Over the last two years, there has been many corrections made in the practices and it has been realized that one can be more efficient. Major improvement came with people …
Environment
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, has announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world. …
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 …
