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Avatar Posted by kiran 110 days ago (http://www.expressindia.com)
Category: General | Tags: bmc mumbai environmental report
The grades on the city’s annual environmental report card are slipping with drinking water getting more contaminated than last year, decibel levels shooting up and air showing high level of pollutants in some areas.

The grades on the city’s annual environmental report card are slipping with drinking water getting more contaminated than last year, decibel levels shooting up and air s read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 167 days ago (http://news.in.msn.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: ambanis private helipad crz seawind
The city’s first ever helipad atop a residential building, the 19th storey home of the Ambani family at Sea Wind in Cuffe Parade has run into heavy weather yet again. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), which had earlier granted an approval to the project has now stayed it.

In its letter dated June 5 to the director of M/s Ruchi Properties Private Limited, carrying out work here, i read more »
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Avatar Posted by nanduh55 176 days ago (http://www.ad-c.or.jp)
Category: Education | Tags: environment carbon emission
Awareness of the situation is half the battle won...
having said that, Marathikatta does not have a suitable catagory to address environmental issues!?! read more »
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Avatar Posted by nanduh55 182 days ago (Editorial)
Category: Education | Tags: green environment carbon footprint
Its time to act now on the issues of reducing carbon footprint of us individuals. use of public transport and seat sharing in private vehicles should be done now. increasing the number of trees and reducing the number of people is the need of time. act now..god bless mumbai read more »
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Avatar Posted by soorpaarambyaa 199 days ago (Editorial)
Category: General | Tags: railway maharashtraa tourism
Dear friends,rnMaharashtra has very good network of railways,which is not only economical but comfortable and ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY,rnyet I hardly find Maharashtrians who travel in Maharashtra,rnthey travel all over,but hardly know their own state,just speaking in marathi is not enough,we must spend some cash for our own people,rnIf you travel by railway with circular ticket for sleeperr read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 276 days ago (http://www.expressindia.com)
Category: General | Tags: forests environment conservation
Following the initiative by two banks to increase forest cover in Titwala, two companies have now offered to contribute in a similar manner in Kausa near Mumbra and in Kalwa.

Mahindra Life Space Developer Limited of the Mahindra Group and Sandoz Pvt Lt have approached the Forest department in Thane requesting it to lease out a 250-hectare plot in Kausa and a 5-hectare plot in Kalwa respectivel read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 327 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: sparrows nature enviorment preservation
While most Mumbai Sheriffs have breezed in and out of their positions with nothing much to talk about, the city’s newest Sheriff Indu Shahani is making sure she leaves her mark.

After promising to do something for the city’s deteriorating environment, Shahani’s first project is taking up the cause of Mumbai’s declining sparrow population.

Shahani, principal of H R College of Commerce and E read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 332 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: General | Tags: global warming emissions greenhouse
California is suing the US federal government, in an attempt to force car makers to conform to tougher cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The lawsuit comes after the federal Environmental Protection Agency denied California a waiver from US law needed to enact its own efficiency targets.

The Epa says it wants to avoid a confusing patchwork of different regulations across states.

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Avatar Posted by meemumbaikar 332 days ago (http://www.hindustantimes.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: mumbai projects sealink infrastructure
With the Bandra-Worli sealink project hanging incomplete and the Worli-Nariman Point plan still on paper, the state now wants to build a new one — a 13-km bridge over the western seaboard from Bandra to Versova.

Public Works Department Minister Anil Deshmukh told HT that the detailed bid document for the project would be prepared and the mandatory environment clearance got from the Centre.
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Avatar Posted by meemumbaikar 343 days ago (http://www.hindustantimes.com)
Category: General | Tags: christmas green eco-friendly products
After Holi and Diwali, it’s Santa’s turn to go green.

Papiermache snowmen and bells, cotton-stuffed tree ornaments, and smoke-free candles are beginning to give Christmas an eco-friendly spirit.

Though the China-made plastic decorations continue to hog shelf and ceiling space at Christmas stores, the India-made environment- friendly decorations are selling too — their exquisite craftsmansh read more »
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Avatar Posted by meekon 343 days ago (http://www.mid-day.com)
Category: Business | Tags: bpo hub environment dumping ground
The MMRDA is planning a 617-hectare commercial zone at Kanjurmarg along the lines of the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC).

The downside is that the new complex may stand close to a proposed BMC dumping ground.

RA Rajeev, Additional Municipal Commissioner (AMC) said, “We will obtain necessary permissions from Ministry of Environment and Forests, within few months.”

Gas trouble

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Avatar Posted by manech 346 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: General | Tags: mumbai wtc designer
Leslie E. Robertson Associates, the well known structural engineering firm of New York that was in charge of the designs of the World Trade Centre (WTC), destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, has been engaged by Oberoi Constructions to design a 32-storey commercial tower in Mumbai. The developer intends to provide a best-in-class environment to its occupants, the press release said. read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 349 days ago (http://www.expressindia.com)
Category: General | Tags: environment traditional ways
Traditional is eco-friendly.

Five students of a school in the tribal Aine village near Dahanu realised this while working on a project on fishing methods adopted by their elders.

Aged between 12 and 13 years, the students from the Gram Mangal School—run by an NGO—chose aquatic bio-diversity in Aine and Dabhone villages of Dahanu (Thane) as the topic for their project.

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Avatar Posted by limin 385 days ago (http://www.khabrein.info)
Category: Society | Tags: mumbai police pollution
Mumbai Police have booked 568 people and organisations for violating noise pollution control rules during the Diwali festival even as environmentalists and activists called for more efforts to check the menace. read more »
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Avatar Posted by asthipanjar 391 days ago (http://www.mid-day.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: environment mumbai cleanliness
Chidambaram was quite angry about the state of Mumbai -- he said everything is dirty, polluted, no maintenance..

Some examples below:

Build good roads, buildings, parks, stadiums, do away with shabby playgrounds — it doesn’t cost too much!

Make your city look presentable first! Good fortune flows in automatically

Click link above to see full Mid-day story. read more »
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