EcoLogo is a third-party, multi-attribute eco-labeling programme approved by the Global Ecolabelling Network, an international association of eco-labeling programmes. EcoLogo released its newly-revised environmental standard to strengthen the health and…
Floor cleaning equipment manufacturer Fimap SpA, Italy, recently received ‘Top Performance 2010’ award from the Italian Quality Certification Bureau. The award founded in 2005 is assigned every year to the…
RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, has over the past year collected and used close to 17 lakh litres of rainwater. This is the result of a project undertaken alongwith Bangalore…
About 10 years ago, I was attending a US Green Building Council meeting where Jan Beyea, the facility manager for the National Audubon Society, was reporting on the “greening” of…
Some of the simple treatments of drinking water at any given point of time, or just after an emergency, are enumerated below.
During the late 1970s, Kavadi, a village off the Pune-Solapur highway, three km from Loni with its pollution-free river, was just right for migratory birds. Ornithologists say it had the…
Cleanest City: Smaller cities in India like Nashik and Nagpur in Maharashtra and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh are not only well-maintained but green and clean. Mumbai needs to learn a…