Environment & People

25/03/2014

2014 is on the 29th of March from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM IST. Let's celebrate Earth Hour and start caring about the Environment :)

15/09/2013

Unique has just got a whole new meaning! Imagine living in a hotel made from a recycled plane? Well now you actually can! An old German aeroplane has now been converted into a restaurant. Read on to learn more such crazy ideas!

Wouldn’t it be fun to stay in a hotel that was made from something different, like a recycled plane? Well, you actually can!

14/09/2013

Are we the most intelligent creatures or the highly naive ones completely oblivious to what's happening around us?

13/09/2013

are racing to create trees and which will mimic to generate clean fuels such as hydrogen.

The leaf's ability to convert sunlight and water into storable fuel makes it the ultimate in solar energy. Now researchers say they have found a way to mimic this seemingly simple feat.

12/09/2013

If you generate from a project, the will soon pay you for the energy you save by using solar power! Over and above the feed in tariff, the government is planning on giving a small to the of the solar power.

A new solar policy upholds “production-based subsidy” which means that the government will pay you for the units of energy you save by using solar power. As of now, there is a “capital subsidy” scheme which involves a rebate of a fixed sum on installation of solar water heaters in Delhi.

11/09/2013

Most trash reaches the seas via rivers, and 80% originates from landfills and other urban sources. Here are 10 simple things that each and every one of us can do for trash free seas.

10/09/2013

STOP using plastic!

09/09/2013

According to the National Academy of Sciences, on an average there are 27 oil spills every day somewhere in the waters of the worlds, and the Valdez spill of 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil, doesn't even make the list of the top 30 all-time largest!!!

07/09/2013

The high price of anti-environmentalism. Is Uttarkhand a man-made disaster?

Faced with environmental disaster, Bahuguna refuses to rethink a single tourism project or ill-advised dam, insisting on development at any price.

06/09/2013

Did you know that about 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down to make paper every year!! So how do we go about saving trees? Paper made from stone is the new solution to avoid cutting trees.

  Every year, around 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down to make paper used in everything from books to office copy machines. Paper use has skyrocketed in the last 40 years, despite digital technology, and likely isn't going away soon. But what if paper could be easily made without tree...

06/09/2013

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

04/09/2013

and it's ambitious plan has not been put into practice due to lack of planning and extremely poor implementation.

India's ambitious plans to fight climate change by enhancing the forest cover at a cost of Rs. 46,000 crore by 2020 have been stuck with no funds available since it was cleared by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change in 2011.