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Memoirs of COP29: Baku, Azerbaijan
It has been an event of sorts, for some it was a beacon of hope, while for some it was an utter failure. While people and representatives are free to make their own opinion, but ev…
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Derailed rural economy: Causes and remediation approaches – Indian context
Background India has always been a village-based economy, not because of the sheer size of the country and the huge number of villages, but because of the ancient research in sociology and the sustainable economy design built by the ancient Indians based on the Vaidic wisdom. Even since the human settlements came into existence due […]
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From LICE to LiFE
Limping in Consuming Ecologies (LICE) to Lifestyle For Environment (LiFE).
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Urban floods – are they man made?
Of late, we’ve experienced a global increase in frequencies of floods, be it flash flood or urban flooding or any other categories, the water spillover, the incidents of waterlogging in urban and rural areas – all have increased many folds in recent years. And there are many studies conducted across the globe by different universities, research […]
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Recession-free revenue from restoration of waterbodies and wetlands
Waterbodies are unique in many ways, but from the carbon perspective, they are the only beings or structures on the planet which can do carbon emissions as well as carbon sequestration, depending upon their health and sanitation well-being and status. For example, all the polluted / contaminated waterbodies across the globe will do emission, but […]
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Solving the water crisis through Indian Vaidic Science
We all understand that the world is going through a global water crisis and everyone in his / her own capacity is trying to deal with it, because water is essential for life. We know that water is the very fundamental basic need for life, that’s why all the space agencies in quest to find […]
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Economics in Ecology: Recession free business
Today, we are living in urban concrete jungles. 2008 was the first year in the modern history of the human race on the planet when the urban population exceeded the rural population. If we look at all the historic cities, all dwelled on the banks of a waterbody, be it a river or a sea or even […]
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Ecosystem service from waterbodies: Key to sustainable rejuvenation
Dirty, filthy, stinky, polluted, nasty, contaminated, smelly, foul-smelling, rotten – are some of the objectives that we often use for defining our waterbodies these days. But are these being used aptly? For us the water in a cemented water tank is no different from a water in a natural waterbody, isn’t it? But if you […]
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PVHI & making solar energy plants “sustainable”
We often see people using clean, green and renewable energy being used interchangeably by people in their everyday vocabulary. There are many similarities between the terms but they are very different from each other too. If we look at definitions: “Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on […]
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Innovation v/s Invention – Soft Tech v/s Hard Tech
Of late we’ve seen the two terms “innovation” and “invention” being used interchangeably in the public vocabulary, but it is very important to understand the difference between the two. And it’s quite easy to understand the difference in this era of mobile phones, tablets, laptops, OTT & Internet. When Apple came up with iPhone and the […]
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Waste and wealth
Waste & Wealth – The Human Wisdom On this planet the biggest and the most sustainable human invention is the concept of Waste & Wealth, ever since the evolution of the human race, we’ve been attaching and detaching values to and from things to make them wealth or waste. Otherwise in nature, except for human […]
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Zero liquid discharge for steel industry
Steel plants use an enormous amounts of water for a wide range of industrial processes. All these processes are essential and integral part of steel manufacturing and they use large amounts of water and therefore also generate huge quantities of wastewater. The quality of wastewater depends on the process where the water is used and […]
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FOG in water
Usually when we say “FOG” people relate it to the lowest lying clouds in the winters or may be the condensed form of water vapours lying low to the surface of the earth, due to which there’s a visibility problem, there’s traffic disruption and a sort of spooky horror movie effect is caused around. These […]
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Carbon economy & tax free cities
Today, our cities are full of problems and taxes. There is a property tax, municipal tax, sewer tax, water tax and what not. On the other hand, we have water scarcity, sewage problem, depleting underground aquifers, drinking water problems, polluted air, polluted waterbodies, and waterbodies turning into sewage dumps and so on. But is this […]
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Natural salination and desalination of water
We all know that 72% of the planet is covered with Water, still only 3% of this Water volume is sweet drinkable Water, rest all is saline or marine Water. Let’s understand how does this water get saline and how does it get desalinated. Nature has three parallel cyclic process going on for everything that […]
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Aquaculture business & water health
Across the globe, aquaculture is a BIG business. From farming aquatic animals like fishes, shrimps, prawns, crabs or turtles to aquatic plants and weeds like spirulina, duckweeds, seaweeds, phytoplanktons and so on. But largely people are into this business without understanding the basics of water. Whenever a dense farming is done, be it agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, […]
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Mines, their pollution & resolution!
Mining industry is the core industry for supporting almost all the industries on the planet. Like railways, mining has been the root cause and the force behind all the industrial revolutions. People usually take IT industry as the latest revolution in the industry, but without mining even the semi-conductor industry or the IT Hardware industry […]
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ZLD – The law of nature!
With our consistent approach to make our life comfortable and effortless, we are adopting more and more unsustainable life practices with exorbitant use of mechanization, automation and chemicals in our routine lives. Mechanization and automation isn’t bad, but the entire industry behind making this happen is in turn causing a lot of imbalance to the natural ecology […]
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Water disinfection technologies
Water quality and disinfection For the first 75 years of the 1900s, chemical clarification, granular media filtration, and chlorination were virtually the only treatment processes used in municipal water treatment; however, in the last 30 years there have been newer technology developments in the field of water disinfection that we shall explore during the course of this article. […]
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Ayurvedic rejuvenation of water
The latest breakthrough in water treatment technology – “Ayurvedic Rejuvenation of Water” Ayurved is an ancient Vedic Science of medicine that is very ecological in its core philosophy. Ayurved is based on an understanding that the life on the planet is because of five key elements of life that are the building blocks of all life […]
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