Environment
- Can Subsidizing Green Jobs Make Economic Sense?
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There are expensive gambles we can make and none are in the forefront of cultural thought more than penalizing current businesses and subsidizing 'green' ones to protect the environment. California, with a deficit that can basically never be re ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 12 2011 - 5:39pm
- Andaman and Nicobar Tsunami
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One feels very sad to see the devastation in Japan and offer deep condolances to the departed sousl and wish all courage to the people there who are fighting the natural calamity. Tsunamia are a most horrific condition that can happen to any nation or a re ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 12 2011 - 11:09am
- Core of the earth is molten lava save earth to save human life.
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Whichever way you argue one thing is sure- the population is increasing and earth resources water, land, air and atmosphere are finite. They are subjected to manmade activities of deforestation, loss of earth crust and drying of water bodies. ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 13 2011 - 12:25am
- What is a climate change?
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Floods in a country,or several countries, rapid Tsunamis around the world (taking place at a faster rate), temperatures rising- do they not provide enough proof that climate change is taking place. Though as per strict definition a climate change must be p ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 15 2011 - 11:46am
- Which Side Is Your Bread Butterfished On?
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This is a butterfish: NOAA describes it unflatteringly as a "small, bony foodfish." Butterfish live along the Atlantic coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and they've been fished commercially for some time, with predictable ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Mar 17 2011 - 12:45am
- Sustainable development and natural vegetation
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Vegetation line along rail road or connecting roads was such a common site that sometime trees would even obstruct the passage, in my childhood. They widened the roads and cut the trees. Jaipur-Ajmer Highway for that matter is good example where trees as o ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 16 2011 - 9:19pm
- Don't ignore nature: Coastal area need different vegetation management.
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40 percent of world’s population lives in coastal areas. Coastal areas have different characteristics where saline water from sea, its winds carrying salt, salt marshes, inland sea water vegetation, halophytes make a typical ecosystem Man is not master of ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 17 2011 - 5:06am
- Beaches have almost disappeared from most coastal towns in India
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Sea beaches and their vegetation have disappeared as most of beaches are encroached upon for hotels industry, housing, and industries in India. Mangroves and sunder bans have also being lost to the natural calamities or manmade calamities. Unless we preser ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 18 2011 - 2:04pm
- Happy holi
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Happy holi is celebrated across India. In the evening of purnima holika (made from wood logs) symbolizing evil is burnt and prahlad (made of green twig) is taken out from the burning Holika just in time. The message was the victory of good over evil. Savin ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 19 2011 - 10:44am
- Inland areas and coastal development
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Coastal areas and inland water bodies, salt marshes have their own flora and fauna. High tides and low tides have their role to play. During monsoon season rain water allows the growth of certain halophytes as their seeds require non saline water for their ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 21 2011 - 9:19pm
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