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.


Symphony of Science: Al Gore on Climate Reality


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

   

          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

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Questions and Instructions

Date of Submission : 22/08/2016, 12.30 pm

Earth overshoot day 2016

Earth overshoot day 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 
















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