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Advancing Sustainable Development through Education in India

As defined by the Brundtland Commission, "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Read on

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Forests - Our green lungs

Forests over the whole world have been vanishing at an alarming rate – but they are vital for us as we need them as the green lungs for our mother earth. The year 2011 is proclaimed by the United Nations as the "International Year of the Forest". It aimed at promoting the awareness and knowledge about the conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests for usage of the present and future generations. Read on

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Garbage Sorting in China

With the ever-increasing amount of garbage piling up at a speed exceeding the capacities of landfills and incinerators in a short future, the Chinese authority now seeks to deal with the problem from the source. Garbage Sorting has started already in the big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen in some local communities, only this time the implementation would come with strict regulations and penalties. Read on

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Grow it where you live - Seeds in a globalised world

Economic globalisation has the potential for disadvantage and conflict for poorer nations. One example is the monopolisation of seeds which can carry small-scale farmers to the brink of ruin. Read on

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Lighting Scenario in Rural India - Dark Nights in Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the twelfth largest state in terms of geographical size and third largest by population. 85% of the population lives in rural villages. Official statistics show that kerosene is the only source of lighting for about 89% of the rural households in Bihar. Read on

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Environmental refugees – how climate change affects people`s lives

Global warming affects the life of more and more people to the extent they have to leave their habitual homes either temporarily or permanently and as a result they become environmental refugees. Read on

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Bitter truth: Biodiversity and the business of food

In this year of biodiversity, stop and think of how it touches our daily lives – in fact our bodies and our self. We rarely make the connection between biodiversity of plants and animals, which we celebrate in the wild and our culture of food and lifestyles. But it is important to make the linkage – as disappearance of biodiversity in the world affects our bodies. Read on

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Social Entrepreneurship in India – Changing the life of the poor

India has the world's second largest labour force of 516.3 million people and although over the past decade, hourly wage rates in India have more than doubled, the latest World Bank report states that approximately 350 million people in India currently live below the poverty line. Social entrepreneurs can help alleviate these issue by helping those less fortunate towards a worthwhile life. Read on

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Your Ecological Footprint

Since the late 1970s, humanity has been in ecological overshoot with annual demand on resources exceeding what Earth can regenerate each year. In 2010 August 21st marks that unfortunate milestone: It´s this years Earth Overshoot Day, in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the rest of the year. Read on

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Renewable energy - environmental friendly and low cost energy from inexhaustible sources

Energy resources exist in different forms - some exist as stocks and are exhaustible, others exist as flows and are inexhaustible. The first form are fossil fuels as petroleum and carbon energy, the second form are resources based on constantly replenishing flows such as flows of solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and quantities grown by nature in the form of biomass. Read on