Category: Resources
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Being Green is an Attitude
You know the thing about common sense? It is not common. Yup, as Calvin (from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Waterson) very aptly put it: “I have PLENTY of common sense! I just choose to ignore it”. And don’t we all? Common sense can be such a nuisance. Why bother with it…
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Bio Fuels – Are they really an alternative for fossil fuels?
In present times, when everyone is concerned over depleting reserves of much valued “petrol” and “diesel”, or simply to say over fossil fuels, a lot of attention is being paid to a category of alternative fuels called biofuel. Everywhere biofuels are being discussed as an alternative to the other fossil fuels like coal, natural gas…
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How Water Footprint Is the new Big Concern
To the average consumer, being “environment conscious” or “eco-friendly” may seem a fairly simple concept to understand. Being “eco-friendly” at the individual or household level can range from judicious use of resources like water and electricity and recycling waste, to a reduced use of environmentally harmful material like plastic bags in day-to-day activities. If one…
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Illegal Sand Mining: The Slow Death of Our Rivers
At this point in the history of human civilization, mankind has reached heights previously thought insurmountable, even in the most literal sense. Skyscrapers are being built every day, with each day bringing taller and taller buildings with advancements in design and construction. While looking at a building like the Burj Khalifa one cannot help but…
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Moving towards a Sustainable Energy: The Future
As, we would agree that in order to progress towards energy sustainability, we need to carry out certain changes in the existing way of our energy production and consumption. But before focusing onto anything serious, its great to recall the profound changes that have been already occurred in our energy use and energy systems during…
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Global Warming vs Greenhouse Effect
Global Warming and greenhouse effect are two words which we hear often related to the environment or green living. When we research about these two terminologies we often find that there is some interlink between them and often confuse ourselves by thinking that they are similar to each other or almost the same. But the…
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Nuclear power and its Environmental impact
The human race grows day by day,in terms of power,technological advancement and is leading to a far more technologically sophisticated and safer world.As the world develops,there is a constant look out for more and more energy sources.As the fossil fuels are on the verge of getting over,the nuclear energy seems to be the only viable…
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Amusement parks going green!!
Its’ hot summer you are about to die in this scorching heat! But you got a solution to ease it by spending leisure and adventurous time in the amusement park!! Imagine if you go in the park and see no water in the pool! Or deserted amusement park won’t amuse you for sure. Amusement parks…
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Consumerism Will Consume Us
Mrs. McPhee pushed the cart along the aisle in the multi-national chain of supermarkets and kept throwing in shiny packaged articles at ninja speed. Her two children kept adding to the pile as well. George wanted a red car while Greg wanted a black one. There, two cars added. Having billed a mountain of processed…
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Over Population – A Major Havoc in Future
A recent study by WWF shows us that the population has a major havoc on our planet. There are just too many people for the earth to carry and have an eye. The study also states that over population is the main cause in the reduction of biodiversity, pollution, natural resources, and food. At the current…