Tag: sustainable development
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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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Renewable Energy-The Future is Here
If you are sitting and looking at a green living site I’m sure you’ve heard all the rantings that go like, “fossil fuels are BAD!! Renewable energy FTW !!” You know what, the Ranters have it absolutely right. Since the age of industrialization, we have been using the combustion of fossil fuels as a source…
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Deforestation and The Uttarakhand Disaster
June 16th 2013, a date that means more or less nothing to you (unless it’s your birthday of course, in which case many happy returns to you!). It does for many others though. That date will be blacked out off the calendar of many households. A date remembered only to regret its existence. A day…
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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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Is Nanotechnology the Solution for a Better Future?
In most simple words, Nanotechnology can be defined as the study and application of materials at the atomic and molecular level.Nanotechnology involves the ability to see and to control individual atoms and molecules, which are invisible to our naked eyes. Nano – scale materials were being used for many decades, but it is not that…
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Decoding Sustainable Development
According to Our Common Future (Brundtland Report) sustainable development can be defined as: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor,…
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Sustainable Urbanization: A Matter of Desire or Desperation?
In very simple words, urbanization is what happens as a result of industrialization, modernization and socio-economic and cultural growth. It is like as more people leave villages and farming and come to settle in cities, urbanization happens. People come and settle down around places where money, wealth, services and opportunities are centralized. Though this process…