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In 2012, Bellingham used porcelain from 400 recycled toilets to build a roadway, diverting about 5 tons of waste from landfill. It earned the world's first official "Greenroads" certificationCities across the US are embracing creative solutions for eco-friendly infrastructure. In Bellingham, Washington, a unique project utilized...- New York crushed 5,000 discarded school toilets and lowered the porcelain into Jamaica Bay, creating foundations for new oyster reefsNew York City recycled nearly five thousand old toilets from public schools. This discarded porcelain became part of new oyster reef founda...
- Vasundhara Oswal, Indian-origin billionaire's daughter, detained in Uganda. A look at her Rs 1,649 crore house, lavish lifestyleVasundhara Oswal net worth: The daughter of Indian-origin businessman Pankaj Oswal, Vasundhara Oswal has been detained by Uganda since Octo...
- Cleaner cities: Here's the blueprint Indore offers for IndiaIndore's successful waste management transformation offers a blueprint for cleaning India's 50 most polluted cities by 2030. Key actions in...
- Reduce, reuse, and recycle way to clean cities and sustainable environmentRRR centres are instilling in the urban community essential habits of source segregation, waste-to-resource conversion, and eco- and swachh...
- What 4,000 Indian cities & town should do to fulfil Swachh Bharat missionThe 3 Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle - will have to become both an individual as well as community habit for sanitation plans in urban spac...
- A better work environment for sanitation workers requires mechanisation, better gear and bigger private playThe virus will eventually be tamed. The fear of Covid-19 is already on the wane. The question is, will the newly acquired dignity that the ...
- We are for open trade, not protection. Competition is the best: Adi GodrejThe ones that compete globally are the large companies, says the chairman of the Godrej Group.
- Will the suicide of a pourakarmika, who went without pay for months, stir Bangaluru's conscience?Many pourakarmikas are yet to be paid as the BBMP is slow in verification and those enrolled into the BBMP’s biometric systems do not get p...
- Sachin Tendulkar adopts another village for transformationSachin Tendulkar has sanctioned over Rs 4 crore from his MPLAD fund for development of Donja.
- At Alang shipbreaking yard, worker safety remains a dusty dreamGoing the whole nine yards in Alang, the ship graveyard of the world, where worker safety and benefits are still a dusty, murky pipe dream.
- Highlights of the Railway Budget 2016-17Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced the Rail Budget for 2016-17 in the Parliament. Following are the highlights.
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan: Why cleaning up India is serious businessSwachh Bharat may have started on a high note, but cleaning up the country is serious business. Apart from investment, it calls for behavio...
- How to transform waste management using ICT to enable Swachh Bharat MissionConsidering the social, environmental and health impact of waste management and sanitation, Government of India has launched Swachh Bharat ...
- Pioneers of Clean India: Entrepreneurs 'recycling waste' to make lifestyle productsDespite a ban on plastic bags since 2010, Jaipur still produces 16 tonnes of plastic waste every year, more than its counterparts where a b...
- Government formation efforts not over yet: Najeeb JungNajeeb Jung holds the key since he has to take the critical decision of dissolving the assembly and calling for fresh elections.
- Will the project to transform Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar into low-cost skyscrapers work?The Rs 2,000 crore project is slated to cover 16.5 acres and transform about 1,200 businesses, 3,200 homes in 250 buildings and the lives o...
- How does Kohinoor hospital manage to stay greenIf hospitals in India ever need a compelling reason to go green, they would find several in the example of Kohinoor Hospital in Mumbai.
- Why India's clean tech sector is attracting US, Europe and Asia Pacific entrepreneursEntrepreneurs from the US, Europe and Asia Pacific are making a beeline to tap India's clean technology sector, especially the solar power ...
- India Inc continues cost-cutting measures; sees environmental benefitsIndia Inc went on a cost-cutting spree through the slowdown, and gave it a ‘green’ tag. The economy is improving, but the frills are yet to...
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