Green Campus Movement
The idea of a green campus movement is deceptively simple. Creating a green educational campus not only makes a tangible environmental difference, it also educates those who are directly involved—the staff
Environment Education
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Grasping the roots
Environmental literature plays an important role in moulding innocent minds to think and understand green.
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The raindrop
"The Raindrop" is about a village near Chandigarh in Haryana. The book tells the story how this village was able to transform itself from a drought prone one to a food exporting one through community efforts and scientific watershed management.
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Teaching children they will inherit the earth
In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the children who are awakening their parents to these issues.
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Shimla in a shambles
The beautiful resort is fast greying under the onslaught of modernity
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INDIA
The Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, Maneka Gandhi, has been selected for the Prani Mitra award for her services to the cause of animals. Many NGOs in Assam have
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Environment clubs soon in schools'
The Punjab government will establish environment clubs at state-run schools in six districts. City district nazim Rana Zahid Touseef said this while speaking at a seminar organized by the Punjab Environment Protection Department (PEPD) here on Wednesday. The nazim said the district government was making every effort to control pollution. He said in the first place factories spreading environmental pollution were being shifted from residential areas. He said the environment clubs being set up in schools would create awareness among students about the environment pollution.
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Exploring our environment: a manual for green schools
The National Green Corps program has been launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to bring about a change in the attitudes in the society through children. The program focuses on educating children about their immediate environment and impart knowledge about the eco-systems, their inter-dependence and their need for survival, through visits and demonstrations as well as mobilising youngsters by instilling in them the spirit of scientific inquiry into environmental problems and involving them in the efforts of environmental preservation.
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Do research on pollution
Special Correspondent KRISHNANKOIL: A call to scientists and engineers to focus on solving people
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These roadies explore the country in solar cars for a cause
Mumbai: More than a fortnight ago, a group of 20 young men and women from different parts of the world, embarked upon an unusual journey in three solar plug-in electric Reva cars and an alternatively fueled truck. Their aim: to travel across the country, stopping at unknown villages as well as bustling metropolis, learning, profiling and documenting local eco-solutions at each stopover.
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Nurturing scientific temper through lifes everyday lessons
New Delhi: When retired scientist V Ramachandran walked about his neighbourhood in Dwarka, he found that the only pedestrian zones were the steep foot-and-a-half high footpaths. And when social scientist P V S Kumar spoke to children around Dwarka, he found science for them was mostly about