June 2011 Blog Posts (22)

Hello, my name is Wood Paper. My family trees are throughout the world although, I belong to the area of Western Ghats along the Latitude: 13.217156 and Longitude: 75.000833. My ancestors were rooted to this place and it’s from here my journey started. I was handpicked as the luckiest one when I matured and was processed with water forming a mat like structure. After penance of few days and standing with my fellow fibres in the harsh stream of water, I interwove myself and came out as the…

The ultimate goal in the design of a deep filter bed used in water treatment is to produce good quality of filtered water. The design parameters are not seen generally linked to the economic aspects of the filter beds. With the advent of dual media filters which produces about twice the quality of water than produced from conventional monomedia beds with equivalent water quality. the initial cost of the dual media filters are on the higher side when compared to the monomedia filters.A lower…

Climatic changes wont be smooth transition to a warmer world.Climate change elements fall into 3 categories:

• melting ice and permafrost.
• climate phenomena like EI Nino and the Gulf stream that influences other elements.
• changing rainfall patterns in the tropical and sub tropics.

Four sets of risks associated with these elements and the impacts:

• Sea level rise
• Unstable monsoon in India
• Drought in…

http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/23/stories/2011062363550300.htm

Plastic bags are neither a small nor a big issue. Save the trees, Use plastic?

How much more ignorant could people get? Plastic is what is choking up Mother Earth's throat!!!

What is the general intellectual understanding - that jute and cloth bags are for rich people??? What was it like in 1970s and 80s, when to carry plastic…

blog by Shankar Gopalakrishnan

On June 12th, Environment Minister…

Planting of trees on Environment Day has become a fad…camouflaging the real issue…by many companies...

Too often these are a template/ ticking the box completion exercise rather than delivering any real value or knowledge about the real impending threats to the sustainability….

interesting article.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/biodegradable-trash-garbage-waste-110616.html

THE GIST

• Buying biodegradable products can ease your conscience, but they don't necessarily do much for the Earth.
• Biodegradable products can do more harm than good for the environment if they end up in landfills.
• One of the best ways to…

can anybody tell me about the waste water characteristics of a Solid Waste Processing Unit ? And how it can be dealt with & how can it stop?? 

This set of Words of mine are for Authorities of India & Other Allied organization like NABET as well as people favouring MoEF & NABET for quality.

After a much awaited return of mine on blog of Paryavaran.com, I would like to put some sequence of words as a chain like "food chain" and "food web" of ecology. Mainly i would like to put some chain of legal aspects of Indian Environmental Authority/provision as well as actions taken by them which will be…

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2101043.ece

This article left me with a sunken feeling in the pit of my stomach - just the kind of news that makes the average monday of an environmental professional even more dreary and polluting... 

Granted…

As mentioned earlier,on the basis of 120 samples  from a power loom environment and 120 samples from an office setting, I was able to build up workforce profiles.

For the past few years global researchers on noise have been postulating about its non-auditory health effects.By way of  a schedule administered to study samples for two years, I tested some of the postulations,with surprising…

Dear Members,

Let me share with you a little secret on this "World Environment Day". http://www.Paryavaran.com has arrived! With more than 2000+ top environment professionals from all over the world as our members, from 1000+ environment organizations, our network is one of the most vibrant association of environment…

Dear All,

International Seminar on Waste management will be held on 7 June @ Sathyabama University Chennai,

pls circulate among your friends…