Conservation

All trees are precious, and if you see someone felling a tree in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru, here's what you can do.

We talk with the co-founders of Ather Enegy to learn what sets them apart from other electric vehicle manufactures. And we have some amazing insight.s

The project was selected in the first phase of a Smart India Hackathon--Hardware edition--where more than 600 teams participated. The students also won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Even after changing houses and localities, the water situation did not improve, and Kalpana soon realised that the only way to resolve this, at least on a household level, was to start conserving water.

even with a large scale pursuit of forestation, a persistent problem continues—that of the plastic bags in which small saplings are planted.

Because the city suffers from water scarcity, Epari Krishna Rao has to purchase water from private players to water the plants and keep the park green.

Over the past one year, the volunteers have planted about 8000 saplings on the once barren hill. They even took over the nurturing of plants and reported a survival rate of 98 percent!

PT Shinde attached sentimental values to this task and encouraged villagers to gift a sapling to the families celebrating special occasions. He even encouraged them to gift a sapling to a family in memory of a loved one they lost.

The proprietary chemical developed by the research group is an organic chemical based on olefins. It helps bind the polymer and fibre materials to form the composites.

These actions serve as perfect examples and can be taken up by other states as well.