Sustainable Development

This Indian Village Is Making Jeans Out Of Banana Fibre

Things getting a little stuffy in those jeans? Slide into a pair of banana fibre jeans and liberate those sweaty legs!Anakaputhur, a weavers’ village located on the oute...

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We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not jus...

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What The COP21 Climate Agreement Means For Fashion

On Saturday in Paris, the gavel came down on two weeks of fraught talks, resulting in a landmark agreement between representatives of 195 countries to cut emissions of greenho...

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Sustainable Development Goal On Energy (SDG7) & The World Bank Group

Access to clean, modern, sustainable energy is critical for improving the health and livelihoods of billions of people around the world. There is growing evidence linking soci...

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The Urban Farmers Battling Bangalore's Concrete Jungle

In Ramagondanahalli village, Muniraju Hanumanthappa bends over his clay-coloured soil surrounded by bright green spinach leaves. He quickly prunes the plants, dwarfed by the a...

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A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhabits...

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Seeing The Light: How India Is Embracing Solar Power

India unveiled the world's biggest solar farm earlier this year and has quadrupled its solar capacity in the last three years, bringing electricity to millions of off-grid hou...

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A New Foundation Is Teaching The Community Through An Unlikely Game

Young men in Harlem are learning math and science though an unlikely ally: golf. Just off 40 West and 117th Street in Harlem, New York, rests the Bridge Golf Foundation, a lea...

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Five Sustainability Threats Facing Fashion

It’s 2050. The Arctic Circle, Earth’s once-pristine white snowcap, is now green. Its melting snowdrifts have been replaced with an irrepressible moss. Just south, ...

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India To Build Railway Bridge Taller Than The Eiffel Tower

While it might seem a little out of place for most people, the decision to construct the world’s tallest railway bridge over the Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir does...

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TRENDING: CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS OF FAITH AND LOVE

"A heartfelt exploration of Christmas spirit, the enduring devotion of Mother Teresa, th...

December 22 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: WHEN INSTITUTIONS FAIL, ART SUFFERS

When cultural institutions compromise artistic integrity due to bureaucratic interferenc...

December 21 2024

BOLLYWOOD: 100 CHEERS FOR BOLLYWOOD'S IMMORTAL...AWAARA

Celebrating the cinematic legacy of a legend, Bollywood’s first Actor-Director who...

December 20 2024