Bag for Cause: Beat Plastic Pollution for Sustainable Development Goals
With the plastic ban coming into effect in Maharashtra, several enterprising entrepreneurs have come up with viable solutions to fight the plastic menace. Plastic, non-woven bags, E-waste have hazardous impacts on the environment, nature, human and animal lives. It is...
India Unsafe for Women: A Critical Analysis of Thomson Reuters Report
The international report declaring that India is the worst place for women to live indicates the state of society we have in twenty first century. The status of women is a criteria for judging development and progress of a society. The report by the Thomson Reuters...
Mismanaged response to Assam floods: Natural Disaster in India
Kamalakhya Dey Purkaystha, who is a member of Assam Legislative Assembly, was the one who led the boat which carried the dead bodies of Kulendra Malakar and Mishu Malakar, people who got killed in the on-going Assam floods, from Sharifnagar in Karimganj. The bodies...
A Poetic Tribute to the Mighty Pascagoula: The Mississippi’s Singing River
In moments of lucidity, Mississippi remembers an old friend, an old timorous friend, a nimble, whistling old friend flowing a basin across. The Pascagoula. Pascagoula River has only one famous story. How many stories can an 80 mile river have? Her people use it to...
Strengthen Forest Rights for Climate Change Action: Draft Forest Policy
By Ranjan K Panda -- There has been a new wave of admiration in India of our traditional knowledge, which has emerged in public discourse. But it’s not reflected in ways the State wants to manage our own forests. Politicians, intellectuals, and bureaucrats publically...
Kanpur Innovators Fight Water Pollution: Flower Waste Management
No one thinks that something as charming and enticing as flowers can be sources of toxicity. Flowers, which are used at places of worship, are often disposed of into water bodies such as rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. Every year, about 80, 00,000 tons of such wasted...
Solar Energy Innovation to Curb Pollution in Water Bodies, Rivers, Oceans
Students can contribute a lot to the development of the society and they are providing cutting edge innovation in instances where professionals have been caught napping. Therefore, we need to nurture the creativity and innovative spirit of today’s youth. Their ideas...
Mississippi Damned: The Tale of a Lost River Left with only Sound and Fury
Mississippi is a phenomenon. A large body of water flowing down a slope towards the sea is perceived as so many disparate things by different people at different times and places. Some say that if you want to understand the continent, you have to understand this...
Husky Robot Delivers Water to Villagers in South India: Rural Innovations
This could be the perfect solution to India’s water crisis. This is also the perfect marriage of rural development and digital transformation technologies such as robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A four wheeled robot is now delivering water at a village in...
How Karl Marx and Communist Manifesto talk Environment Sustainability
Some of Karl Marx's Ideas can be linked to to the idea of Sustainability and Sustainable Development. The World Environment Day was observed recently. A young JNU student Banojyotsna Lahiri who recently passed out from JNU and is teaching in Ambedkar University posted...
How PM Jawaharlal Nehru Addressed Environmental Degradation
Whenever the issue of environment and sustainable development is taken up for discussion people invariably take a quote or two from the Brundtland Commission report of 1987, the Limits to Growth report of the Club of Rome of 1972 or some other UN Document of 1980s....
Using Agricultural Waste to Grow Mushrooms: Innovations in Sustainability
Do you remember how the national capital city of Delhi became a gas chamber after Diwali, with immense air pollution? One of the major reasons was the burning of agricultural stubble by farmers in Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. Though the Delhi government tried...