Day: April 11, 2022

Courtesy :  ING CLimate change What’s so special about this report? It shows ING’s really holistic approach to climate action. As a bank, our biggest impact is with our financing, so we’ve been steering that for several years. But we also have to look at the impact of the climate…

Courtesy  :  society Global warming Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population has…

Courtesy  :  Modern farmer Food forest Why Food Forests? Food forests are like the ultimate organic garden. Does a forest need tilling, weeding, fertilizer, or irrigation? Nope. And that’s the goal. Because they’re mostly perennial crops, there’s no need to till. Not tilling preserves the natural soil structure, preventing the…

Courtesy  : Popular science Floating solar energy Solar panels can be placed on your roof, on a plot of land, or basically anywhere else where they  are anchored to something solid. That said, there are only so many solid spaces available to install them. To beat climate change, our electricity mix is…

Courtesy : highrisefirefighting.co.uk Fire fighting Water Supply Almost all fire fighting tactic in high rise buildings will depend on Water. Some very small or specialised incidents may be extinguished using fire extinguishers (Dry Powder or CO2). There are two key contributory factors that will affect tactics at high rise buildings,…

Eradicating poverty Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty, are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to create wealth…

Courtesy  :  Wikipedia Energy star products Energy Star (trademarked ENERGY STAR) is a program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that promotes energy efficiency.[4] The program provides information on the energy consumption of products and devices using different standardized methods. The Energy Star label[5] is found on more than 75…

Courtesy : India today Bullet train  With only 17% of the work of the Centre’s ambitious Bullet Train project completed so far, the completion is likely to miss its 2023 deadline. The data shared by the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) in response to a Right to Information (RTI)…