Tag: Environment

The Great Indian Tragedy

According to the backgrounder by The Economic Times: A lethal plume of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from a storage tank at the Union Carbide

World 2.0

I chance upon The Artist Farm recently, and soon find myself reading post after post on a wide range of interesting topics.  One particular post that

True Cost of Stuff

From the Master of Simplicity comes a pathbreaking post on a new blog, appropriately titled ‘mnmlist’.  Here’s just a minimal extract… But there’s more to buying less.

Saving Your PC

I was surprised to read on TechSoup about the environmental impact that PCs have : According to the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, manufacturing one desktop computer

350

Why is the number 350 so important? According 350.org : There are three numbers you need to really understand global warming, 275, 390, and 350. For

e-Waste : Little Known Truths

I chanced upon a Guardian story of May 2008 entitled ‘Breeding toxins from dead PCs‘ that described how children are dying to clear up the developed world’s

Know your World

Thanks to a link from one of Atanu’s posts, I discovered the amazingly powerful and insightful data graph of GapMinder on the state of the

Two Earths

I was browsing through a local financial daily – LiveMint – when an interesting headline caught my eye: “Two Planets for Greed“, it read.  And,

Better than Google?

What if I told you there was a search engine out there that was actually better than Google?!  Well, okay, I’m cheating a little.  But,

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