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  • UN Food Summit focuses on reducing the corporate control over food to increase sustainability

    Scientists from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have deduced that land used for poultry and cattle farming is responsible for a quarter of all global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Corporate food giants like Tysons, JBS, Cargill, AMD and CP and others operate an industrial food system that uses up more and more land to raise chickens, cows, and pigs, and cultivate the maize and soya as fodder in a cluttered and non-sustainable way.

  • Trials of 5G smart city solutions begin in Pune; powered by Vodafone India and L&T

    Vodafone Idea has collaborated with construction giant Larsen and Toubro in starting the trials of a 5G-based smart city plan for Pune. It will be part of the 5G trials on the government-installed 5G spectrum.

  • Tiny Electronic Fliers to Monitor the Environment

    Scientists have attempted to use the aerodynamics of seed dispersal as the inspiration for a new airborne sensor. The tiny fliers, some of which are smaller than a grain of sand could, in the future float into the atmosphere and monitor the environment.

  • The need for audit net to ease for SMEs

    Small businesses require an ease in the audit requirement, experts and analysts commented on the recent regulatory measures. The entities that are insignificant should be allowed out of the audit net when a threshold for exemption is set

  • Sustainable technology for rural women

    In a developing economy like India, rural-urban migration is a growing phenomenon. According to the census of India about 350 million women have migrated to cities, in search of better sources of earning to provide for their families.

  • Sustainable business park to solve organic waste problem

    Kent County in Michigan USA poses a very serious organic waste problem currently. The Department of Public Works stated that most of the food waste ends up in the landfills, and has been accumulating there

  • Suki Manabe wins Nobel Prize in Physics for modeling climate change

    On 5th October 2021, Princeton University professor, won the nobel prize in Physics for developing the Climate Change model. Suki Manabe is a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and public and international affairs, and has worked in Climate studies. Climate models that Manabe built, deal with predicting and analyzing how the world will change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, and to amplify the enormous benefit of rapidly decreasing greenhouse gas emissions for life on Earth.

  • Saudi Arabia’s attempt to recycle CO2 to go green

    Saudi Arabia, which has been synonymous with petroleum, is shifting towards transforming the residue from oil production into more lucrative resources. They are aiming to drastically decrease the degenerative environmental impact in the process.

  • Rural-urban economy gap, surfaced during COVID-19

    The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a deep structural change in the Indian economy. During its first wave, India’s rural economy displayed an extraordinary resilience to the effects of the pandemic, an absolute contrast to the situation faced by its urban counterpart; and it soon became obvious that a two-speed economy existed during the first wave, with one sector flourishing as the other struggled to keep up.

  • Pune: Farm soil, papier-mâché Ganesh idols make sustainability push

    In Pune, sustainability is being pushed, through farm soil and papier-mâché Ganesh idols. Akshay Kauthale and Anay Marathe who are based in the city have created ‘Vruksha Gajanan’ idols, which are not only sustainable but also help grow saplings once they are immersed.