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B-schools going green, offer environment-related course
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 As the market for green managers is growing in the country, B-schools are offering management lessons in environment-related disciplines to their students. Leading B-schools in the...

A green candle to cut pollution
(Green Lifestyle, Offbeat, Society & Culture)

CHANDIGARH: Now, a 'green candle' that does not pollute. A Punjab-based company, the country's largest producer, processor and exporter of honey, will soon launch candles from bee wax, a byproduct for bee-keepers.

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Tamil Nadu bans incandescent bulbs to save power
(Energy, Green Lifestyle, India)

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Friday banned use of old-style, energy intensive incandescent bulbs in offices across the state and ordered the use of compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) to save power.

Mexico Unveils Gigantic Green Roofed Volcano Soccer Stadium
(Green Lifestyle)

The city of Guadalajara opened a new volcano-like soccer stadium that is veritably exploding with green features! Created for the popular Chivas team by French architects

Radio City 91.1 FM turned green with Maruti Suzuki CNG
(Green Lifestyle, Offbeat)

MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM, nation’s first ecological FM radio brand, switched ‘Green’. In association with Maruti Suzuki CNG, Radio city 91.1 FM altered their name to Green City 91.1FM. They initiated the ‘Green n Clean is the way of life’ campaign for an entire ...

Voluntary energy efficiency rating for laptops, STBs on anvil
(Energy, Green Lifestyle, India, Offbeat, Science & Technology)

NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is understood to be planning to bring in more electronic items, including laptops and set top boxes (STBs), under a voluntary star labelling scheme by this financial year.

Under the scheme, manufacturers voluntarily disclose energy co...

Vodafone launches eco-friendly rickshaw ahead of Games
(Environment & Climate Change, Green Lifestyle, Offbeat, Society & Culture)

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Tuesday launched a battery-operated rickshaw, "E-rick", sponsored by cellular services provider Vodafone Essar, to promote eco-friendly transportation in the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Priced at 1.5 lakh, the compan...

TERI organized a waste management campaign in Chandigarh
(Green Lifestyle, Society & Culture)

 

Recently, the energy and resources institute (TERI) launched a waste management campaign in collaboration with a private company in Punjab's Chandigarh city to make students aware about recycling waste, and the benefits of carton packaging for food p...

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Air Force One Emissions From Flight to Copenhagen Climate Conference To Be Offset by LimeGreen Earth
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SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, Dec. 16  -- LimeGreen Earth, Inc. announced today that it will offset the carbon emitted by President Obama's flight on Air Force One to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, which began on December 7, has broug...

Climate change makes English winemakers see red
(Green Lifestyle, Offbeat, Society & Culture)

DORKING, England: The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.

 

In recent years, aided by milder springs and autumns, a few Bri...

Vancouver becoming a bit more like Copenhagen
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We just spent $2 billion on a new skytrain from Richmond. We have a carbon tax on fuel. And now we’re going to be spending $300,000 to add a new bicycle lane on the Dunsmuir Viaduct from East Vancouver into the downtown core.

 

After the Olympics are over, the city will...

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