100% Solar Powered Village in India Sets Example for Green Energy Use
A Solar Powered Village in India is a model for the use of renewable energy due to total dependence on solar power for its various needs. It is therefore completely independent of any fossil fuel sources of energy. Though it has no electricity poles, the Solar Powered...
You Are a Reflection of Your Food! Thoughts on Diet and Nutrition
Flirt with your Food! The Body will take the Cue! Cooking is Therapeutic! I love to pick my food ingredients and cook my own food. I need to see the ingredients that go into my cooking and my system! There is a spiritual energy around beautifully displayed fresh...
India’s First Foldable Electric Bike: Innovations in E-Mobility
A total of 6 engineering students have devised an innovative electric bike design which is the latest innovation in E-Mobility in India. Users now have a solution to parking problems which are faced by all cities of the country. The engineers from Chandigarh...
Climate Change: A Place for Individual Actions?
Climate change has become a big blaming game. Activists in the UK are blaming Barclays Bank, investigative journalists are blaming a fantastically costly and successful fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign, and environmentalists blame ourselves for flying and...
NCAP: What are the Features of National Clean Air Programme?
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). It has three important features: a) Mitigation Actions: NCAP gives special attention to details of various mitigation actions. Web-based three-tier...
South Africa Plastic Bag Ban Reduces Plastic Use by 90%
Plastic pollution is the gravest environmental threat because it affects human life, marine life, and the entire food chain. Several retailers have accepted the South Africa Plastic Bag Ban and are planning a ban on single use plastics and replacing it with shopping...
National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) May Reduce Particle Concentration
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) recently launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The NCAP is a pollution control initiative which aims to reduce the concentration of particles (PM2.5 and PM10) by 20 to 30 per cent by 2024. The...
Are Polypropylene Carry Bags A Good Replacement for Plastics?
With the plastic carry bag ban coming into effect in Maharashtra and other parts of India and the world, several entrepreneurs have come up with solutions to fight the menace. Plastic, nonwoven bags, and E-waste have impact on the environment, human and animal lives....
Plastic Pollution Essay: 7 Steps to Reduce Our Plastic Footprint
Plastic pollution developed in the 1860s. Plastic has become an indispensable part of our lives. Longevity is its main characteristic, but this very quality has also become a major problem. Its non-biodegradable nature is causing a massive environmental problem. That...
How South African Andrew Pollock Is Fighting Plastic Pollution
Plastic bags are found everywhere. Though they may look like a cheap and easy way to carry the goods, they wreak havoc on the planet earth in a variety of ways. According to Earth Policy Institute, about 1 trillion plastic bags are used across the world every year....
Municipal Waste Management: India Must Use Innovation and New Tech
Humans, animals, and other organisms and all processes of production and consumption produce waste and it has been a part of the earth's ecosystem ever since. As nature has it's own way of regulating things, the concept of waste doesn't exist in nature. The apparent...
Biodiversity: Who Owns it? Who Conserves It? Who Does it Belong To?
While studying Strategies of ‘Global Conservation Education’ at the Conservation Education Center of Muskoka Woods, Ontario, Canada, during the year 2018, I came across some very pertinent and important questions which were raised by fellow educators, experts,...