Google Doodle on Earth Day: Plant Seed for Brighter Future
The Google Doodle this year has highlighted ''how everyone can plant the seed to a brighter future - one sapling at a time.'' On the occasion of the Earth Day, Google Doodle wished a Happy Earth Day 2021! Every year, the Earth Day is celebrated on April 22. Google...
Tough on grease and gentle on the planet: Colgate-Palmolive
Palmolive has shown how efficacy sustainability can work with the relaunch of new Palmolive Ultra dish soap, in bottles that are now made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic. This will divert 5200 tons of plastics per year out of the landfills in the...
Small Enterprises Key to Europe’s Decarbonization
The Horizon 2020 funded project, LEAP4SME—Energy audit policies to drive energy efficiency—aims to enhance effective policies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to undergo energy audits and implement cost-effective, recommended energy-saving measures....
Farmland Expansion May Destroy 25% of Habitat for 1,300 Species In 30 Yrs
Around 90% of the world’s animals, birds, amphibians, and mammals may lose out on their natural habitats due to farm expansion by the year 2050, says a report in reputed journal Nature Sustainability. It shows that without changes in consumption patterns and farming,...
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...
10 things you can do to celebrate pollution free Diwali: Go Green
Civil society groups are coming together all over the country to campaign for a green Diwali and how to celebrate Diwali that is pollution free. The Diwali ban could be the harbinger of a movement against the noise pollution and air contamination unleashed by ear...
How to Foster Love for the Environment in Kids
Kids are quite moldable and we can very well make them understand the role of trees and ecosystem around us. Our future can be either bold and beautiful or dark and dreary. A child is always ready to learn, ready to bask in the nature. All we need to do is to just...
Cool Effect Announces Support of New Carbon Reduction Project in India
Cool Effect, a Bay Area based non-profit fighting the climate crisis announced its support of a new carbon reduction project, a Solar DC Programme located in off-grid rural regions of India. A standout example of Cool Effect’s commitment to scientific integrity and...
Ninety One in Collaboration with World Wildlife Fund Launches Climate and Nature Sovereign Index
The Index demonstrates the crucial need for a green recovery from the pandemic and beyond, highlighting the economic and environmental risks that require addressing for countries to maintain resilience. • The new Climate and Nature Sovereign Risk Index will harness...
Recycle, Rethink, Reduce and Refuse to Get Rid of Plastics
By Francisco Medina, Environmentalist: When it comes to environmental issues which we are facing today recycling has to be one of the biggest ones. I would like to explain why and it all has to with “PRODUCTION”. In almost any industry you can think of plastics are...
Interview: We Must Empower Women for Sustainability, Says Entrepreneur Ajat Shatru
Women empowerment is critical to a sustainable and just world. Ushi Fatma, Associate Editor, greenubuntu.com caught up with Ajat Shatru, who has founded two women-oriented business ventures that have been having a deep impact on the society, especially the women in...
Meet the Man Fighting for the Environment in Kashmir
Environmental threat is the same everywhere. The environmental concerns that permeate our culture and society are same as in many places in the world, but our silence and inaction to all this is a criminal wrongdoing. Over the past few decades, the environment in...