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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City schools awarded for environmental efforts
Two schools from the city will be rewarded by an NGO, for their sustained efforts to promote and prioritise environmental awareness. The Centre of Science and Environment in New Delhi will award Government Model Senior Secondary School (GMSSS) in the
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Ideas pour in for green initiative
From making slippers out of plastic water bottles to setting up small wind turbines to run computers in remote village schools, the Take Care Take Charge (TCTC) campaign has galvanized citizens across the country to devise effective green ideas that can power sustainable living. Responding to the call for green ideas as part of Times of India-Garnier
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Environment science course to be an e-experience
Now colleges will have to teach the subject of environment science through e-learning.
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NGO for environment varsity
Aranya Suraksha Samity, a non-government nature-based organisation, has demanded setting up of a university of environment studies in Assam. The organisation submitted a memorandum to chief minister Tarun Gogoi and also sent copies to forest minister Rockybul Hussain and health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on World Environment Day. It said global warming and clandestine destruction of animal
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Just dial to lodge complaint of green law violation
The city dwellers now have a toll free number ~ 033-23359088 ~ through which they can lodge their complaint about environmental laws being violated, announced the state environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, at the celebration of World Environment Day organised by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) at Nazrul Manch today. The minister said that residents of any part of the
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City walks for green cause, vows to plant trees
It was 6am and the people were up to keep their tryst with the environment. Scores of people from all walks of life had gathered at India Gate on Sunday to participate in the walkathon organized by the ministry of environment on World Environment Day. Participants from as far afield as China had come to attend the walk.
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Ignou and Queensland government start course on renewable energy
KOLKATA, 15 MAY: A first-of-its-kind course in the country on renewable energy has been initiated in the city by a collaboration of Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) and the Queensland Government of Australia. Arka Community College will start its first batch on 1 January 2012 with 25 students for the course on renewable energy with special emphasis on solar energy.
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Pressure group hindrance in action against environmental polluters
Supreme Court has directed Ministry of Environment to take action against environmental polluters, but a pressure group within the industrial sector has been effective in blocking the actions over the last two years.
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IEPSL Environment Management Course begins in June: Bid to improve green credentials
Worldwide environmental management and conservation has become vital today more than ever before, but the knowledge about this relatively new area among relevant sectors in the country is much less than what is really necessary, Institute of Environment Professionals Sri Lanka (IEPSL) Council Member Prof Udith Jayasinghe told Daily News Business. He said therefore it is a national responsibilit
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Green cause steps out of class - Eco Network in schools back after 4 years
Green cause steps out of class - Eco Network in schools back after 4 years, but more real Jamshedpur, April 19: Students of private English medium schools in the steel city will now have to step outside classrooms for a green cause. After a gap of four years, Eco Network, a group of 25 schools, has got together to re-start the Eco Network Rolling Trophy that encourages schools to initiate eco-