Environment

पैरों में छाले थे, हाथों में लाल झंडा था, टोपी भी लाल, लाल सलाम करते हुए किसान पग पग आगे बढ़ रहे थे, हौसले बुलंद थे और मांगें तमाम थी, सरकार पर  विश्वास करना मुश्किल हो रहा था कि  सरकार क्या इनके  सामने झुकेगी और क्या इनकी तमाम मांगें मान ली जाएँगी, क्योंकि इसके...

India is facing its worst water crisis currently. With a population that is estimated to reach up to 1.7 billion by 2050, water needs are set to rise in the country. With rising awareness about the criticality of the situation, government has started taking steps to clean up the grossly polluted water bodies and encouraging...

Mumbai is referred to as a city that never sleeps. No matter what time of the day or night one can always find people awake, on the road, working, driving or just enjoying the beautiful lights of the night. This contributes to the Light pollution in the city. Light pollution is the unnatural over illumination...

Solar energy has taken the world by storm. From houses to offices, from schools to hospitals, more and more establishments are going solar. From an ecological perspective, the world is in a place where renewable energy resources are the better options. The return on investment of solar energy in India is ideal as it...

Energy is depleting. Since the industrial revolution and many inventions that have made our lives easier, the demand for the raw materials and natural resources have increased drastically. This has led to deforestation, destruction of ecosystems and depletion of many natural resources. According to The World Counts, there are only about 36 years or so...

It is always heartening to hear PM Modi speak – he lays down plans that turn far-fetched dreams into reality. Be it the aggressive targets like 175 GW renewable energy by 2022, or complete e-mobility by 2030, the PM is a visionary and has placed India at the helm of achieving Sustainable Development. I...

World Animal Protection welcomes the recent announcement by the Government of India to invest in upgrading the fishery and aquaculture infrastructure. Many people in India depend on the sustainable management of our oceans, both for their livelihood as well as food security. World Animal Protection calls on the government to ensure that planned loans through...

Tsunamis can occur in any large body of water. They were so infrequent that the word was not even known to most people. Then came the tsunami of 2004. It caused destruction from Indonesia to India and pictures of a tall wall of water crashing onto the shore and washing away everything that came...

Corporate Social Responsibility is an important leg of any sustainable business model. Be it sustainable production processes or eco-efficient waste management or serving the communities that you operate in; it is the way to conduct yourself. In today’s time after the mandate in 2014, it has become a business imperative. Is it only community service...

The green stretches in the asphalt jungle refer to a verdure in the wide terrain below the numerous flyovers in all the boom towns of the country. This is the most pragmatic and utilitarian approach to the vast expanse beneath the numerous flyovers in Mumbai and the rest of India. The cultivation of abundant...

Remarkable progress has been made in broadening electricity access globally, however sustained political will and increased public and private finance are urgently needed to provide affordable and clean energy to the 1.2 billion people without access to electricity by 2030, says United Nations. According to the latest data, 85 per cent of the global population...

“We would need 4.6 earths to survive if an average person continues to live the way they do right now. But we have only one earth,” said Stephen Szcus, a Canadian environmentalist, sustainability expert and the founder of Sustainable Joes – an organization that provides sustainable solutions for day to day lives. The ecology of...