February 2016
In his latest TED talk, Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, poses three questions that will determine the future of our planet – and why there’s good reason to be optimistic.
Wednesday 31 August 2016
Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change (TED 2016)
February 2016
In his latest TED talk, Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, poses three questions that will determine the future of our planet – and why there’s good reason to be optimistic.
Friday 26 August 2016
Tuesday 23 August 2016
man with the largest negative carbon footprint in the world
Known as the “man with the largest negative carbon footprint in the world,” Indian-born American electrical engineer Jayant Baliga is the inventor of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), a device that enabled the electronics in the now ubiquitous CFL lamp.
Wednesday 17 August 2016
Environmental laws of India
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) is a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, established jointly by the Ministry and the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation.
The Centre has been a pioneer in environmental education efforts in South India and has conducted a variety of programmes to spread awareness and interest among the masses.
Wednesday 10 August 2016
Why the word 'sustainability' should be banned: Article from the Guardian
The word "sustainability" should be banned from technical and political discourse. It has become so corrupted as to not only be meaningless, but to actually obscure the real issues that must be dealt with. To begin with, we must attest that all human activity has impacts, and these may go far beyond the present sustainability indicators. Nevertheless, we need to take responsibility for all of them and strive to minimise or mitigate them.
Read the full article at the link below
Why the word 'sustainability' should be banned: Article from the Guardian
Read the full article at the link below
Why the word 'sustainability' should be banned: Article from the Guardian
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Ecological deficit/Reserve
An ecological deficit occurs when the ecological footprint of a population exceeds the biocapacity of the area available to that population. A national ecological deficit means that the nation is importing biocapacity through trade, liquidating national ecological assets or emitting carbon dioxide waste into the atmosphere. An ecological reserve exists when the biocapacity of a region exceeds its population's ecological footprint.
Please click to know the ecological deficit / reserve of your country
Please click to know the ecological deficit / reserve of your country
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
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