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Courtesy : harved business review Green software Without doubt, software is the backbone of virtually all the intelligent solutions designed to support the environment. It’s critical, for example, in efforts to tackle deforestation and reduce emissions. In many instances, however, software is also part and parcel of a rapidly growing…

Courtesy : Wikipedia Plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for “green plants”), a group that includes…

Courtesy : Tadiran Purification of air Most of us gape at the stunning images of designed homes in exclusive magazines, sighing about the clean lines and alluring lack of piles of mail and kindergarten drawings. We’d all like our homes to look like that, but life gets in the way.…

Courtesy  :  Deltares Floating solar energy Solar panels floating on water are an increasingly common sight in the water-rich Netherlands as a way of producing sustainable energy. Small-scale experiments are being conducted with floating solar panels in various locations here, both on lakes and on the North Sea. The first…

Courtesy : Britannica Firefighting firefighting, activity directed at limiting the spread of fire and extinguishing it, particularly as performed by members of organizations (fire services or fire departments) trained for the purpose. When it is possible, firefighters rescue persons endangered by the fire, if necessary, before turning their full attention…

Courtesy : ELsevier Poverty eradication Reducing poverty has become an priority concern, yet there is no international consensus on guidelines for measuring poverty. From an economicist approach, income poverty occurs when a family’s income fails to meet a previously-established threshold. The very concepts of economic development and modernization represent implicit…

courtesy : bizee Energy management What is energy management? “Energy management” is a term that has a number of meanings, but we’re mainly concerned with the one that relates to saving energy in businesses, public-sector/government organizations, and homes: The energy-saving meaning When it comes to energy saving, energy management is the…