World Water Day: India faces massive water crisis in next 10 years
India’s water sources are dwindling and there is a water crisis. The depletion causes droughts and worsens agrarian situation in Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka, which are the two worst hit parts. Large parts of Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana,...
How to celebrate eco-friendly Holi in 5 simple ways: Save Environment
Water balloons, pichkaris of colors, and gulal are how people celebrate Holi, the vibrant festival of colors. Revelers immerse themselves in mazza and masti (fun). Some food for thought: If a person uses one bucket of water (minimum), that is 15 liters of water. If...
World Sparrow Day 2019: Why is It Necessary to Celebrate it?
The World Sparrow Day is a day particularly marked to create awareness about the house sparrow as well as other common birds in the urban environment. The day is also useful as it brings to focus the worldwide threats to their population. It is observed on 20 March....
Avan Motors Soon Launching New Series Of Digital Electric Scooters
Avan Motors, which is an Indian manufacturer of electric vehicles and scooters, is mulling launching a totally innovative series of electric scooters or e-scooters. This new range of electric scooters is being described by the company as 'cutting edge digital tools...
Seaweed in Food Packaging is Indonesia’s Alternative to Plastic Pollution
Plastic use has become indispensable in our daily lives be it in homes, offices or industries. Our dependence on plastic is so huge that one finds it extremely difficult to take them out of our lives completely even if they want to. Plastic pollution is ravaging...
Noise Pollution in Mumbai: How Abdul Qayyum Curbed It at Traffic Junctions
Noise Pollution in Mumbai is a big problem. Abdul Qayyum Patel stays quite close to a very busy traffic junction in Mumbai. Just like the case of any metro city, along with the traffic comes the unnecessary incessant honking. Indians use the horn much more than their...
Environmental Journalism: Challenges in a Consumerist Society
Global warming and climate change are hard realities that face human beings. Pollution levels and ecological degradation have reached unprecedented levels. It is a precarious state. In all this, environmental journalism is doing a difficult task of bringing news and...
Muqbil Ahmar Gets Green Human Award for Reaching 10 Million Readers
Muqbil Ahmar, the founder and editor-in-chief of Greenubuntu, has been honored by Mission Green Mumbai for reaching out to 10 million citizens globally. The Green Human Award was presented by Subhajit Mukherjee, Founder, Mission Green Mumbai. “I am delighted with this...
Trend E Electric Scooter from Avan Motors Officially Unveiled
Avan Motors has introduced its latest Trend E electric scooter at the Automobile Expo 2019 in Bangalore or Bengaluru. It is powered by a lithium Ion battery. The new Trend E e scooter is now the latest addition to Avan Motors's Xero range of electric scooters. The new...
Delhi Government Will Run 1,000 Electric Buses: Green Transport
In a step forward to attain sustainable green transport and achieve emobility, the Delhi Government has decided to deploy 1,000 electric buses in a bid to fight the air pollution that plagues the city. Particularly in the winters. The national capital Delhi is well on...
Electric Scooter Accidents to be Studied in USA for the First Time
Electric scooters are quite popular these days, particularly among the youth and the millennials. Consequently, it has given rise to a concomitant increase in electric scooter accidents. An agency in the USA has been tasked with studying the patterns of electric...
Gujarat Solar Auction Fails to Attract Bids due to Low Tariff
In what could be seen as a setback for the renewable energy drive in Gujarat, the latest Gujarat Solar Auction of about 1000 MW failed to get any developers at all. Solar energy plant developers do not seem to be interested in procurement of projects that are...