Tag: go green
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Green designing: Green Landscaping
The multi-layered garden looked perfect. There were tiny pebbles surrounding the indoor miniature pond. As Amrita opened up her month’s electricity bill, she was rather happy that the bill had decreased ever since she had given up the junky urban decorative items and a myriad of lamps to green landscaping. She thanked her stars that…
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Global Warming-A Global Warning
Well, a happy summer vacation to those of you who do have one! It’s really a pleasure to sit at home instead of having to step out in this heat (sorry office goers. I feel for you…). Summer hasn’t even got to its full strength yet, but it’s already strong enough to be punishing. I…
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Biotic vs Abiotic
Carbon sequestration and capture is the process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and putting it into long-term storage. This method can largely reduce the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. While some naturally occurring biological processes ensure the carrying out of carbon sequestration from the atmosphere on their own, it is also being…
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Green business is the good business!
The fact would really amaze us that not only concerned citizens, politicians and Non profit organisations are making their drive green, but also some big name companies have realized their hand in the “Go Green” campaign. Companies have realized the motive, benefits and profitable gains with the green gains. Reports say that the environmentalists no…
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Green Nanotechnology: It’s easier than you think
“We are on unsustainable path. It is not as though nanotechnology will be an option; it is going to be essential for coming up with sustainable technologies”. Green nanotechnology refers to the optimum use of nanotechnology to enhance the environmental sustainability of processes producing disastrous health and environment effects. It also refers to the use…
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Maintain a Healthy Green Space
Clean air is mandatory for a healthy lifestyle, but how can one expect the atmosphere to be pollution free in today’s era, especially those people who live in the big metropolitian cities, and those who live around industrial areas! A great and indulgive activity is a possible solution to this problem – gardening! When one…
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Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright…
Even though I’m not a man of poems, or a literature nut, I have to say, William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ I will always remember. For some inexplicable reason, it has been branded into my brain, ever since I learned it in school. Its verses have not left my mind, even after 7 years, and today…
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School and College Campuses: Go Green
Say ‘I will drop my garbage in the bin’ 10 times. Now drop your garbage in the bin. That is one of the many innovative signs that my college, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai has in place as its initiative to ‘Go Green’. Going green does not necessarily mean building dams for hydroelectricity and harvesting solar…
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How Living Green Can be Efficacious ??
“Green living” the term used most recurrently nowadays whenever discussed of “eco-friendly living” describes a lifestyle in which living beings are more dependent on renewable resources of energy like Sun, wind etc than conventional fuel like oil. In the traditional sense, living green had always been in reference to the protecting our environment and reducing…
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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…