South India faces significant challenges in managing municipal solid waste, with issues ranging from inadequate collection and processing to improper disposal and a lack of public awareness. The region struggles with high waste generation rates, especially in urban areas, and a large proportion of waste ends up in landfills or is openly dumped, posing environmental and health […]
Bhandwari Lake Restoration
Originally part of the Aravalli hill ecosystem, the Bhandwari landfill sits adjacent to water bodies that act as seasonal ponds. Over time, untreated leachate from the landfill seeped into these ponds—contaminating groundwater, harming flora and fauna, and posing health hazards to nearby forest land and wildlife. The problem escalated to the extent that animals in […]
Top 6 ways to lead a Sustainable Lifestyle…..
Let’s know more about composting , recycling and upcycling to lead a Sustainable lifestyle and the Organisations which are doing it. 1.Composting It is very necessary nowadays, because all landfills are almost filled up, be it Narela, Bawana, Okhla or Ghazipur in Delhi. If we continue to throw away our mix waste it will […]
Gandhi ji and Sustainability
We all know about Gandhiji’s ideology about Satya, Ahimsa, Sarvodaya and Antodaya. But, if we analyse all his principles deeply, we will realise that all his principles also align with Sustainable development goals of eliminating hunger and poverty . He first used the word Sarvodaya in modern times. Sarvodaya means ” the rise or welfare […]
Climate Change
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions […]
Zoya and Ayaan
This is a fictional story of Ayaan and Zoya, based on children who live in the slums of Ghazipur, which is near now closed Ghazipur Landfill in east Delhi. Their father is a Ragpicker and both of them also helps him in rag picking. Ayaan studies on phone but doesn’t tell anybody about it. Zoya […]
CIRCULAR STRATEGIES THAT ARE PART OF INDIA’S HERITAGE
A nation that has no cultural heritage is like an orphan who has nothing to feed upon. An individual human being, a race or a nation must necessarily have certain roots somewhere. India is deep rooted in the culture of her past—the glorious past. India is a vast country, and centuries old. It is difficult […]