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Greenobin: Home, Waste Pickup, Audit, Recycling Bins
The Advantages of Recycling Paper
Before throwing that piece of paper in the trash, consider how many trees you could save by starting a recycling program in your office or school. Even recycling newspapers and paper products at home can generate neighborhood interest and help save the earth. The advantages of recycling paper go far beyond saving trees and can start with a single piece of paper.
Benefits
- Recycling paper has several benefits both for...
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Pest Control Tips and Techniques
What is one of the most important aspects of dallas pest control? We're talking about Integrated Pest Management, which contains methods that no gardener or landscaper should be without if they intend to stay away from harsh pesticides.
Simply speaking, organic pest control and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) are all about the idea that chemicals should be the very last resort in caring for your lawn or garden. IPM is a multi-faceted approach to doing this effectively. Listed below are some of the various techniques one may use if they intend to use IPM and organic pest control techniques to their fullest:
1. Your soil health is by far one of the most...
Author: reginag
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GreenPlumbers India
GreenPlumbers India
I would like to introduce our Organization as Greenplumbers India a collaborative of Indian Plumbing Association (IPA) and International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials – India (IAPMO – I), is a national Training and accreditation program that assists plumbers and concerned professionals in understanding their role in environment and public health. The organization’s goal is to train and deploy a green army of thousands of plumbers and professionals to promote the benefits...
Author: GreenPlumbers India
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Supreme Court's order on children falling in abandoned tube wells dt.11.02.2010
Message from Mr.Rama Mohan Centre for World Solidarity
In response to my letter petition filed as PIL in Hon'ble Supreme Court of India as WP(C) 36/2009 on 13.02.2009 requesting measures to prevent fatal accidents involving children falling in abandoned bore wells, the court has given certain safety measures / guidelines to all the States and UTs in India on 11.02.2010.<!--break-->I am...
Author: arun
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Ganga Yamuna Panchayat
Charter of All India Ganga Yamuna Panchayat submitted to Minister of Environment8-10 February 2010
In its concluding session on 10th February, the all India Ganga Yamuna Panchayat organized by Tarun Bharat Sangh and Manushi Sangathan presented a Charter of Demands to Minister of Environment, Mr Jairam Ramesh for the effective implementation of the New Ganga and Yamuna Action Plans. The Panchayat was inaugurated on February 8th by Shri Digvijay Singh, General Secretary, All India Congress Committee at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library which hosted the Panchayat.<!--break-->
Author: arun
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German technology changing lives of Baiga tribals
While an interface between tradition and technology often leads to the surfacing of conflict-inducing fault lines, just sometimes the two integrate seamlessly to alter lifestyles of those who experience them.
Author: arun
One such example is German technological assistance changing the lives of Baiga tribals of Dindori. Tribals of the Chhapra village, who still trade through the barter system, have achieved a great degree of self-sufficiency through the installation of the Hydraulic Ram or HydRam, as it is popularly known.<!--break-->
The HydRam works without electricity or any other fuel, making it ideal for the remotely located Chhapra village.
The Baiga, a Primitive Tribal Group (...
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How Much? For the Biodiversity and for Nature?
Photo from International Rivers
Nature Conservancy a decade ago estimated the value of earth’s ecosystem services to be at least $33trillion a year. At the time of estimation it was close to gross world product. Something about that figure wasn’t quite clear and I always wondered how they managed to come up with the number.<!--break-->
A recent...
Author: praveena
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Participatory Theatre - Engaging, Enabling & Empowering Communities
In 2010, theatre continues to be one of our core areas of intervention – trainings, workshops, working with groups and communities, performances, post-performance discussions… The performing media initiative of media matters now has a repertoire of plays being performed by its youth theatre groups, the most recent being Main, Asha... (on sex selection) and Kataar! (on right to information).
Consolidating these experiences, we organize our annual six-day residential workshop – an opportunity to interact and work with both, 'development actors' and 'theatre activists'.
Our previous workshops have been attended by...
Author: reena
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Letter from Yamuna
(Last to last year in frustration, this letter came out. Now when Commonwealth Games are at the door Mother Yamuna is asking for justice on her death bed)
Revered Citizens of India,
I am mother of one sixth of humanity, But now a stigma on my own sons. My own sons are raping me for their own prosperity and development. I want to tell you what is my story and what are my ideas while sitting on the death bed.
My story starts from a myth and a reality. My sons believe that I came from heaven while scientists say that I have originated from the glaciers of Himalayas. I believe in both. My father is Himalaya and I originate from Yamunotari glacier, now in state of Uttarakhand. My birth was considered as...
Author: kabirarora
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Delegation from Italy in environmental technologies in India
The Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be receiving a delegation of Companies from Italy from 22nd to 27th February in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Delhi.
The companies will have expertise in the following areas:
- Waste recycling services (chemicals and metals regeneration)
- Design, production, commissioning and start up of turnkey flue gas treatment plants for industrial melting processes.
- Design, production, commissioning and start up of turnkey plants for the...
