Posts : environment

Whither green activism?

murali772 - 31-MAY-2013

Green activists and local villagers have taken serious exception to proposals from defence and research institutions to build sensitive projects on the 10,000 acres of Amrit Mahal Kaval land allotted to them in Challakere taluk of Chitradurga district. Among the sensitive projects are a Defence Research Development Organization proposal to start an aeronaut

Designing Storm Water Drains

psaram42 - 13-MAY-2013

Currently the 9th main in HAL 3rd stage, Bangalore is witnessing SWD refurbihing and foot path tiling activity. The space between the SWD and tared portion of the road is being tiled.

Tree cover

vatsan007 - 26-APR-2013

To preserve the existing green cover and add more in Bangalore, there has to be an initiative, enforcement to plant, shift big trees (if being chopped due to infrastructure projects) to private/public companies having big campuses (like IT parks, BEL, CPRI, ... where they can be accommodated). Trees are being chopped mercilessly as more commercialisation is setting in.

Plans for a week long programme on Waste Management [WM] at Freedom Park

psaram42 - 3-FEB-2013

All Stake holders meet was held at freedom Park on Saturday, February 02, 2013, to discuss WM for the city. It started at 15:00 hrs at the ground level convention hall. The slogan was

“Wake up clean up”

I hope this applies to both the citizens as well as the city Fathers. The panelists on the Dias included 

Ranking Buildings by Energy Use - New York has just published its data. Can we do it Bangalore.

ashwin - 10-JAN-2013

Excerpt of an article in the New York Times. Doing this in Bangalore would be very powerful. Ofcourse we would have to measure not just the power pulled from Bescom but also that coming from onsite generators. But it should be doable. 

Scientific Land fills

psaram42 - 5-JAN-2013

To days TOI article pertaining to the Bangalore garbage crisis by Asha Rai was interesting as always.   

Turahalli Habba

murali772 - 6-SEP-2012

Plastics recycling collection centers in Bangalore

psaram42 - 29-DEC-2011

 

Hoardings, Banners and Visual Pollution...

mp - 21-AUG-2011

For the past 2 months banners such as the ones below have been very conspicuous by their size and nuisance value all over JP Nagar and parts of Jayanagar. I am sure other localities have their equivalents.

Refurbishing the BDA Park @ Ward-58 New Tipp Sandra

psaram42 - 27-JUL-2011

 

Our MLA Shree Raghu has supported many maintenance works like