Tag: Sustainable
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Sustainable Agriculture: Nation’s Economy Mantra
Using modern cultivation methods and the high yielding varieties of certain staple crops to produce more food per acre of cropland is well known as the Green Revolution. The two most important problems associated with higher crop production are the high energy costs (which goes against the “save energy” mantra) built into this form of…
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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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What WWF is doing for the environment?
We all have heard of WWWs and WWEs! Right? WWF is not far behind. WWF short for World Wide Fund for Nature, is an international NGO which aims at ‘conservation, research and restoration’ of the environment. WWF is one of the largest conservation organizations, engaged in wildlife…
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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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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…