Solar Energy Innovation to Curb Pollution in Water Bodies, Rivers, Oceans
Students can contribute a lot to the development of the society and they are providing cutting edge innovation in instances where professionals have been caught napping. Therefore, we need to nurture the creativity and innovative spirit of today’s youth. Their ideas...
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: Sustainability is Key
The United Nations has called for urgent action to combat land degradation. It has also called for the need to make sustainable choices for greening the blue and reclaiming land that is getting lost due to deforestation. The World Day to Combat Desertification and...
Dust Storm hits Delhi: CSE Experts Blame Climate Change
Dust Storms hit Delhi. In fact, the whole of North India has been hit by severe dust storms over the past week. Dust Storms have caused the deaths of about 125 people and has injured several others. It particularly hit the national capital Delhi and adjoining areas,...
Mississippi Damned: The Tale of a Lost River Left with only Sound and Fury
Mississippi is a phenomenon. A large body of water flowing down a slope towards the sea is perceived as so many disparate things by different people at different times and places. Some say that if you want to understand the continent, you have to understand this...
Pakistan Water Crisis: Water Shortage is a Myth, Says Environment Expert
I, recently, came across real news about Pakistan, which merit sharing and commenting. According to a July 2017 article by Carole Dalin at the University College, London as well as fellow authors, in the journal Nature, which is the world’s top journal for scientific...
Use Banana Stems for Organic Farming: Innovations in Agriculture
Organic farming is gaining ground every day. People have come up with an innovative idea in rural agriculture development that can help for attaining both the objectives of organic food as well as provide irrigation for farmers: Using banana tree trunks for the...
World Environment Day 2018: VoE Program On Beat Plastic Pollution
On the occasion of World Environment Day, many organizations came forward to take the cause of the fight against Single Use Plastic Pollution. One such is Voice of Environment (VoE), a small NGO in Assam, which on 27th May 2018 started its own mission of creating...
India is last on Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2018, Globally
Unable to improve air quality, protect biodiversity, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, India, say available data, stands today at the rock bottom of Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) rankings for 2018. In the year 2016, India ranked 141 of 180 countries. In...
Portable off grid toilets don’t need plumbing, water or electricity: Diana Yousef
Portable and evaporative off grid toilets do not require plumbing, water, or even electricity. Such a low cost, off grid, compact, as well as environmentally safe toilet is able to evaporate around 95 per cent of sewage without any energy input. This is achieved with...
Husky Robot Delivers Water to Villagers in South India: Rural Innovations
This could be the perfect solution to India’s water crisis. This is also the perfect marriage of rural development and digital transformation technologies such as robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A four wheeled robot is now delivering water at a village in...
Portland, USA, Goes Green with Water Pipes: Innovations in Hydropower
Sourcing renewable energy such as hydropower from aspects of ordinary life like drinking water is an innovative, fresh, and wonderful concept. And this is being done in Portland, which is the biggest city in the US state of Oregon as well as the seat of the Multnomah...
Meet green innovator who left Tesla to make India’s fastest electric bike
“This is what I left Tesla for. I used to work right alongside Elon Musk. Right now, I am here in Ghaziabad. This is my innovation center,” says Delhi-based Naman Chopra, the founder as well as the CEO of Rexnamo Electric Private Limited, who is building...