Tag: resources
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Resource Management: Sustainable Development Mantra
Resources are finite but human needs and desires are uncontrollable and limitless. This statement made by an economist made the mantra edition popped out in my head with the most common mantra of the generation: Sustainable development plan. It is where economic growth and environmental growth go hand in hand. We have not inherited this…
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Wind energy : The greener power
Wind power is obtained by the conversion of wind energy into several useful forms of energy using implements like wind turbines, windmills and wind pumps. The wind turbines are mainly to produce electrical power, wind pumps are for water pumping and windmills are to produce mechanical power. The wind energy has been harnessed for several…
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Make your home a green home
Sustainability is becoming popular these days. People are changing their lifestyle and adopting new habits to cut down their carbon footprint. If you want to inculcate sustainability in your lifestyle but are confused about how you should start then this article can guide you. If you want to go green, you should better start at…
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Geothermal energy : The green renewable resource
The thermal energy that is generated from the earth and also stored inside of the earth’s crust is collectively called as geothermal energy. The geothermal energy available is basically is a result of the formation of the planet and also due to the minerals which are in a continuous process of radioactive decay. The actual…
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Forests- Reason for our Survival!
Alex said to his father, “Dad by cutting forest we are destroying and devastating homes of animals and birds!” his dad smiles and very prudently explains, “Yeah, its truth that we are destroying their shelter but more than that we are destroying our home! Our planet! Where we too live along with them…we won’t survive…
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“Sustainable-Development”, Can these two words really go along?
“Sustainable Development” ever since class VI, children are forced to study a chapter on sustainable development every other year either in their science books or geography books, to such an extent that all of them can parrot the exact definition of sustainable development in almost a second! Many students and scholars have won great many…
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Hydraulic Fracturing
Natural gas plays a key role in any country’s energy resources and signifies the economic prosperity of the country. It also plays an important role in enhancing country’s clean energy prospects. But, when the natural gas is extracted at the cost of degradation of the environment and creating health hazards, to what level is it…