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Sustainable Lifestyle

Countdown to TARAgram Yatra 2014 – “To Choose Our Future”

“It is not the strongest who survive or the most intelligent; the one who can change with time is the one who would survive,” Charles Darwin, Origin of Species. To Change with time is one of the most important factor for the survival of species. Since the advent of industrial …

INNOVATION IN URBAN WATER SERVICES IN INDIA

India is a vast country with complexities that do not lend themselves to easy fixes or simple adaptations of what might work elsewhere. All aspects of development in urban India are constrained by the poor cumulative quality of its urban infrastructure. This is compounded by urbanization rates that are too …

Sustaining Ecosystems and Livelihoods

Every entity has a pivotal role and place in the scheme of nature. Micro-organisms, plants, animals co-exist in different ecosystems such as coral reefs, forests, deserts, wild lands etc. Biodiversity refers to diversity or variety found in nature. Biodiversity boosts ecosystem’s productivity, where each species, no matter how small, all have …

SUSTAINABLE AND SMART CITIES – GREEN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

‘Home is where the heart is,’ has changed for many in the rural India into ‘Home is where the job is.’ Post liberalization,  there has been an influx of people from rural areas to urban areas in search of jobs. A spurt in service sector opportunities and a decline in …

Mainstreaming Climate Change Concerns into Planning Processes

‘Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin ast .’ If there is ever a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here. These were the words used by the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the 17th century to describe the beauty of Kashmir. This statement holds true for …

India Post 2015-A Country in Transition – To Choose Our Future

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to an end in 2015 and India is far from realizing the objectives set out in this global declaration. Over the past one and half decades, India like many other developing nations has been designing and implementing concerted action towards ‘Eradication of poverty, achieving …