July 2015 Blog Posts (15)

EPEAT Celebrates First Anniversary of Launch in India

Nearly 3 million EPEAT-registered electronics sold,

generating significant environmental, energy, and cost savings benefits over their lifetime.

 

PORTLAND, Oregon – July 23, 2015 – Today the Green Electronics Council and the Confederation of Indian Industry’s…

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The one year anniversary of the launch of the EPEAT green electronics rating system in India was recognized today by Green Electronics Council, their Indian partners CII and MAIT, and EPEAT manufacturer participants.

    In a reflection of India's fast-trending "green" copnsciousness, EPEAT product registrations and participating companies have both doubled since the India launch - and momentum for EPEAT use in purchasing is growing as well, with multiple public and private tenders…

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Dear friends

I am pleased to inform that  we are publishing a peer reviewed biannual  eJournal of Applied Forest Ecology(eJAFE) since June 2013.So far five issues have been uploaded I invite you to contribute research or review paper for eJAFE Volume 3,Issue 2 to be uploaded in December 2015.

Further,I wish to inform that eJournal of Applied Forest…

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Big Medicine Charitable Trust is starting a bi monthly media project in Udaipur in collaboration with Rajasthan Patrika called "Organic Matters." This is an effort to popularize healthy organic produce and products through the city and support famers to choose ecologically sustainable methods of farming. After a year of publishing "organic Matters" news in the Patrika we will take the contents and publish a book on the topic. I am sharing this information with this network because we are…

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Dear readers



I hope this mail finds you well.



I am pleased to tell you that International Journal of Environment

(IJE) Nepal has published its new issue (Vol 4 Iss 2).



For new issue you can see via the link below



http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/IJE/issue/current





You can download the papers freely and read if they are useful to your

research.



Researchers can…

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Here is a volunteering opportunity for a minimum of one week to one month.  Get a completion certificate from the Forest Department.

Project valid for three months only

http://indianwildlifeclub.com/Volunteer/Bhimashankar/beAVolunteer.aspx

My main focus is on how can a farmer manage the problem related to water, if he is dependent on rain water & if there is no other source like bore, well or canal water then, what should be the farmers role. Everyday there is a news of suicide committed by a farmer, because he is not able to do farming, not able to clear the loan. Sorry but feel like one day all farmers will sell there land to builders or politicians. Everywhere we will see only buildings,complexes or  industries, no…

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Dear all, I want to make focus of all members on the water related problems mainly suffered by an farmer, I had an talk to many NGO working for the farmers but none of them work related solving water problem of farmers specially in Osmanabad Chorakhali village. Please share if any thing that can help farmers to solve the water problems.

In an increasingly natural resource-constrained world, corporations should measure, manage and mitigate their impact on the ecosystems where they operate and through their supply chains. To help build this capacity into company infrastructure, the India Business & Biodiversity Initiative (IBBI) is launching CII-IBBI Certified Training (CICT) on Managing Natural Capital.

CICT is designed to improve the understanding of managers and employees across business functions…

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Clean and plentiful water provides the foundation for prosperous communities. We rely on clean water to survive, yet right now we are heading towards a water crisis. Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, and key sources that we tap for drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution. Dirty water is the world's biggest health risk, and continues to threaten both quality of life and public health in the global village. When water from rain and…

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Check the ZEE NEws coverage at:

http://zeenews.india.com/bengali/videos/annanya-samman-24-ghanta-debol-deb_125404.html

I am lucky as one of the scholars of him....

Thanks!!

Initiated, Tree plantation along with Road side, available Govt. Lands (Banks of ponds, along with boundary of Schools, Hospitals etc) in my village (I am from Budithi Village, Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, India).

Want to do more and more plantation for the society, seeing for financial help, other that Govt. is there any Individual persons/Society/Company who can contribute for Greenbelt development? If any one have contacts, please send it to me at…

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Dear Researcher,

During last 5 years, we have published 50 books (under the aegis of ENVBOOKS series) and currently editing few more new International books on the following tentative titles:

‘Eco-toxicology and Aquatic Pollution’

‘Agro-ecology and Environmental Biotechnology’

‘Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development’

‘Aquatic Ecosystem and Pollution’

'Soil Pollution and Lithosphere'

‘Earth Ecosystem and Pollution’

‘Biodiversity and… Continue

I have just completed M.Tech. in Geoinformatics, and I have M.Sc. in Environmental Science. Have 2 years of research experience with 21 publications (Including elsivier and springer). I also got 1st position in M.Tech.
I need a Job in colleges or in any consultancy firm. If anybody have any references then please help me.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an important tool to inform decision-makers, regulators and stakeholders, about the possible environmental, social and economic costs of the proposed project. To be effective, it requires the active involvement of all concerned stakeholders.

There is a genuine need to develop the capacity of the state-level regulators and state level expert appraisal Committee (SEAC) to screen and scope the EIA process, to conduct transparent public…

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