, rather, of the entire world are depleting. What is meant by this? It means that resources are being exhausted at a rate faster than they can be replenished. Resources are classified into two types: 1) Renewable resources: As the name suggests, these are resources which…
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GO GREEN ! Wait, it’s a little difficult.
‘It’s not the same ! ’ , cried a very agitated Sophie, on the billing counter at the local supermarket. ‘Ma’am , it’s fine quality plastic, I assure you. It IS eco-friendly’, assured the woman across the counter. ‘If it’s not above 20 microns thick, the plastic is NOT eco-friendly ! ,’ asserted Sophie. This…
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Green Gadgets for your Daily use
As far as the definition of green gadgets is concerned, there isn’t a clear one. Different labels have chose to term their gadgets ‘green’ on the basis of various criteria for which there is no acceptable standard. Some gadgets which use lesser energy to operate than most other gadgets in the market have sometimes been…
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From Global to Local.
The last few decades have been characterized by economic globalization resulting in an ever greater expansion of worldwide trade. But lately we have witnessed world’s biggest economies tackling recessionary trends and debt crisis. We have seen rising fuel price and the ever increasing dependence on imported resources thanks to more choice from abroad- of food,…
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The Benefits Of Cycling for Health and Environment
Mumbai is a motorist’s city. I’ve been living here 20 years, but it took me only my first 3 to realize this fact. Petrol is cool, Diesel is smart, and CNG is the bare minimum. No-fuel is for the no-brainers, and the fashionably-challenged. Much better a crisp shirt than neon tights, right? Wrong. “Wrong, you…
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Life in a Village
While trying to observe the type of readers of this website and thus my posts, the conclusion that I came up with was the most of the readers of this website are living in a metro city. Although many of them might have been to a village or have ancestral roots in the villages, but…
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The Great Smoke: The Wake-Up Call of 1952
It was, by all means, just another early December day in 1952 London. There was a heavy smog cast over the city that lasted four days, till 9th December, but the citizens were used to that kind of weather. Nobody thought very much of it at all, until the following weeks where government reports calculated…