Posts Tagged ‘Conservation’

Sea Shepherd unveils Ady Gil: The Batmobile of the oceans to help save the whales!

Monday, November 9, 2009 18:38 By Neo

Illegal whaling ships have been roaming the oceans of the world literally scotch-free for the last couple of decades and most often the only little hindrance they get is from those tiny little ships that have brave volunteers from ‘eco-friendly’ groups trying hard to stop the fast paced giants. Well, finally the huge ships and [...]

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Heathrow to get a new £1 Billion Green Terminal 2

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 16:33 By Ramya

London’s largest airport is looking forwards to the start of construction of its new Terminal 2 as per the plans designed by Foster + Partners and under development by Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke’s joint partnership company HETCo. The Terminal 2 expected to cost around £1 billion would play the new domicile for the Star [...]

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War in the Wild: Conservation vs. Indigenous People

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 17:35 By GSerrano

The conservation of wild lands is well documented and neatly archived in history. Eviction of indigenous people from their homeland in the wild for the sake of conservation is only found in collective memory and oral history. Through a hundred years, indigenous people have often been seen by conservationists as a problem, and the solution [...]

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WWF Brazil’s Tree and Reef Campaign

Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:51 By Madhuri Katti

World Wild Life Fund, Brazil has shifted campaign from saving endangered species like Panda and many others, saving forests to saving a single tree and reef!  The two ads in the campaign ‘Tree’ and ‘Reef’ depict life supported by a single tree and a reef. The message in the ads asks one to imagine how [...]

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CES 2009: Solar Building Kits for Green-sters of the Future!

Sunday, January 11, 2009 18:57 By Ramya

Promoting green products is de rigueur for the betterment of future generations, and one of the best ways for doing it is through green toys. This year’s CES seems like it’s not only focusing on some green stuff for adults, but also brings forwards exciting ecofriendly toys like 6-in-1 OwiKits Solar Building Kit  for children.

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The “Low Friction” Brickley Engine

Thursday, January 8, 2009 7:33 By Ramya

The whole revolves around ENERGY- generation, usage, loss, gain, conversion and what not. Engines are among those devices, which contribute and participate largely in the process. The conventional engines used now convert chemical energy to mechanical energy through friction and greater the friction, greater is the energy loss. Mike Brickley, a Texas based inventor has [...]

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RainDrops: A Water Harvesting Concept

Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:02 By Jaiyant Cavale

Water scarcity will hit the world real badly in the coming years. Though the governments have foreseen this problem and have aimed to harvest rainwater in order to have a source of water that is not from water bodies, the plan has not really kicked off due to corruption and red tapism. However, this simple [...]

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