COURTESY : timesofindia.indiatimes.com Green affordable housing With the rising environmental concern, the green endeavors of housing furnaces a deep link between the well-being of people and environmental sustainability. Many realty developers have initiated the process of integrating core social and …
COURTESY : www.nationalgeographic.org Global warming Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to …
COURTESY : www.crcresearch.org Food forest Obviously, few of us are in a position to restore the forests. But tens of millions of us have gardens or access to open spaces such as industrial wasteland, where trees can be planted and …
COURTESY : www.tenthacrefarm.com FOOd forest A food forest mimics a forest edge that is planted with edible plants. Picture all of the vertical layers of a forest growing together: Tall trees, small trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground covers. Tall, …
COURTESY : www.popsci.com Floating solar energy Solar panels can be placed on your roof, on a plot of land, or basically anywhere else where they are anchored to something solid. That said, there are only so many solid spaces available to install …
COURTESY : www.carbonbrief.org Eradicating poverty The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the global inequality in emissions between people in rich and poor countries. For example, it finds that the average carbon footprint of a person living in sub-Saharan Africa is …
COURTESY : www.northantsfire.co.uk Fire fighting Fire can arise anywhere, especially in places such as high rise buildings. Every person needs to be able to at least have the basic knowledge of firefighting techniques. This will help in ensuring the fire …
COURTESY : green.harvard.edu Energy efficiency Throughout the University, building managers and facility departments are saving money and cutting emissions by reducing the energy used by campus buildings. Increasingly, these teams are achieving deeper reductions by implementing innovative energy efficiency measures …
COURTESY :www.91mobiles.com ELetric bike As fuel prices continue to rise, electric vehicles have been gaining popularity more than ever. Despite the fact that India’s EV infrastructure is in a nascent stage, what pulls potential buyers towards electricity-run vehicles are their …
