Pollution neutralizing curtains can save homes and health from pollutants
A team of in-home experts, looking into how technological advances could impact interiors of the future, have devised an innovative solution to pollution through household curtains. Pollution affects the health of many city dwellers and it’s thought that creating the...
Earth Day in Bollywood: Dia Mirza, Anushka Sharma, Juhi Chawla, Yuvraj
Bollywood celebrities such as Dia Mirza, Anushka Sharma, Richa Chadha, Yuvraj Singh, Juhi Chawla, and many others came together on the occasion of Earth Day 2018 and sent out a strong message that everyone should do their best to make planet Earth a better place to...
Earth Day 2018: Let’s pledge to end plastic pollution and use
People around the globe are coming together to celebrate the Earth Day 2018. They are organizing marches, signing petitions, meeting officials, planting trees, cleaning up towns and roads across the world. This day is meant to emphasize the need to protect planet...
How Royal Bengal Tiger thrives in India’s Youngest Reserve: Orang Park
Some good news for tiger and wildlife conservationists. The Royal Bengal Tiger is thriving as well as multiplying at the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park (RGONP). This national park has the highest density of tigers, which is higher than that of the Kaziranga National...
Welcome to Meenangadi, India’s first carbon-neutral town: Go Green
Meenangadi is a small town in the Indian state of Kerala. It has accomplished and is doing what the entire world has not been able to. The small town is well on its way towards a green future. Its march is for a noble cause: the aim to achieve...
Mangalore Refinery commissions largest solar power project: India
The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd., (MRPL) has achieved a big milestone as far as solar and renewable energy consumption is concerned. It has commissioned 6.063 MWp of solar power project on its premises. This is the largest such facility at any refinery...
Waste disposal continues in open areas, rivers in Upper Assam: Study
In a comparative study, it has been noticed that all the towns in Assam have problems in terms of municipal waste management but among them Dibrugarh town is more critical due to open air dumping system since 25 years on the banks of the river Brahmaputra dike area...
Lalgarh tiger death points to shortcomings in wildlife rescue
A leading animal and wildlife protection group has expressed dismay over the killing of the Lalgarh tiger spotted in Lalgarh in West Bengal, which was reportedly by local hunters who used spears, bows, and arrows to kill the cornered creature on 13 April. The Lalgarh...
Welcome to Diu, India’s first completely solar-powered city
As the chorus for green and renewable energy increases world-wide, countries need to go for clean energy. And one Indian city is getting it right. The Indian Union Territory of Diu now runs 100 per cent on solar energy. In a span of just three years, Diu, also a...
Leaf Republic for sustainable environment & ecology: Green technology
Leaf plates have always been a part of Indian tradition. They are frequently used even today. Curiously, it has been picked up by a few people in Germany. They got inspired by the Indian trend and have started manufacturing plates as well as bowls made of...
Use solar-powered data centers and cloud computing for sustainability
Cloud computing is booming and consequently there is a massive surge in the data center business as this forms the backbone of cloud services. The data center boom is particularly visible in Asia Pacific. Companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Google are...
Plastic ban not enough, implementation crucial: Dia Mirza, UN Ambassador
I knew that Maharashtra is implementing a plastic ban. But how are they going to implement it on the ground is the big question. Merely banning something is not enough, what is crucial is its implementation. There are states which have a plastic ban in place but you...