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Opinion: Are Our Ads ‘Greenwashing’ You?

‘Greenwashing’ is the act of advertising or marketing a product as eco-friendly without actually being such in business practices or process.

Americans Prefer Candidates Who Support Climate Action

Climate change tops US Presidential Election Agenda

How Green Is Your Plastic Bag?

Chennai based BIOTEC Bags have designed a Plastic Bag that you will never feel guilty about using.

Toilets For All: It’s Time To Walk The Talk

Following the Prime Minister’s toilets-for-all clarion call, different ministries have already started drawing up blueprints with executable plans, even as government sources admit preparing a collaborative strategy to manage wp funds is proving to be a challenge.

‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ included in wp rules

Minister of State for CorporateAffairs Nirmala Sitharaman have said that the government will analyse the pattern of Corporate Spending under wp programmes after completion of one year.

UTC Launches ‘Project Vidya’ For 800 Village Kids

UNITED Technologies Corporation (UTC) in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages India, today launched ‘Project Vidya’ to support the education of eight hundred children living in SOS Children’s Villages, across nine cities. ‘Project Vidya’ will offer children at the SOS Children’s Villages access to quality education, mentoring and additional support to facilitate improved academic performance. This initiative will be instrumental...

IIM-A Assesses RTE Impact On Kids

THE RTE-Resource Center, a student initiative and action research project at IIM-Ahmedabad, organized a meeting of parents, from economically weaker sections, whose children have been admitted to private schools under the mandate of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The purpose of the meeting, held on 6th July,...

UNIDO’s Session On Eco-Industrial Parks

The 2014 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 3 to 5 June at The Egg Conference Centre, Rue Bara, in Brussels. The theme will be Circular Economy, Resource Efficiency & Waste. A circular economy is the logical solution for a resource-constrained world. It's a place where almost nothing is...

Impact Sourcing: An Idea That’s Time Has Come?

21-YEAR-OLD Neha hails from a low-income locality in Metiabruz in West Bengal. Despite her limited resources and humble background, she dreams of becoming a pilot, someday. Not so long ago, this young and ambitious girl could hardly think of continuing her studies after high school, because her parents could not afford to pay her fees....

Opinion: Why India Needs A wp Index

Given that we are mandating corporations to spend money on us, we as a society would be better off if we had a way of measuring it

Jaitley To Corporates: Use Defence Personnel For CSR

DEFENCE Minister Arun Jaitley today urged the corporate sector to utilise the services of ex-servicemen for meeting their requirement for a highly trained and disciplined work force. "Corporate India requires trained and disciplined manpower and the ex-servicemen provide a big pool of such people. Their commitment to work is paramount, their discipline is very high...

The Acidic Blues

Ocean Acidification is sometimes called 'climate change’s equally evil twin', it is a significant & harmful consequence of excess CO2 in the atmosphere that we don't see or feel because its effects are happening underwater. And the rate at which we are pumping CO2 into our atmosphere is now a growing concern.

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