Category: Resources
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Carbon dioxide Sequestration
Over the last century, human activities had a profound impact on the environment. Fossil fuel consumption, deforestation and other unsustainable land use practices have resulted in a dramatic increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere leading to various serious environmental issues like global warming, acid rain, etc. Most studies and…
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The Sacred Ganges
It’s another auspicious day, you have accompanied your family to take a dip in the holy river. It was a long journey, but the sky is blue, the birds are chirping, there is a temple bell chiming softly in the distance. You step onto the banks, your toes teasing the water. You are about to…
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Tips to grow your own organic garden
Vegetables and fruits should be an integral part of one’s diet. It gives the much needed vitamins and minerals that keeps our body fit and strong. But what if they become our killers? The alarmingly increased amount of insecticides and pesticides sprayed on fruits and vegetables proves this too. This is not only fatal to…
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Go Green – Go against Global Warming
The meetings, the tables and the much stipulated agendas that point to a major cause: the global warming have just become mere discussions and are simply not leading to a change in the status quo. The high level talks in the most exotic of places in the world are not proving to be of much…
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Understanding Green Buildings: a way of life!
Cities are coming up at a massive scale across the world, rural infrastructure is being replaced by the modern, urban infrastructure. This is causing a massive push to the construction sector as we see buildings coming up around us all the time. Be it new houses, new office areas, old houses and old buildings being…
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Go Green, this summer save the earth
“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die” – Gil Stern Man, indeed is a very complex being. He works so hard earns all that money he does which is made of trees only to later spend it on conserving the same trees that were cut off to make his…
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Green Techniques Every city can Learn From Vancouver, Canada
It’s not that every city is not having a green-ing and cleaning program on their portfolio, but it is how it is perfectly implemented. It’s how a vision of a green and clean city can be craved from a polluted city. With that in mind, the city of Vancouver from Canada has a successful greening…
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Go Green!
If skyrocketing oil prices, the booming world population and the threat of global warming hadn’t already grabbed people’s attention, last week’s record power demand and air-quality warnings certainly served as a reminder that the world faces pressing questions about its climate and energy use. While “doing something for the environment” once meant tossing a newspaper…
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Is Green Living actually Implemented?
So there is this one question which makes me curious . How many people know what is green living and are they aware of what are they doing to help improve it. Having the knowledge and implementing it are two different things. From my observation, I can tell that most of us have the knowledge…
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What the Earth Wants
John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address after the presidential war, had said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” As true and profound this statement is, what is worrying is how everyone seems to ignore that this holds equally, if not truer for the…