Business, Environment, News
March 12, 2024
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Mahindra Group and Johnson Controls Launch Net Zero Buildings Initiative

NEW DELHI : As India ramps up efforts to decarbonize its rapidly growing infrastructure of buildings, the Mahindra Group, one of India’s leading industrial enterprises, and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, announced a first of its kind Net Zero Buildings Initiative to decarbonize India’s commercial, urban residential […]

Environment, Kerala, News, Uncategorized
March 08, 2024
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Suchitwa Mission Creates more Opportunities for Private Entrepreneurs

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:On completion of one year of the Malinya Muktam Nava Keralam campaign, Suchitwa Mission is joining hands with private players to tackle challenges in the waste management segment. The emphasis is on providing more opportunities to private entrepreneurs and ensuring better protection for those entering this key sector. This move results from the realization that […]

Environment, News
March 05, 2024
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Reliance Foundation Announces Vantara

KOCHI: Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation today announced the launch of their Vantara (Star of the Forest) programme, an umbrella initiative to focus on rescue, treatment, care and rehabilitation of injured, abused and threatened animals, both in India and abroad. Spread over 3000 acres within the Green Belt of Reliance’s Jamnagar Refinery Complex in Gujarat, […]

Environment, News
February 28, 2024
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NIIST Transfers Know-how for Treatment of Organic Waste Water

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) has made a breakthrough by developing and patenting a sustainable technology for treatment and disposal of organic waste water discharged by hotels, restaurants, catering units and similar businesses, which is a big problem in cities, especially in locations without proper sewerage network. As a sustainable solution, the […]

Environment, News
February 26, 2024
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Green Protocol Helps Turn Pongala Festival Clean and Safe

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The intervention of Suchitwa Mission and the city corporation with a ‘green protocol’ turned the Pongala Festival of the Attukal Bhagavathy temple in the city on Sunday clean and safe with thousands of woman devotees and organisers complying fully with the guidelines in this regard. Responding to the call to shun use of single-use plastic […]

Environment
February 16, 2024
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Youth Meets Haritha Karmasena , Malinya Muktham Navakeralam Campaign

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The Suchitwa Mission is organising this Sunday a programme to generate awareness about the efforts of the Haritha Karma Sena (HKS) to promote public cleanliness. The ‘Youth Meets Haritha Karma Sena’ on February 18 will see 100 young representatives participating from n each of the state’s 14 districts. The programme aims at emphasising the role […]

Environment
January 19, 2024
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LSGD Project to Retrieve Legacy Waste Dump Sites in 20 Towns

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Seeking to keep urban landscapes across Kerala clean and hygienic, the World Bank-aided Kerala Solid Waste Management Project of the Local Self Government Department (LSGD) has come up with an ambitious project to retrieve legacy waste dump sites in 20 towns across Kerala and transform them into public utility spaces. The towns selected for implementation […]

Environment
January 16, 2024
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RPG Group Pledges to Conserve, Restore and Grow One Million Trees by 2030

MUBAI:RPG Group, one of India’s leading business conglomerates, has pledged to conserve, restore and grow one million trees by 2030. This initiative is pledged with 1t.org, a Geneva- based World Economic Forum platform that aims to mobilize a global reforestation community to attain the goal of conserving, restoring and growing 1 trillion trees worldwide by […]

Environment
January 08, 2024
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Tata Power and ICICI Foundation Join Hands to Launch ‘GhanVan’ Tree Plantation Programme

KOCHI:With the belief that Sustainable Is Attainable, Tata Power, One of India’s largest integrated power companies, joined hands with ICICI Foundation, the CSR arm of ICICI Bank and its Group Companies, to launch ‘Project GhanVan’ – a visionary tree plantation programme aimed at fostering environmental conservation. The formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed as a part […]

Business, Environment
January 02, 2024
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Solar Energy Can Help Kerala Counter Looming Climate Crisis and Resource Crunch

By Radhika ChoudaryDirector and Co-founder Freyr Energy In August 2023, Kerala grappled with a severe power crisis triggered by an intense heat wave. Insufficient rainfall and escalating power consumption prompted the implementation of measures such as load shedding (managed power outages) and an increase in power tariffs to address the situation. Inan age where global […]