Archive for the 'Environment' Category

Joy of Giving

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

This simple yet amazing exercise of spreading joy was started by Ritu. She asks her friends to complete a single task within a week. This week she has asked us to say no to showers and use bucket and mug for taking a bath. Read below what she is saying: This week we have a [...]

In Pursuit of Happiness: Out of Box Thinking

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

I feel immense happiness when I saw people flouting all conventional norms and doing something extraordinarily different . It gives me pleasure to write about such people. Bunker Roy can easily belong to the Baba/Baby brigade as he was educated at Doon School and later at St. Stephens College, Delhi. His grand future was all [...]

If More and More of Us Can Imitate These Cool Dudes

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I have read about some real dudes. Though they belong to a very small place but their work is worth emulating. Is there any solution that on Vijayadashmi, we can do something else with Durga Idol instead of immersing it in our already polluted rivers? Will we be able to find out a way. I [...]

River Gym

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

    River Gym (Image Source: ecofriend) Currently clean and green living has caught my fancy. I try to read what people are doing to keep our environment clean. Sometimes I come across most amazing ideas. In this fitness conscious world most of us try to do our bit is to remain healthy. When an [...]

Wash Clothes Using One Cup of Water

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

    Xeros has introducing environmentally friendly washing machine that will use very little water to wash clothes. But common consumers have to wait for such a washing machine. Xeros will produce it for hotels and drycleaners first. The appliance, which could save billions of litres of water a year, has been developed at the [...]

Vertical Farming!

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I accidently came across this article, The Vertical Farm Project – Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond. I find the concept of vertical farming simply amazing. They are planning to execute it in 2060. But it seems that vertical farming will meet the need of the growing population. After all we have started living [...]