by Greenubuntu Bureau | Jul 15, 2018 | Home, News, Pollution Watch, Sustainable Living
More than 15000 tons of plastic waste gets generated every day in India. Of this, 6000 tons remain uncollected as well as littered. Each plastic takes 500–1000 years to degrade! No wonder, there is a ban on plastic. Particularly after the government’s ban on plastics,...
by Greenubuntu Bureau | Jun 10, 2018 | Green tech, Home, News, Solar & Green Energy
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...
by Greenubuntu Bureau | May 30, 2018 | Home, Pollution Watch
According to the latest report released by the World Health Organization, India has the dubious distinction of hosting 14 out of 15 of the world’s most polluted cities. Kanpur tops the list. The other cities are Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra,...
by Greenubuntu Bureau | May 10, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, Pollution Watch
Authors: Shubham Varshney, Prerna Dobriyal*, and Shubra Singh ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai 400061 Corresponding author: *[Email-shubham.fbtma704@cife.edu.in] Crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons with 4-26 or more carbon atoms in the...
by Greenubuntu Bureau | Apr 27, 2018 | Green tech, Home, News, Solar & Green Energy
Swedish–Swiss multinational ABB says it has commissioned India’s first industrial solar microgrid at the Vadodara manufacturing facility in the state of Gujarat. Microgrids, with integrated battery energy storage, help in reducing planned as well as unplanned power...
