Today, June 5th, is World Environment Day. India celebrated it by increasing the price of petrol, diesel, and cooking gas yesterday, a move that is supposed to help the environment by reducing the amount of petrol, etc. people buy. Okay, maybe not.
The UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) has a list of things you can do [...]
If you own a printer, you’ll know how expensive it is to buy new print cartridges. There are refilling centres which will refill cartridges for you but they sometimes use inferior quality ink and can either ruin the cartridge or worse the printer.
Enter Cartridge World, an international franchisee chain that specialises in the printing [...]
In anticipation of Earth Day (April 22nd), DeviceVM, a company that makes a fast-booting operating system called Splashtop, is aiming to:
raise awareness about how much energy is wasted by computers and other consumer electronics that are left on or in standby mode.
Would you believe leaving your computer on at night generates 51 lbs of CO2 [...]
Here’s an excerpt from an article titled Food bills getting you down:
It was a lucrative score: two bananas, one half-gallon of organic 2 percent milk, two prepared and packaged Asian-style noodle salads with ginger cilantro lime dressing, one red pepper, one orange pepper, one package prewashed salad, one package Asian stir-fry mix, one package [...]
In Tuesday’s supplement of the Deccan Herald was an article titled A true paradise but not for long. Excerpt:
The silence is broken by the occasional wave crashing upon the shore, full of fine, golden sand. There is hardly anyone to be seen, if you discount the odd, adventurous foreign tourist who has come to [...]
Michael Pollan, who wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma, has written another book In Defense of Food. He talks about food to Amy Goodman in an absorbing interview that is titled, Michael Pollan: Don’t Eat Anything That Doesn’t Rot. Excerpts:
…Michael Pollan joined me for a wide-ranging conversation about nutrition, food science and the current American diet. I [...]
From an article on Guardian’s front page (by Ian Sample) titled Global meltdown: scientists isolate areas most at risk of climate change:
Scientists have long agreed that climate change could have a profound impact on the planet; from melting ice sheets and withering rainforests, to flash floods and droughts.
Now a team of climate experts has ranked [...]
Here’s a superb interview from The Observer about Rebecca Hosking who managed to convince an entire town to go plastic-free. Here’s the introduction:
Modbury is a little gentrified Devon town with cutesy shops, gourmet delis and lovely architecture. In the past three months, house prices appear to have shot up by 20 per cent over the [...]
Tata Motors unveiled its people’s car, dubbed the Nano, yesterday and the news outlets are going ga-ga over the car. The Times of India had a lot of coverage in today’s paper and the TV channels are also abuzz. You can read Ratan Tata’s interview here.
My first thought on hearing the name was, Nano? [...]
When I was thinking of a title for this post, I remembered the Guns N’ Roses song November Rain. This is December and it’s been raining in Bangalore the last two days. I don’t recall rain in December in Bangalore, not the most of the day variety anyway.
Climate change anyone? We seem to be [...]
