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Conserving energy the IIT-B way
posted by: sukhmeet on 2010-09-03 16:30:52 |  The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) is going green. From vermiculture pits to low-flow showers and taps, the engineering institute has introduced several measures to conserve resources. This is part of their Green Campus Initiative, which aims at making the institute sustain...
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Kolkata on brink of civic disaster
posted by: jaspreet on 2010-09-02 22:21:18 |  The unplanned and unchecked real estate growth on EM Bypass and its adjoining areas, sans basic civic amenities, could spell disaster across the city, says a World Bank report submitted to the state government.
It outlines how climate change and global warmin...
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Green Growth: Reality Or Mirage?
posted by: suchetasharma on 2010-09-02 17:37:40 |  Green growth has become the catchphrase of the decade across the world. It is the new mantra that countries see as a way to have their cake and eat it, too, or to put it differently, grow and have a clean environment, too.
Countries across the world are making efforts towards pr...
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Mumbai: The Filthiest Of All Metros
posted by: suchetasharma on 2010-09-01 20:52:15 |  For the firs time, the govt has ranked 423 class 1 Indian cities on the basis of their sanitation standards, and it may come as no surprise that Mumbai ranks not just lowest amongst the four metros but with its 46th position, falls behind even cities like Kanpur and Guntur. Navi Mumbai with 11...
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Climate Change and the Wealth of Nations
posted by: sukhmeet on 2010-08-31 18:35:55 |  The pressing needs of a great recession crowd out interest in global warming. The environmental economists Matthew Kahn and Matthew Kotchen have found that a higher state unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in Google searches for the term “global warming” and a lower &l...
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The Great British Solar Scam (and the scourge of feed-in tariffs)
posted by: arvind on 2010-08-28 23:39:47 |  The British Government is pushing solar panels by paying homeowners in the UK to invest in them. Before you make the mistake of actually doing it if you live in the UK - or anywhere outside the tropics - you need to read "The Great British Solar Scam" here at Energy Tribune.
Here's a tast...
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POWER:: Debunking the Nuclear Myths
posted by: arvind on 2010-08-28 23:33:12 |  It is so obvious that we have to go nuclear. And yet we are all conditioned to believe that nuclear energy is an absolute no no. The electric car is a joke if the electricity comes from coal. Oil producers can sink the electric car any time they want. So they’re not worried about electric cars...
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Global warming shrank carnivores 55 million years ago
posted by: maverick on 2010-08-27 02:22:04 |  WASHINGTON: Extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago, according to a new University of Florida study.
The study describes a new species that evolved to half the size of its ancestors during this period of global w...
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What ails Ranthambore Park?
posted by: ashish on 2010-08-26 05:28:48 |  JAIPUR: The Ranthambore National Park, of late, is in news for all the wrong reasons. The man-animal conflict is gathering pace with either the tiger moving out of the reserve or man entering prohibited area. In fact, after recent incidents of tiger attacks on villagers or their cattle, people ...
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Moral Fabric: Clothiers Go Organic
posted by: ashish on 2010-08-22 22:51:57 | 
Six years ago, David Basson got a phone call that most manufacturers can only dream about -- one from Walmart.
Basson, the CEO of Seattle-based Greensource Organic Clothing Company, had recently shipped an order of 200,000 yoga tops to Sam's Club, Walmart's warehouse club unit. At fi...
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Try, my beloved country
posted by: maverick on 2010-08-22 21:06:12 |  In South Asia, millions live on the margins of society. With rampant poverty, hunger, child malnutrition, corruption, illiteracy and huge socio-economic schisms between the empowered and impoverished – the problems seem almost too enormous to overcome. Not for this lot though. This dens...
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Arctic Getting Colder, says Russian Scientist ..
posted by: arvind on 2010-08-20 16:48:56 | 
Oops. Now it seems that the main reason over one quarter of the Arctic ice has recovered from its recent recession of ice mass is because ... the Arctic looks to be getting colder, not warmer.
Surprising is it not, to find that more more ice is due to more cold. Still, the logic of that will stil...
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