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  1. Jaya goes green

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu is going green on Jayalalithaa’s birthday today. The CM, clearly to avoid any controversy, has asked party cadre to launch an afforestation programme, by planting 64 lakh saplings. This, officials say will increase the state’s green cover from 21 to 30 per cent. Two lakh saplings will be planted...

  2. Plant a tree, plant hope

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / January 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In my early school days, I would anxiously look forward to our ‘free hand drawing’ class as I loved to liberally put my imagination on paper and to colour the imagination the way I liked. I now recall that in most of the sketches the children would draw, a tree...

  3. Naidu goes green. No, not with envy

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    / January 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The grass is not greener on the other side for Chandrababu Naidu. So the TDP chief has decided to give his party symbol, the bicycle, a makeover. The bicycle will now be given a coat of paint and turned into green from black. `Deccan Chronicle‘ reports that the colour of...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. A Sunday and 12 bicycles

    Posted by Arun Katiyar
    / June 26, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Arun Katiyar   Twelve of us – Aravind, Anuj, John, Jyotis, Madan, Manoj, Rubi, Sanjay, Siva, Srini, Vallari, Arun – went on a bicycle ride this morning to Pearl Valley on the outskirts of Bangalore. Twelve? Ready to do 82 km? Think about it. What’s with these guys? We...

  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...

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