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  1. Is your city colour green?

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    / November 20, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Piyush Ranjan Rout Everyone talks about green coverage but most people do not voluntarily give up a portion of their land for plantation, choosing to give it instead to some developer to indulge in construction activity. Similarly our city councils do the same while constructing wider roads and flyovers...

  2. Green corruption

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    / September 15, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Narasimha Reddy   Corruption is often discussed, but not many are aware of the various forms of corruption, especially the corruption which threatens primary livelihoods. Farmers and peasants of Indian agriculture are victims of such corruption.   Corruption is seen here as non-adherence to established procedures, lack of equity...

  3. Decoding Bangalore’s green DNA

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    / August 5, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The number of trees in the city may not have kept pace with the number of people but the truth is that Bangalore is not called the `Garden City’ for nothing. To find out the age of a locality in Bangalore, all we have to do is measure the girth...

  4. I am a FOOL

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    / August 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Nivedita   Often we read about elephants running amok. Why wouldn’t they? When a clever man for his needs slurps at the idea of encroaching into the elephant’s home i.e., forests for his business needs. That clever man has forgotten that when they rob animals of their home, they...

  5. Asian greenies ruling the world

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    / July 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Dr Piyush Ranjan Rout   Kolkata, New Delhi, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Thiruvananthapuram all look fairly green when the aircraft is preparing for touchdown on the runway. But when the green space in Kolkata is  2 sq m per person and the same is 166 sq m per person in Guangzhou...

  6. Bangalore no longer stands tall

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    / July 4, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Slogan Murugan   Doddabettahalli and Chickabettahalli are two small villages on the Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road (his parents live down the road towards Yelahanka) that connects Jalahalli and Yelahanka New Town.   Doddabettahalli’s claim to fame is its elevation. The Betta at 962 meters is officially the highest place...

  7. Tiger, tiger, not burning bright

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    / June 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Kishalay Bhattacharjee   Crocodile in water, tiger on land and snakes hiding in trees could be a classic description of The Sundarbans which is a thick green cover of Sundari Trees on the world’s largest delta area. The forest is impregnable in parts holding within it hundreds of rare...

  8. Don’t save the elephant yet !

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    / June 8, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Kishalay Bhattacharjee   On 12th November 2010, villagers residing along the Goalpara-Solmari road witnessed a rare sight as two full-grown elephants engaged themselves in a two-hour-long battle just two-and-a-half kilometres from Goalpara town in Lower Assam. Though elephants are not an unusual sight in Assam or the North East,...

  9. Green gyaan from Germany

    Posted by shubha h s
    / May 31, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By H S Shubha “There is a demonstration about saying `no’ to nuclear power this Saturday, would you like to come along,” asked a German colleague, Kirsten last week. I agreed instantly. Being an Indian, demonstrations and strikes are things you see all the time. But how different would be...

  10. Shift away from coal and nuclear

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    / May 24, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma   I feel somewhat disheartened at the lukewarm response so far of the Union government to the global developments in energy. On one side, coal-based and nuclear power plants are endangering the people. On the other side, the price of hydrocarbons which we import is...

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