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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UN affiliate, NGO ink green training pact
The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and a Kolkata-based NGO, Education for All, signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to promote environmental awareness training programmes.
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Rice exporters to educate farmers
JAMMU, Sept 28 (PTI): Threatened by rising rejection and holding up of rice consignments in US due to higher than permissible pesticide residues, the Rs 24,000 crore rice export industry has decided to
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Go Green campaign goes beyond borders
New Delhi: The Earth Care Awards’ fourth edition this year moves beyond borders, drawing into its fold India’s neighbours for the first time since the Times of India launched the Go Green India campaign
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Lessons on life in pledge to go organic - NGO teaches children to care for nature and improve their socio-economic status
Jorhat, Sept. 11: By day they hold the pen in their young hands and by evening they soil them in muck. Deeply rooted to the earth, which their fathers till for a living, a group of children of Chitralekha
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Corporation restarts initiative for source segregation of waste
After not-so-successful attempts at source segregation of waste initiatives in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation is gearing up for introducing a few measures aimed at restarting the process. And the civic body has every reason to do so because at stake is Rs. 96 crore – the money it has invested to put in place a solid waste management system. Sources in the Corporation say that under the Shunya – Zero Waste Management project, the civic body with help from ICLEI, an NGO, and others, is planning to conduct a day-long workshop on source segregation of waste for stake-holders and civil society organisations and follow it up with introducing the process in a few wards on a trial basis.
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Awake India’s launches go green drive in Poonch
POONCH, Sep 6: With a view to increase the green cover in the city and to raise the awareness about the need of plantation; “Awake India” initiated a Go Green Drive with cooperation of Social Forestry
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Invite to join green research - Forest dept to help interested college students
If you want to make the greens your research den, the forest department is only too eager to help. Dhalbhum divisional forest officer (DFO) Karma Bhutia and conservator of forest (afforestation circle,
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Sohra eco-restoration prog making good progress
SHILLONG: The ongoing eco-restoration programme to improve the ecology and environment of Sohra is making a good progress. Although 1172500 seedlings, mostly indigenous, were planted in the first year to replenish the lost greenery of Sohra, the department in the second year of the project has decided to plant 1298750 seedlings. Talking to The Shillong Times here on Wednesday, Soil and Water Conservation director D Langstieh while claiming that the project is making good progress informed that 748000 seedlings will be planted in the third year and while the next two years will be for the maintenance of the plantations.
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Eco clubs to spread the green word
The Dhanbad district education department is on a green mission this monsoon. It has written to government high and middle schools to constitute eco clubs to help keep campuses clean and green. According
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Now, Rio+20 India to teach students sustainable development
The recently concluded Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil has led to the inception of the Rio+20 India programme. The Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC) is spearheading