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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Students document need to create a plastic-free environment
Students of Fatima College have produced a documentary to create awareness of the need for creating a plastic-free environment. “A Clarion Call,” the documentary, produced by first year postgraduate students of English department, in association with DHAN Foundation, was released by Jospin Nirmala Mary, Principal, and Francis Pauline, secretary of Fatima College, here on Wednesday.
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Cricketers bat for a clean environment
Bangalore: “Let’s change Bangalore from a city of air conditioners to an air-conditioned city.” To convey this message to citizens, cricketer Javagal Srinath has joined Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Robin Uthappa in spearheading Green Wicket, a campaign to make students more conscious about waste segregation, water conservation, saving energy and maintaining hygiene. It was launched by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on March 4.
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YES BANK conducts Science & Environment Olympiad to commemorate National Science Day
<p align="center"><em>Unique YES-COMMUNITY initiative targeting over 100000 school children across India to celebrate National Science Day</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mumbai; 4<sup>th</sup> March,
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India and Pakistan environmental groups suggest to develop special curriculum for children
Border fence has divided the land mass between India and Pakistan but not the environment. Not only the toxic fumes and pollutants dots the skies of both Amritsar and Lahore but the fast depleting
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Schoolkids join hands to go green
An MoU to promote environmental education and activities was signed between World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan’s (WWF-Pakistan) Green School Programme and The Bridges School (TBS), which is now a registered
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Making schoolkids eco conscious
Eco-awareness might be a fashionable green slogan. But its transition to action mode has been slow in the City. To accelerate this process among students in the City’s estimated 8,200 educational institutions, GIZ, a German bilateral cooperation agency, has come up with a workable idea: Let the students learn from and replicate in their schools the ‘Green Wicket’ project launched recently at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here.
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Asthmatic student seeks law banning crackers
She and her friends plan to petition Centre in this regard 13-year-old chronic asthmatic wants a law banning the bursting of firecrackers during Deepawali, which, she insists is a festival of light and not noise or pollution.
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Cracker sales dip, thanks to children
Campaigns By Schools Lead To Decline: Survey Bangalore: Children are ensuring a massive change in our mindset, and how! Anti-cracker campaigns launched by schools across the country have resulted in a 20-25% dip in sale of crackers, says a survey.
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Junk food busted
As we all know, junk food is defined as food with empty calories — it provides fat, sugar and salt, without nutrition. But how bad is it? This is what CSE's laboratory checked recently. The results were
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Accord signed to create environmental awareness
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) signed an agreement with Lawrence College, Murree to create environmental awareness amongst students and employees and to facilitate their professional